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@Spoileralert | Video

[spoileralert]

[ Steph waves at the camera, just for proof of life. Her smile is deeply disoriented and unsure. ]

Hey. So, 3 questions:

1. What day is it?

2. What happened to me?

3. What was I doing?

@funyarinpa | Audio

[fiftheclipse]

[Oh. Whoa. He told himself she'd be back, and..]

Steph? Hey, you gotta let Al know you're alright.

[... Wait, no, she's doing that by posting this video, isn't she? Okay. Answers.]

It's Day 369. Two weeks since your name--

[He can't finish saying that, somehow. But listen to him being all proper and not making any jokes about that number. Be proud of him.]

... I don't know what happened. After we split up, everyone with the red lines got taken, and you just.. weren't there with us.

[spoileralert]

Hey— [ give her a second his name is on the tip of her tongue ] Junpei!

[ She looks down at her arms. ]

Oh yeah, the red stuff, I remember that. I don’t... think I got taken. What happened?

[fiftheclipse]

I. Uh. I kicked it, too, so I don't know how we got there. It was some sorta cell block, except it wasn't?

Hallucinations, memory loss, all that fun stuff. Let's just say you're lucky you slept through it.

[But it kind of wasn't a bad thing, for Junpei. His bracelet's finally off. He's regrouped with Quark and Diana. The only real problem he's still faced with is all this time it takes to travel around Norfinbury. He wants to be there to help with the new area. So, speaking of,]

With everyone saying that bunker's all moldy, I wouldn't be surprised if the places are connected. Only thing is, tablets worked in the part we got locked up in. If you're gonna head over, be careful.

[spoileralert]

Sounds like it could have been a lot worse.

[ Like that time when everybody was literally tortured. She remembers that much, at least. Hard to forget, when the videos were shared publicly... ]

I'll be careful, though. Sorry you died. And... sorry you came back?

@guardian; video;

[phaseshifter]

[ Angel responds a little late, because she's over in Bunkertown doing things and pottering outside for fresh air now and then because of Reasons. Reasons that are not in any way related to bunker-related trauma in any way, no sir.

Anyway. There's no network coverage inside the bunker itself, so going out regularly to update herself and keep others updated is only sensible. Angel is more than happy to take responsibility for checking the network frequently so other people can keep searching anD HOLY FUCK IT'S STEPH, ]

Steph! Effing heck I was starting to get worried - let me j--

[ Aaaaand the connection poots out as she scrambles back inside to yell that HEY GUYS STEPH IS BACK YAY. Oops. It's fine she'll be back in a second ok ]

[spoileralert]

[ Steph just laughs and waits patiently for her to return. ]

Hey Angel. I take it you missed me?

[phaseshifter]

[ She's back soon enough, only looking very faintly embarrassed. SHE GOT EXCITED OKAY, SHUT UP, ]

--Sorry! We got the bunker open, but it severs the tablets' connection to anything outside while we're in there. It's kinda a huge pain in the a-- the ass, but. Of course I missed you! Who didn't? I mean, Zell and I were only talking about you the other day.

The context was the potential for surfing on a tidal wave of spiders, we kinda thought you'd approve.

[spoileralert]

I approve, but will probably also have nightmares.

There’s a bunker?

@LELRIC; audio

[armoured]

Steph...

[Her name comes out like a sigh rather than a word, relief surging through him and guilt at feeling so relieved.]

You were gone for a long time, longer than most people are-- gone.

[spoileralert]

Al.

[ She feels a little weird about being so glad he’s still here, too. There’s definitely a smile in her voice, though. ]

I had another one of those not-dreams, too. It’s getting a little hard to keep track.

[armoured]

You mean like you went home again?

[He's not sure what he feels about that, and working out if it's actually truth or just lies put into people's heads when they're dead.]

[spoileralert]

Yeah, or whatever it is.

Confusing. What it is is confusing. Like, normally when you hear somebody has died they’re actually dead, right? And they tend to stay that way? I didn’t hallucinate that the first sixteen years of my life, did I?

@clowncutie92; voice

[clowngirl]

You're back! You totally died, saw the obit. and everything. You were just about to give me all of your stuff out of the pure kindness of your heart, too.

[She actually is happy to see Steph again, but Harley's gotta Harley.]

[spoileralert]

Hey Harl. [ She almost forgot that Harley Quinn is kinda cool. That's the real tragedy here. ]

I knew there was a reason I held on to that whoopie cushion.

[clowngirl]

...Do you really got a whoopie cushion? 'Cause I'd even make an honest trade for one of those.

@totheark

[0thingsonmymind]

*He just links this and this.*

[spoileralert]

Oh, hey. Thanks Brian.

[0thingsonmymind]

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@beyonce | audio

[thewarningafter]

[Stephen lets out something between a sigh and a laugh. Steph died over a year ago from his perspective; it's hard to remember who's really been gone a long time--but he knows this goes beyond the typical revival period.]

Welcome back. The others already mentioned the bunker--they, uh. Found Andromeda's body. She left us some kind of program that unlocked the door.

[spoileralert]

[ It feels like a long time to her, too. And also she doesn't really remember the dying part. It's all very confusing. ]

Damn, really? That's weirdly upsetting.

[ She knew Andromeda was dead from the beginning, but she liked her. ]

What happened to it? Was there a funeral?

[thewarningafter]

Rhys held a funeral, more or less. Rhys with the tattoos, not Rhys with the robot arm. Got stabbed for it. No one's been able to -- to get her down. She's in the church.

[It's such an ugly thought, Andromeda pinned to the wall for hundreds of years; still hung up there even now that they've found her.]

@stanrdardissue; text

[deus_ex_phs]

1. Looks like you've got that covered already.

2. You did, obviously. Or, excuse me, you had a medical event that apparently the system here doesn't recognize as death even though it put you in the obituary.

3. Honestly? Probably doing something stupid.

[Hi, Steph. Sorry, you're getting Kunsel when he's suffering a death effect.]

[spoileralert]

Wow, rude??? I have never done a stupid thing ever in my entire life

[deus_ex_phs]

I seem to recall someone skateboarding down an ice tunnel filled with deadly icicles and losing the race against the clock to get to shelter.