[network] @TW; Day 010 Afternoon [open] [CW: deathchat!]

[maskintape]

[ Nope. Nope nope nope nope. Tim is done. Being swooped away to snow hell? Not okay. Dying while in snow hell? Really not okay. Waking up in a body bag on a shelf after that?

'Okay' is now so far away that it is a mere pinprick in the distance. There is no okay to be found anywhere in his vicinity. Tim would spend some time fondly trying to remember the long-forgotten concept of okayness if he were at all capable of doing anything but freaking the fuck out.

He turns on the video function of his tablet, shakily recording the shelf he was recently lying on, and anyone watching might make out a few hoarse breathy noises. There's a dramatic lurch in the feed as Tim almost drops the tablet, and the video cuts out.

It's followed up soon afterwards with a text message. ]

well ok then. I'm alive but I can't talk
so that's new
there've been guys who came back from the dead blind/deaf too, right? so maybe whatever brought us here is taking parts of us. the snow preserves us after we die so the parts they/it wants stay fresh
I mean there's no wound or w/e but. I'm also not dead, so.
it could have taken my vocal cords and also one of my kidneys or something and nobody would know.
this is so messed up
if they'd just tell us what they want I'd donate my entire god damn FACE if they'd just stop it
and I'm pretty sure I can see the west snow wall from here. which is nuts because I know for a fact that I was DAYS away from it on foot when I died
so
how are they moving the bodies

[ It's more evidence that it's the tall thing that's doing all this, as far as he's concerned. Not that he's going to offer that as a possibility. ]


filtered to @MarbleHornets;
obvs I can't call like I said I would
you doing ok or

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@MarbleHornets; private text

[genreblindness]

I'm fine.

How are you aside from the voice thing?

PRIVATE FOREVERRR

[maskintape]

Everything is fine.
all my stuff's here with me, pills included. and we both know I'm no stranger to waking up in weird places with no idea how I got there, so
Doing pretty ok for a dead guy

are you sure you're fine you were kind of coughing a whole lot in the closet

[ fussfussfussFUSSFUSS ]

[genreblindness]

Well I was kind of freaking out for obvious reasons. Plus you had just punched me in the gut so that didn't help. I'm ok though.

About the whole how are they moving the bodies thing
are you thinking the same thing I'm thinking

of fucking course it's text;

[croi]

it's been 4 days.

i'm impressed

[Like, dude, you were busy.]

[maskintape]

uh-huh
you too can go from "squished into a sports shed" to "squished into a bodybag" in just four days by following the Tim Wright plan
housewives everywhere are raving about it

[croi]

it happens to all of us sooner or later.
where did you wake up?

@SummerVacation

[desenchanter]

[ Uhm, wow! Creepy. What a morbid dude... ]

What do you mean... the parts they want?

[maskintape]

I mean what if they need our body parts for something.
for unholy rituals. illegal experiments. cannibalism. or just to sell them on the black market? idk
there has to be a reason. They have to want *something*
so

[desenchanter]

[ He has to contemplate some of this. He has a vague reference point for some of it, although he had been shielded from much of what had gone on in Castle Oblivion. ]

What are they waiting for though? And who are 'they' supposed to be?

@cgriffin, text

[coleader]

I'm glad you're not dead.

Larynx transplants aren't very common, so I don't think they would take your vocal cords. At least, not for any logical reason. If there isn't a wound, they're probably still there. It's more likely you caught Laryngitis, since viruses thrive in cold weather. Or it could be a response to trauma, maybe. I'm not a psychologist.

J haven't seen any tracks from vehicles, but the snow could be falling so heavily that they're quickly covered.

[maskintape]

same tbh
would not recommend the whole dead experience

maybe they're building like. do you still know about the whole frankenstein thing in the future
they could be building an artificial person out of recycled bits and I'd believe it at this point
the thing about being dead and then not dead is that it makes you believe all the craziest stuff.

and I haven't heard vehicles either. or seen anywhere to store them but idk other people might have
it's just all so WEIRD and makes less sense the more I think about it

[coleader]

If they wanted to take my organs, they had plenty of opportunities to. All the times we were asleep, when they were giving us the injections - couldn't they have done something right then and there? It seems easier to just kill us instead of setting us loose.

