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  1. 01[15:22:48] <corCon|online> [Halt, torn between retreating to hide and and- okay fuck no, you're not gonna abandon Mary. Not even torn. You resume searching her spire, tapping out more PMs.]
  2. [15:23:00] <@jellyfishStronghold> 3[You are in your room, apparently staring at something in your room while using the computer]
  3. 05[15:23:23] * corCon|online PMs alkTon|online : ( i'm also going to help mary, jsyk. in her spire right now. )
  4. [15:23:28] <alkTon|online> 3[You start knocking on doors]
  5. 05[15:24:10] * alkTon|online 3PMs corinthianConsequence (I am here, too. Pleasze do not sztartle when we inevitably run into each other.)
  6. [15:24:34] <@jellyfishStronghold> 3[You jump when you hear knocking in the house, almost dropping your computer while you go to get the front door]
  7. [15:25:15] <@jellyfishStronghold> 3[You weren't really paying attention to where it came from, it'd be the front doors though, people only knock on those]
  8. 01[15:26:03] <corCon|online> [You're closer to the bottom of the spire- and you know where her bedroom is, from the sleepover. "Mary? Where are you?" you call out, reaching the lower floors.]
  9. [15:26:35] <@jellyfishStronghold> 3[Get to the front door and open it "Hello? Hello?"]
  10. 01[15:27:13] <corCon|online> [You're not at the front door- you're coming down from inside the spire. But you can hear her, and beeline for her.]
  11. [15:27:38] <alkTon|online> 3[So are you, sadly. And you're still a floor up.]
  12. [15:27:56] <alkTon|online> 3[You stick your head out the window. "Up here. Mary, are you all right?"]
  13. [00:29] <corCon|online> [Make your way through the lower floor. You can see Mary now, at the front door. "Hey, everything okay?" You stop, a safe distance back, just in case.]
  14. [00:30] <alkTon|online> ["I came in from up there." You point up at the gates.]
  15. [00:31] <alkTon|online> ["Mary, what do you remember?"]
  16. [00:33] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["The-" you look up]
  17. [00:33] <@jellyfishStronghold> [You stare at it for a bit before turning around, walking back towards your room]
  18. [00:33] <alkTon|online> [Shit. That wasn't the reaction you wanted. You start climbing out the window so you can follow her.]
  19. [00:34] <corCon|online> [Stare as she starts walking past you. Reach out, and then rethink grabbing her. "Mary?"]
  20. [00:36] <@jellyfishStronghold> [You're staring at a wrist watch muttering something while your walking, jump and fall down when you notice Tori, looking frantically around and at her]
  21. [00:37] <alkTon|online> [You jump down to the ground, then start walking after you. "Mary?"]
  22. [00:37] <corCon|online> [Drop to your knees next to her, reaching out to hold her shoulders carefully. "Mary, calm down, okay? Can you just sit here, still?"]
  23. [00:38] <corCon|online> [Glance up, seeing Defthand through the door. Try to quell the additional bubble of worry that rises up.]
  24. [00:39] <@jellyfishStronghold> [You nod your head, looking quickly back to your watch, you seem to be quietly muttering a date]
  25. 04[00:40] <esoRem|online> [Theres the sound of someone running on the floor up, followed by the a quick descent down the stairs, followed again by you calling out "Hello?"]
  26. [00:40] <corCon|online> [Oh dear god why.]
  27. [00:41] <alkTon|online> [You look up. "Over here! She's over here!" You kneel next to Tori and Mary. "Mary? Please, what's wrong?"]
  28. [00:42] <corCon|online> [Focus on Mary, trying to hear what she's saying, still holding the shoulder closest to you.]
  29. 04[00:43] <esoRem|online> [You turn around about to go down another floor, jogging to the room, only slightly out of breath as you enter the room. Still in your winter gear from your land. "Whats happened?"]
  30. 04[00:43] <esoRem|online> [Not focusing on Tori. Not focusing on Tori.]
  31. [00:43] <@jellyfishStronghold> [It's mainly two dates, one is from a few weeks before the game started, the other is one that can be seen on a watch Mary is holding]
  32. [00:44] <corCon|online> [Scoot back from Mary when he approaches. Totally because he's got more medical training than you. No other reason.]
