someday

[lusito]

Who: Joshua, and maybe even you??
What: Josh being Josh, but also kind of being in a bad mood
Where: Tower of Terror, and then excuses to be elsewhere
When: Over the next few days?
Warnings: N/A I'll add if anything comes up



[A]

[Today, if you decide to pay a visit to the Tower of Tower, for once you'll actually see Joshua here, doing his job?? WHAT??

... Granted, he's not the chipper ride attendant that Rod would probably want right now, though. If anything he seems to be really bored, even reading some ridiculous magazines while in the elevator with the guests and simply flipping a page when the drop hits. Once the elevator comes to a stop--]

Something something Twilight Zone, you heard the video enough times to guess what I'm going to say, go on and get out of the elevator already unless you want to ride again.

[So that's how Josh's work day is going, apparently.]

[B]

[Sometime later, Josh leaves work and finds an empty open space to do something that he hasn't done in a very, very long time: practicing with his powers that the cards have given him here. Namely, the random-acting Genie Lamp card. Normally, his magnificent omniscience would be able to predict what effect the card is going to have when he chooses to use it, but... that is not the case here in this place.

As such, anyone who comes across him today will find him attempting to use the card and use it in a manner that benefits him somehow, but so far, he seems to be slowly becoming frustrated, before he finally uses it to accidentally set fire to a tree nearby. Whoops...]

[C]

[Late tonight, you may be able to spot Joshua... sitting on the top of the roof where he and Tadashi live. How did he get up there without the use of his wings like he would have before? Who knows. Regardless, he's here, looking at the night sky and occasionally looking down at anyone if they happen to actually be passing by at this late hour. Say hello?]

Comments

C!

[tadaishi]

[Joshua sitting on the roof isn't an abnormal thing, but how exactly he got up there is a mystery. Tadashi has a Flight card that he hardly ever keeps on him and it's not outside the realm of possibility for Joshua to have borrowed it.

He doesn't really seem like a climbing type of person.

Tadashi isn't either, at least not this late at night, so he's on the ground peering up at Joshua.]

Can't sleep?

[lusito]

[Joshua is swinging his legs a bit idly here as he looks up at the sky before he speaks.]

... Mm, something like that. I take it that you haven't been able to get any sleep yet either?

[tadaishi]

I haven't been able to sleep normally for the past...what's it been, year?

[With a few exceptions. He's actually been able to sleep better here having someone someone he knows nearby than he would otherwise.]

Mind if I come up?

[lusito]

[At that, Joshua nods before tossing something down to Tadashi for him to catch--sure enough, it's the Flight card. It appears your suspicion of him having borrowed it to get up here was correct.]

[tadaishi]

[Guess that teaches him not to leave it lying around too often.]

Huh.

[He's had a little more practice with the card since he got it, so at least he doesn't embarrass himself by flailing his way up to Joshua, but he does have to use the building a little to keep from floating the wrong direction.]

Well, that answers the first question I had.

[lusito]

[Joshua watches with some small amount of amusement, putting his chin in his hands here.]

Oh? What was your second question, then?

[tadaishi]

It was going to be 'what brings you out here', but now it might be 'why are you stealing my stuff?'

...Just kidding, t's the first one. I hardly ever use that card, so it's good that someone is.

B

[tacticalespionageaction]

[Snake's lucky he wasn't standing too close to the tree when it goes up in flames.]

Hey-

[He looks directly to Joshua, also annoyed.]

What'd it ever do to you?

[lusito]

It looked at me funny--seriously, what kind of question is that?

[Normally he wouldn't tack that on, would play along and even exaggerate about the tree having poor judge in character or the like, but he's not in the mood to do so.]

[tacticalespionageaction]

[Alright, someone's cranky.]

There's no need to take your bad mood out on the plantlife.

[lusito]

Are you offering to be a substitute instead of the local plantlife to "take my bad mood out on", as you so eloquently put it?

[tacticalespionageaction]

[He makes a garbled mumble-grunt kind of noise.]

What's your problem, kid?

[lusito]

Do you want the list in alphabetical or chronological order?

[tacticalespionageaction]

Just keep it brief.

a

[whatarenext]

[There's an adult man in a chum bucket helmet just slumming it up by the ride. Yeah, he hasn't taken off the helmet since the fair. Now he's eyeing Josh's magazines.]

Oh hey, magazines. I've heard of those. Those are those non-movie things with words in them aren't they?

[lusito]

... Yes, they are.

[Sort of giving you a look here like he's not sure what to think at that question, but hey, at least you have his attention now.]

[whatarenext]

[You will always be unsure of Mike.]

Mind if I just stand here and read the covers aloud? I'm kind of desperate to give a hot take on something.

See, normally instead of doing my job I'd just be drinking beer and talking shit about movies. But since I don't have beer or movies I'm kind of starved for content.

[Said like this is absolutely normal.]

[lusito]

[Joshua raises an eyebrow at that, before he allows a slight smile.]

Well, I can't say I'm not curious to know what kind of "hot take" you'd have here--go ahead and take a look.

[Instead of simply just holding up the magazine to let Mike look at the cover, he actually holds out the magazine itself to let Mike take and flip through.]

[whatarenext]

[Oh thank god something he stare blankly at and not be accused of being dead.

He picks the weird tigger one first.]

Oh my god so much purple, it's like Tim Burton got allergies and sneezed all over this cover. You know, like most of his movies.

[Mutters some more as he reads.]

Why would this weasel need plastic surgery? Like all this...crap. Could be very superficial, like at a Halloween store.

[lusito]

I believe that's supposed to be a tiger, actually, but given appearances, it does seem rather small for one of those.

[whatarenext]

Well it's parents must've fucked up. No wonder it's got that whole Alice in Hot Topicland look going.

I mean imagine being a tiger and somehow one evolves into an emo.

a

[itsthecount]

Yes, this is your boss, Alfred Hitchcock. I need you to repeat that entire monologue. Pronto.

[Here's Count Olaf! He's dressed as Rod, alebit in a horrible disguise that just involved him taking a bucket of grey paint and throwing it on himself.]

[lusito]

[Normally this would be really funny, but considering that there is probably grey paint dripping on the floor now...]

Oh, thanks for the reminder of who you are, I'd hate to have confused you with Charlie Brooker instead.

[itsthecount]

No, I hate mirrors. They remind me that I’m a despot of a mayor. Repeat the monologue.

[lusito]

Fine, but only because I absolutely respect the man in front of me, who is certainly not just a stranger disguised as my boss. Ahem:

... "Something something Twilight Zone, you heard the video enough times to guess what I'm going to say, go on and get out of the elevator already unless you want to ride again."

[That's totally what you meant when you asked him to repeat the Twilight Zone monologue, right?]