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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[guitarpicks]

idk what you mean.

[oomfies]

[ Oh!! Lottie gasps at that, happy to see her rub off on him. His first idk.. They grow up so fast, she's proud!!

But then she pauses. Rereads his text and remembers, ]

wait

did i never tell you what DMs were

[guitarpicks]

dungeon masters. jk jk.

you didn't but i was talking about the being honest part. i'm being honest over here. scout's honor. [ he wasn't a scout. ]

[oomfies]

like that one game? lol

but alright.. i'll take your word for it! scout's honor is supposed to be veeerrryyy important i hear

[guitarpicks]

only the best game. dungeons and dragons.

it is. totally.

[oomfies]

FYI.. dungeons and dragons is veryyy trendy in the future

scout's honor 🤞

[guitarpicks]

wait--- no shit. you're fucking with me. i am literally being called a satan worshipping cult leader for playing it back home.

[oomfies]

unlike you i DO mean scout's honor, so, no! i am not fucking with you

that sucks tho.. they're really calling you that??

[guitarpicks]

holy shit. people are fucking hypocrites.

yeah... satan worshipping cult leader, a freak and more. [ which... okay it's more serious than that but he doesn't want to make it serious. then he has to deal with how much that hurts and --- no, nope. not right now. ]

[oomfies]

[ All the hate comments Lottie ever had to deal with were online. She isn't sure what she'd do if someone ever called her that to her face, or worse, hear their voice. Despite lacking a complete understanding of how Bad It Is, she.. Pauses. Thinks. What would Esther say to her? ]

those guys are all just jealous haters
forget them

[guitarpicks]

[ ah the days when bullying was personal and face to face. eddie wouldn't recommend it. ] i don't know that there was much to be jealous of.

[ and then, some time later. someone new has entered the chat. ]

𝔭𝔩𝔲𝔰. 𝔞 𝔴𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔢 𝔱𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔰𝔞𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱? 𝔪𝔞𝔶𝔟𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶'𝔯𝔢 𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔪𝔢, 𝔰𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱.

[oomfies]

[ Lottie can understand the crippling self doubt and gossip, but the sweetheart? ..Sweetheart?! She reads it again and goes: huh?? ]

and all of la said wearing high waisted pants in a heat wave wasn't fashion but i was RIGHT

look ppl can talk and still be wrong
the person they SEE isn't you

[guitarpicks]

[ sorry, lottie, someone's shadow plays up all the creepiness and terrible things people say about him.

sadly, this is the wrong guy to talk to about fashion but he's also not lived through the 90s so. ] aren't most pants just like that?

𝖔𝖗 𝖒𝖆𝖞𝖇𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖊 𝖊𝖝𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖑𝖞 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖎'𝖒 𝖙𝖗𝖞𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖔 𝖍𝖎𝖉𝖊.

[oomfies]

[ If it's any consolation, Lottie's thoughts are already so in tune with what his shadow is saying that it's on the verge of upsetting her for being Too Real. After all, she's had that same thought too many times.. Sometimes she finds herself excited to see what her downfall may look like. What people would really think of her...

She groans after a moment, sliding into his DMs after a second of consideration. ]

theyre coming back but that isn't important

hey, are you good??