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

[mrcreamsicles]

[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!)

Comments

[peacemongering]

I'm pleased to hear that. Any other risky endeavors on your horizon, planned or otherwise?

[mrcreamsicles]

consider this a lesson from someone whos been here a little longer to the inquisitive newbie standing here before me
just existing in norfinbury is a risky endeavor

[peacemongering]

Of that, I have no doubt. The weather is quite atrocious.

[mrcreamsicles]

not just the weather
theres the anomalies
the hallucinations
the brainwashing that goes down sometimes
the second guessing how much we can trust the locals to tell us the truth
dangerous people whove been brought here too
even the architecture can kill you if you dont keep your guard up
old buildings you know
i could go on but my point is clear enough

[peacemongering]

And most of those are no worse and no better than dealing with a volatile embassy in Colombia during civil war. Except perhaps the hallucinations.

[mrcreamsicles]

ok
congrats on your shitty life
mine sucked too
have you got a point

[peacemongering]

I never said my life was shitty. And my point was simply providing a basis of experience in an attempt to make a connection to my fellow prisoners. I apologize if that's unappreciated.

[mrcreamsicles]

i dunno man
getting involved in a civil war sounds pretty shitty to me
but ive never been in even the regular kind so what would i know
like trying to make connections isnt a bad idea but your life sounds pretty removed from the kind i had
just saying

[peacemongering]

On the contrary. Being involved in a civil war means that one has hope of making a difference for the common man and to provide outside perspective which may mend bridges. Of course, drug trades always complicate matters as profit tends to trump any attempt for humanity.

To be fair, I have triple the years that you do behind me, I assume.

[mrcreamsicles]

yeah see humanity is almost entirely gone where im from
and we make a new universe in the future where presumably a bunch more humans can exist again
but its not like helping a war situation at all
let alone one where drugs are a problem running around the background
im in my upper teens so youre what
like 50-60 range

[peacemongering]

What was the downfall of humanity in your world then? I'm certain that your universe had problems of its own that could merit the same attentions as the drug trade.

If you were being generous. You're around the same age as my grandchildren.

[mrcreamsicles]

meteoric apocalypse
i literally dont have grandparents

[peacemongering]

Better than global warming I suppose.

A shame. They can be fun.

[mrcreamsicles]

it was quick
ill give it that

i did meet my friends grandma though
she was pretty good
baked like a hundred cakes a week for some wacky grandma reason

[peacemongering]

When one is retired, they need a hobby. Better than my grandmother who was strict about tea pots and knee-high socks.

[mrcreamsicles]

ok
so nannasprites hobby was baking
and yours is mind games
you want to tell me how you got into that

[He doesn't actually care that much about grandparents, the line of conversation was getting boring, and he has been perfectly able to read the conversation Pierce and House were having up to a certain abrupt cut-off. He figures it went private—House still looked plenty engaged in figuring Pierce out—but what lies beyond it, he doesn't know. He hasn't made the leap from Pierce to Bucky.]

[peacemongering]

They're engaging. Nothing more, nothing less.

[mrcreamsicles]

not my cup of tea
but if you say so old man

[And really, he doesn't want to get involved too deeply. He knows he'd lose if he tried it, and he has no good reason to do so.]

so hey
im going to get traveling
you do you and maybe ill see you on the network again

[peacemongering]

Safe travels, son. We will interact again, I'm certain of that.

[mrcreamsicles]

do me a favor and dont call me son
otherwise im going to hang up on you first thing then

[peacemongering]

Would you prefer 'grandson' then? Great-grandson might be pushing it?

[mrcreamsicles]

absolutely not
i already got two grown disasters trying to play dad to me and im not looking for an adoptive mind game grandpa to add to the mix
youre pierce
im davesprite
end of discussion

[peacemongering]

I certainly have no interest in adopting you. That's simply an honourific I use for most people given they are younger than I am, but if it bothers you so much, I will refrain from its use.

[But he won't forget either.]

It's good to meet you, Davesprite. Charmed.

[mrcreamsicles]

im talking less literal adoption and more the kind of well intended fussing that suffocates like the summer humidity in texas
but im going to call a no to even the honorific thanks

see you around pierce

[And now he's got travel to do.]