  33. [00:44] <corCon|online> ["She keeps saying dates, I don't know what they mean." You repeat them, having no clue when the game even started according to presession time.]
  34. 04[00:45] <esoRem|online> [You glance at Tori before kneeling down in front of Mary. "Hey, whats going on Mary?" You give a smile you don't feel.]
  35. [00:47] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["It doesn't feel real I need to remember this is real it doesn't feel real" curl up]
  36. 04[00:48] <esoRem|online> ["What doesn't feel real?" You ask softly. Completely focused on her.]
  37. [00:49] <corCon|online> [Settle yourself off to the side, close enough to hear and watch. You're not going to leave.]
  38. [00:51] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["I don't feel real, you don't seem real, you are here and I can feel you but you...my head says that something is wrong with this"]
  39. 04[00:52] <esoRem|online> [...you have no idea what to do about this. "Can you explain the dates to me?" You ask, voice continuing to be soft. Though a nervous swallow betrays the image.]
  40. [00:54] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["I woke up, had breakfast, talked with you, no not you, other you, other other you, the one with the...words. I went to school and, school happened"]
  41. [00:54] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["Then today happened, it's different from that date by a lot so, I didn't just fall asleep"]
  42. [00:55] <alkTon|online> [Is she remembering from presession? You don't know how to go about fixing that...]
  43. 04[00:56] <esoRem|online> [You look at Defthand, then back to Mary. "Do you remember meeting me? On Prospit?" You really have no idea what you're doing.]
  44. [00:59] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["I, you were, there was lots of gold and you were there and a lot of other people and there was a fight and it all seems"]
  45. [00:59] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["Fake, wrong, this feels wrong"]
  46. 04[01:00] <esoRem|online> ["...is there anything that feels right?"]
  47. [01:01] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["My room, my fish, they're the same, they are real they fit"]
  48. [01:01] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["Almost everything changed but, but that fits, i know that"]
  49. 04[01:03] <esoRem|online> ["Alright, why don't we go there now while we figure this out?"]
  50. [01:05] <@jellyfishStronghold> [You nod your head]
  51. 04[01:05] <esoRem|online> ["Can you walk?"]
  52. [01:06] <@jellyfishStronghold> [You nod, getting up, you wobble a bit, balancing yourself while you look around again, staring at Defthand and Tori]
  53. [01:07] <alkTon|online> [You offer an arm for support]
  54. 04[01:09] <esoRem|online> [You stand up with her. Looking around to make sure theres no underlings before looking back to her. "Come on, its not too far."]
  55. [01:09] <corCon|online> [Smile at Mary as you stand, trying your best to be reassuring. "Let's go see your fish, yeah?" Take a step towards the room, not trying to approach Mary with both Defthand and Scott right next to her.]
  56. [01:13] <@jellyfishStronghold> [You look at Tori while making hand motions around your head "You look kind of like Gypsy Danger, you would look really cool with a plasma canon arm thing" you start walking with them to your room "Or an arm sword"]
  57. 04[01:15] <esoRem|online> [You walk with Mary to her room. Trying to think of something that could explain whats happening.]
  58. [01:17] <corCon|online> [Head through into the room, keeping where Mary can see you. "Gipsy Danger, huh?" Your smile becomes a little less stressed. "Maybe I should- I could totally get a plasma cannon arm, couldn't I?"]
  59. [01:19] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["Totally, you need to find your drift partner and all" you stop at the door to your room when you reach it]
  60. 04[01:20] <esoRem|online> [You roll your eyes when no ones looking, but you're already on a thought wave computer looking for an explination. Almost bumping into Defthand when Mary stops.]
  61. [01:21] <corCon|online> ["Well, where'm I supposed to find someone like that?" Hover next to the door as Mary stops, a little unsure whether continuing participating in the not-quite-crazy-but-pretty-crazy-let's-face-it talk is gonna help or not.]
  62. [01:26] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["The door, it looked, burned for a second..." stare at it, before gently touching the doorknob, opening it after seeing it's safe "...RACHE"]
  63. [01:26] <@jellyfishStronghold> [Quickly turn to Tori, smiling and pointing "Plasma warhound!"]
  64. [01:27] <corCon|online> [Startle and jump as she suddenly yells Rache's name. "Wh-what?"]
  65. [01:29] <corCon|online> ["Yyyyeah." Reach over and gently push the door a little wider open, side-eyeing Mary like she's gone insane. Which she may have. "Let's go lookit them fish."]
