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@quark
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@sceptredisle

We need to know what houses you were in when you were possessed.

[You're even getting full sentences and proper grammar, Snowhell. As easy as it had been to dick around and stir drama in Haurchefant's message, House does want to get something done here. And these are concrete objectives he can focus on to acquire additional information on what the hell the people running this place were doing. Or someone might have stolen House's tablet. That's probably a good guess, too. Clayton's the only one who's actually seen him switch to proper typing when he's being serious.]

@haurchefant also noted humming one building that should be investigated. Search for a basement, trap door, or something below the floor.

Update 1: Sparrow Langley's home is the northwestern most building by the ice wall.
Update 2: Shelley Derricks' home is close to the school from the east side and covered in wallpaper.
Update 3: Andromeda's home is a bit less than a mile off of the south wall and northwest of that gas station in the south. The bedroom is space-themed.

[map.png is attached. It is a combined version of all of the overlaid maps House could find along with Tim's tunnels map. It's all drawn in a neat hand with Building 121 noted as 'humming.' All previously-mapped buildings are represented by simple boxes on a relative scale and numbered in rows, horizontally. A further map attachment has basic descriptions of the buildings (where they've been provided) associated with the numbers.]

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Northwest most building, by the wall. It was Sparrow's home I think. She acted like it was, and I believe that's where the sparrow body was found.

you around there to look into it further?
hamada's group found the map we used to find that sd card in one of the buildings
not sure if it was sung's house
but it's a place to start
might be something similar in the other houses

I'm on the other side of town, but we're headed toward the school. @fastoon found the dead bird. [ link.html ]

blue blood
maybe it was sparrow royalty
genetic engineering makes more sense
looks like something i'd put in my car engine
too much mn?
something smaller's going to succumb to poisoning sooner if you're giving it the same dose as everything else
still thinking the "n" is for nanites or nanomachines
something that gets into the blood via injection
can rebuild tissue like it did for epps' foot
it's sci-fi bullshit logic
but it fits
i've been trying to get a body for an autopsy
if there's a mass grave up there
might head that way

Like I told him, she mentioned her parents saying it wasn't "exactly like a real sparrow". It seems like if it had MN poisoning it would still be a real sparrow. I don't guess a sparrow autopsy would mean much to a human doctor.

not necessarily
and an autopsy on the bird might help
managed to save a kid getting his liver cut out after autopsying his pet cat
think it's a little late for langley
but sisi could still be useful

i'll catch up with @festoon
surprised epps didn't offer to take a look

He was probably busy with other things. [ ... ] You didn't give the kid the cat's liver, did you?

[He's been trying to be nice. Sort of. On point, at least, but really? Really?]

well, i mean
once we enlarged it
altered the kid's dna to a cat's
fed him a little milk and made sure he'd be a really GOOD mouser...

are you a moron?
who gives a dead cat liver to a human?

[ She's relieved to find she believes him. ]

I can think of a few psychopaths who'd consider it.

gee, thanks, stiffy

[Yeah, he caught the implication you considered he might be one of those psychos, Steph.]

Edited 2015-12-02 19:03 (UTC)

And here I thought you liked your bad boy image.

bad boys are cool
psychopaths who stitch random animal parts into people are just headcases with mommy issues
the kid had naphthalene poisoning
same thing mothballs are made out of and what termite nests put off
kid had the naphthalene stored in his fat cells
he got sent to the hospital
burned through the fat
lost weight
turned a slow drip of poison into a flood
the cat died before the kid did
family assumed old age, but we dug it up to have a look
cat had naphthalene-induced cysts
pumped the kid full of nutrients, gave him a new diet, and told the dad to call an exterminator for the giant termite nest in the walls of his son's room
voila
no more liver failure

Edited 2015-12-02 19:14 (UTC)

[ Aww, he's acting like a normal human being. How sweet and reassuring. ]

It takes a special kind of weirdo to dig up a dead cat for science.

[ He's acting like someone annoyed by an idiot, thank you very much. ]

i had a good feeling about it
plus
making a rich kid and a john hopkins-trained neurologist dig up a dead cat at 10 pm in jersey in january was all kinds of fun

Edited (capitalization) 2015-12-02 19:22 (UTC)

[ Annoyed by an *ass there, fixed it for you. ]

I assume the rich kid had medical training too? Or he would have just hired someone else to do it for him.

i hear he's got some
and a really dick boss

Yeah, I assumed that too.

Would this be the house next to the store? I found a birdcage, but nothing else that seemed significant.

what was there that seemed insignificant?

[One man's trash is another man's eureka moment.]

The house was entirely standard. It's been searched before, eighteen days ago, by Alphone's group. I did note that the birdcage was clean, no signs of food or droppings, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

tell me what you consider standard, dracula
what rooms were there?
how do you know lelly's group was there?
any signs of anything else being cleaned up?

