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kurloz_makara ([personal profile] kurloz_makara) wrote in [community profile] mallowhallow2013-06-28 02:18 am

005 :o) HONK [VIDEO/ACTION TO ALL DISTRICTS]

[The video starts and focuses on three dolls, sitting all in a row. On the left was a doll with green button eyes and a small stitched in smile, her long black hair created with yarn and dress made out of scrapes. Small carved and painted horns are weaved into the yarn, one curved and the other with a hook at the end, and embroidered where her heart would be is a Jade Virgo symbol.]

[Next to her was a doll with Purple beaded eyes and unbraided yarn for hair to give it a wild look. His body was black with painted on bones and a purple Capricorn symbol where his heart would be, long curved horns poking out of the mass of black yarn. ]

[And the last doll was of a boy with the same messy hair as the purple beaded one but shorter, twin spiked horns weaved into his hair and scraps making up his yellow and black body suit. A small painted golf ball broke and carved to look like a motorcycle helmet rests in his lap. A keen observer may also notice red and blue thread peeking out of the hair line covering yellow buttons. A yellow Twin symbol was embroidered in his chest. All of them had pins poking out, the girl had pins in her heart, the skeletal boy had pins in his sewn up mouth and the yellow doll had pins in his head. They were attached together by pins in their hands. ]

[Kurloz has been keeping himself busy. He stands up and backs away from the dolls and you get a good look at an old oak tree, a strange symbol carved into the bark along with his classic smiley face :o) with lines running over the mouth. He continues to back away and you notice empty soda bottles tied to the branches.]

[Then the video shuts off.]

[But these aren't the only dolls; in fact these 'voodoo' dolls are all over Mallowhallow. Perhaps you'll find them at your place, or just on the street. Each is being highlighted with a candle and was made with scrap and yawn, details embroidered with thread and stitches over their smiling (or frowning) faces. You'd be dressed in the outfit you were wearing during your first post, or any post seen after the mime came to town. He's been wondering the streets and he's seen you, some of you may even have met him, most of you probably don't realize he's there.]

[Maybe you'll run into him just as he's setting up your doll.]
forgotten_vows: picture of a rather confused Victor holding up a dwarf skeleton on a sword (all right I'm totally confused)

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[personal profile] forgotten_vows 2013-06-29 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[The video is -- interesting. Certainly it's not something Victor expected to see today. It's pretty easy to guess who two of the dolls are -- the third he doesn't know, but it's obviously a friend of Kurloz's. The pins are a bit puzzling, as is the tree with its symbol and soda bottles, but he's sure there's some sort of rhyme or reason behind it. One that's probably only immediately understandable to Kurloz, but hey. It's just some homemade dolls and soda bottles tied to a tree, right?

And then he goes outside, and -- there's a little him. Perched on the park bench he knows so well, next to a candle. Victor stares at it for a moment. Then he looks around, and he notices other dolls scattered about. All with candles, and all clearly from the same maker. Er. Well then. Victor sits on the bench and pulls out his chalkboard to fire off a text.]


New hobby?
forgotten_vows: picture of Victor sitting down talking with one hand upraised (trying to open a discussion)

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[personal profile] forgotten_vows 2013-06-29 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Victor carefully picks up the doll and examines it. It looks very much like him -- black eyes, white skin, yarn hair carefully arranged in his usual overhanging bang. . .and the suit is the one he came in from home. He's been favoring it, even with his new clothes. He puts it back down next to its candle for the moment as he answers the text.]

It must be -- you've made quite a few of these, from what I can see.

Then again, I'm oftentimes at a loss of what to do myself. At least I've gotten something else to keep myself occupied. Did you know they can make pianos with just the keyboard and electricity?
forgotten_vows: picture of Victor's hands on a piano keyboard (music soothes the savage in us)

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[personal profile] forgotten_vows 2013-07-07 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah yes, the usual "we don't have the same word for this" issue. Victor tries to think of the best way to describe it.]

It's a musical instrument with strings and keys and hammers, all encased in -- well, I guess a kind of large box to be honest. When you press a key, the linked hammer hits the string and makes it make a sound. This "keyboard" somehow does the same thing with electricity. I've been playing ever since I was six.

[And he is a classical music fan -- though he most enjoys making up his own stuff.]
forgotten_vows: picture of Victor attempting to light a taper candle off a unity candle (I MAY light your way in darkness)

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[personal profile] forgotten_vows 2013-07-07 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whoops. Ah well, hopefully Victor can explain better soon. . .]

