Event: Consolidation Theory, Part One and Two

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Characters: red-marked characters
Location: ???
Date: Morning & Day 353
Summary: You wake up in a cell.
Warnings: general horror warnings; please note in subject lines for anything specific that comes up

Consolidation Theory OOC Post
Part Two OOC Post

Comments

[0thingsonmymind]

*He doesn't get teasing, but at least for now he's still close enough to panic he doesn't quite catch everything she says.*

Breathing?

[phaseshifter]

Mmhmm. Like this.

[ She offers an exaggerated demonstration, breathing loudly and deeply. She only looks a little bit silly. ]

It helps. When things feel overwhelming, or when you're so angry you want to strangle people. Try it sometime!

[0thingsonmymind]

*He tries, at least, but when he takes s deep breath he breaks out into a small coughing fit.*

May be not.

*Well, it was worth a try.*

[phaseshifter]

[ The cough sounds pretty worrying, small or not. Man, that's some severe MN flu. Totally nothing to do with spooky tree men. Ouch.

She snortlaughs a little bit at maybe not, though. Just a tiny bit, because she isn't sure if Brian meant that to be funny or if he even knows what humour is. ]

Well, shoot. There goes my expertise.

[0thingsonmymind]

*Clearly nothing to do with non-Norfinbury eldritch horrors.*

I think I am not good at... calm

[phaseshifter]

You can learn to be calm! I have. Though it... did take a few years. Hopefully we won't be here that long, but if we are I'll tell you all my zen secrets. Promise.

[0thingsonmymind]

zen?

[phaseshifter]

It's a... ninja thing. How they keep calm in battle and so on. Haiku is involved - a kind of, um, poetry?

[ Or that's how she understands it. Because Zer0. ]

[0thingsonmymind]

*He understands very few of the words she just said. After he moment he just taps out the code for a question mark.*

[phaseshifter]

...Ninjas are... people with swords. Who sneak around and are kinda really cool. Oh - they cover their faces, too! Neat, huh?

[0thingsonmymind]

*Hmmmmm.*

If I had sword would I be nin ja?

[phaseshifter]

Iunno. I think you also have to do lots of sneaking around places and jumping out and murdering people? I'm... not entirely clear on the job description.

[ She's pretty sure the haiku are optional, at least. Like 90% certain. ]

[0thingsonmymind]

*He does a lot of sneaking...but not murdering. Or, really, jumping out. Though he supposes if he just killed everyone who saw him that would still count as stealth.*

May be half nin ja

[phaseshifter]

Right. A nin.

[ Annnnnnd she's snickering at her own shitty joke like the fucking nerd she is. ANGEL PLS GO ]

[0thingsonmymind]

*What.*

That is funny?

*He doesn't get it.*

[phaseshifter]

Well - yes! Because it's half the word, and you said you were half a ninja, and, um... That's...

[ SHE HAS NEVER FELT LESS FUNNY IN HER LIFE, ]

[0thingsonmymind]

*...?*

What

[phaseshifter]

...Never mind. Do you *ever* get jokes? Um, if that isn't rude to ask.

[0thingsonmymind]

I think so.

*He does not, not really.*

[phaseshifter]

Oh, cool! Tell me a joke - maybe then I can kinda. Get used to what your sense of humour is?

[ angel no, ]

[0thingsonmymind]

I donot know any

[phaseshifter]

That's. Kinda sad. Can't you think of anything that makes you laugh? If not jokes, uh... Iunno. Animals being dumb? Kids saying the darnedest things? Old people falling over?

[0thingsonmymind]

People falling is funny?

*Is it specifically old people or people in general? He's not sure he gets it either way.*

[phaseshifter]

Some people think so. Dunno if you remember my - if you remember Handsome Jack, but he was a big fan.

I guess I'm kinda going about this wrong trying to keep you distracted with humour, though, huh?

[ SHE TRIED ]

[0thingsonmymind]

I remember him.

*About the humor...he's not laughing but at least he's confused enough for distraction? Or something.*

I donot know.