[network] @ADMIN; Obituary [DAY 164]

[snowblindmods]

We mourn the loss of those who have died in the time between the last announcement and this one:

Nathan Young
Fiona
Cecil Palmer
Natasha Romanov
Tony Stark
Toriel

Comments

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[awwnoun]

[ CLINT SEES THIS BUCKY MENTION he's gonna be asking about this later. For now, he is stalking. ]

permaprivate

[coyoteking]

Oh, spare me. The guy had one arm and he looked like he was about to keel over. Besides that, he beat the shit out of someone I- [nope don't say "care about" don't do it, don't-]

He beat the shit out of my only real friend here, okay? I was pissed as hell and it was not a great time for me.

[coyoteking]

Nothing. Nothing happened. Not really.

[powersouls]

That's really sweet of you, but...

[God, she's so tired. She used to be so much better at this whole "pretending to be fine" thing. Wasn't she? Her voice is small when she continues.]

I just... I really hope they come back.

@makeme; audio

[coyoteking]

Oh my god he did not almost beat me up.

yeah this'll go great

[awwnoun]

[ HELLO, IMMORTAL ENEMY. ]

Do you even care past her being a potential source of information potentially being gone?

[srsbat]

I understand it's hard for you to believe, but yes. I want to know what happened.

[mightyratslayer]

[Wait but he is "some Charlie dude" and that means that this guy doesn't realize he is Charlie and holy shit, this is great. Time to capitalize on this. He'll play along, which won't be hard because most of that is actually news to him. Troubling news.]

Whoa, are you shitting me? What'd he do to Watson and those other guys? [A pause.] And he's missing an arm? What?

private

[mightyratslayer]

[Charles gets the most done stare of all time. He'll go private with this one because he wants to scold Charles properly.]

Uh huh. You sure about that?

[mrcreamsicles]

[Charles, swapping 'care about' for 'only real friend here' is functionally the same goddamn thing. If anything, it's more intense. You're fooling nobody.]

And? I kept making all the peaceable I'm-no-threat gestures I could with the guy, and he still had that loaded gun look about him. Just because he was hobbling around didn't mean he couldn't fuck someone up if he was acting that way even then. Concern for his personal health didn't seem that high on his priority list.

[mrcreamsicles]

He would have if a hobbled old man hadn't hopped in to insert some self preservation.

[So Watson's not that old, but that's not the point.]

[mrcreamsicles]

Look, I don't know what the arm deal was, but he had this bandaged spot instead of one the day I showed up, and I'm pretty sure it got cauterized the next day.

Watson got, like, an injured leg, broken nose, neck all bruised with his voice messed up—he might have tried to strangle him? But he was limping around and could barely keep upright on his own two legs for long. It was pretty bad, man.

Watson stopped the stuff with the other guy before it could happen, but he—other guy—was yelling at Bucky all, "Whose blood is this?" and something about Charlie, I don't know. Other stuff stuck out more and this Sora kid was being a dipshit so I was cawing at him to try and make him back off, until, like, Watson finally got people to chill enough.

[coyoteking]

[No he's fooling everyone SHH]

I'm saying I could've taken him is what I'm saying. I would've been fine.

[Looks like "concern for his personal health" doesn't seem that high on his priority list. Oops.]

also private

[coyoteking]

I'm sure, okay? Nothing happened. We just had some words.

[despiteeverything]

[The answer to both those questions is in fact no. But they also know one of those "no"s is not going to sit very well with anybody.]

Im going to where she woke up last

[Truthfully they'd already started heading that direction, as soon as they split up from Enoch (reluctantly, on his part) to search.]

video, still private;

[mrcreamsicles]

[Davesprite swaps to video purely so he can show Charles what a dull, unimpressed look he's giving him. His eyes may be blocked by the shades, but the effect is pretty clear regardless.]

[coyoteking]

First of all, rude. Second of all, that is totally not why.

[mrcreamsicles]

Sure, man, I totally buy that.

[The eye roll is practically audible in his voice.]

[coyoteking]

Look, don't give me that. You don't know shit about me.

[You're not his real dad, Davesprite!!!]

God, why did you have to say that on the network?

[mrcreamsicles]

You asked if we'd spoken before. I was answering the question.

And also? I know an imminent ass-kicking when I see one.

[definingfuture]

You shouldn't be alone.

[That lack of answer definitely causes concerns.]

Were you traveling with anyone else recently?

[mightyratslayer]

[Huh. So Bucky lost an arm? How the hell did that happen? There's more important stuff to worry about here, though.

Like Watson. Charles is okay, and that's good, but holy fuck.]

Is Watson okay? He, um, has a habit of stepping in before shit gets too real, I guess you could say. Did Watson get his shit wrecked because he stepped in? [He's having a little trouble with the timeline here.]

And, wait, Sora was there? What the fuck?

[Sounds like Charlie has another round of check-in messages to drop. Goddammit...]

private

[mightyratslayer]

"Some words" like you guys were just chatting about the fucking weather. Seriously? You're not gonna fill me in here?

[mrcreamsicles]

No, Watson's personal shit-wrecking was before all that happened. And, like, Bucky seemed to listen to him, mostly? Go figure why that was the case after he nearly killed the guy. Which Watson also lied about for who knows what reason; I couldn't ask because my voice wasn't working until this evening.

[Death will do that to you.]

Yeah, he showed up during the day, went off running to hear what all the yelling was about.

[despiteeverything]

Mom n Enoch

We split up to look for her

my idea

[Because they're not letting him or anyone take a fall for them, no matter how bad they feel.]