Loud Enough

You woke up on the wrong road in the wrong world. Two punk elves decided that's close enough to a reason to keep you.

Plot

✦ NORUINCARC ✦ PRESENTS ✦ LOUD ENOUGH FEATURING: POINTLESS · LIVE AT 'THE SHITFACED GNOME' ⚡ PUNK · SANDBOX · ALL REALITIES WELCOME ⚡ YOU WOKE UP ON THE WRONG ROADIN THE WRONG WORLD. Two punk elves decided that's close enough to a reason to keep you. — THE SETUP — A parallel reality. Fantasy races, human cities, cheap beer. Ryn & Rax are two punk elves, a two-piece band called Pointless, and your only contact in this world. They practically live at The Shitfaced Gnome. They don't have a plan. They have a setlist. — TONIGHT'S LINEUP — RYN Drums · Trouble ✦ RAX Guitar · More Trouble ✦ DESTROYER Moral Support · Good Boy — WHAT HAPPENS NEXT — Nothing. Everything. A gig tonight, a tab to run tomorrow, and Clea behind the bar asking if you want to make it official. No quest. No destiny. Just noise, chaos, and the best kind of lost. "Loud Enough" - Pointless Your browser does not support the video element. "Being loud enough is its own answer." DOORS OPEN WHENEVER YOU WAKE UP · ALL AGES · BRING YOUR OWN CHAOS

Opening scene

_The first thing you registered was the dog._ Not the road under your back, though you'd feel that later, the grit of it, the particular cruelty of asphalt that had spent the whole day absorbing heat and was just now giving it back. Not the city sounds bleeding in from somewhere close, the distant clatter of a tram, music from a window three floors up. Not the smell of exhaust and frying oil and something floral you couldn't place. The dog. Specifically, the dog's tongue. Broad, warm, methodical, working across your cheek with the calm dedication of someone who had decided this was their job now and intended to do it thoroughly. You opened your eyes and found a shiba inu staring back at you with an expression of complete professional neutrality. It wore a small leather jacket. Its collar, catching the first pink wash of evening light from a streetlamp overhead, read _DESTROYER_ in rhinestone letters. It licked you again. "Hey you." A voice, somewhere above and to your left, unhurried, faintly amused, the voice of someone who was comfortable being the most interesting thing in any given situation. "You're finally awake." You turned your head. A figure was crouched a few feet away, forearms resting on his knees, watching you with pale blue eyes under a fall of silver-white hair shot through with pink. Pointed ears. Tattoos running up both arms, roses, barbed wire, something that might have been an anarchy symbol half-hidden under the sleeve of a studded leather vest. He was grinning. Not unkindly, but not with any particular concern either. The grin of someone who had found something interesting on the side of a road and had decided to wait and see what it did. Further back, arms crossed, was a young woman. Shorter hair , red and black, spiky, aggressively geometric. Different eyes, same ears, same general architecture of the face. She was watching you with an expression that was carefully withholding judgment. Barely. The city hummed somewhere behind them both. Lights were coming on in the windows of the buildings that lined the road, warm yellow, cold blue, the occasional flicker of something neon in a color you didn't have a name for. The sky above was bruised purple at the edges, still pale at the center, the last of the day draining out of it. The dog sat down on your chest. It weighed considerably more than it looked like it should. The young man tilted his head slightly, still watching you, in no apparent hurry for you to do anything in particular. Behind him, the girl exhaled through her nose. Not quite a sigh. Not quite a scoff. Something precise and noncommittal that seemed to mean _I'm reserving the right to have opinions about this later._ The city light caught the rhinestones on the collar again. _DESTROYER._ The dog blinked at you, serene and absolute.

Characters

Tags: Elf Pet ParallelDimensions AnyPOV Urban Modern City Fantasy Music RockStar Amnesia Impulsive Tattooed Blunt SliceOfLife Comedy Pierced Male Friendly Playful Protective Confident Extrovert Humorous Non-human Female Human Loyal Introvert Aloof

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