You laugh until you cry; you cry until you laugh

[sailorgenerous]

Who: Virgo musicians - Ghost Quest people and their friends
What: When eight musicians go missing, what happens to those left behind? What happens when those eight come back far worse for the wear?
When: Feb 1st-3rd and after
Where: Virgo HQ
Warnings: Talk of torture, violence, brainwashing, etc. It's ugly in here, folks.

The past three days have not been kind. The hauntings were odd, yes, but when your friends went missing without warning or a trace - well.

How have you been coping? Have you been coping?

And then they came back just as suddenly, and...it looks like your worries were not unfounded.

This isn't good, is it.

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[heymcfly]

[ Marty walks around like a zombie, eyes glued to the floor. He kind of feels like a zombie.

The last few days were hell. He doesn't want to do anything, or talk to anybody. Marty doesn't even want to play guitar...which he can't really do anyway. Getting your wrist snapped in the worst way possible makes it kind of hard to practice, which is absolutely awful. The fact that it's not casted either doesn't really help.

His brain is buzzing, full of the images of what had happened in the pods. It's almost impossible for him to go to sleep at night, not without sweating himself awake or having some kind of ungodly nightmare that he hasn't had since he was small. Sometimes they're vivid enough to make him sick.

Instead of sleeping like a normal person should, he'll be walking around, ultimately bumping his shoulder into Sans while he's too busy not looking up. ] H-huh?

Sorry, sorry. Didn't mean to.

[exhumerus]

[Sans is small, at least, so he doesn't provide much physical resistance. He's having the kind of day where someone running into him seems like a much bigger slight than it should be, but that only lasts for the two seconds it takes to lay an eye on the kid. It's Marty, from Greg's band. One of the people he knows for a fact was missing.

He looks worse off than Haru in a physical sense. But hell, what does that really mean?

He raises a gloved hand, immediately brushing off the apologies.]

It's fine, kid. You don't need to apologize.

[He looks him over, his glance quick and thorough. Yeesh.]

So...you made it back, huh?

[heymcfly]

[ Well, making it back was one way to put it! Marty went through a lot of shit, but he wasn't about to start a pity party for himself. The only thing he could ask for was to return to writing songs and playing guitar with his band, and try to not remember things. That was probably easier said than done right now, but he was going to at least try! ]

Guess so. [ He tucks his good hand into his pants pocket, shrugging lightly. ] I mean, we all did, right? [ More or less, but he won't say that. ]

[ Change of subject, though. Or at least, he'll try to attempt one. ] Have I met you yet? Name's Marty. McFly.

[exhumerus]

[Kind of awkward, but he'll take it. The degree to which some of these guys are just carrying on is sort of painful.]

I'm Sans. Esqueleto. I'm a pal of Greg's, since a long time ago. I'd offer you a handshake, but I think we're both down an arm.

[heymcfly]

Sans, huh? [ That's actually...a really cool name. Marty cocks his head to the side, and gives him a curious kind of look. ] How'd you get that name? [ Other than someone actually gave it to him. Marty, c'mon.

That joke actually makes him laugh. That's the first time he had since, well, before the ghost thing happened. ] That's pretty good! If I had a hand I'd shake, though.

[exhumerus]

[Sans grins, and it's actually pretty sincere. He respect that the kid can still appreciate humour in his situation - it probably means good things. It's hard not having a laugh about the name 'Esqueleto', though.]

I guess somebody had a weird sense of humour.

[He winks.]

Might've been me for that last name. Always been a fan of those spooky scary skelepuns.

[heymcfly]

[ the esqueleto part went right by him to be honest ]

Skelepuns? [ This guy is way too much. But Marty absolutely loves this. It's good to have a laugh over something that's actually laugh-worthy, rather than being stuck thinking about the past. Especially when the stuff Sans is talking about is actually laugh-worthy.

He's gonna try this. ]

Did you hit your funny bone or somethin'?

[exhumerus]

[Aw, Marty, bless your heart. Sans looks heartened by that response, and is obviously ready to play it up.]

Yep. And it cracked me right up.

[heymcfly]

[ The look on Sans face is worth the agonizing puns. This may or may not be a pun-off! ]

You might wanna hit up a doc for that. Cast it up, y'know?