04 | video, based on a true ooc story tbh

[cashlin]

[As much as Lilith's got a distaste for Fear, she loves any excuse to put on a stellar performance. She's got a palm, shimmering with purple phase energy, facing up just barely in sight at the edge of the feed, to set the mood: the wicked grin on her face is cast in shadow.]

Okay, okay, I got one. Picture this. [Lilith clears her throat, and puts her best DM voice on:]

You're on Pandora-- you and your teammates are the only people you've seen for miles and miles on the barren, dry wastes. Except for the Psychos who tried to chew your leg off. Soooo... the only sane people, I guess.

You're starving. You're tired. Two of you are almost bled out, held up by painkillers and the most minor of healing injections, numbing all the nerves in your body that're telling you to turn back and to stop chasing this next kill. But, hell, if you've come this far, you're not going to stop, are you?

And. [Dramatic pause.] At last, you find it. The Mothrakk. It's the mother of all the Rakks you've ever seen on Pandora: a span of torn-up skin wings bigger than you ever thought possible, scabbed-up flesh over its terrifying bony frame! How the hell is it flying, you ask? You don't have time to contemplate that shit, it's spitting fireballs at you, raining hellfire down from the fucking skies!

Whoops. [She's knocked the camera over while gesticulating mid-story. (You do have time to contemplate, apparently.) Lilith clears her throat and resets the camera before picking the tale right back up again.]

Over an hour of fierce battle, third degree burns, burnt-out rocket launchers, and exploded rover turrets later, the beast is dead. You've all won. The horrible creature comes down like a meteor, and it shakes the earth where it falls... a mile away.

[Lilith's phase energy blinks out.]

You walk all the way there, and it's only dropped a white-level gun.

[Is she gonna go th-- yep. She is.] A Tediore.

Dun-duh-duuuuuuun.

Comments

[unfollowing]

what a coincidence, she also didn't know what to do with that, that's why she told me

idk why this is so fucking hard for you two, you're both clearly into each other

[cashlin]

I KNOW

i know

im not really a ... dater, help me out here

[unfollowing]

[Housemates, and possibly neighbors, may or may not hear Emily groaning something about how this is hell.]

OMG

so don't date

go up to her

look her in the eye

tell her "i want to fuck you" (or make out with you or whatever the fuck you want)

go from there

[HONESTLY.]

it's not like this shithole has any nice places you can go on a date anyway, unless you want to go dancing at delight's bar

[cashlin]

[It's a good thing Lilith is alone in her apartment because she's absolutely just sputtered and dropped her phone on the ground after reading all of that???]

NO OH MY GOd I CAN T D OTHAT!! !!!

im not going to just
hookup with maketh?! i like her

also yes thats a problem too

[unfollowing]

[There is a long delay before Emily's next response. She puts down her phone, goes for a walk, screams at the lake, screams at the cave ceiling, curses in extremely rude Japanese, curses in English (of course), and eventually manages to calm down enough to decide to give this a shot.

It's a good sign when she re-reads Lilith's message and doesn't want to call her up just to yell at her.]

literally tell her just that. that you like her and you don't want just to kiss and hook up. that you're a fucking idiot about dating and all of rhat but you want to be with her

this isn't fucking rocket science omfg