[network] @featherydouche; digging for info; text; night 175 [open]

[mrcreamsicles]

sup norfinbury
for those who dont know me the names davesprite and ive got some questions
first off im wondering if any of yall have any info or stuff youve seen or just weird shit that has happened that you dont think is marked down anywhere
or that has since been forgotten about but youre still wondering what the fuck
because ive been doing a lot of reading up on this place and the vast array of nonsense that goes down on the regular to try and consolidate it all a little better
partly to write a guide to help catch the newbies up to speed and part because i want to find out whats going on
so if theres anything
some little factoid that you dont know how it links up but is too weird to ignore
something no one talks about anymore but might have a part in this
anything youre just plain curious about
go ahead and list it off and we can get ourselves a discussion going

secondly
who here can tell me about the trolls that were around
i know there were at least four because ive seen them in the morgues
theyre related to the place i come from but it seems like they were all gone before i showed up
and its kind of weird to think about
on that note
was anyone by the name john egbert rose lalonde or dave strider ever here before
jade might have mentioned them so dont worry about that
im asking if they were in the town at all
thats all

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[devoutish]

It's an observation, mate, not an accusation.

[He feels like total shit himself, though he doesn't say so.]

[mrcreamsicles]

[Davesprite breathes in, breathes out.]

Alright.

You got any stuff to offer for this, though? Aside from the link to that guide. Any weird stuff in your own experience you think could bear mentioning.

[devoutish]

Nothing new; nothing very notable. No great revelations.

[mrcreamsicles]

Okay. Thanks anyway, man.

[devoutish]

You've read all the public information-gathering posts?

[mrcreamsicles]

I've got the links and I've been going through them in pieces. There's a lot, you know? And I gotta pick through and think about what might relate to the other thing and which parts might be useful and which are more extra and what exactly needs to go on a guide and how to even word it. But that's why I'm asking now, too. There's just so much it's easy to miss something, and maybe something that didn't seem relevant at the time might be worth bringing up this time around, or maybe it will connect with something someone else knows and we'll slot another piece into the giant jigsaw puzzle of what's going on around here.

[devoutish]

Smart.

[He'd started out rolling his eyes - another guide, really? - and quickly moved into light teasing, but now he's actually impressed.]

You've heard about the dreams we had, months ago?

[mrcreamsicles]

That's what I'm trying for.

[He feels a bit like he's sifting through mud and garbage sometimes for how draining the whole process is. And it's intimidating, too: there really is a lot, and he's not going to be able to put it all in one document. He wants to compact, not bloat, and it's hard to judge what might be might be relevant in the future before it happens.]

I have, and I saw Steph's old post about what you guys learned from them. Frankly I'm glad I missed out on those with as freaky as they sound. What did you see in yours, if you're sharing?

[devoutish]

[He sends this link.]

I keep track of important posts, conversations.

[mrcreamsicles]

[He clicks it, gives it a short browse—he'll give it a full go through later—then goes to answer Alfie.]

I can't believe I've actually gotten to a point that I'm glad for these giant posts to read through. But here I am feeling like I've just been handed a piece of gold when all I had before was a couple copper pennies. Deets as fresh from the source as they can be without peeping into your past brains. Thanks man.

[devoutish]

These tablets are handy things, aren't they. Saving text, saving video...

[mrcreamsicles]

It's given me something to look at when I'm bored out of my mind otherwise. This place ain't exactly high on entertainment, you know? There's only so many times I can read about how to set up a saltwater aquarium before I lose to will to even touch the book.

[devoutish]

How far have you looked back? You've seen the posts made for entertainment?

[mrcreamsicles]

I've mostly been following off links to stuff, not trawling back directly. I'd be at it forever if I was gathering my info that way, you know? I've seen Charlie's post recently with the piano, and some others someone showed me, but that's about it.

[devoutish]

Games are played, sometimes. Ginger puts them up.

[mrcreamsicles]

Oh, those. I saw one of them go up before but didn't bother. Looked boring.

[devoutish]

Not a fan of Hangman?

[mrcreamsicles]

It wasn't hangman; it was one those round robin storytelling things. Someone starts, someone says the next bit, etcetera, until you've got nonsense. And I can appreciate nonsense—I'm a goddamn connoisseur of it—but it's gotta be fine-crafted.

[devoutish]

Right, that one; yeah. House tried to have his way with it, if I remember right.

How would you do it?

link is image heavy

[mrcreamsicles]

I used to draw webcomics. Think I mentioned that before. I can't link 'em now, obviously, but there's this other thing I drew after I died. Kinda marred 'cause I couldn't get it as shitty-looking as I wanted it to, and the whole thing came up because I couldn't use words after I died, but it gets the point across.

[He links him this post.]

[devoutish]

["Couldn't get it as shitty-looking as I wanted to". Davespite, you're weird.]

This is awful.

[It's true, but he also has a feeling it'll be taken as a compliment.

But now he's looking down further, because he hadn't seen this post before - he'd been dead when it had gone up, and it's not one of the ones he'd looked back through.]

Those pictures from the morgue - when did you take them?

[mrcreamsicles]

Thanks.

[It's the whole point, after all.]

That was night 160, so they're a couple weeks out of date now. I've got the ones from the hospital morgue too, now, more recently. Can't call it my favorite thing I've ever done, but I figured people might want to know which bodies are where.

[Staring at corpses and fighting the camera enough to get a legible shot is a pain in the ass and downright morbid, honestly.]

[devoutish]

Send them.

[He totally wants to know which bodies are where.]

[mrcreamsicles]

[He sends them, and they're distorted like the others.]

Took them on 172.

[devoutish]

[It's a while before Alfie answers. He looks through the pictures, he sits quietly on his own for a while, and then he sends the link to Watson. Then he comes back to this conversation.]

Right. Thanks.