not_a_possum: (Drunk)
not_a_possum ([personal profile] not_a_possum) wrote in [community profile] kaisou2022-05-03 08:24 pm
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Video | UN: Opera_Ghost

WHO: Moxxie aka Maxwell Lansky and the network
WHERE: The network (filming from his apartment)
WHEN: Late Tuesday evening (a few days after he turned into an imp)
WHAT: After several days of drinking and freaking out in his apartment, Moxxie decides to share his woes with the network
WARNINGS: Severe drunkenness

The video seems to be filming from a weird angle on the ground, like the person making the video doesn't even know he's doing it. A few empty wine bottles are discarded on the ground, but there's no one in the shot. Until one tiny hoofed foot steps down in front of the camera. Then another. Then, as the hoofed feet walk past, a tail can be seen. It almost looks like a possum tail, if possums had large, triangular tips to their tails. Then, suddenly, whatever's in this video turns around and picks up his phone. They'll be able to see a little imp holding a partially empty bottle of wine talking into the video.

To those who know Maxwell Lansky, also known as Moxxie, whether it's from Kaisou University or because they're a barista who has had the misfortune of taking his coffee order, they might get the sense that they recognize him, but it's really his voice that gives away just who this is. His currently slurring, very drunk voice. He is also wearing a cute little suit with a red bow tie that he stole from a ventriloquist dummy.

"All right, errybody. Listen up. I don't know what is goin' on here, but first I wake up with a new app on my phone, and now...I'm all..."

He gestures down at himself.

"I haven't been able to teach classes since this all started...I'll prolly lose my job, and sorry, no one's getting their finals...'cause errytime...everytime I go outside, people say I'm a possum. I am not a possum. I'm gonna just...I'm gonna send an e-mail. Everyone got an 'A'."

He takes a huge drink.

"I don't know if this app has anything to do with this. I just want you all to know. I am not a possum."

And then he turns off the video. That's it. That's the video.
chatterboxing: (wot 🅣)

video; un: Litania

[personal profile] chatterboxing 2022-05-04 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Here is one (1) college student just kind of giving her phone a somewhat confused look. Lita's in university for dance reasons, but with how the various performing arts overlap in some ways, she can at least recognize some students or teachers from some of the other classes.

Moxxie might not look like he did before, but recognizing him by other means—like, say, by voice—isn't out of the question.]


Holy shit, Moxxie? That you?
chatterboxing: (curious)

[personal profile] chatterboxing 2022-05-04 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[How many students has he seen that happen to have pink hair? Even before any of this stuff started happening, she had been dying it, and at some point after she found herself involved, her hair just...became naturally pink.]

Yeah, I'm Lita, an' I'm there for dance stuff. But uh, guess this explains what's up with the theater classes.

Anyway, about uh, the whole Definitely Not A Possum thing. Which, jus' for the record, a possum ain't what I'm seeing here.

I'm pretty sure there's at least like twenty people that can give a better explanation than me, but like, everyone that ends up gettin' that app apparently has some kinda weird spirit stuff goin' on, an' that means you start seein' or experiencin' weird things that other people can't notice or if they do notice they see it as somethin' normal instead o' what it really is.
cardinalrule: (skeptical)

audio; un: GoldenGuard

[personal profile] cardinalrule 2022-05-04 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
I have no idea what a possum is, but it sounds fake and you're clearly some kind of bipedal demon. Humans don't know what they're talking about.

[He sounds very sure of all of this.]
fiddlestick: (elliot155)

UN: ecraig; audio

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2022-05-04 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[There's so much to unpack about this video. Like the fact that his missing professor has apparently turned into a demon. Or that people were mistaking him for a possum. So many angles to approach this at but also...

Quietly to himself, as if he didn't realize the audio was picking him up]


I spent three days studying for that final...

[Like he guesses it's good he's getting an automatic A??? BUT ALL THOSE STUDY HOURS WERE FOR NOTHING]
Edited 2022-05-04 03:16 (UTC)
fiddlestick: (oh no)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2022-05-04 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah-

[Crap, the app picked up him saying that? Drat. ]

Sorry Professor! I didn't mean for that to be heard- [He clears throat]

You just suddenly turned into a... [...] well, not-a-possum?
fiddlestick: (what the frick)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2022-05-04 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
What? That's terrible...!

And you have no memory of how it might've happened?
cardinalrule: (consideration)

[personal profile] cardinalrule 2022-05-04 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even Hunter can tell this doesn't seem fine.]

What did you used to be, exactly? A human?
fiddlestick: (elliot119)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2022-05-04 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
That fast...

[Well, Elliot's pretty stumped]

Uh, did you have any dealings with the Spirit Realm or magic before?
fiddlestick: (what the frick)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2022-05-05 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[....]

...Oh, welp. Ok. I think you win for worst introduction to the supernatural, Professor.

Maybe there's some way to turn you back?!
fiddlestick: (elliot240)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2022-05-05 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well....I really don't have any experience in turning people back into demons.

But there's a place called Undertown! It's full of people who know about magic. There's even an education center. Maybe someone there might know.
fiddlestick: (elliot155)

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2022-05-05 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... 💧 ]

Y-Yeah...please wait until you're sober, Professor.

[He rather not read about a viral story about a drunk possum online tomorrow morning]
droptheious: (Everything's fine)

video: UN: trienemybest

[personal profile] droptheious 2022-05-05 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yooooou definitely don't look like a Phalangeriform,no. You uh-

[He looks like a demon, he thinks, but doesn't say out loud. Varian doesn't have the best history with demons. ]

So this just...happened? Was it the app when this started? Or were you standing in a particular part of the city? I'm trying to work out where the spirit realm is weaker, my theory is that it might be causing...spikes like this.
cardinalrule: (dogged)

[personal profile] cardinalrule 2022-05-05 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
There might be some kind of magic reason for this. Maybe a potion? Did you eat anything strange recently?

[It could also be a curse. Hmm....]

Yes? I'm guessing it's some kind of creature?

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