puppetmaster ✦ audio ✦ after the festival

[guitarpicks]

Sooooooo. Fair ladies, good sirs, ghoulies, ghosties, dead and undead alike. Fellow whatever we think we are? [ eddie get to the point here? ] How many of you play instruments and would want to jam?

I'm in a band back home and missing shred sessions. I just found my guitar back -- [ a pause and then he might sound like he's devastated and talking about a lost love. ] Not my sweetheart but my acoustic.

[ and if you're thinking he's not gonna give you whiplash and then sound eager, excited as fuck at the drop of a hat then you're wrong. ] Anyway, I'm really jonesing to play. Anyone in?

If you're into metal or rock even better but all musicians welcome. The place I'm staying at isn't big but there's abandoned buildings near by and the acoustics are killer. [ and because there's some manners under there? ] And if you're in, I'm Eddie.

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[windsongs]

Oh, you know I'm in! Sign. Me. Up! Still not totally sure what metal is, but I can learn!

[guitarpicks]

What’s a biwa look like? [ attached is a photo of his guitar, covered in sharpie lettering and propped up against a crumbling wall. ]

Oh… shit. Any chance you know how long I have before it starts?

I don’t have money and I’m not sure I want the money I need for that.

[craters]

（ well it's not like she... has a biwa to whip out and take pictures of, so she includes a little doodle: like so. ）

I can't say for sure. It seems to vary by item and possibly by size — I'd say, keep an eye on it for now.

I don't blame you for not wanting to, um, utilize the local currency. It's a bit loud.

[guitarpicks]

They’re probably related. Same family with the whole string instrument thing and shape.

I don’t rant it to start yelling at me but yeah… on the other hand, a guitar that screams along to the music and sings would be pretty metal, huh? [ that’s another word for traumatizing, eddie. ]

[craters]

Mm...

（ no?? the answer here is 'no'. ）

Maybe if that's your taste in music?

[guitarpicks]

It is. What's not to like about some good old scream-er-oonies in the middle of a song?

[guitarpicks]

What do you mean by classic? Someone told me that Metallica and Black Sabbath are classics, man, and I can't handle if that's true for most people now. [ like what's modern???? ]

[guitarpicks]

Too busy for music? Doing what? Saving the world? [ buddy, he has news for you. he had time for music then. ]

Then you'll have to come to a show. Maybe we'll wow you.

[guitarpicks]

[ attached is an image of a guqin he drew from memory. ] this thing?

YEAH? any chance they're here???

[venatoris]

[ haha oh boy. ]

Yeah...that's kinda what I'm talkin' about. Boston, ZZ Top, Zeppelin... Classic stuff. All excellent.

[ poor eddie ]

[guitarpicks]

yep, man. anyone in the rock scene. [ he should stop but now he's doing it because it's obnoxious. ]

i am! eddie munson. eddie the banished, also said to be a preeeeeeeeeetty good guitarist. [ no one actually says that. ]

[guitarpicks]

Fuck, man.

Jesus.

Master of Puppets came out last month for me. [ he sounds somewhere between mad about it and like he's about to panic. ]

[guitarpicks]

what's a consolette piano? [ blind leading the blind here, huh? ]

[guitarpicks]

Unique's pretty good. Better than all the same. [ sadly, someone is testy about that. ]

Any instruments are welcome if you're willing to try new things out.

[venatoris]

...Seriously?

[ oh wow. woooooow. ]

I was, uh- seven when it came out.

[guitarpicks]

Do you know rock'n'roll? [ this is said with a chuckle. ]

Depending on who's interested, we'll probably play more than just metal. [ given all the classical instruments, he's actually outnumbered here. ]

[guitarpicks]

How old are you now? [ there is a wrong answer here. ]

[venatoris]

[ oh dear ]

Thirty one...

[immortalrose]

A consolette is a small console piano also known as a "spinet". They're a type of upright pianos that typically offer a more sonorous, consistent tone. The strings are shorter than your classic grand making them sound less...refined, in a sense.

[He would kill to get a grand piano here but there's no chance of that happening.]

I figured that if we can't find this "keyboard" variant, we might as well look for one of those.

1/2

[rumination]

The rock scene? Your audience must be dull, then.

Eddie the banished? Banished from what?

2/2

[rumination]

[ and then because eddie did introduce himself, it is polite to return the favor. which is awkward, he's very unused to introducing himself. ]

Chu Wanning. [ he'll just ignore all of his titles ]

[guitarpicks]

[ wait for it.

silence.

nothing for a while and then. ] 𝑗𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠.... 𝐹𝑈𝐶𝐾𝐼𝑁𝐺 𝐶𝐻𝑅𝐼𝑆𝑇

[guitarpicks]

[ wait that joke. holy fuck. he spends a good five minutes cackling at how lame that was. ] rock's a type of music, dude. but sometimes the audience can be still as stone.

banished from home. i guess i'm eddie the dead here too. i've got titles, my friend.

[venatoris]

[ whoops… ]

Sorry about that, man. But hey, you’re not that much older than me, at least? Sorta?

[guitarpicks]

I'd be like forty-five or something if I was around in twenty-four years. [ and, yeah, he sounds kinda detached from that idea.

even if it wasn't for the upside down, honestly, eddie's not sure he would have made that. ]