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Gregory House, MD ([personal profile] rubikscomplex) wrote in [community profile] snowblindrpg2017-04-20 06:01 pm

[network] @hotstud_xxx; video/text; Night 229 [open] (cw: body horror)

[There's the sound of just uneven breathing as the camera focuses on a figure. As with all anomalies, the filming warps and distorts. But the figure is very clearly an older man, his arms and legs stretched to impossible lengths and his body clad in a smart military dress uniform. Those familiar with the American military might be able to pick out that he's a marine. Those more intimately familiar would be able to identify the insignia of a pilot, and the rank of a colonel on his jacket. The figure just looms, staring toward House's camera

The feed cuts and shifts to another point. This time, the tablet has been propped up on something. House is visible (for once in a blue moon) in his eclectic hobo attire, about ten feet away. The anomaly is there with him, and they're both roughly in profile view. The doctor is clutching a wooden croquet mallet tight and breathing hard enough that his chest is visibly rising and falling as he stares up at the anomaly with wide eyes. Very suddenly, he turns his head to look directly toward the tablet camera.]


Dr. Gregory House, Day 229, 12:30 PM... give or take. Anomaly has general appearance of Colonel John House. Abnormalities apparent in the limbs, which have become elongated. Anomaly is unresponsive to verbal commands, does not attack, and makes only gurgling, moaning noises. Anomaly initially encountered this morning when subject exited Building 255, but may have previously been present at any point between evening lockdown on Day 228 to morning unlock on Day 229.

Characteristic acute MN Poisoning symptoms manifest when subject approaches anomaly. [Here, he licks his lips and wipes at his upper lip unconsciously, the memory of the blood trickling from his nose still fresh.] Nosebleed, vertigo, nausea, and generalized malaise followed by unconscious. Anomaly did not attack when subject was rendered unconscious multiple times.

[His head snaps back toward the anomaly.]

So time to see what kind of punishment these assholes can take. Testing application of rubble-coated hammer to anomaly. Take one.

[It's only a second later that House launches himself at the anomaly, swinging the hammer and easily sweeping the thing's legs. The anomaly goes down, and the doctor pauses momentarily before screwing his eyes shut and hammering down on the thing. The anomaly flails its long limbs until one of them hits House and he crumbles to the ground unconscious. The anomaly finds its way to its feet and wanders a little ways away. When House wakes up, there's blood dripping from his nose and staining the white snow beneath.

This experiment is repeated twice more with very similar results. It's then repeated with a hammer that hasn't been coated with any rubble dust, again, with similar results. The video feed finally cuts off. House adds some text a few minutes later.]


so that was my day
how's everyone else doing?
also, the southern scrap wall extends all the way
we have to go under or climb over
my vote is under so we don't get speared
armoured: (fight] bring it)

[personal profile] armoured 2017-05-11 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm good at multitasking.

[It comes out with just the barest bite of snark behind it.]
loveismadness: (BIG GRIN)

[personal profile] loveismadness 2017-05-11 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll show ya mine if you show me yours! Uh. Tell me about yours, I guess. We've already seen ya pops.

[she practically chirps, not missing a beat.]

C'mon, we can go on a private channel an' braid each other's hair an' paint our toenails!
bookofnope: (creepy glow eyes thing)

[personal profile] bookofnope 2017-05-11 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Snark from Alphonse Elric is a gift.]

Then we're at an impasse. Except, of course, that you don't know where I am or what my travel plans are, and whether they align at all with your plan to hunt down House, whose location I am not sure you know either. So perhaps there is no problem here after all.
armoured: (angry] take no shit)

[personal profile] armoured 2017-05-11 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That's okay, I have a lot of friends here, Mr. Beckett, and I'm sure one of them will see you around at some point.

[Trust him, he will find you.]
loveismadness: (Default)

[personal profile] loveismadness 2017-05-12 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
awwww studly ya think i'm cute??????

right back atcha u kno u have pretty great eyes <3 <3

i ain't a fool tho i aint gonna just show u her 2 u unless i can guarantee ya will tell me the truth and INTERESTIN SHIT
loveismadness: (sadness!!)

