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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Have you every considered that your problem might be that you don't self-medicate?

[He's being flip, rather than serious, at least.]

How do you know I haven't?

[ Whiskey was a perfectly acceptable avenue of self-mediation.

So was indulging in the occasional bout of righteous violence and murder. Though Will was genuinely trying to stay away from those particular confessions at the moment. ]

Was the stabbing yourself your way of telling me you're a masochist?

With what you've heard of my history you hadn't already come to that conclusion before I stabbed myself?

Point.

[House's lips twitch up into a smirk. He's calming down now, which is a relief.]

To each his own. Personally, I think pain sucks balls. Speaking of which, how are the wrists? My chest hurts like a bitch.

[Skinning is usually agonizing, particular across a decently large area.]

[ Of the two of them, Will would agree that House had the worst of it with the skinning. ]

Hurts. [ He admitted. ] But so far no evidence of infection or complications.

I'd be more worried about the surface area you took off?

Not the first time. Probably won't be the last. [Which probably tells Will more than House really wants to about his state of mind.] I'll live.

Or I won't, and that'll solve that problem.

[And bring the mark back...]

Nice thing about 'death' around here, they patch you up, put on a new shine, even give you a free power wash.

Is it wise to get too complacent about that?

[ The words leave his mouth before he has time to sit and think on what House is saying. On the one hand, the way death works around here is a clue to the reality of their situation; Will believes it has to be.

But on the other hand, the more personal hand, he's seen the census.

Nine times. Nine times. What happens when House rolls it over into double digits? Even if they are experiencing system reboot, how long until the system identifies House as 'bad code' and decides to remove the string before he can infect the system?

Would that even be a thing? Will doesn't know, so when he speaks it uses terms he can better relate too. ]

Nothing is infinite House. Do you know the magic number where a murderer tips over into the classification of serial killer? It's 3. Three kills with the same M.O. and a case goes from local jurisdiction to federal. Kill across 2 states and a case goes from local jurisdiction to federal.

Numbers have consequences House, and you are pushing yours. [ As he says the words, Will is struck by a thought and he's not entirely certain it's his own. ]

Or ... is that what you're hoping for? A win/win solution, for you?

[House stares at Will for a long, hard moment.]

Get out of my head, Graham Cracker, it's not one of the fun places, like them serial killers. The only win/win for me is figuring out what the hell is going on here. That's all you need to know.

[ Will weighed the wisdom of pressing the matter, but he'd learned to pick up some of House's cues. This was one of those instances where they both understood where the truth lay and they also understood there was no room for discussion; at the moment.

So Will turned his attention back to some of his other conversations, affording House the appearance of privacy. ]

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