[IC Contact -- Snowblind]

[bookofnope]

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

Comments

[swatsflies]

Look at it from under a microscope.
He found a clean sample vial from the hospital.

[He's going to send both footage from Kunsel's group and his own.]

[bookofnope]

[Oh God. That sure does look like blood. It's a good thing Zell can't see how Beckett's face gets. It isn't pretty.]

did he also find a microscope

[Look at that. You made his diction break.]

[bookofnope]

Strange. Be careful - see if you can find someplace sectioned off, where you can close an inner door.

[bookofnope]

It did seem wrong, the blood. I wasn't sure what to make of it, but I couldn't write off the possibility that you really had

[Here, have an awkward pause.]

They looked almost human. But - featureless? Dressed in black, if that makes sense. I'm not sure it does myself.

[0thingsonmymind]

iam fine

*As fine as ever, at least. And boy did that sound familiar!*

thatis
ⓍperatⓍr

[0thingsonmymind]

thereis only bath room
butis big
may be havenot found
all

[bookofnope]

I'm glad.

[He types out that brief, not that incriminating response - Brian should already know he's glad to see him alive, shouldn't he? - and then there is a considerable pause as he grapples with this new bit of information. So that is the Operator. He's never seen anything like it in his long existence.

He should say as much to Brian, but finds that he struggles to. Especially after what Tim had said - might have said, he doesn't know how much of it was any more real than what he'd seen happen to Brian. But what was said, nonetheless...

Could there be something he doesn't know?]

Why would it show me the Operator?

[bookofnope]

If it's possible, consider staying the night there. Another door is more protection.

[Why yes he is very protective of you now.]

[0thingsonmymind]

*He knows, in a way. He's not surprised or confused by the statement, but feels no need to respond to it.*

idont
know

net work was show ing many s t r a n g e things

*Was anything else personalized like that? Should he ask Jade about the version of her that Zell saw?*

[0thingsonmymind]

doyou rea lly think should
?

*He's not looking forward to spending the night in a bathroom, but if whatever was giggling was dangerous Beckett had a point.*

[swatsflies]

Not yet.
He just needs to find lenses to make one.

[Zell is too busy feeling proud that Jim is making his own microscope to notice at the moment.]

[bookofnope]

He knows how to make one? I must say, Zell, my initial assessment of your group as a pack of heroically stupid brawlers keeping Kain as a token brain is taking some blows here.

[This is a compliment. He's trying to get on your good side.]

[swatsflies]

Told you they are full of surprises.
Jim is very smart and good with his hands.
We found a magazine on cars and he was already figuring out how they work just from looking at the pictures.

[Beckett you will not hear the end of how great Jim is if you keep this up.]

[bookofnope]

It's hard to say. If there is no compulsion to leave... well, perhaps I am being overcautious.

[He probably is, and it annoys him.]

[bookofnope]

Strange, but not random. The anomaly that seemed to get you was something from Jade's world, wasn't it? It resembled the trolls.

[He isn't actually interested in Jade's anomaly now. He's reaching for something else, but what - he can't say yet. He knows, but he can't say.]

What did you see?

[bookofnope]

Next you'll tell me Zack is capable of understanding three-syllable words.

But that aside, since he is so bright, has Jim considered trying to figure out how the tablets or network work, instead? Angel could use another assistant. She'll be happy to teach him the basics, I'm sure.

[swatsflies]

I'll check with them both to see.
Oh. I guess I should warn you.
The admin reads private conversations.

[JUST IN CASE ANGEL IS PLOTTING SOMETHING]

I'm hoping to meet up with Angel and Rhys downtown.

[bookofnope]

Of course she does. I suspect that she already knows that Angel is trying to understand the tablets, though. In fact I suspect that she cannot even resent her for that.

Give them my regards when you do. Tell them I'll see them [there is a brief, if telling pause] when I see them. Do you have any sense of your current location?

[0thingsonmymind]

wewill be care ful
ifthere is any thing weird dangerous
we will do

*He might sleep in there anyway, but before then and unless weird/dangerous shit happens he'll stay out. But near it...if he can find it again.*

[0thingsonmymind]

itwas jade ? only not ?
i didnot ask her a bout
idonot know if should

*He saw a lot of things, since he still stalked the network even after they'd figured out something was wrong. But he doesn't know any of these people well enough to know how random or specific those things were.*

youwere rot ting dy ing un well

[bookofnope]

The anomaly was Jade?

You know her better than me, how she might respond to being asked. But I don't know if there's any point.

[It could mean everything, or nothing. They can't know. There are no answers. He really is starting to struggle with this conversation.]

You said - death had caught up with me. "Rotting". Was that you? Or whatever else that was.

[0thingsonmymind]

yes
zell @zd confirmed was her
but grey on fire

idid not
i on ly asked what
you said asked

[swatsflies]

Alright. I'll pass on the message.
I'm north from the school heading eastward.
Meeting up with the rest of the group tomorrow south from the store.

[Sending over a file]

[bookofnope]

It looks like we're in luck - I happen to be in the area. If you could spare a bit of that blood, perhaps I could give it a test of my own? I should be able to tell you if it's human, at least.

[bookofnope]

You might as well ask. She'll understand.

[He only mentions as much to hedge. He needs to think.]

I contacted Tim, when I thought you were hurt. He said some things I was not expecting. About the Operator.