Something to take the blues away [video]

[mightythinice]

[Ellie clicks on the console. While those who don't know her might think she looks like a normal 14 year old, those that do know her can tell she's trying to distract herself.

She rubs her nose as she ponders how to start this, before thinking that maybe she should even just cut the feed off. But, hell, she made it this far.

Her arm is bandaged up in a rough sling-- something she did herself.]

Sooo... I guess we can talk about what the fuck just happened, or we can talk about something better. Like, okay, I've had some of the kedan read to me?

Guys, guys. Their stories are fucking hilarious. I'm not even sure how someone gets engaged 12 times on accident, but there's a story for that.

And there's a story about the guy who had a huge case of mistaken identity, and owed a stupid amount of debt because someone pretended to be him when gambling.

... And a huge amount of these end up being romance stories.

Don't even fucking ask me.

[she shrugs and offers a little grin]

I asked if there was any stuff about someone pissing off a monster, or going to outer space, but nope. Nothing. Nada.

How fucking weird is that?

Comments

[everylittlegirl]

I don't know if the people here are what you'd call writers. Maybe you could like, get people to tell you and write it for them?

[mightythinice]

Yeah, the idea of writing a story came up, but to be honest... I don't think I'm really 'writer' material. I don't even know where to start.

I mean, I guess there's pen and paper.

And words somehow flow from there.

[everylittlegirl]

Yeah, I hear that's how it works. Maybe we'll be lucky and get an actual writer you can bother into making it happen.

[mightythinice]

Don’t we have more superheroes than anything else here? I mean, there’s the radio guy. But I still think there’s a few people here who have these insane powers.

[everylittlegirl]

Totally! I swear half the people here have powers or magic or whatever.

[mightythinice]

I’m kinda jealous. I know what I’d do if I could fly, or throw buildings. I’d never have to worry about a clicker attack ever again.

[everylittlegirl]

Can I.. I mean, I want to ask what a clicker is, but you don't have to answer if you don't want to.

[mightythinice]

It’s… Okay, it’s not really that complicated. But there’s a lot of backstory. [a lot of backstory, that she’d so far avoided really talking about]

Back home, there’s this… fungus, and it basically takes over the people that get infected. They become monsters. At first, they’re just more aggressive and attack anything that moves, but then the stuff starts to grow out of their faces. You’ve got the runners, who’re just your normal infected, stalkers who are a pain in the ass. Then clickers. They’re called clickers because they can’t see anymore, their entire face is practically gone because of the infection.

So, they click so they can ‘see.’ Clickers.

[everylittlegirl]

Oh. [Holy shit what is your life.] Makes sense.

It sounds like your life would make a pretty good story.