[network] @Mnemosyne; video; night 227; history will judge us [open]

[bookofnope]

[Beckett starts the feed sitting huddled in a corner against a wall that's been burned a featureless black. He's not wearing his tinted glasses, and both his look and voice are flatly composed, distant.]

I am going to start recording everything. Simply leave this thing on at all times. We are losing too much information to patchy and inaccurate records in a way that is simply inexcusable considering the means we have access to. I strongly recommend that you all do the same. [He pauses, then nods half to himself.] If nothing else then for those who will come after us. Eventually.

[So optimistic, Beckett.]

Do let me know if you would like to receive regular transmissions of my records. And if you have, and are willing to use the means to put some of them on SD cards that may be preserved in the event of lost access to our iteration of the network. There is... a certain comfort in the thought of posterity, in my experience. Such as it is.

[Such as it is. He wrinkles his nose at the thought, and puts the tablet aside, though the recording keeps running. After a bit of time, he picks it up again and adds a text message, along with an attached file: TheBookOfNod.txt]

The file I am attaching is the complete text of the Book of Nod: the mytho-historic principle document of the Cainites, namely, the vampires of my world, transcribed from memory. I doubt this is of particular interest to anyone, but my physical copy was recently destroyed, and as far as I am aware, that was the last copy in existence. My purpose here is thus its preservation as a text. I am the last record of my Kindred. Let something remain.



[OOC: I didn't want to directly link one but if anyone's interested for whatever reason it's actually really easy to google up an online copy of Vampire the Masquerade's Book of Nod. I'm sorry it's so painfully 90s.]

Comments

[circumsutus]

Don't worry about me, I've dealt with shrinks before.

[rubikscomplex]

she already "prescribed" me daily hugs

[bookofnope]

Sounds like she has you figured out.

[rubikscomplex]

sounds like you don't know me, either

[circumsutus]

Have you been taking your prescription, Hotstud?

[bookofnope]

He does sound remarkably defensive just there. Maybe she needs to up the dose.

[rubikscomplex]

screw both of you

[circumsutus]

that's a bit more than you were prescribed. if you want to increase your dosage you should consult your doctor.

[bookofnope]

No can do, you aren't my sire.

[rubikscomplex]

i'm pretty sure this started out as pick on the vampire
where's your human solidarity, stitches?
traitor

[circumsutus]

I'll pick on both of you as much as I want.

[bookofnope]

Clearly it is time for me to insidiously switch sides and join House in picking on you, then. What a rascal am I.

[rubikscomplex]

he's a four-eyed dweeb
you can make fun of that
oh, wait
that's both of you
let me be more specific
the four-eyed dweeb with silver hair

[circumsutus]

It's distinguished.

[bookofnope]

And goodness knows you need something to make you look even borderline respectable.

[rubikscomplex]

says the guy who looks dead

[circumsutus]

Let's not pretend anyone here is distinguished or respectable.

[bookofnope]

But at least someone doesn't look like a wild Neanderthal. [He says, very unwisely, with a very unwise smug touch to his dashing lack of a snowbeard.]

[rubikscomplex]

hey!
those are our ancestors you're talking about
show some respect!

[circumsutus]

Beckett is the only one here who might have ever met a neanderthal.

[bookofnope]

For a biologist, your understanding of the timescale of human evolution is alarming.