004✖; (audio @ hot.damn | August 2nd; during Sanguis Moon)

[circumitus]

[...Well, it looks like there's supposed to be video, but the screen is black.

[Audio-wise, you're privy to just a bunch of thrashing for a few seconds, catching a frantic and frustrated "god-DAMMIT" and "fuck fuck fuck" and "just move, you useless piece of shit!" It's a voice and string of expletives that should be familiar to some who know Rey. In general it sounds disconcerting, with an identifiable amount of metal clanging and other hefty objects hurling about (cue stock cat scream) -- before a heavy thud shakes the screen. The feed drags across what looks to be pavement and some scattered rubbish.]

Got you! Fucking finally...

[The video moves, but the feed remains a blur as Rey hadn't intended to select facetime before things got out of control -- by "things" meaning... her own body. Only a few details can be made out in the bleary visual quality, and that's a patch of red-orange scales and some sharp, gritting teeth.]

Need... help. [Despite her exhaustion made clear in the fraught audio and her labored breaths, it's speaking those words in particular that strains her the most.]

Have to come here. Level Three.

Legs're gone. Can't walk.

[Both the audio and visual then cuts abruptly. As you can tell, Rey is having a bad time this Sanguis cycle.]

Comments

Audio; un: blackprince

[blackscales]

[ You ever read something and just have a lot of questions? ]

Your legs are gone? Do you need a healer?

[ He could ring up Anduin and bring him! Has this person been attacked? ]

[audio]

[circumitus]

[Always. All the time.]

Ng, no, not that kind of help. Think it's Sanguis shit. Never been this bad before.

[audio]

[blackscales]

[ Ah. You know what?

This just raises more questions. ]

It made your legs vanish? That seems rather... brutal.

text | un: Isabeau ---> Action

[littlesundog]

[Reply via the original call was a step or two beyond Marshall's comfort zone as he fiddled with the device, taking his time to read the commands and, finding the keyboard, pick out his reply:]

Sit tight.

[Not waiting for a reply, Marshall set off in search for the woman. He was already on Level Three, working on getting his bearings and trying to find a job that paid. The touching for Chroma felt indecent to his sense of manners and boundaries-- there had to be a better method.

A man in a hat soon appeared, following the few visual cues he had gotten from the original feed and, finding the woman in question, crouched down beside her.]

You the Miss who called for help?

[He asked, tipping up his hat and looking at her closely. Regardless of the answer, she was in need of help and he was there to offer if she wanted.]

[action]

[circumitus]

[No answer, though she gets the message. It's a tight fit in the alley; Rey is used to cramp spaces. She doesn't like them, but she's used to them.

[What she isn't used to is having so much extra... parts to contend with. So when Marshall finds her (and she's not hard to find, even in a place as big as Level 3. If the sounds of her struggle wasn't enough to draw attention, words from Prismals of the angry snake lady flailing in the back of a restaurant would do it.

[Bleeding from her nose and cut lip after thrashing to control her lower half, she's only just recently managed to push her back against the building wall so she can stop and just breathe.]

...

That was quick.

[Before she can press further, she grinds her teeth as her lower half -- entirely that of a red viper's body from the waist down -- flinches.]

[littlesundog]

[Everything must have been strange to the people in this town on some level. Newcomers left and right, women who couldn't control their bodies, men who were soft spoken yet cut an impressive figure in the crowd. Removing his hat and setting it on the dirty pavement for a moment, Marshall reached into a jacket and dug out a folded up handkercheif.]

I was in the area,

[He commented-- and darted his gaze toward the other end of her person with that flinch. Brow raising, Marshall turned back to face her.]

You're not used to shifting into a snake, are you? Where do you want to go?

audio || un: hawkestanding (for before the log!)

[trident]

( unfortunately, hawke doesn't know her, but she is rather familiar with what are obvious distress calls. this one is a bit too much to ignore.

and is that scales she's looking at? )

I'm sorry, but did you say that your legs were gone?

