[Network] @totheark; Video; Late Afternoon 103; In lieu of a restraining order... [Open]

[0thingsonmymind]

*Sup Norfinbury, its time for creepy video sharing time!
It starts off with a shot of snow and rubble. How exciting! It stays on this for a bit, so its okay if one thinks this might be boring video sharing time at first. After a few more shots of snow and rubble and perhaps a bit more snow the video jumps to...something. Its too heavily distorted to see what, but the normal screen-pulling Norfinbury distortions are present as well as Brian's tearing and staticy distortions. And just in case you thought creepy, silent video wasn't enough there's a short but loud burst of a metal screeching sound.

The video then abruptly cuts to a shot of Clayton looking exhausted (from this entry, if anyone would recognize it). He's saying something but the sound has been removed and after a couple seconds the video jumps to a shot of: more snow!
The snow has "STAY AWAY" written in it. There's then a half second of static followed by a video of the funeral home's morgue...with the drawers popping open and the corpses sliding out. (This may also be familiar to some viewers. It cuts out before the light gets bad enough to break anyone's tablets, though.)
After another half second of static it returns to the previous shot, only now "FROM HIM" has been added to below "STAY AWAY." It stays on this message for a good ten seconds before cutting to a short, and heavily distorted, video of someone cutting open a stuffed monkey.

There are then a few seconds of creepy, distorted hospital hallways before the video shifts a final time. The last shot is of a wall (in building 143) with a numbers drawn on it in charcoal. It says "9513390313793583953179"

Aside from the burst of static near the beginning and some footsteps in the hospital hallways, the entire video is silent.*

((ooc: the cipher decodes to "i am watching."))

Comments

@TW; text

[maskintape]

 

 

 

brian what

@totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

*God, Tim, this is perfectly clear. What could you possibly be questioning.*

yes

[maskintape]

ooookay I guess we're losing something in translation here
when someone says "brian what"
"yes" isn't rly a good way to respond
you're supposed to explain what the fuck this is
I thought we were over the creepy video stage man
and the creeping on clayton in public thing

[0thingsonmymind]

*Yes is a perfectly acceptable reply to 'what'! He was confirming what his video was. Clearly Tim understood it.*

itis vid eo
mess age
not foryou

*He's never over the creepy video stage, Tim just hasn't been receiving them lately.*

[maskintape]

 

 

 

 

oh my god am I the "him"
was I interpreting this backwards
jfc you have to learn to share or people are going to talk

[0thingsonmymind]

to sha re ?

*He knows the concept, he just doesn't see how it applies to this.*

[maskintape]

oh god
nvm
my point is if you're telling people to stay away from me
how about don't
esp when I approached them
not the other way around
jfc

[0thingsonmymind]

youshould not
heis not
safe

*But Tim just loves to be difficult, doesn't he? That's part of why he 'went to' Clayton first. Which of course means he showed everyone because that's just how he rolls.*

[maskintape]

yes keep telling me what I should/n't do that always works out so well for you
clayton makes mistakes like everybody else k
doesn't make him dangerous or a bad person
just flawed like the rest of us
in ways that can piss people off for months on end sure but like
he was trying to help doing what he did
and like
some things are more important than being mad

 

 

idk why I'm rambling you're just going to remind me he's a liar aren't you

[0thingsonmymind]

heis DANGEROUS
he will hurt
he doesnot help

*Not that Tim can be expected to understand why getting rid of Masky is bad. Damnit.*

[maskintape]

wow that's really helpful there slick
I feel so goddamn educated rn
and tbh if you honestly think clayton is dangerous idek where you're getting the idea from

[0thingsonmymind]

you canNOT let him
destroy undivided
itis not fixing help ing
itis bad



he IS danger ous
he made pill problem

[maskintape]

yyyeah idk what destroying undivided is
gonna need a better expl

 

 

 

ok wait
wait nvm about that
wait.
I'm gonna level with you a sec
imagine that I'm making my most serious face
sitting with my chin in my hands all avid and attentive
hand on your shoulder is optional
brian.
buddy.
are you
*you*
brian "breaks into tim's apartment on a regular basis" thomas
aka pillsy o'gankerson
aka meds stealer mcgee
are you seriously judging someone else for stealing/withholding meds
like is that a thing you are actually doing
is it
is it REALLY

[0thingsonmymind]

*He sure is! Though only because it's Clayton.*

thatis not the
point

[maskintape]

it might not be the point
but damn son
you know what hypocrisy is right
you don't get to call out people for doing things that are wrong if you do em too
like if I called somebody else a liar or w/e you'd side-eye pretty hard amirite
same thing
he's not dangerous
he's done some unbelievably stupid shit but who hasn't
and I defs don't need you to warn him off me jfc
I'm a big boy now

[0thingsonmymind]

tak ing your pills nev er got that
far big comp licat ed danger ous

*There was never really violence from it. And Masky tackling people didn't count.*


but itis still notthe
point

iwill not al low
un di vis ion

[maskintape]

are you fucking kidding me rn
are you FUCKING KIDDING ME

[ ruh-roh.

