vernal_miss: (Sycamore)
vernal_miss ([personal profile] vernal_miss) wrote in [community profile] saveourearth2018-10-21 06:59 am

Two for One [Open Audio Network] [Closed Action]

Date: October 21st
Characters: Network Number {235 13 892 33} ; Action for Mary Ann, Ornella, and later Feste

[Action - Joint with Ornella and Mary Ann]
{Nel} In a family of seven, finding those quiet moments to speak to only one other in the household tend to be rare. As the second youngest in the family, Ornella is not quite old enough to suffer a shift towards a nocturnal schedule like her older siblings, and this provides an opportunity. Slipping from her shared room, she heads out into the hallway and downstairs with one hand clutching to a stuffed toy. For a few days now, a number has been quite intrusive in her thoughts, and regardless of her thinking of it every hour awake, cannot recall the reason it feels so important. When it had popped back into her head before she even opened her eyes this morning, she had lost any chance of returning to sleep for a few more minutes with irritation rousing her all the more quickly.

Reaching the living space, she’s relieved to find a mother present. Bare feet carrying her quickly over the last of the distance, she comes up beside the chair to insert herself into Mary Ann’s space without hesitation, sliding one hand under her arm in semblance of a hug to lean in and bury her face in against her shoulder for a breath. Grasping at the calm granted by the contact, she lifts her head to prop her chin on that shoulder and plead for assistance, “Mum? I remembered someone’s number, but I don’t know whose it is.”

{Mary Ann} "A number?" That sounds familiar. Very familiar indeed. Because there's this number that's been on her mind since yesterday, and she feels like she's known it for a long time but she can't put her finger on where from or what it is even for. It doesn't seem to be a phone number... Perhaps she came across it again while Nel was there? That might be something to narrow the source down with. Assuming it's the same number, even. "What is the number?"


[Network]
“That’s funny… It’s not even ringing,” comes the voice of a young girl. There’s no image to be paired to the audio, but she is certainly not alone.

The voice of a middle-aged woman responds, sounding puzzled. "There isn't even a ceased number intercept message." That's what she had expected, quite honestly. After all the number did not sound like a phone number at all. But it was worth a try... is what she thought.

((OOC note: Mary and Nel will respond unevenly in various threads))
dragoonrouge: (Sadie)

[personal profile] dragoonrouge 2018-11-12 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pretty much." Sadie confirms that there really wasn't much more she could say on that. "There really seems to be very few limits to this Echo stuff but it's early days right now."
iamnotgod: A man, hands up at chest level, staring left and down (In The Dark)

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2018-11-13 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Not always."

He hates that the truth is a vague answer, but it is what it is.

"If it's a memory, it does seem to be related to what you're doing - people had that happen several times from animal interactions in particular, but physical traits or objects aren't as clear."

He wants to bring up the inability-to-drown thing, but that should be Sadie's call.
catted: (uh huh)

[personal profile] catted 2018-11-13 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"She's right, dad.

This means that if something strange happens to you, we know and we can help." Whatever strange might happen. She doesn't know, but... she's been worried about her father ever since her mother died. To know that there was an entire area of his life that she didn't know about that things could have happened to him in...
scarsolderthanyou: (thinking)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2018-11-13 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not sure what either of you can really do to help," Sam admits. "I'm not sure what I can do to help, except keep other people from being idiots and getting themselves in more trouble because of this. There's a lot of kids on this network-- not your age, Nel, but around Feste's age seems like."
catted: (quiet)

[personal profile] catted 2018-11-15 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"My first echo probably happened almost twenty years ago, then." It's a slight exaggeration, but not by all that much. It must have happened at least nine months before her first biological child was born...
catted: (uh huh)

[personal profile] catted 2018-11-15 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Nel, base jumping is the opposite of not worrying your poor mothers.

"I see." She follows her path of thought. "Have people gotten hurt before due to receiving an echo at the wrong time?"
iamnotgod: Shade Over Face (What Did You Do To Me?)

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2018-11-15 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"... Some people have gotten Echoes because they've gotten hurt."

Both while helping the animals and, much more recently, due to bullying at school.

"I haven't experienced that personally, though."
iamnotgod: A man staring up and off to the right. (And He Asks Why.)

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2018-11-16 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"In one case I can think of readily, yes. In other... no. It didn't help, and using the ability they gained under duress almost got them in more trouble when they'd already been put in a terrible situation."

Sadie and the not-drowning incident and Ben versus the bullies, respectively.

"When you can't predict what you might get, it's a gamble all around."
catted: (uh huh)

[personal profile] catted 2018-11-18 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"So it's an all around bad idea to put oneself into a bad situation hoping that something useful will fall out of it."

She shakes her head. "This is a lot." She'll have to think on it. And fast. But still, to think on it, she needs time...
catted: (quiet)

[personal profile] catted 2018-11-18 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"I have no idea, to be frank." She shakes her head. "I just know that whatever it was caused something that we always could just assume to be a miracle." That is not a sufficient answer, not for herself, not for anyone, but it's all that she can offer right now - and offer without getting very private.
dragoonrouge: (Sadie)

[personal profile] dragoonrouge 2018-11-18 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"... Then why has everything picked up only recently...?" Sadie mutters, this was just another question to add to the pile.
catted: (listening)

[personal profile] catted 2018-11-18 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Did anything happen that could have caused it?

Something unusual, or..." She is very far from an expert on this, quite obviously, but 'unusual' seems to be tied to it fairly strongly.
catted: (listening)

[personal profile] catted 2018-11-18 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
The cuddles are returned, but them aside, Mary Ann falls quiet again and lets Nel talk. Her daughter is doing a pretty good job of asking good questions, after all.
tobodlygo: (insterst)

[personal profile] tobodlygo 2018-11-18 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I uh... Well, let's say I've got a new pack of Epipens from the Doctors," he sighs because yeah, he definitely found out the hard way.

"I wen't and got a test run after though, and dude I didn't even think people could be allergic to Pineapple? This is real sad for me, I really like Pineapples."
dragoonrouge: (Sadie)

[personal profile] dragoonrouge 2018-11-19 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I suppose it was unusual, for most of us this Number stuff didn't really properly start until that unusual Aurora appearance during the summer."

She sighs, and it speaks to her frustration at the lack of solid causes or reason behind what is going on.
scarsolderthanyou: (kids)

[personal profile] scarsolderthanyou 2018-11-19 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, Sam is probably more alert and focused now than he has been in a long time, since Amy died. Even if this might be dangerous, it's at least keeping him centered and active. "That was kind of you. Sadie might well need help-- she remembers having ears and a tail, too, and hunting animals. And there's a guy with shark teeth, too. The longer this goes on, the more we remember, and the more we might change. I'm just hoping nothing happens that's too hard to hide."

Says the guy who had visions of having wings and flying....
catted: (my mum face)

[personal profile] catted 2018-11-20 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"So something about the aurora...?" She's not strictly asking Sadie, more wondering out loud.

"...Thank you, anyway, for all the explanations. I think we both have a lot of food for thought for now."

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