[network] @hotstud_xxx, Late Night 190, audio [open]

[rubikscomplex]

[It's almost midnight when House's message goes out. He sounds honestly terrified. His hands are shaking too much to type, and he's too frantic to think of voice-to-text. There's also the music. He can hear it. He can't tell where it's coming from, but it's there and it's fading in and out with the static and a whisper that he can just make out.

It would probably be better to see to his wounds first, but that's secondary at the moment.]

The music. Who's hearing the music and the static? Have anyone's eyes changed? Who can hear it?

[He sings the first few lines.]

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green...

It's Andromeda's song for Winter. It's the song in the apartment with the knives. The Jedi heard it, too. His eyes or his hand set it off.

Who can hear it?

Comments

@IAmLegend; audio

[definingfuture]

I don't hear anything.

audio

[rubikscomplex]

[Tony had Prophet eyes. That's not terribly encouraging.]

We need more data points. People with Prophet eyes. People with glowing eyes. I need more data.

@itsybitsy; audio

[redrooms]

[Natasha is good at sounding calm, at least.]

I hear it, and my eyes are still glowing. What about yours?

audio

[rubikscomplex]

[Well, thank god for someone else hearing it.]

Glowing. When did everything freeze the last time? It was earlier than this. When did it start for you? How long has it been?

@gravedigger; voice

[harlequinofhate]

Oops doopsy, is someone going a wee bit nutso?

voice

[rubikscomplex]

Fuck off, clown.

@donner; audio

[imgonnatouchit]

[House sounds scared. That's... worrying.]

I don't hear any music... and I didn't hear any in the apartment with the knives, either. My eyes are back to normal, but I still have the mark on my hand. So out of those two, it would have to be the former that caused it.

Is something else happening? Where does the music seem to be coming from?

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[rubikscomplex]

Normal eyes, but Prophet eyes to start. Same as Stark. It's the eyes. The Jedi still has the eyes. Need to get data from him.

The music is coming from everywhere. Fading in and out. There's static. "Long live the Prophet."

@featherydouche; text

[mrcreamsicles]

i hear it
no changes in eyes from what they were before it started

[No one can hear any signs of how unnerved he is if he doesn't use audio, right.]

voice

[rubikscomplex]

Keep notes on what you hear. We need to compare. We need to compare data. Glowing eyes can still hear it. Normals can't. Prophet eyes unknown.

[Meanwhile, House is having a little bit of a nervous breakdown. Sorry, Davesprite.]

@ordo; audio

[hangfire]

...I hear it.

[His voice is surpringly small, his hand shaking too much to do text properly. He shouldn't be hearing anything out of that ear, and yet...

The audio shuffles a bit as Lutha weakly rubs at his face.]

Eyes are still messed up from before.

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[rubikscomplex]

Prophet eyes or glowing eyes?

@spectreone, video

[dumed]

[ House's terror and even the song are, for the moment, secondary. Even the fear of Norfinbury's influence is nothing compared to the paranoia of living under the Empire. ]

Do you want to get me -?

[ Kanan's face - still sporting Prophet eyes - is twisted with anger even as he's fumbling to switch over to private. ]

Do you want to get me killed?

Not here

[darkincrement]

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@guardian; audio;

[phaseshifter]

I can confirm that several members of our party can hear it. We also have both... flavours of altered eyes present. Iunno who the Jedi is, but - you're sure they triggered it?

audio;

[rubikscomplex]

Not this. He didn't trigger this, but the music only started when he was there. Been to the house three times. Are there any normal eyes in your group?

@betterhalf; text

[darkincrement]

Eyes still glowing.

[ Well more than usual. ]

Hear it.
Where's the apartment with the knives?

[ He could ask the "Jedi" in the same house, but he would rather listen in on whatever has his panties in a twist first. ]

[rubikscomplex]

Building 206 on my map.

audio; @dreamsnhonor

[heroproceeding]

[ It's somehow more disturbing to hear House scared rather than abound with his usual albeit rude wit. In fact, it kinda makes Zack's skin crawl. ]

I don't hear anything over here. But then my eyes don't look like those drawings anymore. You said "the Jedi"'s eyes started it? Who's that and what kind of eyes does he have?

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[rubikscomplex]

No. He didn't start this. He was- we heard the song. The song Andromeda sang for Winter in the SD card. It was in the apartment with the knives. It only started playing there when he was there. This is different. Hell if I know what started this. Romanov started hearing it earlier. It only just started for me.

@totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

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[rubikscomplex]

When did it start. I can't record it. Can you?

