[network] @hotstud_xxx; text; Christmas at Ground Zero [Day 248]

[rubikscomplex]

greetings, snowhellions
dr. house coming to you live from the belly of the beast
or at least the upper digestive tract
take a looksee at the latest map i'm sending out with this message

[There is, indeed, a map.]

@betterhalf and i have been filling it out
red means BAD
the entire area outside is red
didn't bother to fill that in
buildings i've found so far are yellow and green for the most part
food and water are red, though
mickey mouse found some place with rations
#276
bring your own food, anyway
not sure if it restocks, yet

i'm on the trail of some rando russian chick fangs found an sd card for

[House sends out the clip.]

translation:
"i don't think anyone else is here anymore
i haven't heard from anyone on this thing for weeks
i think they're all dead"

she's been leaving her mark on some of the buildings down here

[There's a shot of a door that has the following written on it: "жёлтый."]

translation:
"yellow"

it's yellow on the geiger app

found another sd card in there

[Another audio clip is sent through.]

translation:
"two weeks and he's not back
two weeks
he's not coming back
dammit
it was his idea to keep records, and now
this place is nothing more than a tomb"

discuss

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[rubikscomplex]

we know there's a server room
and maybe some cyborgs
or ais
don't call them creatures like it's some kinda monster

[But he breaks off writing as the considers the rest of Enoch's message.]

and we know there are at least two opposing forces here
andromeda's side
and the crazy cultists
it's looking more and more like evie's a cultist

[warriorscribe]

The "it" Samantha spoke of, the thing Rhys perceived beneath the town hall. It has a consciousness and wants something. Unless it is sentient, regardless of what it is made of, I think "creature" is accurate enough.

[Do those thoughts follow perfectly? Probably not.]

She'd rather we not keep moving if the quality of food means anything. If she's one of the cultists, she didn't want us to see the way they've left their mark on the place beyond the museum.

She knew what it would mean, if we thought that.

[Another beat, and another loosely-connected message:]

Why was her message not erased like all trace of the other session? She wrote "yellow" on the door. Why did it remain?

[rubikscomplex]

the little blind prophet was 10 and rhysie is an idiot
who's brain wasn't actually designed to download the internet or whatever assault was thrown at him
creature implies something mystical or otherworldly
it's not
it's just some kinda tech

good question on why it stayed
didn't elric find something from someone we thought was from another session once?
early on
earlier than when i got here, maybe

[warriorscribe]

"Creature" does not imply either. Though I ought to say many of us are mystical or otherworldly.

Did Andromeda not fail to "correct" her?

I believe so. I recall someone saying they could no longer contact the admin, and they would keep trying. I don't remember where or when it was found, or whether it was Alphonse who found it in the first place. It has not been so long yet many of my earlier experiences here are unclear to me as if it has been decades rather than months.

[rubikscomplex]

[Ignoring that first part now, Enoch.]

andromeda's a bleeding heart
and she was a scared kid
you're a grown man
i think you can take being told you're an idiot better

yeah, yeah
you're depressed
you forget things
go talk to elric
find out
then report back to me

[warriorscribe]

I wasn't aware disagreeing with a flawed assumption meant I couldn't take an insult. You assumed none of us were anything but ordinary once. I'm not sure why you continue to assume the same of the world we've found ourselves on. It isn't your world, after all.

[And there it goes, that sense of unease like a threatening hand on his throat, now that they aren't talking about anything of use. He used to trade barbs with House without issue, why does this happen?

He should go ask Alphonse about the card. If only to take his attention off of this for a while.]

[rubikscomplex]

i assumed something logical
and was presented with evidence to the contrary
and changed my assumption
there hasn't been one thing that's happened here that can't be explained technologically
find something that can't be
and i'll adjust my view
i'm a doctor and a scientist
not a dogmatic moron

[warriorscribe]

[He comes back to this after Al has told him he wasn't the one who found the card, and his first reaction is to try to reply.

It would have been nothing, then, to genuinely smile and point out that Enoch is doing the same thing - with the rules of his world, and that if he denied the supernatural he would be the one ignoring evidence like a "dogmatic moron".

But now is not then. Now, he is weaker, vulnerable. Something has changed, and the insult that should mean nothing cuts too deep, and the invisible hand on his throat presses just a little in warning.]

I think I've told you why this is flawed before. If not me, someone else.

Alphonse wasn't the one. I'll keep looking.

[rubikscomplex]

good
tell the rest of the network when you find it

[House just disconnects, not bothering with the rest.]