[network] @hotstud_xxx; text; Night 291 [open]

[rubikscomplex]

[Maybe it's how antsy he's feeling about this stupid experiment with Sherlock, maybe it's leaving Wilson behind, maybe it's the fight with Stephen. And maybe it's just Norfinbury getting to him, but House opens his map to plan out his next movements and sees numbers out of order, seemingly random skips, and he can't stand it anymore. It takes him a good chunk of the evening he could have spent traveling to work on getting his map and his guide updated, but he does and decides this particular update warrants more comment than some of the others.

Well, and people should know he's not a little kid anymore.]

reorganized the map
i'll be updating numbers in new areas as we find more buildings
it's too confusing having this crap out of order

[Also, it's like nails on a chalkboard in the back of his mind right now. He knows it's irrational, but that doesn't stop it.]

updated romanov's building guide to match
you wanna add something, tell me
have a complaint about it?
talk to someone else

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@featherydouche; text; private;

[mrcreamsicles]

i take it youve got your memories back
thanks for the reorganization
were heading south to the entrance area to finally check out those spots no ones been through yet so ill keep you updated

[Pointed and businesslike. He's not going to press if House doesn't want to get into it.]

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[rubikscomplex]

[Business like is what House will take right now, thank you. If they can never speak of what happened again, he'll be... well, happy is a stretch. He won't snap at anyone over it, though.]

good luck
you might run into the new guy
depending on how fast you are
or one of the new guys

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[mrcreamsicles]

yeah im going to try to avoid the creepy corpse poker
is the other newbie down there too or are you just guessing
also it might be worth noting that it sounds like theres an anomaly on the other side of the door at building 68
door is still sealed though

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[rubikscomplex]

other newb is in hsiaoke pass
or at least that's where he first turned up

[Network stalking for the win.]

noted on the anomaly
how'd you set it off?

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[mrcreamsicles]

tried to get the door open then started talking at andromeda asking if she could help or point us the right direction
played the clip of the russians i found at millers place too when karkat suggested it
noise started as soon as i stopped talking and lasted for hours
nothing else weird happened

@magenta2; text

[himalayanyeti]

1. sorry for telling you to go die i was in a bit of a mood but also youre an asshole so im not really sorry. im saying sorry in case someone else got pissy about it and wants me to apologize

2. did you fix that guide to say theres no more anomaly in the firehouse

[rubikscomplex]

1. srsly?
like i actually care, dude

[Magenta isn't the first person to tell him to go jump off a cliff and die. He won't be the last.]

2. yup
i let everyone know some moron let it out

[himalayanyeti]

yeah i figured youd say something like that but small you was very fucking upset with me for that so i just wanted to level with you. you can still go die

thanks

do you think its still out there maybe i could try and wrangle it back in like the cowboy of closetmonsters

[rubikscomplex]

[He is going to continue to breeze past the mention of his younger self.]

well, you're definitely a cowboy in the closet
go for it, maggie may
let us know how it goes

[himalayanyeti]

im neither of those things but sure whatever

and i may just try and look around for it next time im near there (i dont know when) but do the anomalies like to move around much? or stay in one place? i havent met many special enough ones to really notice besides dio but i havent seen him around lately

@thebigc; text

[onlytwothings]

[ He starts and stops himself a couple of times, trying to keep himself from responding with something highly irritated. ]

Thanks for the update, House.

It's good to see you're doing something useful with your time.

[rubikscomplex]

[He can read the sarcasm into it.]

i only do useful things with my time
how's life alone with stranger danger?

[onlytwothings]

Sure. I assume you have a good reason for taking off like you did.
It's fine, thanks for asking.

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[rubikscomplex]

[Because House is aware of network stalkers and he doesn't need them annoying him, he switches to private.]

you won't like what i'm doing
it's easier this way

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[onlytwothings]

No?
You're going to die again, aren't you?

@w.graham; text

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

[ Needless to say this caught his attention. ]

Useless factoid. Miller's house has absolutely nothing of note in it, but you still can't use audio or video.

[rubikscomplex]

did you try talking to the data ghosts?
you got upstaged by a bird, graham cracker
he found an sd card there about a week ago
how's your russian?

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

How exactly would you go about calling those? "Here ghostie ghostie?"

I expect to get upstaged by a lot of people, as it would appear I'm re-treading ground that's already been thoroughly tred. Though if you can think of an area that would be a good use of resources, I'm happy to head towards it.

I know how to say 'vodka'.

[rubikscomplex]

you should definitely try that
take a vid
alternatively
talk to them like they're people who're there

head for hsiaoke pass
building 205
looked like someone was living in there
but it was no one from here
i'm thinking it might be our reds
we've had a couple of ruskies turning up on sd cards ever since we made it to the radiation zone
go there and turn on your tablet
i can try talking to them
and you can see if your empathy shtick gives you anything

that direction's where all the really fun cult crap is, anyway

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

I'll make that a priority.

[ No, no he really won't.

As for the suggestion, Will is quiet for awhile as he investigates the map. Good grief, House, wasn't there something a little closer? ]

Alright, looking at your map, to get to building 205 is going to take me close to a week's worth of travel. The fastest and only safe route is a north eastern one. Any particular stops I should make along the way? The building that bleeds sounds absolutely delightful.

@theiceman, audio

[holmesice]

Welcome back, Doctor.

[There's the slightest thread of...maybe not relief, but something akin to it. House as a child, while an interesting insight into the man, was not as successfully helpful as House as an adult. Perhaps now they could progress.]

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[rubikscomplex]

anything to add that's relevant, holmeslice?

[Mycroft may wish for those simpler days soon enough with what House and Sherlock are planning to do.]

[holmesice]

Yes. I'm organizing the non-lethal morgue experiment you proposed. I will be borrowing Ecks', Dorian's, and Kid's tablets and setting up a morgue feed, and observing in the pharmacy. I'm not expecting to see anything unless some unfortunate person revives whilst I'm observing, but...could get lucky, I suppose.

[rubikscomplex]

[That actually does catch his interest.]

transmit the recording to me when you're finished
and make sure you have eyes on the recordings at all times
the spiders might screw with them otherwise

CW: Suicidal ideation

[holmesice]

Of course. And duly noted.

[Of course, a part of him very much wanted to see what would happen if someone did stay in the morgue and filmed it in this manner. Multiple tablets and multiple observers, what would the morgue creature look like? He couldn't sacrifice himself, not with Sherlock behaving the way he was, and Mycroft had promised.

If it wasn't for Sherlock, though, he would consider it an acceptable risk.]

Any other requests? Unfortunately nothing turned up about nanomachines, at least if there is a machine to fix them, it's not here, or not where we can find it. Curiosity I could not find anything else about them, not even literature.