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Cain Hargreaves ([personal profile] misterblackbird) wrote2011-07-20 04:48 pm

Entry 510; Day 943

If anyone has spoken to Riff on the Network yet today, I think it should be plain to you the sort of state of my household today. We are not, as it were, completely grounded.

Nor is much of the rest of the City, for that matter. I can guess that from both the Network and from a glance outside. There's any number of things and people floating about. Some really are going quite high. I don't think it'll be a pleasant matter for them when midnight comes.

Perhaps the strangest part of it all--aside from the obvious, of course--has been the sight of massive--I'm not even certain what to call them--globules, I suppose, of water drifting along in the air. I suppose they've floated up from the sea or from one of the lakes and are now drifting on the wind. I've heard tell there are even fish in a few of them. Rosella, I hope Ellington has kept himself well below the surface, in case there's water rising up from his pond as well.

For my part, it looks as though the ceiling is enough to stop me. I've been up here for the better part of the day, in one room or another. I've found that I can pull myself along by corners and doorways, but if one swims through the air a bit, I've also found that one can move along a little rather than just hang in the air. I've not gone too far afield in the opera house yet, but it might be rather exciting to drift around some of the real heights of the opera house--up around the chandeliers, for instance. Though I don't think I shall be going outside--I've already mentioned seeing a few people going up quite high and I don't think I'd like to join them.

Although, I suppose if one had some kind of a tether, one could tie it to something secure, float to the end of one's tether, and then draw oneself back down to safety again. I wonder if that might work--or, rather, I wonder if I'd even dare to try it. It would be a way of flying out in the sky, so long as the rope didn't break.

For the moment, though, I'm quite indoors. Some of the furniture seems to have accompanied me up here as well, which is fortunate, I suppose. At the moment, a chair and a table have both come up to join me--and I managed to reach my Network device, too, obviously. I've fairly wrapped myself around the chair to keep myself in, though perhaps that's a foolish thing to do. If the chair takes to floating about, I will have to go with it. I'm all right for now.

I almost think I should have suspected something was going on last night when I kept dreaming of both falling and flying. I'm quite sure I was already floating above my bed by then. It was more of a shock upon waking, and I won't say anything about trying to dress this morning--it was managed, but not without difficulty.

Really, this whole things seems like it ought to be pleasant, though the difficulties of it are far greater than one might imagine.

But, perhaps it's a bit like being a cloud, all this drifting about on the wind.

Riff, I'm not sure that afternoon tea on the ceiling is entirely appropriate--to say nothing of the difficulty that might come in trying to make it.

Perhaps we ought to forgo it for today.

~C.

[ooc: I may have bent the parameters of the curse a wee--but it's mostly because the tea party on the ceiling is my favorite scene ever in Mary Poppins, to say nothing of Alice's very slow fall down the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland. Also, clouds just know how to be, man. /inside joke]

[identity profile] commoneresque.livejournal.com 2011-07-21 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
It's fun when I'm not trying to eat anything.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-21 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I quite agree. Riff and I were discussing the difficulties of drinking tea on a day like this.

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[identity profile] commoneresque.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Drinking anything.

[identity profile] commoneresque.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
I figure, I mean. I haven't tried tea yet.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
It sounds as though you've tried something else, though.

[identity profile] commoneresque.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Juice. Stupid in hindsight. It floated and dispersed over the cup.

Then I tried water - out of a bottle though, and that worked.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
I had been thinking one could hold a cup upside down and perhaps keep any liquid inside it. I'm not certain it would work, but it was one idea I'd had.

Drinking water straight from a bottle might very well work, now that I think about it.

[identity profile] commoneresque.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
It's sort of like sucking it up, but easier for me than drinking upside-down.

When I tried that, it just seemed to go straight to my nose...

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Why would you try to drink water upside down? Even on a day like this, that seems rather unpleasant.

[identity profile] commoneresque.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
It was the juice. I think I had a similar idea to the one you had. Probably executed it a little differently.

[ As in, not effectively....sob. Thank goodness 0 Gravity isn't a course at Ouran. ]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
I see. How unfortunate, indeed. I hope it wasn't too terrible a result--I mean, such that you're still suffering from it now.

[identity profile] commoneresque.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely not suffering. Felt a little silly, but it happens.

[ She's as good as shrugging, not that that's audible. ]

Sometimes I wonder if the curses ever affect the deities too.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
So long as you're all right, I suppose.

You know, I'm not sure anyone's ever asked that before. I wonder if they are.

[identity profile] commoneresque.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
I am. [ Bemused pause. ] Thank you.

Really? Maybe I'll ask.

Not that there's any guarantee they'll tell the truth...

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
No, there's no guarantee of that, but I would be curious as to their answers.

[identity profile] commoneresque.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
I'll keep you posted - if I do ask them, and if I get an answer.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'd be glad to hear of it, if you do ask them and if they answer. Thank you.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
...Oh, drat it all, Ellington! The poor dear!


[OOC: I am backdating this so hard because I cannot pass up the clouds, man. o/]

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I was planning to stay inside as much as I could, but I didn't even think--drat it all, I'd better go check on him. If he is floating about somewhere, he must be terribly frightened, poor thing.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
But if you go out to check on him, you do know that you may very well float away. Besides, he may yet be quite content in his pond.

[ooc: I made the clouds reference just for you, btw :3c]

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Not if I had a tether to help me get around, as you mentioned. And I think with a little practice to get the hang of moving about, a magic rope might be just the thing for it.


[OOC: ♥♥♥]

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I can't very well just sit at home, can I?

[Voice;]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, I think you very reasonably could.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
And take the chance that poor Ellington might be swimming around through the air somewhere without me?

[Voice;]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
He might be quite capable of looking after himself in all this, you know.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I know, but I can't help but worry. I can't imagine people would take it well, seeing him going flying through the air like this, and I'd hate to think they might scare or upset him as a result of it.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose. But he may yet be in his pond all this time and not floating through the air at all.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
...Well, he does have quite a few tentacles. I suppose there's always the chance he found something sturdy to hold onto and kept himself well-anchored, it's true.

Mm. Well, if he does get out, I'm sure someone on the Network will say something of it. So perhaps I'll just keep a close eye on that today, and only go out if it does come up that he's gotten out somehow.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
A wise decision, I think. Better that than struggling with a magic rope all day.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think it'd be quite such a struggle as you might be imagining, but I still won't mind staying in today, either. Getting around really is rather like swimming through the air, except that it's a bit precarious if one gets caught in the middle with nothing to push against.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, it is--and one can get a bit trapped in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to push or pull against, very much as one would, say, in the middle of a street or somewhere very high in the air.

Besides that, it is rather entertaining.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not the sort of curse that goes well with a dress, either, I'm afraid. But I suppose that takes care of my modern clothes for the month again, anyway, so there's a silver lining to everything.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it was quite un-gentlemanly to have even briefly considered that state of affairs for ladies such as yourself.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I should hope any ladies caught in this predicament today would be resourceful enough to find a way around it, so it never needs to be a state of affairs worth considering in the first place.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, well, you are the one who brought it up.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I suppose that was rather ungentlemanly of me, wasn't it?

[Voice;]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
More at un-ladylike, but now you're just teasing me.

[Voice;]

[identity profile] primrosella.livejournal.com 2011-07-22 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid so, yes.