[network|video] @quark; this is fine; Day 245 [open]

[averytinyparticle]

Hey. It looks like those anomalies are gone. Is everyone back to normal?

[Oh, right, and before he leaves the message at that:]

I'm alive again by the way, obviously.

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@hotstud_xxx; text

[rubikscomplex]

[Thank the spiders for small favors.]

never changed
but my anomaly's gone
after telling me he's basically bits and pieces of other people all stitched together
so that's a thing now
i was practically right about those things
close enough

[Let's pretend like Quark dying didn't matter.]

[averytinyparticle]

I'm not surprised you were right.

[Cause, like, he's super smart. Duh?]

Mine was acting super weird, too, before I woke up and he was gone this morning. I wonder if they were all saying the same things.

[rubikscomplex]

i'm gonna guess the flavor text varied
but the substance was the same
anything specific you can remember?

[averytinyparticle]

Oh, yeah.

[He remembers a lot of it.]

"You Goddamn ungrateful twerp, how's it you get a full body and I'm the one who gets stuck broken? I didn't fish you out of the garbage for you to steal all my luck from me. Worst decision I ever made. It might as well be your fault, you lucky brat. You've got your head screwed on straight so why don't you take responsibility?"

Funny stuff like that.

[rubikscomplex]

more or less what i got from mine
more about me wasting the opportunity and the fact that i came through whole
he didn't mention luck
just opportunity
my old man believes you make your own luck, though

but it's pieces of them
that's what the anomalies are
it's not just data coherency
seems like it's physical pieces
and whatever we had
this light
it kept us together

[averytinyparticle]

It's so weird. I don't get how something like...light or luck or opportunity or any of that can keep a body together.

[He shrugs. The data thing seemed more feasible.]

But what do you think that means for any of us who don't have it anymore? Deterioration?

[rubikscomplex]

it's just a concept
luck of the cosmic draw that the machine they're using can pull some people through whole
and others end up looking like monsters out of a bad sci-fi horror movie

pretty sure we're all deteriorating
might be the ones without their lights will just go faster
you remember not all of those deleted user names started going "hello world"
all together before the admin terminated the session

@starspangledhero; voice

[fifty]

You missed some stuff at the end, but yeah, I think everyone's back to normal now. [Though America sounds exhausted.] You okay, kiddo?

[averytinyparticle]

I woke up a couple days ago, actually. Just thought people were too busy being monsters and stuff to talk.

[Jeeper, Mister America, you should get more sleep.]

Sure I am! Why wouldn't I be?

[fifty]

There was the dying thing and the monster thing? [Many people would not be okay with these things.]

[averytinyparticle]

[Quark shrugs.]

I dunno, everyone has to deal with these things around here, I guess I don't see why I should complain about it. I feel pretty great!

[fifty]

Well, that's good. [Weird, but good?] You can totally complain if you want, though.

[averytinyparticle]

Nah. It was kinda nice seeing my Grandpa again, even though he didn't look anything like himself. Dunno if I'll ever get the chance again, so I gotta make the most of it, right?

[Because, you know, a grotesque body horror version of his grandpa screaming obscenities at him and glitching out is totally memorable in a positive way.]

How are you feeling, Mister?

[fifty]

[Well, that's... Optimistic? But creepy.] I've, uh--been better. If you're not complaining though I guess I shouldn't, either.

@Spoiler ; video

[spoileralert]

"Normal" is maybe an overstatement, but yeah.

How are you doing?

[averytinyparticle]

The Norfinbury Normal Standard.

[He grins, seeming pretty nonplussed overall.]

I'm alive, so I'm great! And I got to visit my Grandpa, even though he looked really weird. How are you?

[spoileralert]

That sounds better, yeah.

You mean you have new memories of home?

[ She is Not Great, so she's going to just sort of not answer that. ]

[averytinyparticle]

No, I just mean cause he was here. As an anomaly. Not how I'd choose him, but beggars can't be choosers I guess.

[spoileralert]

Oh. Yeah... I got to see Zach, I guess.

Voice | @Summoner

[ninjainviolet]

[ She's happy to see you, Quark. ]

Depends on your definition of normal, I think.

How are you doing?

[ Translation: Anything seem off right now? ]

video;

[averytinyparticle]

I think if you're not a monster, you're probably normal.

[He laughs, like he thinks he just made some sort of...funny joke?]

I'm good, of course!

@Ecks | text

[ecks]

I have always been normal
did Doctor House ask you to unearth any corpses?

[averytinyparticle]

Corpses...?

[The question startles him.]

Not that I remember. Why, did he ask you to do that?

[ecks]

he told me to do that
he told me that if I would not do it you would do it
it made me feel unnecessary when he said that

[averytinyparticle]

Huh. I don't really get it...and, well, I would do it if he asked.

[No reason to lie about it.]

But he didn't, so he must've known you'd be the best person for the job!

[ecks]

yes
because I am close by