snowblindrpg | [network] @featherydouche; video; unsafe medical experiments for fun and profit; morning 190 [open]

[No text today! Instead, the viewers of Norfinbury get a video showing a weird orange bird guy filmed from inside a house. In addition to the shades, behind which a faint orange glow is visible, he's got on the standard peacoat people receive here. It's the same violent shade of orange as the rest of him.]

Hey. A bunch of you already know by now, but the name's Davesprite, and I'm this thing called a sprite and I'm part crow.

[He caws demonstratively.]

But I'm posting this because House and I just did some experiments about the whole nonhuman thing yesterday. See, some people were positing that maybe I only look weird because of distorted perceptions and junk, so we wanted to test basically if I'm the way I should be or not.

Thing one, I've got a hole through the middle of my chest where my sword used to go, because sprites are weird. Don't worry about it. Watson told me how normal objects found here go right through anomalies, but stuff coated in rubble dust hits them. So he and Sherlock wanted me to try to stick some rubble in my sword hole. Spoilers, it worked.

Thing two, my blood's bright yellow like somebody cracked a glowstick open, and it doesn't look like a human's under a microscope. Since the admin said my bloodtype's been "adjusted", House wanted to inject some of it into himself to see if he could. And that worked too.

If you want to go and lecture us about how that was dangerous and stupid and we could have gotten ourselves killed: Yeah, I know, but too late. Sometimes you gotta be stupid to get science done. And now we've confirmed that looking nonhuman is still real and not just some illusion cast on our senses via the nanomachines, and that regular humans can accept "adjusted" blood with the right type.

Thing three's got nothing to do with the experiments, but House wanted me to share that he found an SD card back on day 183 with Andromeda and Winter talking some more. If you saw the post I made about the card I found a while back, the one where they were talking about the cult? It sounds like this one relates to that.

[Here at the end Davesprite links a few files. First are video recordings of him and House performing the experiments described above. His blood in the relevant experiment is indeed a yellow as he said and slightly luminescent. Along with this he includes a couple photos of his blood taken under a microscope. The blood cells aren't human or avian, but a shape that looks somewhere between both.]

[Next, he includes the audio file of Winter and Andromeda talking.]

(OOC: Replies may come from either Davesprite or House!)

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I doubt a pair of AIs in robot bodies need to eat like a human does. I don't know what supplies they would need, either, but Andromeda did have her own house here.

[Hm.]

Edited (forgot my icon) 2016-12-21 04:09 (UTC)

[Okay stupid examples BUT LISTEN.]

Yeah? Which one? [probably doesn't matter, but it wouldn't hurt to know.]

Number 56 on House's map. It's east of the school, and pretty hard to miss with the star-themed stuff inside.

[Maybe at some point he'll check it out.] Thanks, I'll make a note of it.

In the meantime it just feels like this place is one giant puzzle or test to figure out.

You kidding me? Of course it is. Jade told me they finally got the last doll for that puzzle, so hopefully that means the door to whatever's east of the tunnel will be open soon. And from what I understand it's not that uncommon for puzzles to come up at all. How to find new info, what this weird thing someplace means, how to get to the next place on the map. We just gotta keep moving and thinking about it all.

[But speaking of that, Davesprite swaps over to private before asking this next bit.]

You and Al were trying to check stuff out together, right? I saw the obit. Sorry that happened, I know dying that way is terrible.

[Dying at all is terrible, but something about the long wait in the cold... He shivers at the memory.]

[He remembers their conversation about the dolls. At least that particular puzzle had been found. But it all just kind of makes him feel like some sort of rat trapped in a maze that occasionally kills the rats inside it.

But the conversation shifts and Ed suddenly finds himself struggling for a moment to talk about the new topic. He'd been avoiding talking about dying as much as he could, because the thought of it is actually... more horrifying than he wants to admit.]

Yeah, we got locked out because we weren't paying attention. [his voice sounds a bit more mellow.] We were stupid, it's not going to happen again.

[Now Al's... Ed sighs.] Some punishment.

I've died the same way, man. At least you were trying to learn something when you did it.

[It's a light admission, but he's sincere with it. He can't fault them for trying to figure out more about their situation.]

[A little more quietly, he adds:]

Al explained things to me.

Yeah, at least we tried something. Even if it was a waste of time [but fine whatever. Ed's attention shifts to pick up the quiet tone of Davesprite's words.]

...Oh. Yeah? How much?

I'm not going to call it a waste. If there was something to find, you probably would have, so now people can know that they can go ahead and investigate elsewhere without worrying they're missing a clue.

[It seems important to get that out of the way, and he really can't fault them for trying. He knows how bad it is to die out in the cold, too.]

[But for the heavier part:]

He told me all of it, more or less. Why he's got the armor, why you've got the prosthetics, what you were trying to do. I'm not going to judge you about that either, so don't worry.

Guess you know why it's kind of a sensitive subject, then. Al never should have wound up stuck in that body.

...Sorry, about before. [when it initially came up and Ed blew a gasket. He's pretty sure he didn't apologize back then.] And thanks for the encouragement. Guess it kinda makes dying a little less terrible when you put it that way.

My world doesn't work like yours does at all, but I can take enough of an educated guess what it's like from what I've been told.

[Which is to say, he'd be way fucked up if trying to revive the dead had those kind of consequences back in his world. Him being like this only came about because of his efforts to save John. If things were different, if alchemy were all he had...]

[He turns his attention to the apology.]

Thanks. And for my experience, dying is always terrible, but the sympathy helps. At least you had a good reason when it happened.

[okay, ed's gonna bite]

What do you mean? People make a habit of coming back from the dead where you're from? But I've gotta admit you look like some chimera would back home. But they're not all orange.

[Probably only fair, now that he knows something that personal about them. Still, he can already tell this is going to be a long conversation.]

You sure know how to ask the complicated shit. Okay, so, coming back from the dead isn't that normal. Back on Earth dead people pretty much always stayed dead. But me and my friends got to playing this game called Sburb, which is its own long thing to explain. But basically, aside from all the other stuff involved, it gave us players a number of different ways we could revive ourselves if we knew the right way to do it. It wasn't always easy or guaranteed, but it was better than dead and gone, you know?

Speaking of which, I don't know what a chimera is in your world, but I'm something called a sprite. I'm part dead bird, part human, all orange as a citrus fruit. I kinda remember the bird part of me dying? But when I was talking about dying being terrible, I was more meaning the times I died here.

If you want to ask more about the sprite thing or or how reviving people works, though, you better strap yourself in for the long haul. I can simplify but Sburb is just complex nonsense: the game, nonstop edition.

Edited 2016-12-31 12:54 (UTC)

[Why is it every time Davesprite talks about something relating to himself or wherever it's from Ed winds up feeling like his brain just got shot out of a sponge gun right into a wall? God.]

You've gotta be kidding me. How the hell can... [nope stop. he stops himself.] I'm not sure how much nonstop nonsense I can take right now. I'll just take your word for it.

[but he IS curious. So one day, when things suck less.]

Trust me, dude, I know it sounds fucking ridiculous. I'm the one who's been living it. But we can stop here, no problem.

[He'll still lay out the details whenever Ed gets around to asking.]

But hey, I should get traveling. I'm going to be meet up with the group Al's with, so I'll try to watch out for him while he's with us.

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