[network] @featherydouche; postmortem; day 181 [open]

[mrcreamsicles]

so who else died last night
excuse me
"died"
because when i woke up i sure didnt look it
not even a scratch
right back where i started before everything went weird too
same with the people i was with from what i could tell before i left

also you people with the prophet eyes
do you still want to murder us or what

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[toushiro]

Are your eyes back to normal, Davesprite?

[mrcreamsicles]

nope
still glowy
what about you

[He would have asked before he left, but he didn't even realize it was a variable thing.]

[toushiro]

Still glowing.

Are you with the others?

[mrcreamsicles]

nah
i left early this morning
no offense but it was too many people for me to deal with after this
i take it you left too

[toushiro]

I did. Too many people, and I didn't want to risk the chance of attracting an anomaly while all of this was happening.

[mrcreamsicles]

same line of thought as me then

[That and he was kind of freaking out more about what happened than he really wanted to let on or deal with, so he turned it into travel.]

did you tell any of the others
i told homura so at least someone knew
didnt want people to think i was gone because i was dead you know

[toushiro]

I didn't. I left as soon as I woke up. Didn't want to deal with Alphonse, since he was the only one with the effects.

[ He didn't know that the murderous effects were gone by then, though; only assumed that they stayed because his eyes were still glowing. ]

These deaths don't appear to be ordinary.

[mrcreamsicles]

i can tell him
cant really blame you though
and no they arent normal
usually you wake up in one of the morgues here and youre missing something
like a sense or an ability
but it seems like we all just woke up back where we started
totally normal except for the ones who still have weird eyes
and i dont see a pattern yet about who has them versus who doesnt

[toushiro]

I'll talk to him myself either way. [ He should at least thank him for helping him out and giving him someone to travel with. A part of him hopes that at least one of the others will stay with him. In truth, he didn't want to be around any of the murderers in general. ]

Yes. It doesn't seem like anyone's lost anything, as far as I can tell. The eyes in themselves are a mystery to begin with.

[mrcreamsicles]

the weird doodle eyes are something weve seen before at least
a while back there was this static that kind of garbled up the environment and the network both
and we kept seeing those symbols on the walls and windows and everything
everywhere basically like the interior decor caught a fashion rash
meanwhile these ghosts were going around saying these two phrases
kill the prophet
long live the prophet
super morbid
then that night everything got so covered in the static that it and the eyes were all we could see
and we each either drew more eyes or crossed them out from what ive heard
i crossed them out so i imagine thats why i got glowy eyes instead of prophet ones
and that doesnt explain why you newbies got what you did
or why glowing is the other counterpart

[He has a guess on that, but he needs to go check something before he'll go detailing it.]

people over east have been gathering these dolls with the eye symbol on them presumably as some puzzle to get this locked door they found open
but why that would cause them to show up now is
like you said
a mystery
so weve got best guesses and trying to keep ourselves safe until the next clues show up
because what else is living here if not waiting for some other sign of how messed up our lives are

[toushiro]

I read about the static somewhere. Were you all possessed when that night occurred, just like yesterday?

As someone who's been here longer, would our best plan of action be to continue to collect the dolls to try and open the door?

[ He appreciates how much information Davesprite's giving him, but he understands that this is still a new phenomenon. He doesn't expect Dave to answer his questions right away, but it doesn't hurt to ask. ]

[mrcreamsicles]

i get the feeling thats all happening east by the tunnels but yeah
we need to get through that door regardless if were going to get to the center
but for the first question
idk if possession is really the word id use but if you meant acting without real positive control of ourselves then yeah
like for me
after everything went static there was this red pen i found beside me
or i guess beside me because i couldnt even see myself by then
and i felt like crossing out the eyes was just what i HAD to do
like it was imperative and so important there was nothing else i could do
because if i did something would happen
i dont know what
and nothing really did then
we just passed out eventually i think and woke up in the morning with this injection that made the static slowly fade away

[toushiro]

So you were aware of what was happening, but you couldn't control yourself. Sounds exactly like what happened yesterday.

[ Seems like the two events are correlated, with all the things everyone's been saying. ]

Are you heading to the tunnels?

[mrcreamsicles]

yeah im headed out that way
im hoping theyll get the door open before i show up
i want to help explore whats beyond it

[toushiro]

Maybe I'll see you there.

[mrcreamsicles]

maybe
i know theres plenty of people over that way already
probably more with the same idea
and i expect thats gonna increase once they get the door open too
people want to figure stuff out and thats where were supposed to go
just stay safe in the meanwhile

[toushiro]

I'll stay as safe as I can be, all things considered.
I won't be there for a while. Need to get more food and some supplies.

[mrcreamsicles]

yeah makes sense
ive got my own stuff to do on the way too
im sure ill talk to you later one way or another

[toushiro]

Alright. Be safe.