Voice

[ourworldnow]

[A young, cheerful voice comes over the airwaves, accompanied by the idle strumming (for now) of a guitar.]

Helllllo Santa Rosita. Louis here- just arrived and happy to be alive. Let’s skip the normal oh my god, what even bit for now. I’ve come, I’ve seen, I ate at the lunch party. Hey there, new mom and dad!

I have a much more important moral quandary for all you good people. It’s 1961, yeah? And, uh, I’m from not then. I don’t even know if my original flavor parents are alive yet. Meaning we are in prime Marty McFly problems zone.

[The idle strumming suddenly switches to (an acoustic version) of the opening notes of Smoke on the Water]

Would it be, like, totally wrong to record future hits and make a ridiculous amount of money?

[Now it’s the opening notes of Stairway to Heaven]

I’d have to stick to whatever rocks these old guys socks, I know, I know. So more like-

[He switches to Yesterday]

Oh, I believe in getting paid….

[The guitar playing stops suddenly as he laughs.]

Whadda ya think? Anyone ready to form a band? Yes? No? Get a lawyer? Give a guy some feedback.

Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.

[He’s going to play through that whole song (though not sing) if no one answers. Save the good people of the town and tell him to stop.]

Comments

[ourworldnow]

You- what? You've only got one arm?

[He's all for fun and fancy free, but you can't just breeze past that, dude.]

[righthandstand]

No, I got both. My friend fixed it up for me, he’s got some magic powers like that. You think I’d bring up havin’ only one arm if that was the case, huh?

[ourworldnow]

Hey, there's nothing wrong with going one arm. I just- I didn't see it coming, okay? That's all. You have the limbs you have, man.

But you're messing with me. People don't grow back arms.

[righthandstand]

I didn't grow it back. My best friend reattached it.

...It was more like he attached my body to my arm, but that's details.

Fact is, I have superpowers back home and I they'd make things so much damn easier.

[ourworldnow]

That is so very deeply weird. So is everything about everything, but that is making the list.

Too bad you lost them all. Detachable arms would be a hell of a party trick.

[righthandstand]

What the fuck, I'm not chopping my arms off!

[There's plenty of fun things you can do with Crazy Diamond that don't involve hurting people!]

Besides, that's what my friend does. My Stand erases things.

[ourworldnow]

Like...you're a living pencil?

[righthandstand]

...I never thought of it like that.

But, uh...it's kinda like my hand's a pencil eraser, only I don't have to rub it in a couple of times. And anything it cuts through joins together.

[ourworldnow]

So you could just erase someone's middle part? Their whole stomach, gone?

[righthandstand]

Yeah! And the the parts around the missing part fills in the gap!

They're still dead.

[ourworldnow]

That is creepy as hell, man. But amazing for getting rid of the evidence.

[righthandstand]

...

Think we'll have to kill a dude when we're finding answers to what the hell's going on?

[ourworldnow]

You think there's an answer to all this?

[righthandstand]

There has to be. There's always gotta be.

[ourworldnow]

Dunno, sometimes shit just happens and you survive it or you don't.

But magical powers would so help, gonna level.

[righthandstand]

Hey, I'm not gonna die here! That'd be stupid.

I just have to get my Stand back, yeah.