[Network] Voice @user, open. Morning 377

[cosmicwords]

[chaos's low, soft voice is full of its usual calm.]

Uhm...

I guess I went away for a while.

Sorry.

Could anyone tell me what I've missed? The last thing I remember is the bunker...

Comments

@jwatson; audio

[jumpthegun]

chaos! Glad you're back. Or... is it Yeshua? Sorry, not much has happened. People are still working on the bunker. Mycroft found a tablet inside. Not sure what he did with it. You and Castiel found some sort of computer, but whatever you did with it, seems like it didn't work. Not that I heard.

Where are you?

@user

[cosmicwords]

Just "chaos" is fine, nobody calls me Yeshua anymore.

I'm near the High School but, uhm....

I can't find Castiel and he was with me just a moment ago...

[jumpthegun]

Apart from the Admin, apparently.

I'm not sure Cas is back, yet. The pair of you died in the bunker. I'm sorry, chaos. Have you figured out what your death price is, yet? Memories of exactly how you died, maybe?

[cosmicwords]

I remember we collapsed....but...

When did you find us?

[jumpthegun]

Day 372, I think. It's been a while, I'm afraid. That's when the obituary went up with your names on it, anyway.

[cosmicwords]

Days ago...

That's...

A long time?

[jumpthegun]

It's Day 377 now. Not too far gone, at least. Just a bit longer than usual. Are you okay? I mean, obviously it's not okay, but... okay?

[cosmicwords]

I don't know....

I feel like everything is moving so fast.

I only just appeared in this world, but it also seems like I've been here a while.

[jumpthegun]

It feels like that for me some days, like you've come unstuck in time. It's probably worse when you've woken up, missing days.

[cosmicwords]

Mm...Maybe, but a few days isn't very long.

[jumpthegun]

Consider what we've been through in just a year here. Every day does seem an eternity.

[cosmicwords]

But they're not an eternity. A few days is barely a heartbeat in the flow of universal time...

[jumpthegun]

[That's... a bizarre thing to say.] Well, if any of us were still working on a universal scale, that might be relevant. We're really not, though, y'know?

[cosmicwords]

Yeah, I guess you're right....

And every day should count because we don't have much time left...

[Though he doesn't sound too upset about that.]

[jumpthegun]

[John supposes chaos has never sounded... exceptionally perturbed. Still. This is a little weird.]

Are you feeling okay, chaos? I mean... waking up from dying aside. You sound, I dunno, a bit off.

@Ecks | text

[ecks]

I think they looked in more parts of the bunker while you were dead
that is the only thing you have missed
I think

@user; voice

[cosmicwords]

So I'm guessing nobody's found a way through yet....

Has anything been found at all?

permatext

[ecks]

they found ants

[cosmicwords]

Ants!? Really?

That's life! It's the first time we've found a living organism here, isn't it?

[ecks]

yes!
also mold
the mold kills people and the ants bite

[cosmicwords]

It would seem I've learned about the mold the hard way. Nobody else has died from it, I hope...

[ecks]

Castiel died from it
that made me sad and angry

[cosmicwords]

He was with me...

I came back. Did he?

[ecks]

I do not know
I do not think so

[cosmicwords]

Really?

I'm sorry, Ecks...

@Enoch, voice

[warriorscribe]

I don't know that we've found anything, aside from...what seems very much like the last living creatures. A shelter made for man allowed them to survive...

voice;

[cosmicwords]

The bunker...

I do remember that. Being inside it, I mean.

...Sorry.

voice;

[warriorscribe]

What are you apologizing for? Dying? It wasn't your fault. Perhaps you've lost the ability to recall memories clearly? It certainly sounds like it.

voice;

[cosmicwords]

No...it's not my memories, it's...

[Filtered to Enoch, Beckett, Castiel]

I think I need some help.

voice;

[warriorscribe]

What is it? What do you need?

[He doesn't really have any idea, of course. He's had similar effects but only in a human capacity. He can't begin to guess.]

voice; filtered to Enoch, Beckett, Castiel

[cosmicwords]

It's...time...

I think, I can only feel it as Anima.

[warriorscribe]

[It's a good thing the false future event happened, otherwise Enoch might not understand.]

The same way Castiel wasn't used to experiencing time the way we humans do? You've gone back to feeling time as you normally would?

[cosmicwords]

Mm. That's right...

Have I been gone a long time in human terms? It's...hard to imagine...

[warriorscribe]

A few days. While plenty can happen here in a few days, quick as we and the town's various forces can work at times, I wouldn't call that very long, no.

[cosmicwords]

But this world is winding down...

Maybe a day is longer than I realize...

[warriorscribe]

Given your view of time, it certainly is. I don't think you were gone too much longer than people are on average, if that's any consolation.

[He hopes it is, since, really, he couldn't control when he came back, and they were the first to discover just how long one can survive in the mold-ridden areas the hard way.]