[voice]

[blastiafreak]

She's not looking...Now's my chance!

Ahem...If there are any dashing heroes out there who feel like rescuing poor little me from a cruel tyrant, I'm waiting! Yes, I'm in the clutches of an evil, abusive witch. She makes me work nonstop, for days at a time, until I just can't go on...She thinks slapping a little duct tape on me will make everything better...and I have burns in places you wouldn't believe!

No, I think she's returning--Will someone not come save us? Leon, dear? You're always trying to help us, aren't you? Ah-

There you are! The mixture's boiling and the voltage is steady, so it's your turn...Now where'd I put that blowtorch?

[ooc: Cursed with If These Walls Could Talk. Rita's tools and equipment are crying for help! Don't you feel sorry for them? ): Italics = tool, regular text is Rita.]

Comments

[blastiafreak]

[So confused. And irritated.] I know this isn't my world, but the basic principles work similarly enough! There's no reason I should use them any differently!

[stargathering]

You don't see anything wrong with those principles?! What if you were in their place?

[blastiafreak]

[Starting to think Tyr's a weirdo now.] Me? As a test subject? Please, like that would ever happen!

[stargathering]

You don't consider how they feel? How can you be that cold?!

[blastiafreak]

If you're going to be all weird on me, then just drop it. They don't have any feelings.

[stargathering]

Don't be so entitled! Everything that's alive can suffer and feel pain.

[blastiafreak]

I don't know if you're cursed or what, but there's no reason to go treating them like living things.

[This from the girl who personifies blastia, but. Details.]

[stargathering]

You're the one that must be cursed. They spoke, Rita. They're alive enough.

[blastiafreak]

Wha...Nobody said anything! You're hearing things.

[But since everyone keeps telling her they heard something, she is starting to think there's something up.]

[stargathering]

Don't try to deny it!

[blastiafreak]

I'm not denying anything! If you heard them so clearly, what did they say?

[stargathering]

Something about wanted to be saved because you work them to the bone, burn them, and cover their wounds with tape.

[blastiafreak]

...Okay, now I know it's your imagination.

[stargathering]

It's not! Why would I imagine that?

[blastiafreak]

Because it sounds ridiculous.

[stargathering]

That's what I thought, but you haven't denied it until now.

[blastiafreak]

Because you never mentioned anything like that in the first place, idiot. I never heard anything.

[stargathering]

...So it only matters if both of us heard them ask for help?

[blastiafreak]

It matters if you're hearing voices telling you weird things. Are you just going to believe everything you hear?

[stargathering]

I don't usually question when someone is telling me they're being tortured. [ ...But he sorta trusts Rita enough to believe she's not torturing people for science. ]

[blastiafreak]

[An irritated sigh. She suspects something's wrong but doesn't know where the "voices" are coming from, anyway. She turns on her device's video for Tyr to see the lab she's in, and gives it a half-hearted pan around the room.] There. Does it seriously look like I'm torturing people?

[stargathering]

[ He looks around to see the same messy room that he's seen before, and relief washes over him. Sure, it's not definitive proof, but... He's pretty sure Yuri wouldn't let people be tortured. Are they from the same world? Tyr doesn't even know this. Thankfully. ]

No... But who was pulling that prank before?

[blastiafreak]

If I knew that, I'd go blast them for being a pain!

[She clenches a fist, then with that out of her system for the moment, calms down a bit.]

It could just be a curse. Estelle and Connell said they heard voices too. Or maybe someone's trying to ruin my credibility.

[stargathering]

Maybe... It's strangely specific, but it's probably some sort of curse unless you made enemies at City Solutions already...

[blastiafreak]

If nothing else happens after today, then we'll know it was a curse.

...I still haven't heard anything. [Although suspicious, not entirely sure she believes the voices.]