[network] @hotstud_xxx; text; Night 255; Let's Do That Again [open] [cw: suicidal ideations]

[rubikscomplex]

so, worth it, or worth it?
cloaked prophets who couldn't be hurt
(remind anyone of someone?
hint
go rewatch xu's death
or talk to someone who was around to see how our little winter way kicked it)
no spiders in the vents
"evie's voice"
quantum computers
convertpurge.exe
a camera feed they don't want us to get access to

this is amazing!

i'm down in the entrance area at the police station
heading to the hospital to run a couple of experiments i've been holding off on
way too far to bother walking back to the radiation zone
i'll just keep rolling the dice till i hit the chapel or the new morgue

we need to do more things like this
results, people!
the rats don't get a response if they just play nice in the maze

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[rubikscomplex]

and this is bad how?

[cosmicwords]

I think....

Someday, the machine has to stop. But if that happens before people find the answers they seek, before this world's secrets can be unveiled to us, then our sacrifices so far will have been for nothing, won't they?

[rubikscomplex]

if i'm dead
it kinda doesn't matter much to me
but i see the point you're trying to make
we need to double check on the next obit how many people die
we might wanna try killing half the population
maybe everyone that had prophet eyes
think we might've gotten close to a quarter of it this time
tax the system to see what strain it can take before it gives out
great idea, kid
establish the limits

[It doesn't particularly matter that that's not what chaos really said. It's how House is going to interpret it.]

[cosmicwords]

That's...not at all what I was trying to say....

[rubikscomplex]

really?
'cause that's what i heard
and it's way cooler than what you were probably trying to say
we'll just go with that

[cosmicwords]

[He sighs wearily and when he speaks again his voice is laced with pity, pity for whatever drove this man to be this way.]

We're here for a reason.

I think we should find out what that reason is before throwing our lives away for an experiment that will, if successful, have disastrous results.

[Of course he cannot rule out the very real possibility that the machine has to be be destroyed for them to escape. He won't admit that to House, there has to be a way to destroy it without everyone dying.]

[rubikscomplex]

and the reason is probably
"some borked experiment that went off the rails decades ago"
or
"to be new sacrifice material for the murder cult"
i'm not gonna stop you doing your thing, bro
i mean
other people might
but other people are assholes
i'm a live and let live/live and let die kinda guy

[cosmicwords]

I see.

[chaos goes silent as he attempts to mentally project himself into orbit around whatever planet it is House seems to be on.]

...What?

[He fails.]

[rubikscomplex]

you do you
i'll do me
is basically what i'm getting at, kid

[cosmicwords]

Why is it that I think we might be having two entirely different conversations?

Have you lost the ability to accurately interpret what people are saying?

[If so, he feels even more pity for the man.]

[rubikscomplex]

nah
you just never had a sense of humor to begin with

[cosmicwords]

Maybe I just find different things amusing.

[rubikscomplex]

name at least five things
i'd personally recommend stupid cat videos
anyone can laugh at those

[cosmicwords]

[A small note of amusement.]

Well...

Cats can be pretty funny.

My friends make me laugh.

Hm...

I admire some situational humor, as long as nobody gets hurt.

Puppies are funny.

Children can be...

Uhm...

Is that five?

[rubikscomplex]

try again with some specificity, kid

[cosmicwords]

Platypuses!

Have you ever seen one?

They're quite funny.

[His voice has a gently teasing note to it. He's messing with House at this point.]

[rubikscomplex]

yeah
unlike you

[You're getting hung up on, chaos.]