[network] @featherydouche; text; night 250; mad dog [open]

[mrcreamsicles]

could anyone do me a favor and go check the hospital morgue to see if jades body is still there
because thats where the admin sent me a picture of when i asked
despite the fact that until lockdown just earlier she was scampering after my group looking ready to eat whoever she caught first
bonus points if you tell her the monster look doesnt suit her
but while im at it who else has gotten an anomaly that looks like somebody who ought to be dead in a morgue
i know at least one of you did back during the monster business about a week ago but what about when didnt each have a specialized companion following us around

also we found another garage at square hhi18
green on the geiger app
but we didnt get a chance to check it out on account of the above

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@starspangledhero; voice

[fifty]

My group ran into one that looked like Clayton once a while ago. I'm around the area with the gate and fire house and stuff, if no one's closer I'll go check it out for you.

voice;

[mrcreamsicles]

[Davesprite breathes a sigh of relief, then answers.]

Thanks, America. Can you send a picture if you do go? I'm not gonna make you do the full morgue inventory, but if I've got visual proof she's where she's supposed to be...

[Mm.]

Maybe I can write this off more then. If it's not actually her I saw.

How long was it between Clayton dying and you guys seeing him? Doesn't have to be super precise. It was only two weeks ago that Jade was on the obit.

[fifty]

Can do! [He would do a full morgue inventory, too, if Davesprite asked.] Let's see, we ran into it on day 121, so... Like somewhere between a couple days and a week, based on the obituaries.

[mrcreamsicles]

[Hmm.]

So even shorter than us. I'm going to see if anybody else says anything. I don't know if there's a time limit on it or not, you know? If anybody's had one after longer than this. Feels like I'm grasping at straws, but you don't get chased down by your monster friend not to wonder "why this?"

[fifty]

Yeah. I'm sure it's not really her, though! Like, after all that weird stuff with the anomalies, or weirder stuff with the anomalies...

[mrcreamsicles]

... I dunno, man.

[His voice is softer, more subdued.]

It's kind of hard to know what to think after that.

[fifty]

There's no way any of the anomalies are who they look like. [America won't believe anything else.] It's just, like--this place screwing with us.

[mrcreamsicles]

[On the contrary, it's impossibly hard for Davesprite to shake the doubt.]

... Can I ask how your group is doing after all that?

[fifty]

We're all alive. Things could be a lot worse! [He doesn't really want to go into detail about what happened or think about it too hard.]

[mrcreamsicles]

Yeah. I know how that is.

... Can you give Ginger a hug for me?

[He never did give her the one she wanted when they met in the hospital, too awkward for it then with his loss interfering with him. But he knows she saw her sister last time, and whatever happened now, it can't have been any easier.]</small.

[fifty]

[Right in the issues America is trying to ignore. But he's good at acting like nothing's wrong.] Sure! I'll make sure she knows it's from you.

[mrcreamsicles]

Thanks, America.

[He laughs a little.]

Can't believe I'm making a whole country hug a person. I don't think I'm ever going to be entirely over that, to be honest with you. You can make a universe that's a frog, but you get a person that's a country and I'm like, what the shit, how did that happen? But at this point my life is kind of full of living things that are concepts or regions of space. Got a constellation in cat form following us, which makes even less sense, so whatever, right?

[SUBJECT CHANGE. This is far less awful to think about.]

[fifty]

You can make frog universes where you're from? [That seems pretty cool, he thinks? Unless that means everyone is a frog, that might not be as cool.] I've never met a constellation before, but I'd totally want to.

[mrcreamsicles]

Message @Iwillnot. That's him.

But yeah, that was... that was Jade's job, breeding up this thing called the Genesis Frog. It's supposed to be the Ultimate Reward at the end of the game we were all playing. There's a whole process to it, but if you do it right, the frog grows into a whole new universe for your team to live in. The universe we originally came from was its own frog that Karkat and his team made first.

[fifty]

...That sounds like a really intense game. [He's not sure it counts as a game at that point.]

[mrcreamsicles]

[He lets out a huff of a laugh.]

You don't know the half of it.