RE: CHIRAL: SIDE Y
11-26-2017, 07:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-26-2017, 07:02 PM by kilozombie.)
(11-25-2017, 11:50 PM)Arcanuse Wrote: »Friendly pawn Y4 vanquished G11.
...Oh dear.
IA, do not mention the contents of the Battlelog to the players.
When the time is right, we can talk to them as a whole about this.
Now is not that time.
Further, could you check these two logs for timestamps?
Friendly pawn Y4 vanquished G11.
Friendly pawn Y12 knocked out R13.
Wonder if the room reached Mocha yet? Hm.
IA, don't suppose we have a camera we could check from?
INPUT AGGREGATOR: yeah i dunno haha
INPUT AGGREGATOR: it took like, a while for the pipe deal to fall in and shit
INPUT AGGREGATOR: im sure well know cus everyone will be ded lmao
INPUT AGGREGATOR: sorri that's not funny
INPUT AGGREGATOR: heres ur battle logs
INPUT AGGREGATOR: and i chatted real good for you too ye
It's been interesting not having your earpiece.
Things are... quieter. Sort of. Queue has been screaming his head off for the past two minutes, eyes closed with a trembling body, and shaking him doesn't do anything. Eva has gone off to look at the terminal, and Dinkalsen is...
Behind you. He's behind you. You've been staring absentmindedly at the COMPOUND for a while now, and he must have decided you were worth talking to.
"Zack wants to talk to you soon," he mutters. His voice is starting to die down.
You nod slowly. "I don't have... like, an earpiece, I can't exactly reply."
"You can d'use mine soon. It's not so good to fun listen to them talking."
"Yeah," you say softly, the cold rushing across your face, "it's really not.
He stays there for a moment, his half-hunched form a smallness in the vastness of this void-- trembling and shuddering from the lack of any warmth. He wasn't made for a single thing that's been thrown at him as of late. "Gene?"
Nod. "Dink?"
"I don't like being sober," he stammers, "but I really hate b-being drunk, too... but everyone l-liked me some more when I was is the drunk."
"...It's not... aghk. Dink, I-I mean, people should just be sober. That's, like, the better way to be."
Spank groans weakly. "I'm t-too good at gaming and the games and obnoxious and loud. You sa'id that."
"What?" You shake your head, tilting back a tad.
"I remember you said it that."
You comb your memories. You've... said a lot of stupid shit over the months. Over the years, even. Does that excuse any of it? Does the fact that you're consistently a bad friend excuse your bad-friendliness?
"Well," you say, "I was wrong, then. I was wrong and an asshole. I'm sorry."
He shuffles his feet. "Okay," says Dinkalsen, "okay, um. No, it's not your asshole. I just don't think about it so much and it's easy to not do any thinking with the terminal on but now it's gone and everything is gone with the blast wave."
"...sorry."
"Stop doing sorry."
"But I am sorry, I'm-- really fucking sorry, Dink, I-I just... don't... have an excuse or good explanation."
Spank shuffles again, and steps back towards the pipe dust. There's not another word from him. It seems the lack of any explanation is worse than a half-hearted one, but the conversation has come-- and gone. It fell into your arms, and slipped out.
It hurts to be. A stream of every regret flows through you, and Queue screams desperately, and he's inconsolable. Nothing you do will ever make this horrible reality better.
You're stuck down here.
You're stuck in here.