@ketximq; text

[mightyratslayer]

[The music on its own was scary enough, but House sounds genuinely afraid and that really sends Charlie into a panic. He's feeling things again.]

I hear it. What do we do? Is it happening again?

[rubikscomplex]

[Charlie was Prophet eyes. Fine. Okay.]

World hasn't frozen, yet. Find something you can use for restraints if you need it. What're you feeling?

@Kid, video

[equal_shots]

[Kid doesn't have a choice but to use video--he has been primarily alone since the night with the prophet eyes.

So he uses video, his small face pale in the darkness. His left eye is glowing faintly; under a dressing over his right eye there is nothing. His fingers are nervously pulling at his hair. Kid's voice is scared, and the angle of the video suggests he's pressed himself into a corner.]

I hear the music too.

I'm not sure if my eye is still glowing. You...would have to tell me.

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[rubikscomplex]

It's still glowing. When did it start? The music. When did the music start for you? How are you hearing it? Intermittently? Continuously? Write down exactly what you're hearing.

@ofcorpse; text

[exequies]

I suppose that answers the question of why some people retained their alterations. A pity they had to ruin such a nice song.

[rubikscomplex]

You think some of us were marked. Why? That's not an answer, it's just another question. If some of us were chosen to keep the eyes to hear this bullshit song, then there has to be a reason for the selection.

@twilighttown; text

[passingmemories]

My eyes were normal when everything happened. Sora had glowing eyes, but I don't know where he is. He's probably hearing the song, too. I can't hear it at all.

[rubikscomplex]

[Wait, hold the phone.]

Your eyes didn't change? At all? Were you even here? Night 180.

[House doesn't recognize the guy's sn, except vaguely.]

[ninjainviolet]

[ Holy hell, she's never heard House sound like that, and that scares her more than anything else she's seen in this place. ]

I'm sorry, but I'm not hearing the music. My eyes stopped glowing almost immediately after.

Are you in that apartment now?

[rubikscomplex]

No. I'm nowhere near it. Someone needs to get there, though. Three people, at least one from each group. Glowing, Prophet, and normal eyes.

@hawkguy, video

[awwnoun]

[ Natasha turns on his video for him, because she's a saint. He winces slightly as he shifts, trying to position his knees so he can let his tablet rest against them. His arms are behind his back. ]

I can't hear it. My eyes are fine. Are you okay?

audio

[rubikscomplex]

[He's really not fine.]

I'm hearing phantom music in my head from a dead AI interspersed with static and "Long Live the Prophet." Take a guess.

[rubikscomplex]

[that's what he wanted from Charlie. Well, fuck.]

You with someone who can tie you up?

@Spoiler ; private audio

[spoileralert]

I don't hear anything. Are you okay?

[ You're scaring her, House :( ]

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[rubikscomplex]

[He's scared. How's that, Steph?]

Your eyes are still normal?

[House doesn't bother to answer whether he's okay. He already snapped at Clint about that.]

@dickcheese, audio;

[headjacked]

[ 1) yep b) yep! III) Y E P ]

It's time to break out the macaroni duct tape. AGAIN.

audio

[rubikscomplex]

[Oh, Jesus Christ.]

Make sure you tie down that robot of yours, or whatever else you can do to contain it.

@genresavvy; text

[theurgy]

how did it start last time? how did you all realize you were going crazy?

[rubikscomplex]

Static one day, the world was turning to static. Then the drawings of the eyes. Then our eyes changed. Glowing or Prophet. That was ten days ago.

@LELRIC; audio

[armoured]

[He hesitates on replying to this, because surely he's got to be the last person House wants to hear from where this is concerned. But in the end the need to help outweighs the discomfort, though he does sound apologetic when he answers.]

I don't hear anything, but I'm with someone who can.

audio

[rubikscomplex]

[Yeah, no. House wants to hear from you zero percent, Al. Except that it's data, and he latches onto it.]

Prophet eyes or glowing eyes?

@standardissue; audio

[deus_ex_phs]

Confirming that I can't hear anything, and my eyes are normal right now.

audio

[rubikscomplex]

[Another point of data to add.]

Your entire group is normal eyes? [Just getting confirmation. House doesn't know how much more or less dangerous those people might be, but it's good to know who is who.]

@dissect ; voice

[circumsutus]

No unusual sounds or mental effects here. I had glowing eyes, but they were gone when I revived.

voice

[rubikscomplex]

[Well, thank god Stein's not a murderous psycho right now.]

Do you have restraints?