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

[snowblindmods]

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

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[lacecase]

Sweater!

[She will come up with positive responses to the best of her ability.]

[thewarningafter]

Itchy.

[Stephen, on the other hand, is an currently an unrepentant font of negativity.]

[lacecase]

Ointment.

[Kind of positive???]

[thewarningafter]

Bacitracin?

[Not a negative!]

[lacecase]

[Ginger has no idea what that is.]

...dictionary!

[Nailed it.]

[thewarningafter]

School. Who is this?

[lacecase]

This is Ginger.

[She resisters the impulse to make a joke out of it. Things are hard for them right now. Ginger can't even imagine how hard things are for each of them in their own ways.]

And, um, teacher!

[thewarningafter]

Pain.

[Good feelings and gentle confusion about her identity gone. Off camera, Stephen curls in tighter on himself, muttering under his breath, though whether he's speaking to someone remembered or trying to calm himself isn't immediately clear.]

Stop, stop....

[lacecase]

[Stephen's reaction makes her gasp. PULL BACK, PULL BACK. WE ARE NOW ON HIGH ALERT MODE.]

Oh my God, I'm so sorry--I didn't mean to--we can stop! How...how about a different game? I'm sure I can think of something!

[thewarningafter]

Ancient. Teachers are ancient, this isn't -- he's wrong, I won't.

[At least Stephen seems to be talking himself away from the problem? Unfortunately he's not tracking Ginger's end of the conversation so well.]