[audio]

[circumitus]

No, not gone gone. They're just... whatever the hell a snake tail-body is called. Fuck, don't know.

[Maybe just "snake body"? Not like she knows much about her scaly counterparts, though now she's seriously regretting her own negligence.]

[audio]

[trident]

Usually, I would say a snake tail-body is just called a snake tail.

( a snake was basically all tail anyway, wasn't it? )

Is this something that . . . tends to happen to you?

audio | un: stormflower

[sleepinglotus]

Ah--

[That was... concerning, but before Ren jumps to conclusions based on the post alone he has to ask:]

Are you actually injured or is it Sanguis?

[He's had experience with people losing their um... lower half thanks to the damn moon.]

[audio]

[circumitus]

Think it's Sanguis. Hope. Guess it's... the right time for it.

[Her responses are more terse than they usually are, trying not to let herself get too distracted and end up smacking anyone passing by.]

Not hurt. Tail's hard to control, though.

[sleepinglotus]

It would be around this time, yes.

[Ren has had a few friends get stuck without legs during their cycle so while it's never been a personal experience he can at least understand the utter annoyance of it all.]

Do you need anything? I mean, besides your legs.

[audio] un: Wrynn

[shalamayne]

[ That sure is something and it doesn't look good. Anduin may not know what's going on here but it won't stop him from offering to help.]

I'm a healer, do you require help?

[audio]

[circumitus]

[She's had some time to calm down, but there's still an underlying annoyance in her tone.]

Not in ways that healing can fix. Sanguis just took too far this time.

[shalamayne]

I see, this is something that your moonblessing has done? What a strange and testing place.

You are certain you don't require any kind of assistance?

text | j.valentine

[torsion]

[ That sure is a familiar "fuck," so Jill gives it a moment before she figures out what's happening. ]

Where?
I should be able to carry you.

[circumitus]

["You sure?" she starts to ask, but... Jill's a Sanguis, too. That red moon strength should help.]

moved a bit
not far tho

near caihojklaxbf

[several seconds later:]

sorry

tail movd makes hrd to type

[torsion]

Stop moving.
I'll come for you.

And stop typing. You can use whatever option you want that'll make it easier, you know. :(

[gwenhwyfar]

[ Oh, she knows that voice. And briefly recalls it was this is the voice that had once reeled her in control. She furrows her brows -- is she inferring her legs are missing? Flabbergasted, she blurts out- ]

Cachu hwch?! ... I mean- what?

[ It's terrible that she wants to see this for herself, isn't it? ]

At least tell me that you're not bleeding heavily.

[circumitus]

Uh, no, not really.

[She realizes how it must have sound in her initial SOS call, though she wasn't really thinking about it at the time. Phrasing was kind of the last thing on her mind.]

It's not like... Legs aren't cut off or anything. They're just, ah. One big ass tail.

[Something crashes in the background, likely from the aforementioned tail knocking over a heavy object.]

[gwenhwyfar]

... Oh.

[ Still, she wonders what sort of moon causes someone to have a tail. ]

I genuinely feared that you lost a limb and that I was about to offer you my condolences. That is to say... I don't think losing an eye is like losing a limb, but it still smarts.

Dare I ask that you need assistance or did someone beat me to it?

audio;un-hawk-eye

[deliveryhawk]

Hey, you alright? What do you mean your legs are gone like you can't feel them?

[Despite his better judgment he is considering going to help. He has been in trouble with stuff here already and wouldn't want someone to ignore him.]

[circumitus]

Nng, no, more like... feeling too much of them.

[...]

You know anything about snakes? [It's relevant, honest.]

text; un: no

[terribletwos]

rey what's wrong/ did something fall on you/

[ He's managed to figure out a snake tail is probably involved, having seen Ren with one. But is there more to it than just that? ]

[circumitus]

jst a garbage can and othr sbjt

lesson learnd not to pas out in bar allegs just befor sanguis again

[Oh god what is typing right now.]