  66. 04[01:33] <esoRem|online> [You're still engrossed in searching through both Pits and the Library for something that might explain it. A small frown on your face as you try different keywords in the search engine.]
  67. [01:34] <@jellyfishStronghold> [Head inside the room, moving to a certain spot on the bed, sit down and then turn your head to the fish tank "...something seems...off"]
  68. [01:35] <corCon|online> [Follow in, sitting on the bed as well, giving Mary space. "What's off?"]
  69. [01:35] <corCon|online> [Follow her gaze to the tank, looking for anything that would have changed since you were last there.]
  70. [01:39] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["there's only...dad, someone is missing, a dog, cat, sibling, relative? i, it's missing, missing..." trail off, staring at the fish like they are going to give you the answer you need]
  71. [01:39] <@jellyfishStronghold> [As they are fish, they mainly just blow bubbles and swim around]
  72. [01:40] <@jellyfishStronghold> [Useless freeloaders, all of them]
  73. 04[01:40] <esoRem|online> [You captcha your computer, finding nothing useful in your search. "...your mom asked me to pass on a hug to you, if you want it?" You ask, hesitantly.]
  74. [01:46] <@jellyfishStronghold> [You keep staring at the fish tank, although now you are also crying, and start to cover yourself with the bed blankets]
  75. [01:49] <corCon|online> [Shift so that she can pull the blankets over herself. "Mary?" Try hugging her, if she'll let you. "C'mon Mary, 's gonna be okay, yeah?"]
  76. 04[01:50] <esoRem|online> [You have no idea what to do. You were going to go hug her, but Toris there.]
  77. [01:51] <corCon|online> [Glance at him and lift a hand up to your headset quickly.]
  78. 06[01:51] * corCon|online has UNBLOCKED esotericRemnant!
  79. [01:51] <@jellyfishStronghold> [You rock back and forth "I-I-I, I w-want to g-g-go to slee-ep"]
  80. 06[01:51] * corCon|online PESTERs esoRem|online : ( two people can hug her, i'm not gonna fucking bite )
  81. [01:52] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["b-being aw-awake, i-i, i w-want slee-ep"]
  82. [01:52] <corCon|online> [Resume hugging her, from the side, leaving room for Scott on the other side.]
  83. [01:52] <corCon|online> ["How long've you been awake, Mary?" you ask quietly.]
  84. 04[01:52] <esoRem|online> [You give the smallest unimpressed sigh at the message, but move to go hug Mary.]
  85. [01:54] <@jellyfishStronghold> ["t-too long" curl up into the ball of blankets and hugs]
  86. [01:55] <corCon|online> [Glance over at Scott. "So, nurse- sedative or somethin'?" Try to keep your tone as neutral and unaggressive as possible. You do pretty well on that, actually.]
  87. 04[01:55] <esoRem|online> [You mentally correct that as 'doctor' but refrain on saying it. "Do you want something to help you sleep Mary?"]
  88. [01:56] <@jellyfishStronghold> [You shake your head yes]
  89. 04[01:59] <esoRem|online> ["Alright. One second." You give her a quick squeeze in the hug before going to the desk and uncaptchaing your medkit. You rummage in the bottom part after lifting out the majority of it, taking a pill out of a package and grabbing a bottle of water. "Here." You offer the pill in one hand and the open water bottle in the other.]
  90. [02:03] <@jellyfishStronghold> [You take it, quickly gulping it down with the water]
  91. [02:04] <@jellyfishStronghold> [A few minutes later and your drowsy, closing your eyes and leaning against them to fall asleep]
  92. [02:06] <corCon|online> [Pat at Mary's hair until she falls asleep. Sigh. "Bloody hell..." you murmur, carefully standing, holding carefully onto Mary to not let her fall. "C'mon, better tuck her in."]
  93. 04[02:06] <esoRem|online> [You nod and ease her carefully off you and onto a pillow. Pulling the blankets up.]
  94. 04[02:11] <esoRem|online> [You check and make sure Mary is properly asleep before heading to the hallway outside.]
  95. [02:13] <corCon|online> [Follow out after Scott and Defthand, closing the door behind you. Close and rub your eyes. "Shoulda been saying hi more often," you murmur, more to yourself than to either of them.]
