[network] @dickcheese, Day 130, video [open, cw talk of lobotomies]

[headjacked]

Who's in the mood for another session of Weird Shit I Saw Underground?? If you said no, w-well. Too bad.

[ Rhys is decked out in his yellow ducky bathrobe. One sleeve is pitifully empty, drooping off what remains of his shoulder. At least it looks relatively comfy? ]

Though, okay, I guess I didn't technically see the shit myself. Jack did. [ There is a pause as his jaw clenches for just a moment; he's clearly far from being on remotely good terms with the hologram, but information is information. ] He was looking through one of the maze walls, and it wasn't a maze. Er. [ That's not exactly clear. His big ol' brows furrow. ] He said he saw an abandoned, messed-up room. It was metallic, ripped apart, and leaking water everywhere. Aaaaand on top of that, everyone was moving, like, really really fast? It was -- his phrasing, not mine -- "some kind of whacked out illusion. Iunno. Only lasted, like, a second though."

Sooooo. Discuss??

A-also, second bit of business. Second... kind of super important bit of business I really really should've gotten out before. Can you blame me, though?? Stuff was kind of nuts, a--

[ DEEP BREATH. The rambling is getting out of control. ]

--aaaaanyway. Dr. Stitches. Stein. Eighty foot tall psycho guy? Yeah.

He likes performing lobotomies on people. When they don't actually want one.



Yeah.

Comments

@dissect; text

[circumsutus]

I apologized for that.

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

[ typing is for squares and also people with two hands ]

Funny, I don't remember accepting that "apology!" I remember a whole lot of "fucks" stacked onto a single "you"!

@guardian; text;

[phaseshifter]

*Dangerously unsanitary lobotomies on people who are awake, after kidnapping them on the instructions of an insane AI *sshole.

I fixed that for you ♥

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

Well. Sure. I kind of figured the nasty stuff was implied, but nothing wrong with being detailed, I guess.

@fuckyou; audio;

[blueteamproblems]

How come your buddy can see through walls? I thought everybody lost their superpowers here or something.

[Yeah, guess who hasn't bothered to go through network archives for this stuff.]

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

He's not my buddy, guy.

[ "Really? After using my intel? Super hurtful, Rhysie." The floating AI gets a sideways glance and that's it. ]

He's an AI in my head. It's... a really long story.

video @Enoch

[warriorscribe]

[He sounds a lot more nervous about that second point. So much so that's what Enoch focuses on first and foremost. Especially since he's shared shelter with "Stitches", helped gather hot water from the clinic to treat his frostbitten fingers.]

...Forgive my ignorance, but what is a lobotomy?

[It sounds like removing something? But what? It would help if he knew the brain's actual function, too. His thoughts and identity empirically come from his soul, in his own world, but he believes the soul to be anchored to the heart.]

@dickcheese; video

[headjacked]

It's cutting someone's head open and taking pieces of brain out. Different pieces are responsible for different things. He, uh. Basically obliterated my personality.

[ He gets quieter and quieter the longer the explanation goes on. ]

@ASolomons; audio

[devoutish]

Seems the place was full of illusions.

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

Not exactly surprising, huh?

@gravedigger; voice

[harlequinofhate]

This whole mess ain't disproving my "Norfinbury is a Computer Simulation" theory....

@hotstud_xxx; text

[rubikscomplex]

strengthening it, really
maybe it's not the matrix
it's the holodeck
someone look for the control panel

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

[ all of the awful people

are here

why ]

Wouldn't necessarily say it proves it either.

@Rdua, Audio

[blessedmaiden]

For a simulation this seems quite real to me.

@Mnemosyne; voice

[bookofnope]

That would mean Winter was lying. Which is possible, but doesn't seem right, in context.

@hotstud_xxx; text

[rubikscomplex]

so he got you instead and it wasn't count chocula telling him to do it?

kinda got the illusion thing when all you kids wound up suddenly in the same place, though
interesting about the movements
might've been overlaying perceptions through the network onto everyone down there along with out tablets

[circumsutus]

The AI sharing Rhys' body came up with a compelling argument.

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

[ ...he feels like this is something he should be talking to Beckett about. But now is not the time for Arguments With House, so he tucks it away for later.

Civil. Neutral. Even though he is making stabbing motions at his tablet. ]

Yeah. The evidence just keeps on stacking, doesn't it.

@Spoiler ; video

[spoileralert]

[ Steph just. Puts her face in her hands. ]

Isn't that the guy that teaches children?

@dissect; text

[circumsutus]

[Come on, Steph, it's rude to talk about people when they can see it. And of course he can see this because for some reason Rhys didn't lock this from him.]

My job doesn't have anything to do with this.

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

I... didn't know that, but. That just makes it even MORE disturbing.

@zd; text

[swatsflies]

Thought you should know that Eighty foot professor is sticking around downtown.
Bumped into him once.

[And heard about what happened from Watson and then Stein. Good times.]

Sounds pretty interesting what Jack saw.
Ripped apart, metallic and leaking water every where.
He couldn't see any doors or anything like that?

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

Euuugh. I'll keep that in mind.

[ Shivershudder. ]

As for Jack, n-no -- but he only had a second before everything shifted.

@gardenGnostic; text

[eclecticbassist]

thats odd.... doesnt most of the plumbing here not work?

[ !!! ]

could that room be under the lake in the tunnels? or maybe in it?? :o

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

Most, not all. But your guess is a good one.

@Ecks | text

[ecks]

It is not a secret now?

[She's being careful with other people's secrets lately, see. Something an elf suggested to her.]

When did he look through the maze wall? Which maze?

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

I don't know if it was ever a SECRET secret, Lady Stitches. Aaaand I mean one of the underground mazes? The... second one?

@Kid, Audio...then Video

[equal_shots]

[First, Kid is still only sort of good with this tablet. And it depends, significantly, on how stressed his is at the moment.

Rest assured that this most recent revelation about his professor on the open network certainly qualifies as stressful. Which is why Rhy's initial response is a nearly-shrieked:] He did what?!

[But give Kid a minute or two, and he'll have composed himself and managed to get himself away from the illustrious and now infamous Dr. Stitches himself, tucked into the back of the building and well away from his traveling partner.

Franken Stein. Yeah. Kid, may well be an embodiment of order, finds Stein's incredible distaste for the concept absolutely maddening. When the video turns on, it's obvious that he's sitting in a corner but facing the room so he can't be snuck up behind, tense and on edge. For someone whose features suggest they are quite young, his tone is somber and mature as he addresses Rhys again.] My apologies for a few moments ago.

[What do you say to this? "We were under the impression that Dr. Stein had those 'unusual impulses' under control?" Maybe "My Father likes him so he decided not to kill him" would sound better, but Kid didn't think that was in particularly good taste. There's always "He vivisected his own Weapon partner in the past, but that was over a decade ago!" but that sounds far too much like his father and not particularly helpful either. Personally, Kid is inclined towards "I have no idea why my Father has tolerated his behavior for the last thirty years," though that does nothing to solve the problem.]

I am very sorry Dr. Stein did that to you. Such behavior is unacceptable. [His shoulders sink, a small frown on his face. His gold eyes slide away from the screen, refusing to meet Rhys' eyes.]

@dickcheese, video;

[headjacked]

...yeah, well.

[ There's an obvious degree of familiarity here, when Kid speaks of Dr. Shithead. That initial outburst, the kiddishness (hahaha) of his appearance, and what Steph said...

Hm. HMM INDEED.

The lopsided man hesitates before responding. Just a bit. ]

It's not your fault, dude. Not at all.