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[errandry]

[ from the recording, the noise boils out of the speakers in a torrent of shrieks and chanting and drums. impressions are almost shockingly crisp: the vaulted ceilings, torches leering from the dark, carved idols with all their spines and horns. figures flicker in and out of focus as the recording darts past—stripped bare, every one. well, it's only manners in a cult to go naked to a ritual sacrifice, isn't it?

the tide of sound rises. they're shouting a single name. Esaimu, Esaimu, Esaimu—! ]



[ then, of course, the camera zeroes in to a figure on the outskirts. for a boy surrounded by naked women, he sure looks traumatised. ]

E... saimu...



[ meanwhile, very clearly from the present— ]

I'm totally gonna wreck the video on this thing. How'd it even get inside my mind?!

Comments

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[aettir.livejournal.com]

It was a while ago anyway, I barely remember it anymore.

video | 1/3

[impledge.livejournal.com]

An... accident?

[ HOW DO YOU GET ABSORBED BY A CULT ACCIDENTALLY. ]

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[impledge.livejournal.com]

[ ... rewatching this again just because there is new horror and fascination every time... ]

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[impledge.livejournal.com]

Um... maybe people won't know what they're looking at! [ is that comforting at all??? ]

video | HEY, LJ NEVER NOTIFIED ME OF THIS. - 1/3

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Yeah, maybe! They could just think it's a—

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[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ naked

psychedelic

rave orgy ]

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[aettir.livejournal.com]

—oooooor maybe I'll stick to the cult story.

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[impledge.livejournal.com]

Huh? Think it's a...?

[ THE IMPLICATION DOES NOT REGISTER for several seconds, and then suddenly. ]

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[impledge.livejournal.com]

—o-oh. Yes. Good idea!

[ fkjngjfkhnjkhj okay um moving on!! ]

So... you can't get rid of the post?

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[aettir.livejournal.com]

Anything a curse puts up for you gets stuck on the Network. You can't even edit it out.