[network] @Ecks; In the open [open] [video] evening 156

[ecks]

[She's been thinking about this for days and days now. She's thought about it since House said it was stupid to keep everything a secret and that she'd get more sympathy if she was honest about her age. Since Beckett didn't understand why it was a secret at all. Then since Watson told everyone she was a murderer, but then told Clint she was trying to be a good girl.

Since she ran away from Clint and his people this morning even though he didn't try to hurt her once he knew what she had done to Duster.

She waits until after lockdown just in case they are all wrong and someone will try to find her after this. The video opens with her looking into the camera, her scarf bunched around her neck but her patchwork face clearly on display. Her expression is blank, her voice toneless.]

My name is Ecks and I am not human. I have decided that it is not a secret anymore. I am a golem made out of dead people, but I am a person and that is the part that is important. I am two years old and a few months and I have decided that I do not want to hurt or kill people when I do not have to, and that is also important. Doctor House and Beckett say that it does not matter what I am and I think I would be happy if that is true.

[It seems like there should be more than that to say, but she just stares a moment longer before turning off the camera. She will not bring up the murder if she does not have to.]

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[ecks]

coffee is also valuable
but I have not found coffee
tea is of less value but I received mittens in exchange for tea

[Norfinbury Economics 101 for you, Davesprite. There's a brief delay before the rest of the message comes through; Ecks is suddenly feeling just a little wary.]

would she want to take me apart?

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[mrcreamsicles]

yeah those make sense
people like their caffeine you know
or anything to drink that isnt just more water probably
if you ever find some apple juice hit me up

but no shes not like that
like shes pretty powerful and she can tear stuff up well when she wants
but youre a person and she wouldnt

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[ecks]

i have heard about caffeine
but I have not had caffeine
the tea was not good when I tried to eat it and then it was more valuable for trade than to drink

that is good
that she would not tear a person up

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[mrcreamsicles]

ecks tell me something
did you literally eat the tea leaves or did you have someone brew it first

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[ecks]

I ate the tea leaves
but not many

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[mrcreamsicles]

[Davesprite mentally high fives himself. Called it.]

see thats the problem
you dont eat the leaves
you put them in hot water and it turns into a drink
next time you find tea get someone to make it right for you ecks

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[ecks]

someone said that later
it explained some things
but I have doubts regarding the palatability of this drink
the leaves only tasted like dry leaves

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[mrcreamsicles]

i cant say whether or not youll actually like tea if you have it made the right way
but its not a thing where the stuff you make it from tells you what the end product is like
like if you try to eat coffee grounds it would probably just taste like weird bitter dirt
instead of a weird bitter drink thats less awful
tea is like
its own thing
i wasnt much a tea drinker
ask around for someone british and they can probably tell you

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[ecks]

I have not yet found coffee
noted
do not eat grounds

what is british?

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[mrcreamsicles]

do you know what countries are
because british means from britain and britains a country
and british people are super into tea
so much that people from america dumped a shitton of it into a harbor as a big fuck you to britain once

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[ecks]

i know what countries are
there are countries where I am from

were they trying to make the water in the harbor into tea?

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[mrcreamsicles]

nah
it was politics
something about taxes idk
its been three years since i was in school or america was a thing that existed
so its kind of easy to forget why what thing happened when if its got jack and shit to do with your current life
and unless theres some big plot twist i doubt the boston tea party is gonna figure into our alaskan snow session

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[ecks]

it was a party?
humans are strange.

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[mrcreamsicles]

no shit
humans can throw a party over anything given enough motivation
it is an inbuilt coping mechanism of our species
when life is shit you party like its 1999
fuck you universe ill have fun anyway
then the police get called because of noise complaints and fire hazards
and everyone goes home
the partys ruined now sean
why couldnt you have rented that big warehouse like you said you would
you knew this was too many people for the restaurant
now youre banned for life from pizza hut
how you gonna live without stuffed crust sean
were like that

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[ecks]

like it is 1999 what?
does sean usually do things like this
why were they at pizza's hut
I do not understand.

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[mrcreamsicles]

1999 is the year prince our lord and savior predicted to be the last before the world ended
he warned us all in musical form
and lo and behold the threat of the year 2000 came with its massive y2k bug
you have never seen an insect that huge ecks believe me
and the thing about humans
is we go absolutely apeshit about the idea of an apocalypse
hence the partying
unfortunately the bug forgot to show up at the new years party so everyone was just kind of disappointed and went home
we had to wait for 2009 for everything to end
it was probably seans fault
sean is a douchebag
pizza hut is a paradise of cheese and meat for your taste buds so thats why they were there

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[ecks]

I think that I understand

a musical prophet predicted the apocalypse via megainsect
humanity reacted by partying
and also shitting
but the megainsect did not appear and there was not an apocalypse
and pizza hut is made of meat and cheese

i think you are making things up

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[mrcreamsicles]

good deduction

there was a guy called prince who made a song about partying in the year 1999 while the world ended or something
but that was just some dude singing nonsense not a real prophecy
and the y2k bug was some coding error with computers people were scared was gonna fuck everything up
but then nothing happened
and pizza hut is just a restaurant that sold pizza

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[ecks]

B+?

[A girl can hope.]

this version makes more sense.
is it true?
when you say things are you saying a complicated not-true version of true things?

[Because it would explain a lot of things.]

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[mrcreamsicles]

yeah sure
good job

yeah this version is true
the other thing you said is pretty hard to follow
but if im reading you right then thats basically it
norfinbury is boring so i gotta entertain myself somehow
and teasing people about stuff from earth works pretty well to fill the gap

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[ecks]

it is difficult to know which parts are true when i do not know many things about earth
is it like joking?

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[mrcreamsicles]

it is exactly like joking
because joking is the thing it is

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[ecks]

but it is a joke about your world
I know a joke from my world

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[mrcreamsicles]

lay it on me ecks
whats the joke

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[ecks]

one time there was a cow
but then the cow fucked a skeleton