Wherein Duster Plays an Instrument: A Log I Meant to Do Months Ago: A Rockabilly Sound Explosion

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

Who: Duster and others
What: Duster is playing a thing
Where: The music room, a common room, a room, your room, every room
When: Thursday Dec. 15th through Sunday Dec. 18th, 8pm-10pm
Warnings: Sweet jams.

Praytell, dear gentle reader, what is that? Why, 'tis the haunting melody of some melodic notes that haunts you. And... some slapping. Some slapping and some musical notes. Just listening to it makes you want to wear a poodle skirt or buy some pomade. A lot of pomade. It sort of sounds something like this...

And the man playing it, oh, dear reader, is tall and thin and wearing blue and has sideburns and smells of some sort of cheese. What an interesting and fun person he would be to bother know.

ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO BRAVE THE MUSIC AND ACCOST THE GENTLEMAN PLAYING THAT STRANGE, GIANT VIOLIN-THING?

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[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

No, it was deep beneath the Empire Porky Building in New Pork City.

"I suppose not," said Duster. "But it had a lot to do with who woke the sleeping dragon."

Were there sleeping dragons in your apocalypse, Waka?

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

Sable's ears perked. "Ooh, I do love jazz..." she said to herself. "I certainly wouldn't mind if you switched over, but only if you feel like it."

[tribulune.livejournal.com]

There were. Funny enough, this all sprung from the descendant of a great hero's accidental awakening of a sleeping dragon. Well, a dragon sealed to a fate of never unleashing wrath again, but it still counts.

Waka had a twinge of surprise course through his face. This man... knew a lot more than he thought.

"Yes, yes. The one who awakened the dragon... and the one who helped to slay it again."

Amaterasu and Susano, Shiranui and Nagi. Funny how events seemed to repeat themselves.

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

"Somebody killed it?" Duster asked, now being confused. "I thought it just woke up and destroyed the world."

And then remade it. But you weren't around for that part.

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IF I HAD THE ABILITY TO LEAVE A TITLE, IT WOULD READ: Duster aims to please

I don't mind," said Duster. He left his slaps behind and started something a little more like this:



Stupid facial expressions and all.

[popnpakkun.livejournal.com]

Gladys was awfully curious. She didn't know what a violin was, but she did know what a guitar was and it looked like one...albeit it was deformed than how she remembered. She curiously watched the man play the up-right guitar-thing, quietly wondering why he was playing it differently than that one customer she got to meet while lived at the piranha store in FDC.

After a certain point, she couldn't contain her curiosity any longer and decided to speak up.

"Is that a big version of a guitar? It sounds very different to a normal guitar."

[tribulune.livejournal.com]

"It tried to, but... well, you could say the gods were on our side! We got very lucky that the dragon and the darkness got eradicated."

Namely because their might was so fierce that even Ammy almost failed to defeat them.

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

Behold, some new spectator.

"No, it's more like a large violin," answered the man. "A very, very large violin. I'm just playing it sort of like a guitar because that's how you play it in rockabilly or jazz music."

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"Oh. I wasn't around for that part. I came here after the world was ending."

Sure is a strange thing meeting someone from the Nowhere Islands that he didn't know, boy howdy.

"So, what part of the Nowhere Islands are you from, anyway?"

[tribulune.livejournal.com]

"... Nowhere Islands?"

Oh. That was an automatic tip-off that this might have been a completely different thing. Welp.

"You are from a different world, aren't you?"

NO WORRIES I can just imagine that the subject's up there

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

Sable listened to the bass intently, swaying just a little bit to the music. Her initial plan was to remain silent throughout the entire song, but after a moment, she couldn’t help but speak up.

“You’re very good,” she observed. “How long have you been playing?”

[popnpakkun.livejournal.com]

"A vi-o-lin? Gladys pronounced the name slowly as she tilted her head to the side. She gazed at the instrument, trying to picture a smaller version of it. "What's a violin?"

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

"It's, uh, an instrument like this one, but a lot smaller," answered Duster.

Huh. Strange kid.

SUBJECTS YAY

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

"About four years now," said Duster. "I was in a band for a couple of years before coming here."

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

"Uh, I don't know. I mean, I'm not from here. I don't think anybody is, really. What world are you from?"

[tribulune.livejournal.com]

"Nippon, Japan," he explained simply. Honestly, that was only the brief gist of it. Where Waka really came from was somewhere completely different.

"Our days of darkness began there. I suppose for you, it was different."

Welp.

OH MAN SUBJECTS OH MAN

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

“A band!” Sable repeated, her eyes widening. Well, that was exciting! Granted, virtually the only artist she ever listened to was K.K. Slider, but it never hurt to get aquainted to new bands. “What was it called?”

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

"DCMC," replied Duster. "Desperado Crash Mambo Combo. Have you heard of us?"

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

"Our days of darkness started in another place, in another time," said Duster. "It... got confusing."

[tribulune.livejournal.com]

"I see."

Waka's face fell for a moment -- not to an expression of sadness, but concern. Different apocalyptic occurrences at different times. That was just...

Well, that face didn't last long. He tried to put on another jolly smile, as per usual.

"Well! At least it obviously didn't end too badly, yes?"

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

"Hm...I can't say I have," Sable admitted, looking away for a brief second. "Then again, where I come from there was only one singer that was very popular with everyone, so because of that I honestly haven't heard of many other band's music."

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

"I guess," said Duster. "There were tornadoes and an earthquake and everything went dark... And then I woke up here."

"So, I don't really know. I just have to have faith that when Lucas pulled the final needle that woke the dragon, that his heart was pure enough."

[pkwallstaple.livejournal.com]

"Oh," said Duster, a little crestfallen. "Well, we were very popular back in the Nowhere Islands, and we played at Daisy's birthday party last year. If you went to that you would have seen us."

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

"I see...I don't think I went to Daisy's birthday party, at least, I can't remember..." Sable mused, trying to think back to last year. Knowing her, she probably was doing some kind of sewing project instead. Like she always does.

Still, she perked up. "But I'll have to listen to your band's music, since you sound very good! Do you happen to have any CDs, or...?"

[tribulune.livejournal.com]

The final needle, the dragon, this Lucas kid's purity... unfortunately, even for a clairvoyant Moon Tribal man like him, he still couldn't envision anything relating to that. Waka was left entirely in the dark, and it made him feel a little uneasy.

"How peculiar. Yes, yes, very peculiar... although what you say," he pointed out, "makes no sense on this poor prophet's head. Care to enlighten me on this dragon and your little friend?"