Well, in a regular piano it all has to do with the vibration of the strings and suchlike. . . I confess I've no idea how it works with the "electronic" one. Presumably they've got something inside that makes it sound similar, but naturally I'm hesitant to go peeking.

[He doesn't want to wreck the darn thing. It may be mysterious, but it lets him play, and that's what he really cares about.]
forgotten_vows: official art of Victor with a butterfly in the woods (tiny butterfly)

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[personal profile] forgotten_vows 2013-07-07 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Bee power?

[Not something Victor's run across yet. . .although, thinking about it, the idea of something that runs off bees flying in and out of it with pollen is kind of amusing.

Ah, and it appears that last text was unnecessary -- he waves back, setting down his chalkboard.]


I didn't realize you were still in the area.
forgotten_vows: picture of Victor giving a nervous giggle (aheheh)

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[personal profile] forgotten_vows 2013-07-09 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Victor also looks at the doll, picking it up again and turning it so it faces him with its little beaded eyes.]

You did a very good job, I have to say.

[He puts little-him back next to the candle and looks up at him.]

Do things really run off bees in your world?

[Sorry, he's a little stuck on that.]
forgotten_vows: picture of Victor having his suit brushed off by Nell (what are you doing?)

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[personal profile] forgotten_vows 2013-07-18 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, for Victor it is. They're only just harnessing electricity where he comes from. It's almost all coal and steam power.]

We don't have anything like that at home -- or at least, nothing I've heard of. Bees are just kept for their honey.

[He shrugs, then frowns back at Kurloz, confused. He seems to be expecting something. . .he runs back over their conversation in his mind for a moment, then snaps his fingers.]

Oh! Did you want to see the keyboard, then? It's back at my room.
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[personal profile] 8urn3d0u7 2013-06-29 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[The thing about Mituna was that he still didn't know what to do in Orlea. He didn't really have a home yet, and he was basically just really confused. On top of everything Kurloz still had his helmet, so the skater wandered the streets, not sure what to make of his new home.

And then that stopped when he found a doll shaped like him.
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7H15 L00K5 L1K3 M33! 7H15 15 4W350M3!
Edited 2013-06-29 03:56 (UTC)
8urn3d0u7: (N0 H3LM37 3)

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[personal profile] 8urn3d0u7 2013-06-30 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't notice Kurloz at first, instead too occupied with the little doll-him. He waved it around, mimicking skateboard moves and speaking as the doll. Clearly he was enjoying it.]

7H3N 7H3 7074LLY R4D1C4L M17UN4 D1D 7H3 5W337 7R1CK 4ND 3V3RY0N3 7H0UGH7 H3 W45 4W350M3

[He laughed and spun around, nearly knocking into Kurloz. He jumped back in alarm.]

44H!.... 0H H1 KURL0Z
8urn3d0u7: (N1C3 5M1LE)

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[personal profile] 8urn3d0u7 2013-07-07 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[When he sees his helmet, Mituna gasps and snatches it up. He slams it down on his head and grins.]

7H4NK5 1 W45 L00K1GN F0R 7H47

H4Y H4V3 YUU 533N 7H353 C00L D0LL5?


[He waves the tiny Mituna doll in front of Kurloz, a bit too fast to really show it.]
Edited 2013-07-07 20:45 (UTC)
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[personal profile] 8urn3d0u7 2013-07-08 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He waved back, sort of. He just kind of shakes the doll but it means the same thing. Something makes him frown though and he stops.]

H43Y KURL0Z C0ULD YUO H3LP M33 W17H 50M37H1NG?
8urn3d0u7: (1 don't know)

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[personal profile] 8urn3d0u7 2013-07-09 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
1 UH FFFTHH
1M 50R7 0F L057 R1GH7 N0W 1 D0N7 KN0W WH3R3 700 G0 4ND 1 C4N7 F1ND MY H1V3


[What he's basically saying is that he's looking for someplace to crash.]
wandthief: (Eyes)

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[personal profile] wandthief 2013-07-06 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Gellert spies the little doll and picks it up curiously. It looks a little like himself, he thinks with a grin, turning it over to inspect it closer.]
wandthief: (Eyes)

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[personal profile] wandthief 2013-07-09 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[He pockets it and glances around, perhaps spying Kurloz.]