[IC Contact -- Snowblind]

[bookofnope]

[There is a click noise. It sounds as though it might be judging you.]

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[keepscalm]

Sorry you feel that way.

Like it or not, from now on, you'll have my support.

[0thingsonmymind]

i donot know if hu man or
not



iwill ask

[swatsflies]

[Too late for that.]

Yeah, I'll be sure to record it.
If anything comes up, I'll let you know.

@prettypinkflowers; text; Late Night 93

[lacecase]

Are you hurt?

[bookofnope]

I don't want your support. In fact, if there is one thing I want out of this fiasco, it's for people to stop taking sides on my behalf.

text;

[bookofnope]

Only the delicate feelings that some people keep inexplicably assuming I have.

Re: text;

[lacecase]

[On the other side of the tablet, Ginger allows herself the tiniest sighs of relief.]

ok good
good that you aren't injured I mean.
I just wanted to make sure.

[keepscalm]

Then it probably would have been wisest not to get involved in the first place. When you take action on a polarising issue, people are going to react.

That said, I have little investment in the rest of this fiasco, as you put it. I don't particularly care to take either side. All I care about is your well-being.

[bookofnope]

Really. I had no idea. Thank you for explaining.

Your caring is noted. Don't expect anything in return. I am not yours, as your friend so eloquently explained the relationship we're supposed to be having here for whatever metaphysical reason I can't fathom.

[bookofnope]

[Of all times for her to show something resembling good judgement... no, impossible. It's going to end with something about either the power of friendship or the pointlessness of revenge. He just knows it.]

Really? Nothing about the error of my ways? No cloying assurance about how I can talk to you anytime if I want to get some existential angst off my chest?

[keepscalm]

He's not eloquent on the best of days. It's more complicated than that.

But, as I doubt you have any interest in that matter, I'll leave it at that.

Contact me if you need anything.

[lacecase]

[Ginger stares at his response for what feels like a long, long time. She could say all those things. In fact, normally she might say some of those things. Maybe not about revenge, because she's never really dealt with that sort of thing, but she'd offer to talk and admit she doesn't think that beating people up is ever a good thing to do under the worst of circumstances...but no. This is Beckett. Her normal attitude has never done much for him, and she's not in the mood for more verbal berating.]

No, nothing. I promise.
Nobody knows what they may or may not need better than you do and it isn't any of my business.
All that matters to me is that you don't need first aid.

[It felt like a struggle to write it. She tried so many different phrases before she found one she liked, and it still feels wrong. She wants to tell him he can talk to her, only if he needs it, only if he wants to. Maybe if they were still face to face, she wouldn't have been able to help herself. But here, she can help herself. She has all the time she needs to be careful. And her face and her voice isn't there to betray her more sincere feelings on the matter.]

Day 92, shortly after noon, @totheark, text

[0thingsonmymind]

what didyou
see
?

I can't with her T__________T

[bookofnope]

[A similar long pause follows on Beckett's end. He could still lash out at her, but it just doesn't feel worth it. It won't get him anything. He's not even particularly angry anymore. He just feels like a fool. Don't get involved. Don't take sides. He's made so many mistakes...

If she's not going to antagonise him - or do all those things that are as good as antagonising him and are just worse because she doesn't mean them - then he isn't going to do it to her. That's simpler. That's just letting things be.]

I don't suppose Clayton told you anything useful about pain from head injuries? He got me once. The cane. It isn't serious, but it's hard to sleep with a headache.

[And if this counts as asking for a favour... well, he can let it slide, just this once.]

[bookofnope]

Please do. You are sure that you and Jade have both experienced the same apparition?

text

[bookofnope]

[Definitely not dead, then. Off the tablet - glad that Brian communicates strictly by text - Beckett affords himself a moment of all but shivering with relief.]

A number of things. Anomalies looking like inhumanly tall men around you, mostly, though those seemed harmless. Later you and Jade were attacked by one that looked similar to one of those trolls, with glowing eyes - maybe glasses - and surrounded by green fire. The tablet falling, a great deal of blood.

None of that happened, I take it?

[0thingsonmymind]

*Hm. Unusally tall anomalies...*

no, none of that hap pened
there wasonly snow and rubble




whatdid tall monster anomalies looklike
?

[0thingsonmymind]

yes, therewas blood


she wantsto know
whatto
say

Night 92; @totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

*Tonight's video features snow, rubble, and what appears to be a home decor store. The shelves are basically empty, but damn there are a lot of them. Lots and lots of aisle of...creepy. Most of the video is quiet, but sometimes footsteps (other than Brian's) can be heard and at a few points giggling (?!) happens. The source of the giggling is never seen, but when its heard the picture has mild, rippling distortions. Those happen sometimes for the extra footsteps too.
Brian's normal distortions also happen. Thankfully none of those ripple.*

[bookofnope]

Try to begin by commenting on the other toys. If there is something like a spirit present, it might be a child, or some other person who had some emotional investment in the place and the dolls. It might respond in some way, though I can't promise anything - whatever passes for spirits here isn't very well behaved.

Day 94; @zd text

[swatsflies]

Yo, Beckett!
Playing the two pianos together made the one at the school bleed.
Jim has some of the blood on ice now to check it out when we're able.

text

[bookofnope]

Interesting. Just like in the school - remember? Was there a compulsion to leave before lockdown?

text

[bookofnope]

Somehow I'm less surprised than I think is healthy. What do you mean by "check it out"?




Also, how much blood are we talking about?

[He tried not to ask. He really did. But, well. It is the b-word.]

[0thingsonmymind]

*He assumes you mean the mystery footsteps. No giggles in the school, at least not that he remembers.*

no
weare stay ing over night

not entirely a reply

[0thingsonmymind]

in lieu of a proper response, imma link here and just put this all together for now