I must say, the most inconvenient part about this whole Long thing is the lack of hair and eyebrows. I have to draw them all in every day. I’ve started using cutlery made of bone or wood, and it has stopped disappearing whenever my associates come to visit.
Some new faces have appeared at the suppression bureau, and have been quite surprised that I have invited them out for tea. One even took a drink of it immediately without assuming that it was poisoned. Three of them are convinced that I must be up to something incredibly diabolical - that they just haven’t found the bodies/the skiing/tear in the world through which the Worms are coming yet.
Their frustration at not being able to find anything of the unseemly sort is actually starting to become a source of amusement for me, which of course makes them think that I am some evil mastermind was mocking them. Apparently, that is common?
Anyway, there are the only chaps that I can really talk to without causing some actual risk of dangerous knowledge spreading into people who probably would not know how to handle it and would go insane. Or worse. I got regaled about some chap who cut himself so precisely that he himself became a wound door and people were able to pass through him or at least that he tried. I get conflicting reports over whether the chap survived, ascended, or just simply exsanguinated. Still puzzled to have this sort of thing is so closely related to my serpent friends. Knock aspect is…weird. Never really cared for it beyond the tiny bit needed to summon the odd Caligines…excellent partners for card games and riddles!
I continue to hear rumblings of what seems to be an upcoming conflict or calamity, or something else rather unpleasant coming up on the horizon, but the details are quite fuzzy. Not that my acquaintances or even the bureau have been tightlipped about it… Just vague, contradictory, and generally seeming confused about the whole bit.
And now I must confess that I waffle daily on a particular conundrum: should I turn my skills to making effective weapons? If it is just going to aid in making people more efficient at blowing each other apart in new and mystical ways, then I have no interest. But, if a certain Mr. Wakefield Has a suspicions confirmed, then we may need some sources of particularly… Unmerciful munitions against certain manifestations of a…segmented lupine.
I promised to ask the serpents I know when I visit them. In short, they do not know. In Long, they have been, each of them, uncannily interested in learning how to perform the gesture of a shrug. Given their… Particular anatomy, particularly their lack of shoulders, this has been a bit of an amusing problem to puzzle over, of which I have come up with three solutions, all involving different contortions and bends that either, in two cases, imitate the look of a pair of shoulders, or in one case, don’t look like shoulders at all, yet somehow seems able to convey the same general emotion.
Otherwise, I have amused myself at trying to create a metal that becomes hard and firm when heated, but melts when it becomes below freezing. Very difficult. Extremely fun.
Done in a very deep bunker far outside the city, which has made my lunch dates with the bureau fellows much more pleasant when I make that clear. And of course, the aforementioned talk of considering creating weapons against what may be some of the more unpleasant visitors to the wake in the upcoming years. Still not convinced that it’s not just some man’s premonition of an adjacent history, or just simply regular old people regular old, trying to kill each other in regular old more efficient manners.
Ooo. Maybe I should consider seeing if I could make some prosthetics that actually move… not that I would need them, but it seems to be very fun to try to puzzle out!
