[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

[maskintape]

ok
I haven't forgotten that you owe me a punch in the face btw. why do you think I'm so eager to give it up

and yeah
probably
I've never seen any kind of vehicle here. or heard one. so
the options for what it could be are pretty limited.

[genreblindness]

You better not have donated your face whenever I find you. Or any other body parts ok

I don't think anyone here has seen it except for us though
not even any of the people who have died
I guess Clayton might have since he lost his memory but
it seems weird

[maskintape]

remember the footage I brought back after I got caught by it in the tunnel? it didn't show in that either. right
as far as I remember anyway.
this could be the same kind of place as the not-rosswood from the tape

[genreblindness]

I guess.
I really don't like to think that it might be around and we can't even see it

[maskintape]

I don't like the thought of it being around, period
but I think we have to accept that it is
we both saw it that night the tablets went nuts so I'm kind of thinking that bit was real. so
either it belongs here and it brought everyone to this place
or it doesn't belong here
and I brought it

[genreblindness]

I think it makes more sense that it brought us here
or something like it idk
Either way there's no point worrying about whose fault it might be

[maskintape]

yeah well. people will start looking for somebody to blame eventually
so it'd be nice for it to definitely not be my fault

nice being a really relative term here

[genreblindness]

well the way I see it it's pretty obviously not your fault
so I wouldn't worry about that.

[maskintape]

[ Yes but Jay you are a precious pure cinnamon roll. You are an actual corgi. You are the guy who trusted Alex and followed him into spooky forests more times than can really qualify as "sane." ]

yeah, don't worry. too much other stuff to worry about tbh
like not dying again and how to deal without being able to talk
those are more pressing rn I think

[genreblindness]

[oh shut up Tim like you're not a cinnamon roll yourself]

Not dying again would be good yeah. Let's all try to do that.

[maskintape]

sounds like a plan
and I'm sorry how all that went down btw
I don't think I said that before so

[genreblindness]

Yeah
Just don't do it again ok.
the self-sacrificial bs isn't cool

[maskintape]

I didn't mean I was sorry I did it
just how it happened
one of us had to do it, you know we wouldn't both have fitted in there

[genreblindness]

And this is why I owe you that punch in the face.
Look I'm not saying I don't appreciate you saving my life and everything but
I'm the one who's already dead here

[maskintape]

and what if we only get one more chance here. one do-over and then you're gone
then you'd be dead (again) and I'd be left knowing it was because of me (again)

[genreblindness]

I didn't die because of you I died because of Alex
this might come as a shock Tim but NOT EVERYTHING IS YOUR GODDAMN FAULT.

[maskintape]

whatever
pretty sure you were only on your own because of me
but whatever
the point is now we're on an even playing field as far as the death count goes. and if I have to do something like that again I will, so

[genreblindness]

what if you hadn't come back
not everyone does
if you actually permanently died because of me
how do you expect me to handle that

[maskintape]

dying FOR someone isn't the same as dying BECAUSE of them. it wouldn't have been your fault.
it's not the same as
for example
lying to someone so they can't trust you any more which makes them go off on their own and get shot
THAT'S hard to handle
kind of makes you want to make sure it NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN

[genreblindness]

except it wasn't your fault
that thing messed with my head right
so that's why I couldn't trust you
and hey there's also the fact that Alex is the one who actually shot me
he could have done that even if you'd been there
IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT.

[maskintape]

we can go further back if you like
maybe NONE of this would've happened if it wasn't for me
and is it just me or are you actually trying to convince me to let you die in future? because if you are then give it up now lol

[genreblindness]

I'm not actually
I'm trying to convince you NOT to die