[network] Noisy Black, Part Three [open] [horror/surgery effects/note specifics please]

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[Talk to the sinners. Plan a way in. Plan a way out.]

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@magenta2; audio - night 261

[himalayanyeti]

[For a while--and it's a fair while, at least a minute--the only distinct sound is of a girl weeping, crying out things a bit too far-away to hear. After some time of this, there's a closer, uncharacteristically quiet voice.]

I can't tell if anyone can actually hear me, but--there's a girl here, somewhere. Don't know who. Also, I'm not dead just yet. Anyone out there? It's Magenta.

@user; audio - night 261

[cosmicwords]

We can hear you.

....What do you mean there's a girl? Is she one of you?

[himalayanyeti]

No. Maybe? I don't rightly know. I didn't think there were any girls here, but I guess I forgot, maybe. I don't know.

[cosmicwords]

So that voice... you don't believe she's one of you? Let me listen again...

Maybe we can reach out to her, somehow.

[himalayanyeti]

[Magenta obediently stays silent for about five seconds, before he forgets the entire endeavor and pipes up again.]

I haven't tried talkin' to her. She seems busy.

[cosmicwords]

Oh? Maybe you should try to.

Even if she doesn't seem to respond, she still might hear you.

[himalayanyeti]

She leaves when people come to visit. Those assholes. Maybe she doesn't like them.

[His mind is somewhere else, apparently.]

[cosmicwords]

[chaos makes a small sound of acknowledgment and decides to follow after Magenta's train of thought.]

The visitors in the robes, you mean. Your keepers.

They are not doing this to you because they want to. It's not their will. They're as much victims of whatever is happening as you.

I ...know it is difficult but, please, try not to be too upset with them.

[himalayanyeti]

Fuck that.

[Well, he's certainly more involved in the conversation now.]

I'm not lettin' them have anything else from me.

[cosmicwords]

I'm not saying you need to bend a knee to them. I'm only asking that, when all of this is over, you do not treat former friends as enemies.

They're still your friends, beneath the madness being created by the power here.

[himalayanyeti]

They're not my fuckin' friends. 'Specially after this. I'd rather goddamn die than call that bastard my friend.

[cosmicwords]

If not a friend then a comrade at least, in the effort to solve this place's riddles and eventually escape.

[A thoughtful hum.]

Whatever power has done this wants to drive a wedge between everyone. Don't let it do that.

You are more clever than that power, aren't you? You cannot let it manipulate you.

[himalayanyeti]

Do you wanna know what that motherfucker did to me? Do you wanna know why there's a wedge here?

[cosmicwords]

You can be angry. It's okay to be angry, just please do not let that emotion turn into hatred.

[Gently:]

I know you've suffered but it was not him who did this. It was this place.

There is something twisting people to its will and forcing them to do terrible things. We need to stop it.

[himalayanyeti]

Do you wanna be in here like me? If you're gonna preach about fuckin'...hatred, or whatever, try a round in here 'n see if you come out half as helpful. Do you value your knees?

[cosmicwords]

If I could swap places with any of you and take on your pain while you went free, I'd do so. I'm sure that's true for many of us out here.

I know that sounds like empty words right now, but it's true.

....I am sorry this is happening to you.

audio; @dreamsnhonor

[heroproceeding]

I can hear you loud and clear. I hear the girl, too. So, either you're not just hearing things or we're all getting tricked again.

[ He wouldn't be surprised either way, but... ]

What kind of shape are you in? Do you think you could reach her?

[himalayanyeti]

[Magenta laughs bitterly.]

Hell no. I'll leave it at that. Can barely use this fuckin' tablet.

[heroproceeding]

...Gotcha. [ He says it quietly. Apologetically. He's not about to ask what's wrong. He knows better that if he can't move, then he's in some seriously bad shape like the rest of them. ]

Do you think you could recognize the girl's voice? I don't know if you still have any access to the archives.

[ Or maybe it's a dead lead. He's not sure. ]

[himalayanyeti]

No. I don't know. I don't know many people, here. I don't think I've heard her before, 'else I'd try'n talk to her, right?

[heroproceeding]

Yeah, I guess you would. [ He can hear the frustration bleeding through. If he knew this man better, he would be able to think of something better to say, wouldn't he. Something better than prodding about a girl he's not interested in worrying about. But it's hard to worry about others for some, he supposed. Hard when you're in pieces, yourself. ]

We're gonna find a way over there. We're not just letting all of you die in there. Not if it can be helped.

[himalayanyeti]

I don't know where I am. They keep talkin' about that Prophet, and conversion, and--they picked the wrong person. I don't know anythin' about this. I wanna go home.

[heroproceeding]

Those people are out of their minds and I wouldn't be surprised if they're some crazy last hurrah of whoever the hell started that whole cult way back when. Which means we gotta focus and keep our wits on us as best we can, so we can go home.

[ And from the change in tone, he's all about going home. Come hell or high water. ]

Can you give me anything to go off of? Anything that sticks out?

[himalayanyeti]

No windows. Haven't seen a single once since I woke up, here or anywhere else. 'S warm, too. Warmer'n outside. I don't know how. I don't know where this is.

[heroproceeding]

[ No windows, huh. Well, that doesn't help. Not that he can blame the poor guy. But... warmer? Maybe it's a house with heat around there? ]

Anything else catch your eye in there? What about the other rooms?