Event: Consolidation Theory, Part Four and Five

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Characters: red-marked characters and their new friends
Location: ???
Date: Morning 354, Morning and Day 355
Summary: A quiet morning and a confusing morning, or maybe they're both, or maybe they're neither.
Warnings: gore, psychological horror, warn for specifics in the subject lines

Part Four OOC Post
Part Five OOC Post

Comments

[sharktrash]

[ Oh yeah. This guy. ]

[ Honestly, Squalo would be a lot more surprised about Enoch speaking to him in a non-hostile manner if a bit earlier he hadn't also been chatted up by a guy he did kill a couple days back. People not giving a fuck when you attack them is starting to become old at this rate. ]

Or you could stop it with the pantomime and just walk out if he shows up.

[ Because they (probably) haven't had the chance to discuss this part before. ]

[warriorscribe]

It isn't a- ...I cannot leave my cell.

[They did but they didn't. Attacking someone in a fit of frustration is certainly a way to cut a conversation very short.]

[sharktrash]

You think you cannot leave your cell. There's a difference. Goes to show how much of Miller's bitch you are right now.

[ hE MAY HAVE BEEN REFERRING TO YOU THERE EARLIER, ENOCH... sorry about that. except, you know, not really, because he's not even mentioning that attempt to bite your throat out as if it's a perfectly acceptable course of action. ]

[warriorscribe]

What will it take to convince you that what I see exists for me, even if not for you? Do I need to break an arm on the barrier? Do I need to try to walk out again?

[Because he kind of tried that when it became clear the marked and unmarked were seeing different things.]

Being unable to do anything else doesn't make me compliant. Compliance involves a choice.

[sharktrash]

Don't bother.

[ It exists in his head, evidently that is enough. (If only he would be able to remember his own advice later.) ]

He can control your perception. What makes you think he can't trick you into making a choice?

[warriorscribe]

It isn't a choice if I can't take the options he's not letting me see. I know you don't see a barrier, but no amount of keeping that in mind is allowing me to pass through mine.

[Enoch has very strong opinions about free will and the compromising of such.]

[sharktrash]

[ That's nice. Squalo probably would, too, but he's never actually had it happen to him. Whether that's pure luck or he's just that stubborn is anyone's guess; people did have potential for mind-controlling powers in his world. ]

[ This is annoying, but they're also getting nowhere right now. ]

...tried closing your eyes?

[warriorscribe]

Of course I have. I should have escaped it when gravity said I ought to, but I certainly felt myself hit something mid-leap.

[There's a thunk behind him as Enoch hits the floor after flinging himself at his barrier. His eyes are closed.]

No, [he says, still on the floor (though to his perception he's pressed against his barrier). Still with his eyes closed, he gets up and backs into his cell with eerie precision for someone who can't see where he's going, so he winds up about where he thinks he should be.]

It doesn't work. Even if I don't know where it is in relation to me, I still hit it.

[sharktrash]

[ Right. Squalo is just going to watch / listen to that eerie spectacle, completely unsure what to take from this. ]

[ Definitely not the existence of a barrier, though. ]

A'ight, why don't you just stay put for now.

[ the adults got this ]

[ except they totally don't got this ]

[warriorscribe]

I've been trying to tell you that I don't have very much of a choice in that...

[He drags a hand down his marked face in exasperation.]

[sharktrash]

[ JUST GIVING HIM THIS VERY WEIRD LOOK before heading off, sorry bro ]