[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

[0thingsonmymind]

*He nods. Its very personal.*

he want ed s to
getrid of kill des troy
tim me u s

he LIES

heis danger ous

[eclecticbassist]

[ Whoa, holy shit. As much as he tends to interpret reality a little differently, this kind of accusation isn't made out of whole cloth. ]

Okay, you are going to need to explain a few things - like why Tim would even talk to someone who tried to kill him. I'm guessing Clayton never attacked him, so he must have done something that made you feel threatened.

[ By now Jade's aware that Brian wasn't always a masked weirdo; combined with what she's heard from Tim... ]

He thinks you need to be 'fixed', doesn't he?

[0thingsonmymind]

*He nods again.*

he thinks iam
sick
iam NOT sick
i doNOT need tobe
fixed cured chan ged
iam FINE
thisis how iam
Sup Pos Ed
to BE


tim islike me
but timis not
clay ton want ed es to
re mo ve
undivide


he doesnot didnot list en
still said 'sick'

he said hecould
and hesaid he couldnot
i donot know which is the LIE
but iknow hewould
try

i cannot lethim
hurt
a gain

[eclecticbassist]

[ Jade scowls for a moment because of course that control freak would make someone fear for their life and insist he was helping. He's such a - WAIT WHAT ]

Whoa, you mean he does the, um - [ vague gesturing around her face ] the mask thing, too?

[ He wasn't wearing one when they met, though, and Tim is significantly more coherent than Brian. Oh nooooooo - this is part of something really goofed up, isn't it? ]

[0thingsonmymind]

*He nods.*

some times
thatis tim
tim like me
tim clay ton want ed s to
re mo ve

other tim is tim peo ple know
tim with f a c e
clay ton said was help ing

*He'll leave the 'real tim vs fake tim' bit for later.*

i donot want clay ton to
trick
into hurting not helping

[eclecticbassist]

Jeez, that... [ Explains a lot? Is an unbelievably shitty situation? Compels Jade to fuss even more than she already does?? ]

I don't even know what to say, except that I guess that makes sense. Um, are you ever... like Tim? The one with a face?

[0thingsonmymind]

*He shakes his head.*

iam just
this me

there isno go ing
back

it isnot need ed

*...she's not gonna try, is she? He was pretty sure she'd understand for some reason he can't actually place when he thinks about it. Shit. He hopes he didn't say anything he'll regret...but maybe she'll understand? Like Beckett did.*

[eclecticbassist]

[ That reason is the human emotion called friendship, Brian. Friends trust each other not to freak out about their split personalities. ]

Okay. [ Look, she always knew something was up; she's just glad to have some information.

Now she has roughly a bajillion questions, though. ]

He's mentioned blacking out before, and the seizures - are they related to... all of this?

[0thingsonmymind]

*He nods. Seizures, for Tim at least, triggered the switch. For him they just happened.*

[eclecticbassist]

Hm.

[ Jade's already thinking about how to break it to Tim that she knows about this mess when it inevitably comes up. She definitely won't go out of her way to tell him, not right now. ]

Don't worry - I don't think you need to be, like... "fixed" or anything.

[0thingsonmymind]

*Not that she can see it, but there's a small smile at that. Its good to have people who understand, especially when he's around them a lot.*

good

*He doesn't express it very well, though.*