TIME TO MEET AGAIN

[disharmonizes]

[So, for a change of things, it's not Salieri gathering people together in the cafeteria this time, but... Discord? Discord, organizing? Willingly? Oh, we are having a time here. There's enough tea and cucumber sandwiches for everyone, everything all set up.

Some of the sandwiches are floating. Don't worry about it.

There's whiteboards set up, as well, though right now they're mostly filled with a lot of random doodles of people here and in the land of the living. Some of them are nicer than others. There's more than a few rude ones of the SQUIP, because we're all super mature adults here. At least one of the boards is just a mess of abstract colors.

Everyone will be greeted by Discord and also the dulcet tones of Dancing Queen playing on the boombox he dragged over here. You're welcome.]

Ladies, gentlemen, others... Welcome to the meeting. We have a lot to go over, so! Let's get started.

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Comments

[disharmonizes]

What, would you prefer visual aides? Interpretive dance?

[voicerights]

[Deadpan stare

Which is probably something Discord's familiar with, at this point]

[disharmonizes]

Charades?

[voicerights]

[It exhales, and then- sings, softly]

To make a new ending to this story-

[What follows next is a series of notes. But somehow- there's something else in them. Might be hard to pick up, but it's still there.
C#【ａｃｑｕｉｓｉｔｉｏｎ　ｏｆ　ｔｈｅ　ｍｕｓｉｃ　ｓｃａｌｅ】
F#【ｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｍｅｎｔａｌ　ｄｉｖｅｒｇｅｎｃｅ】
B【ｓｔａｒｔｉｎｇ　ｆｒｏｍ　０】
E【ｈｅｌｐ　ｍｅ　ｕｎｄｅｒｓｔａｎｄ】]

1/2

[violentenvies]

[Salieri blinks, listening to that series of notes, frowning. Before the dress rehearsal, he might've parsed them as only notes in a scale, nothing more, but now...

...the can almost parse that there's something else there, hidden behind the notes, reaching out with a different meaning, with an emotion, connection--]

2/2

[violentenvies]

[Something throbs in his temples, and Salieri winces, shaking his head a bit, pulling his attention back from that. Too much, too soon, it seems]

Ah--

[disharmonizes]

Oh, very interesting--

[Because yeah, Discord definitely noticed the meaning behind those notes, but... then Salieri reacts. He looks over, frowning.]

...All good there?

[violentenvies]

Yes, fine, I...[he touches one of his temples with his fingers]

...residual effects, perhaps.

[voicerights]

[...? Salieri wasn't connected to the synchronization, but- then again. He was connected somehow. Everyone who was designed as essential to the project was, in a sense, even if it was...adjusted, later.

A glance towards Sissi.

A glance towards the peanut package in its hand.

A glance towards Discord]

Has he eaten? These bodies were not designed for what we performed, yesterday. [Which Discord no doubt knows, but. Y'know.]

[disharmonizes]

Oh, I made sure he's eaten and hydrated plenty.

[He's maybe just... sticking close to Salieri. Fretting.

...Maybe just shoves a sandwich Salieri's way. Better safe than sorry.]

But yes, none of you are exactly made for altering reality in any sort of way.

[voicerights]

[A tug upwards of its lips]

But it worked.

[read; suck it, reality]

[violentenvies]

It certainly did. [he does sound a bit proud of that]

[disharmonizes]

Against all odds, yes. The best sort of odds, if you ask me.

I'm almost impressed.

[voicerights]

[Another quirk of lips]

Fortunately, I'm not here to impress you.

[disharmonizes]

Indeed. You're here to impress reality itself.

So, a task of about the same level of difficulty.

[voicerights]

Marginally simpler.

Reality's not as fractious as you are.

[disharmonizes]

Reality wishes it could be on my level, you're right about that.

[violentenvies]

I have, believe me. [slightly dry, though it's more aimed at Discord.]

He's made sure of that.

[also there's a sandwich in his face though, so he is taking that]

[tellthestory]

She and I actually sort of are.

[A vague wave at LP, wherever she is.]

Usually it's...easy, popping between worlds. Nothing like that's ever happened to me before... [And certainly not to the Player, he imagines.]

[voicerights]

You two mentioned that you had difficulty exerting your powers here. Would the stress then be related to the Wizard's control, or the performance itself?

[tellthestory]

...maybe the Wizard. I've been in plenty of shows that weren't mine, but usually not...a hostile one, so to speak. 'Course, what we just did isn't really usual either. You two being involved and all.

[So like. He doesn't know, probably maybe all of it a little.]

[voicerights]

[It frowns]

There is a high probability that we will experience these stresses again if we continue. While the new performance should spread that stress and mitigate it...are you willing to continue, even if it doesn't?

[The Balladeer and LP are more-or-less the sources of the energy they're hoping to boost. While the SQUIP could probably help construct something without one or the other...it would be extremely difficult.]

[tellthestory]

Yeah! [He seems pretty exhausted, and runs a hand over his eyes, but:] Yeah, of course. This is too important.

[tellthestory]

[From the corner, where he still seems like he's kinda about to fall asleep:]

Oh, that sounds nice.