I can't say I'm pleased with how little regard you seem to have for my abilities as an observer. But since you insist. The house is one story, a kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom, and bedroom. There was one of the usual Alphone Elric and friends carving - mentioning Stephanie, Edward, and someone inexplicably named Greed, if I recall correctly. Nothing else was cleared or packed up, but the cage door was open. I spent the night there with no experiences unusual or otherwise.

Please do share what startling insights you have on this information.

didn't have any
but don't you feel better making me look like a real rube?

[Also provided him with more information.]

any chance you found the mass grave
@festoon mentioned in his message?
i know your people have experience with dead bodies

I've been there before, although I didn't do any digging or poke around too much where it's been dug. We're both headed there today.

you actually take a look at the bodies?
any of them look like they weren't killed by something obvious?

I'm afraid I didn't, sorry, I had other goals at the time. Those kind of details, you'd have to talk to Tim. Or wait until Beckett's had a chance to look at them, which would probably be more useful to you anyway. He's an archaeologist, apparently.

a vampire archaeologist
well, that's just cheating
probably knows all the good places to dig up

fine
what were the other "goals at the time"?

That might have been my motivation, yes.

As Steve mentioned, he and I are heading there today along with Rydia. Two other people mentioned an interest - Zell and a new arrival called @dissect (I honestly can't comment on people's choices of names in this town). A larger scale excavation might yield valuable information, if we can work around the little issue of violent aversion symptoms.

know him
likes dissecting people
living people

you wanna collect a body
i'll come take a look
or at least film anything you do with it

I see. And not a terribly creative namer either. I suppose we'd better keep him busy, then.

I was thinking of trying to transport a body to the hospital, or to one of the other revival sites. Something interesting might happen. I don't imagine you'd want to help?

gee, i'm all booked up on my dragging bodies around in the snow quota for this year
maybe try back in 12 months?

funeral home's closer than the hospital
better off trying that first

What is it that humans say - those who don't work, don't eat? Well, those who don't help haul a corpse across town to the hospital, don't get to autopsy it if I decide it's too much of a bother and leave it in the funeral home instead.

dude
you've met me
how much help do you think i'm going to be hauling a body in the snow?
across ice?
standing around playing cheerleader's SUPER fun
but not my style

Point taken. Don't you have any companions you could press into service? Haurchefant alone could carry three. Tell him it's for the greater good.

sure
whatever
we're heading up that way to meet with the furball

Let us know when you are anywhere in the neighbourhood, then. We'll make sure to save you some nice corpses.

so thoughtful
make sure they're good ones

the house i was in was really close to the school from the east side
the walls are covered in wallpaper and there are lots of faded square markings where it looked like there used to be pictures
they were probably of shelleys family i dunno
maybe there were some of protests too since she talked about those

the only other thing i can think if that was kinda weird was that the bathroom upstairs had little claws for feet!
other than that it was pretty normal, kinda big
three bedrooms, the one downstairs was big and had a really big bed too.

clawed feet aren't that uncommon on antique tubs
might be worth taking another look at
you get a look under the bed at all?

no
i was pretty freaked out after i was myself again so i left right away
didnt really search as much as i usually would have
sorry

Edited 2015-12-06 00:02 (UTC)

don't be sorry
just make yourself more useful next time
you're anywhere near one of the houses people have named
go check it out

[The bluntness of the response doesn't bother Quark. It sounds pretty reasonable.]

right
i can do that
ill let you know if i find anything

good

[No thanks. No reassurance. At least Quark's taking House's less than personable manner well.]

we'll have another update if we find anything
contacted @festoon
we'll be meeting him to have a look at the sparrow he found

Fascinating. Last time I gave you information about something, you chose to make it about my personal life.

[England knows it's important to gather information about the possessions, but he's not going to make it easy on House.]

[And of course the limey bastard has to act like a limey bastard.]

the last time you gave me information it was about your personal life
but truly i've seen the error of my ways
i'll never dick around with the most pa country in existence
he might try to harpoon a productive effort
i've learned my lesson all right

I was giving you information about nations, which is hardly a particularly unique or sensitive subject matter to me. You know very well where you made it personal.

Typically, when you intend to cooperate with people, you try to avoid pissing them off, since that makes it much more difficult to work together.

i didn't know i'd ever want to work with you
my bad

[...SIGH.

There's some delay before the next message.]

If you've ever been by that house with the space-themed bedroom, that's where it happened to me. It's a bit less than a mile off of the south wall and northwest of that petrol station in the south.

As with Sparrow, Andromeda claimed that it was her house.

might've passed through
wasn't paying much attention
you do any looking around once you came back to yourself?

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