[network catch-all] Subjectivity [NIGHT 91/MORNING 92][warning for potential gore/general horror]

[snowblindmods]

[All of the tablets fail for an hour after lockdown, displaying only snowy static. And it's not as if sleep is possible--insomnia runs wild over Norfinbury, making it very difficult to get any sleep at all. But, after an hour, the tablets seem to be in working order again. Maybe you can talk to the other travelers to pass the time? But who knows what they might say or do...]

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Night 91, @totheark, text/video [cw: creepy shit and hints of violence]

[0thingsonmymind]

therewas sta tic
there we re t h i n g s init
faces peo ple
vo ic es
they want

now thereis no sle ep
the vo ic es are
H E R E
could it be con nec ted
?
idid not injection

[Seperate privates to Beckett and Zell]
*The video update tonight is pretty dull. Snow and rubble and Brian's distortions then a return to the souvenir shop from the previous night.
Except when viewed that night they never make it back to the shop and it seems there are things lurking around every turn. Staticy and uncertain anomalies, strange ogre-like beings and, most often, a inhumanly tall, pale shape in black.

The few glimpses of Brian's traveling companion they get are, at first, normal. Then after a panorama shot of rubble and tall, tall men there's another glimpse of--holy shit is that a werewolf? On fire?! Whatever it is does not look happy but Brian doesn't seem to pay any attention to it.

Maybe its too bad, because shortly after turning away from her there's a flash of green light and static. The picture becomes unclear as the tablet goes tumbling but eventually comes to a rest on a plain old shot of snow. Well, snow and a rapidly expanding pool of blood, but nothing else (including possible sources) are visible.

The video ends there. Wonder how it got sent out.*

@zd; voice

[swatsflies]

[Oh look! A video from Brian.
Only that it's full of anomalies. He can feel his stomach drop and everything feels cold as he sees them. This can't be happening.]

Frickin hell! Brian look out! [And his warning might be too late. SHIT] Brian? Talk to me man. Where are you? Please be okay.

[And what Brian will actually hear from Zell's in the sound of static and the sickening sound of bones breaking.]

text

[0thingsonmymind]

whydid you send
this?

*Except what Zell gets is just a bunch of garbled characters. Huh.*

text -> audio

[swatsflies]

[Zell himself is cursing thinking that Brian's name will be on the obits.

Brian will hear him coughing. It gets progressively worst as if he's drowning

or maybe hit with a certain sickness that might sound very familiar to Brian. He'll only talk after the coughing subsides-]

Whoa, man. Is that blood?

[0thingsonmymind]

*Well, thats interesting. He hasn't heard anyone getting a new cough here yet...*

ido not see
blood

youwill be oneof
us
soon
other tim me ⓍperatⓍr's

back to text

[swatsflies]

What's that even supposed to mean?
Are you okay?

It's all over the sink.
There's some anomaly outside the window.
He looks pretty freaky.
When I get closer to it I keep coughing.

[0thingsonmymind]

iam fine

you are cough ing blood
?
tellme if
seizures

*The glitch leaves this message intact, the only change is that all the Os have Xs drawn through them.*

@Mnemosyne; voice

[bookofnope]

[Watching Brian's videos has become a nightly habit by now; not enjoyable per se, but a welcome routine, seeing new territory explored from afar. So rather than watch in real time, Beckett prefers to settle in for the night before having a look.

Tonight, it means he's too late.

He stares at the screen for a long time. Lost time, perhaps, but then what can he do? Once that thought crystalises, cutting through the numb shock, the weight of its helplessness settles in his limbs like lead. He can't bring himself to try and send a message out. Just like that. Just as before. Not even a misstep, just bad luck. There goes the searcher and there ends the search.

But there is blood. That finally gets through to him, because of course it does. He'd heard of plenty of deaths by anomaly. There was never blood. He'd have remembered.

The message finally goes out, through it sounds weak, defeated.]

Brian? Jade? Answer me, if you're alive.

text

[0thingsonmymind]

*Buh?*

iam weare fine

*Except instead of 'fine' Beckett gets nonsense characters.*

[bookofnope]

[Is that a good sign? Impossible to tell. Brian could be alive and unable to type properly, or something else could be happening to the tablet - because this is Norfinbury and no scenario can ever be ruled out. He's so tired of that. He's so tired - ]

I'm sorry. I can't go back. I need to - [keep watch for Angel's sake. He's making a choice here, he knows. And he hates that.] keep a promise. I'll find you if you're alive. [And that is a promise too, now.]

Be alive. Please.

[0thingsonmymind]

*?????*

iam not alive
weare any thing but fine

[bookofnope]

[????? indeed. This is getting stranger by the moment. Not fine, he could understand. But not alive?

They have spoken to some... not alive people before.]

What's happening? What has it done to you?

[0thingsonmymind]

i donot under stand

@gardenGnostic; action

[eclecticbassist]

[ Since the tablets stopped working, Jade's been occupying herself with doodling in the notebook she found a few days ago. She sits up to stretch and notices that Brian seems to be using his tablet; they must be working again. Now she can continue drawing, but on her tablet! She skims through the network to see if anyone knows what happened, and... wow. Yikes. ]

Uh, Brian? What is this supposed to mean? [ In case he can't tell she's referring to his network post, she holds up her tablet and points to it. This is really weird, even for him. ]

action/private text

[0thingsonmymind]

*He looks up at her then back down to the tablet. He thought it was pretty clear to him...*

iwas ask ing about
static
nosleep
the peo ple
in side

u s

[eclecticbassist]

Um, noooo? I mean, that was some of it, but the rest is a bunch of spooky nonsense-- you just did it again!

[ Seriously, what the hell. ]

I know you don't think stuff like this is creepy, but surely you can see how talking about hearing "voices" is a little unusual.

[0thingsonmymind]

*He cants his head.*

what voi ces
?
donot pre tend you cannot
hear

[eclecticbassist]

"What voices"-- Is this some kind of joke?

[ Jade had been giving him a pretty wide berth since The Disagreement, but this is too weird; she moves closer to Brian so they're not confusedly waving their tablets at each other from halfway across the room. ]

Look. [ She points at the creepy nonsense (which, of course, looks perfectly normal to him) on her screen. ]

[0thingsonmymind]

i didnot voi ces

*She's acting weird so he doesn't know how close he wants her to him, but he lets her get closer to show off her tablet. Nothing looks odd to him.*

what a bout it?
you see hear feel
you on ly pretend
like t h e y do

Text @Enoch

[warriorscribe]

I didn't see anything in the static.Are you sure it's not just your broken imagination?What do you mean "here"? Is there someone there with you now? Run, if you are in danger!

[0thingsonmymind]

*Eh?*

therewas
static
in stat ic

idid not say
here
isaid
t h e r e
with Y O U
be hind

iam not a lone
but not in dan ger
weare as
one

[warriorscribe]

[He looks behind him. Just the group in the house where they're going to discuss what to do with Jack, like normal. Brian is being stranger than usual...]

There is nothing unusual behind me. What are you talking about?

[0thingsonmymind]

sta tic ?

*He's not sure that's what Enoch is receiving, though.*

[warriorscribe]

You said there were things in it, and then behind me. Or have they taken your eyes already?

[0thingsonmymind]

some thingis
w r o n g

mineare
fine
yours are
wrong