I think that might be the point, it not making any sense. I've been tossing around the idea of it being a psychological experiment. We're clearly being monitored, probably even now.

I swear to god, this place makes us more paranoid by the second.

text - @claytonator

[dr_unconscious]

[Clayton is stuck in this odd limbo of "oh thank christ Tim came back" and "goddammit Tim why didn't he learn from my mistakes and avoid this in the first place," but all of that is finely tempered by the situation's more minor points. The shelf he woke up on, for example--very familiar. The lost voice? Not so much. Both of these should be investigated.]

[But first, the sappy shit.]

Took you long enough. I'm glad you're back with us.

Do you know what kind of building you're in?

[maskintape]

glad to BE back. confined spaces aren't really my thing so the corpse drawers aren't a place I wanna go again any time soon haha
looks like a body storage place? a morgue or w/e
it feels thick in here. like the school. The air's all wrong

[dr_unconscious]

Preach it to the choir.

[Clayton can absolutely relate to this. Intense claustrophobia + body bags = a very bad time.]

Yeah, I remember [...well, no he doesn't. Be careful with your words, Epps.] mentioning that. The funeral home I woke up in felt the same way. Have you looked around outside the morgue, or is it just all morgue?

text;

[jumpship]

you... died? how are you here?

[ he's young enough that he doesn't quite understand how things work here, not when he sees names on obituaries and then the people show back up fine. what kind of place is this? ]

are you okay? we talked the first day. if you remember me.

text;

[maskintape]

yeah, I remember you
glad you're still doing ok out there. you're not still alone, right

as for how I'm still here, beats me
Guess I'm just one of the lucky ones. unless you take into account the fact that I'm here, I have no voice and also I died in the first place

@Enoch; text

[warriorscribe]

[He's still not convinced he was actually dead. There are many who never came back, after all. But he feels there's something he has to ease his mind on before anything else.]

I doubt they took any part of you. The blinded man still has his eyes, and memories are not physical things that can be removed.

[That there is more to sight than the eyes and a physical component to memory is far beyond his time. Not that even neuroscience really explains the memory thing anyway.]

[maskintape]

they could've just taken like
the guy's corneas or whatever? or is it retinas. idk I'm not a doctor

I
didn't think about people losing memories though
I guess that blows the sinister organ trade theory out of the water. unless the memory-loss people just got their appendix snatched or something

[ nope nope oh god memory loss nope IT WAS THE TALL THING NOPE N O P E ]

text | ID: Bowman

[pointnshoot]

[Using voice just seems a little rude at the moment.]

Hope is missing her memories, though. Unless there is some way of removing those physically, I think something else is responsible. Or perhaps you are a little correct, but what is taken from us is not taken by any physical means.

[maskintape]

yeah
and wrt that I can't really imagine people harvesting and selling memories on ebay, so
I guess that means it's still a competition between "it's all an experiment" and "a wizard did it" as far as an explanation goes.
you'd think that'd be less disturbing than the black market organ trade idea but NOPE

Text: ID: thelonewanderer

[vaultexile]

Do you have any surgical scars? Also I seem to be missing some memories.

[And though she does have a surgical scar on her head. That's from something else...]

[maskintape]

I guess you're the one @bowman mentioned? Hope, right
anyway, nope. no new scars, no amnesia. I think, anyway
my memory can be kind of spotty in general, so.
not really an easy question to answer haha

private

[armoured]

I warned you there was a cost for bringing back the dead.

[Despite the accusatory words, the tone of his voice doesn't match. He sounds like he's about to cry, and there's an undertone of genuine concern threading through every syllable.

He knew it was too good to be true.

He knew the price would have to be paid.]

[maskintape]

and I told you I'd have no problems paying it
jsyk though this wasn't some whole "fate catching up with me blah blah" deal. I made a choice
dying was basically voluntary on my part, so.
no need to get all wibbly about it or w/e