Everything Happened

* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I am done. With everything. Forever.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( What happened? )
<staApp|online> [Make yourself some tea and get some cookies, then settle in to listen.]
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Well, first off I asked Ross what the hell is up with Echo that she's such a hardass and he /rolled/ me.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Embarrassing.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (And I know I should take him seriously but --)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Look. I kind of spent the last several years of my life /not/ staying shut up when asked to, and now I have to sit on my hands until someone else /decides/ I can know?)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (But)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (she has good reasons not to tell me, either)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (but on the other hand I want to /rip/ the knowledge out of her and I can't do that, either)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Brain-ripping is rude at the best of times, yes, assuming we leave aside the ethical horrors involved. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Which we shouldn't, but let's not tangent. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( We can circle back to it later. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( How do you mean, Ross rolled you? Do I need to hit him with heavy things? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I was /trying/ to argue something along the lines of Seergate is part of my identity now and he says something like "not all trying to manage impressions is bad")
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" ("/you/ do it too, after all")
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (And then I couldn't see straight to argue after that.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Don't throw things at him, he's entirely within his rights.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( If he's beating up on my brother, I get to throw things at him. Unless you ask me not to. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( But okay - so he pointed out that impression-managing is a thing and that it's not always necessarily a bad thing, I guess. What then? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (And then he pointed out that telling or not-telling people things was a kind of impression-management.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (So either I'm doing something evil writing newsposts for CF or 'Cho's not wrong.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( And since you're not evil, she's probably not wrong. Not completely, at least. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Doesn't mean she's going about this in a good way. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( What happened after that? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Then he made his point again when I pushed back and I ragequit.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Which was dumb. But probably better than becoming increasingly incoherent towards him.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( It is, yeah. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( What else? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I walked 'Cho to the emergency room, yesterday, /without/ /killing/ /her/.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (This was before the conversation in question.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I am so confused.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( She's a coplayer who was injured. You went into emergency mode. Same as you did when we were all hiding in the 'Cant, remember? )
<staApp|online> [You don't remember, exactly, /why/ you were hiding, though. Something about the Space player?]
<staApp|online> [It's not important.]
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( (also, you're an asshole, not a socipath) )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Also-also, there's no reason /not/ to get your rival patched up if they do something stupid. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Puts them in your debt a little, and means that they won't become less of a rival. )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Wh - are you insinuating we're /black/!?)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (No, no, no, no no and no.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Also no, no, and no.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Also no.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Awww. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( 'm still gonna ship it. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Also, why not? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (She's taken and I'm not /that/ kind of hate for her.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I assure you if I thought this could proceed to hatesex I'd not be doing it in a hospital where it could be misconstrued wait what?)
<staApp|online> [Giggle quietly.]
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( So - if she /were/ available...? )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( And are you sure she's not? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I don't know. I don't /want/ to know.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Also, fuck everything, especially groupies that have the nerve to track me down across multiple sites.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( wat )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (someone just wants to be /friends/)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Do I need to punch someone in the bulge? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I have no fucks.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Find a perfunctoryWittiness, please.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Someone)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (wants to be /friends/)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (At least she could be honest like the last one and admit she's just after dick.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Oh frog, /fangirls/. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Can I set her on fire? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Do it slowly so you can make a .gif of it.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( ...normally, you'd say 'no'. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Because we don't set people on fire. )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I don't care anymore.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( How many spoons do you have? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I'm sick.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Because evidently I haven't been shat on enough.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( So 'none'. )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Yeah.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( /me hugs )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (hugs)
<epiele|online> [Tears.]
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Use the unlim'd card and order in, like, a jug of orange juice and all the comfort food you can stand, and maybe go to a walk-in clinic or something if there are any local. )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I'd visit at the hospital but they strongly recommended I not go inside because superbugs.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (The staff, I mean.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Also I am /not/ getting my coplayers sick, they have enough to deal with as it is.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Ah. I'm guessing 'superbugs' aren't some kind of game thing, then. )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Some sort of thing where the bacteria are now antibiotic-resistant to like five hundred different kinds of antibiotics, from what I can gather.)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I'd get over it after a while, but if someone confined to a hospital bed catches one thing, everything else comes rushing in.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Facemask and gloves and scrubbing your hands regularly? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (Only if I have to.)
<epiele|online> [Maybe once you're done feeling sorry for yourself.]
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( /me hugs )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (but there's nobody here to hug)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Mama got a plush to hug. 'S not the same, I know )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( but comfort object helps some, yeah? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (yes)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (earlier today the cleaning staff came because this is a hotel and found me slumped over the desk with the laptop still open)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (luckily I only /slapped/ the person who tried to shake me awake)
<staApp|online> [Delete the question of 'are they okay'.]
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Haven't been asked to leave, have you? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I apologized profusely. The lady's all right.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Oh. )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (so they've been sending decongestants up with the room service today)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( /me hugs )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (I appreciate the thought, at least.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( It's a nice gesture, yeah. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( They help any? )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (A little.)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Keep taking them, then. And when you're feeling better, go hug Mama. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( And find something huggable that reminds you of me. )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (okay)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( and until you're feeling better, order orange juice and any comfort food the room service offers )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (...thank you for being here?)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( /me hugs tightly )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( I love you too. )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (everything happened)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( 's got a way of doing that )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (yeah)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( 's what self-care's for, I guess. To help, when everything happens )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( 'specially when it tries to happen all at once )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (think I'm going to try sleeping again)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (this time /probably/ on the bed)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (unless I can't sleep in which case the shelves turn out to be removable from the cabinet under the tv)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( I hear it's supposed to be more comfortable than the floor, yeah. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Handy. I'd put that as a compliment, if they have those little comment cards. )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (not that I tried fitting under there)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (nope)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (nuh-uh)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( you would never )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (and obviously that means I didn't hit my head coming out when lunch got delivered)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( I would absolutely not suggest an ice pack for it, then )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (heh)
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (anyway maybe things will look less horrible after more sleep)
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( They usually do look a little better. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( And sleep's always a good idea, anyways. 'Specially when you're sick. )
* epiele|online PMs "Zei" (all right)
* epiele|online has disconnected from the server!
<staApp|online> [Hesitate a moment.]
<staApp|online> [He'll see it when he logs in later.]
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( Sleep well, Biggest Brother. )
* staApp|online PMs "Ri" : ( I love you. )