snowblindrpg | @w.graham; night 299 - video [ Let reports of questionable life choices continue! ]

[OOC - CW: Mention of self harm]

[ Good evening fellow snobos, it would appear that the reports of questionable life choices continues to roll in; Rhys started a trend.

It is another video, coming from the user name w.graham and featuring that same gentleman. It’s hard to tell if he looks worse than before, because he tended to look terrible in general. What is different is he looks a bit more exasperated than he had the last time.

As he takes a breath to start speaking, the voice of one Gregory House, comes across first, calling from somewhere off screen. ]

Don't forget to call them snowhellions! And remember it's Hotstud first! Then Graham Cracker.

[ Will just sighs and rubs his hand over his face, before he gets started. ]

Good evening.

House and I have a couple of new discoveries we've been tracking over the past week or two and inspired by Rhys, we thought we'd share...

First things first! If you change something in a place, freaking tell me. I maintain the building guide and map, people. Contrary to popular opinion, I'm not psychic. You move crap, paint new symbols, or smash in symbols tell me. And get before and after pics. I don't need a conversation. Neither of us wants a conversation, just where, what, and pics or it didn't happen!

[ Will pauses for a moment, his eyes casting towards the direction the voice is speaking, and he’ll inquire, with polite sarcasm. ]

Done? [ There is a pause and a slight narrowing of his eyes, before he remarks in a flat tone. ] As a doctor you know that’s a physical impossibility.

[ A pause, an eyebrow lift -the rude gestures were getting more creative here- and Will shook his head and turned back to the camera. ]

I’ve been told to keep this short, so here goes. We also discovered in building 217 that a combination of blood and fire will result in instant cult membership. [ Here Will rolled up his sleeve, exposing his forearm, complete with healing laceration and the prophet eye burned into the skin above where he’d sliced himself open.

After giving the audience a good view he lowered his arm and took a breath, only to be interrupted again. ]

Don't let Graham Cracker sell you on the platinum membership, folks. The fees include your first-born child, two pints of blood, and a patch of skin. And that doesn't even get you access to the topless lounge. But if you're really in for it, just drip some blood, light a little fire, and you’re good to go. Matching brands and everything.

Did you want to do this? Because I can turn this camera around and... yeah, that’s what I thought.

In building 213 we tried a little tyger, tyger burning bright at night. For those of you who have just arrived, that is the building where Winter died. Apparently if you set the walls on fire, it makes them scream. Like a woman, or a child and the screaming only lets up once the fire wanes.

I think we should light a fire somewhere else. Test this more thoroughly; we’d need a lot more wood though.

Or some bodies.

And this is why people don't wanna be friends with you, Graham Cracker.

Okay back to what matters. Woman or child makes me think Winter or Sam, take your pick. Also the knives stuck in there still won't come out but I couldn't taste anything interesting on 'em.

We do have record of the screaming, if anyone wants to listen for themselves.

Finally the pool in building 216 is a bust. We cracked open the eyes at the bottom, I tried to get a read on the scene, but came up blank, and Mr. Oral fixation over here tried tasting the paint, nothing.

About the only evidence we could nail down was that the symbols look like they were all done around the same time, at least, and same color, but no way to tell if it was more than one person.

[ House's disembodied voice is still coming from somewhere off screen as he takes the wrap-up. ]

Anyone else wanna share? Already tracking the magic brigade over at the high school so we can skip that.

[OOC: House is all comments in blue
Will is all comments in purple
Responses will come from both of them! Assume House is audio only, unless otherwise noted in the comment header! ]

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Does that make me a hipster?

You, me, and Fangs are the original idiots, Stiffi. Don't sell yourself short.

We did it before it was cool. That's what hipsters say, House.

I can't keep hep to the cap on all your ghetto slang.

The internet is the ghetto now? Good to know.

I mean, have you seen the Internet we have here? You get better stuff in the middle of Siberia. It's pretty ghetto. At least in 2151.

Fair point.

Has anyone suggested separating you two for your own safety? Or at least chaperoning?

I mean we all know you need an adult, House, I'm just not sure Will qualifies.

[ Just this look. ]

Hey, my son has special needs, okay?

Graham Cracker and I are having a great time, Mommy. No chaparone's required. We haven't killed each other, yet. So.

[ Steph's answer to his question has Will looking up and over at House. ]

House, did you see this? [ Point point. ] Does that mean what I think it means?

[House tilts his head as he listens.]

Well, if you're thinking what I'm thinking, it means means we've got a pair of keys between the two of us. And that little stunt Fangs pulled after I told him not to paid off.

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[ ... ]

Okay, it means two things. [ See parents?? This is why they should be allowed to play together. ]

Biometric locks, as a rule, are responding to something like finger ridges on a hand, or retinal display in the eyes. But those have to be keyed into the system for the system to recognize them.

[ Will paused and raised his eyebrows. ]

What do we all have that could be intrinsically changed, so as to become recognized by a biometric locking system?

I'm sure you're going for something theatrical like "blood," but nanites. Whatever's happening when we get these marks, they're adjusting the nanomachine programming. Probably why I got an extra effect in the torture tower. Beckett, too.

But we're all tied back to the server and the Admin's got control... I wonder if she can...

[House trails off and goes for his own tablet. He doesn't have much faith that he'll get an answer, but he can try to ask the Admin... and Robert Miller separately.]

[ For a moment Will was quiet, letting House tap out his message on the tablet.

But then ... ]

For the record, I was going to say nanites.

[ He's got his dramatic moments, he'll own those but in this instance he did mean the nanites. ]

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It's the 'yet' that has me worried.

You worry too much. If we die, it'll be for science and awesome, at least.

Can't fault your logic there. At least try not to die, alright?

Roger, that, captain!

I feel it's worth pointing out that we've been traveling together for almost a week and neither of us have died, nor have we killed each other.

[ Though some of the proposed experiments ... well, it was a good thing results happened before drastic measures were taken. ]

I believe we should get some credit for this.

A week is pretty impressive! But possibly also pushing it.

We're gambling men, what can I say.

[ She's probably right, but there are still bad life decisions to be made and a whole new area to go make them!

Besides, no one had died! ~~Yet~~]

You take care of my son, now. He needs more friends that aren't mass-murdering sociopaths.

[ 'friends that aren't mass-murdering sociopaths.' Uhm ... ]

I'll do my best.

[ What is your death count Will ]

That's all I ask.