>private (cw v Flippant abuse mention; body horror)

[personal profile] loveismadness 2017-05-12 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
ok sure. ill play.

1 when did ya pop start beatin on ya
2 was ya dad in the military
3 what color are my eyes


[and then, as promised...she turns the video on.

behind harley is a woman--a woman who's magnetically beautiful. she's beautiful in the same way that a shark might be beautiful, if it were gliding gracefully through the water towards your unprotected body. her eyes are a dazzling, piercing green, and her hair is a deep, lovely red. her lips are pigmented, soft and plush-looking. she looks at the camera, and smiles. a vine protrudes from her mouth, and reaches towards harley.

harley shudders.

the woman is naked. her breasts are full and beautiful, but beneath them, her ribs have swung open, like a pair of double doors. upon closer inspection, they're identical to the boughs of a tree. instead of blood, chlorophyll spills from broken veins. her heart, while medically accurate, is split neatly down the middle in two.]


...This is Pamela.

[harley sounds exhausted.]
loveismadness: (hurtslep harley)

>private (cw: discussion of abuse)

[personal profile] loveismadness 2017-05-12 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[harley wrinkles her nose when she reads the names, and then, the video blinks off.]

aw shucks. your eyes are awful pretty yourself, studly!

her name is poison ivy. she likes bein called ivy. i call her red cause a her hair
is your curiosity satisfied
loveismadness: (??? huh)

>private (cw: discussion of abuse)

[personal profile] loveismadness 2017-05-12 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
what, and you're super curious abt me for some reason??? ? ?
loveismadness: (??? huh)

>private (cw: discussion of abuse)

[personal profile] loveismadness 2017-05-13 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
not much 2 tell doc
she's a botanist
uh
likes murderin dudes who step on endangered plants
dislikes batman and mr j
ecks: (why you do this)

>private video

[personal profile] ecks 2017-05-13 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
No. I murder people because I get angry.
loveismadness: (Default)

>private (cw: discussion of abuse)

[personal profile] loveismadness 2017-05-14 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
[she isn't gonna kiss and tell on pammy!]

one time puddin pushed me outta window because i got closer 2 killin batman than him!
warriorscribe: (It'll be fine...won't it?)

[personal profile] warriorscribe 2017-05-16 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
[It's so much easier to not give him room to lash out with over text, Enoch comes to really appreciate for the first time. His reactions run the gamut from kneejerk horror at the first part (having forgotten anything in what Dio might have recorded and no longer possessing the book he wrote in to review), to confusion at his second remark, to fighting down that lingering bitterness at him for what he'd said about the event that had haunted his nightmares too often.

His reply is significantly delayed.]

Witnesses to other anomaly attacks have heard something to the effect of searching for something, haven't they? But nothing has been lost, aside from the sorts of things that go wrong with every death.

I assume that is what you mean by coherency.


[Why yes, he has more or less been avoiding him deliberately and has not kept up with his current theories, what gave it away?]
ecks: (stop it stop it STOP IT)

>private video

[personal profile] ecks 2017-05-18 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
If it is my choice I do not make very good choices.
warriorscribe: (To walk a long road)

[personal profile] warriorscribe 2017-05-20 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes him a good long while to respond to that, too. Not because he's wrestling with the idea of it - the anomaly creature said they were "the same" and House's statement didn't seem to be deviating from that even if he's approaching it from a different standpoint. "Data" isn't a word he'd throw in there, even if it was part of his default frame of reference.

No, really, he's just shifting around the cramped shed space to keep away from his anomaly, feeling its effects.]

I see. These seem somewhat less mindless. Or less violently so, at any rate.

What do you make of it? Do you think they are becoming more coherent?


[Awkward yet? Certainly. All this talk while ignoring House's clear display of emotion earlier doesn't sit well with him. He wants to ask again, but knows he will not get an answer.]
ecks: (downcast)

>private video

[personal profile] ecks 2017-05-20 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you ever stop screwing up and do it right?

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