He mad. Especially now that he understands the whole division business. NOPE. ]

taking my pills was way worse than whatever the fuck petty bs went down w/clayton and friends
WAY WORSE
if I'd had my pills whenever I needed them so many things would be different
I'd have been better THINGS would have been better
if it wasn't for the consequences of going without meds jessica wouldn't have been taken
right
which means there wouldn't be you there taping exactly who FUCKING took her
no tape for jay to find
nothing for me to have to lie about
no argument that made us part ways
no fucking notes scattered around his GODDAMN CORPSE TELLING ME IT'S MY FAULT
HE'D BE FINE I'D BE FINE
if it wasn't for you and that goddamn thing
(and I don't mean spooky tree guy
you KNOW what I mean)
jay would be alive there even if he isn't here
so tell me again asshole
tell me again that taking my pills wasn't so bad
tell me again what you won't ~*allow*~
because newsflash buddy that thing's getting vaporised as soon as I can get it done

omfg audio

[0thingsonmymind]

*He's pissed. He's beyond pissed. All of that stuff Tim is on about isn't important, its just how things HAPPENED. Jessica didn't matter, Jay didn't matter, hell Tim didn't entirely matter.
The ark mattered. His friend mattered. THAT was what was important Tim was--was just wrong.
Of course he was. He was a goddamned liar.

He flips his device over to audio and lets his voice drip with all the rage and pain Tim's ultimatum brought forth. Screw the rules, somethings were too important.*

I will not allow it.

[maskintape]

[ Tim loses his shit.

And, as if it needs clarifying, not in the funny way. Take a moment to think about the cornucopia of shit that is Tim's life - a childhood spent in hospital, pretty much abandoned by his mom. Night terrors. Seizures, blackouts. Not knowing friendship until college, which lasted five minutes before everyone in his general vicinity died or lost their minds. The mess with Jay and Alex and Mr Crypticvideo himself. All this plus twenty years of being stalked by a life-ruining faceless fuckboi. It's a lot of shit.

And Tim has now lost it, because he's hearing Brian's voice for the first time in years. It's the voice of the first person to ever give a fuck about him, and it's pretty clear that said fuckgiving ship has sailed.

The reply takes a while, because Tim is kind of busy with the crying and choking and downing a double dose of pills to keep from blacking out. ]

lol
what's wrong ~buddy~
do we not like the idea of losing a friend
because ftr
that feeling
is at least ten times worse than you think it's gonna be
especially when you think it's your fault in even the tiniest way
idgaf what you're going to allow
I'll scrape it out of my head with a fucking ice cream scoop if that's what it takes
tl;dr

eat

my

entire

ass

private text - @claytonator

[dr_unconscious]

Tim.
He doesn't understand.

private;

[maskintape]

he understands a hell of a lot better than you think
idk if that makes it better or worse

@gardenGnostic; text; private

[eclecticbassist]

[ Jade has to say something, she just... isn't sure what. Ugh. ]

im sorry :(
about all of this

[ GOOD START A+ ]

you probably dont want to hear this
especially not right now
but i think he DOES care about you
its just difficult for him to deal with stuff that isnt ark-related
and questioning the importance of it makes him, like....
existentially uncomfortable
ummm... im not excusing what he said or did or anything
you have every right to be mad!! he definitely knows what he is doing
and that it often hurts
uuughh, i dont even know what im trying to say
i just care a lot about both of you

[ Now all that's left is to testify that Clayton is indeed a Dick and possibly in the most gentle manner break it to Tim that she knows about his other masked bff. ]

private;

[maskintape]

ofc you think he cares about me
it's what he wants you to think
truth is he's invested in keeping me alive
sure
but not because he gives a flying fuck
see I still have a v important job to do back home
something brian's p enthused about me getting on with
(spoilers it's stabbing a guy in the goddamn neck)

[ Not that Tim can reference the actual reason Brian wants him alive lol it isn't like Jade has any idea about any masked doucheloAHAHAHAHA ]

action threadjack!!

[eclecticbassist]

[ Until now, she's just been watching the exchange, repeatedly looking from her tablet to Brian and wondering if/when she should interfere. Now would probably be a good time. ]

Brian...?

[0thingsonmymind]

*He doesn't respond to her right away as he's glued to the screen waiting for Tim's reply. Once the reply comes he throws his tablet across the room as hard as he can and just shouts. There's no words, just raw emotion, the same rage and pain that had laced his statement to Tim, but dialed up a notch or two.

The shout doesn't last long, though, and once he's done he apparently remembers he isn't alone and turns to Jade.*