  96. 04[02:17] <esoRem|online> ["Everyones been b..." You say automatically before catching yourself, the words just trailing off.]
  97. [02:18] <corCon|online> ["I shouldn't have been too busy for Mary." Stop rubbing your eyes after a moment and look at him. You look tired, and not particularly emotional in one direction or another. Just watching, and maybe a touch of considering.]
  98. 04[02:20] <esoRem|online> [You watch right back, clearly considering, with a touch of unimpressed. "Sally's asked me to not bother you, so thats what I'm going to do." You say after a bit.]
  99. [02:24] <corCon|online> ["She said as much," you respond with a nod. Glance over as Defthand leaves, and then back at Scott. "'Not bother' mean- what? We avoid each other completely, for the rest of the session? Save for emergencies?" Gesture at Mary's door as you say the last bit.]
  100. 04[02:27] <esoRem|online> ["Thats up to you really. You were the one thats been avoiding everyone." You head to the living room and sit down in one of the chairs. Drinking from the water bottle.]
  101. [02:29] <corCon|online> [Follow him, leaning against the arm of a nearby chair, crossing your arms. "Right," you respond flatly. "Avoiding everyone- like you and Defthand. The latter of who has already planned one attempt on my life. Sorry for not turning up to that session meeting we were meant to be making pies for, by the way."]
  102. 04[02:33] <esoRem|online> ["Shes been told the same thing now. And you're deflecting the point of the question."]
  103. 04[02:35] <esoRem|online> ["Do you want to spend any time with the rest of the session?"]
  104. [02:37] <corCon|online> ["Sure. If I know they're not going to try to hurt me? I'll do as many quests and dungeons as is wanted, with whoever wants."]
  105. 04[02:40] <esoRem|online> ["I'm not going to try and hurt you." You state. Leaving the 'unless you do something to deserve it' unsaid.]
  106. [02:41] <corCon|online> [You can basically hear it anyway. Sigh, and lean back, flopping back into the chair, legs kicking up and then settling to hang over the arm. Stare over your kneecaps at Scott. "I just don't know what could possibly ever convince you I'm not going to hurt her. Apparently not even /Sally/ giving me enough space to breathe is enough for you?"]
  107. 04[02:43] <esoRem|online> ["Time, if anything." You state simply.]
  108. [02:48] <corCon|online> ["So it's only going to be in retrospect that I'm absolved of sin. Honestly, the way you're acting, it's lucky I /can/ see that it'll happen eventually, because I'm really finding it hard to believe that even that would change your mind."]
  109. 04[02:56] <esoRem|online> ["Can you honestly blame me? What has happened is a lot to just forgive. Even if the mind is different as you say." Fool me once...]
  110. [02:59] <corCon|online> [Tilt your head back, and try not to groan. "You get what Vicky was, right?" you ask the ceiling. "She was a parasite that had been growing for years, stuck to Sally. Might have only picked the name in her last session, but she's been there since the two of them were- god, about nine or ten."]
  111. 04[03:00] <esoRem|online> ["Lets assume for the moment I don't. Go ahead. Explain it to me." You cross your arms and lean back in the chair.]
  112. [03:05] <corCon|online> [Sigh. Close your eyes.]
  113. [03:06] <corCon|online> ["When Sally was nine, she was in Thailand, and the tsunami hit. I /hope/ she told you about it, but if not- well I guess I'm not that surprised, because she stays insanely fucking silent about a lot of things."]
  114. 04[03:07] <esoRem|online> ["No, shes told me, spent time in hospital because of it. But go on."]
  115. [03:08] <corCon|online> ["Yeah. Well that's when Vicky woke up. And yes I do have her memories, but only because there's only so much I can strip away and fade without a Mind player's help."]
  116. [03:10] <corCon|online> ["Except it didn't happen like how normal dreamselves are meant to wake, possibly because Sally started refusing to admit it was hurting her, what had happened, even back then. Vicky started growing independant. But whenever Sally was awake, Vicky was forced asleep, forced to watch everything that was going on. And she doesn't exactly always make perfect choices, because she's /human/."]
  117. [03:13] <corCon|online> ["But it's like watching TV, for Vicky. She's seeing this same show, this exact same character, every single night. And she keeps fucking up as stuff starts to go wrong. She starts going to school with other kids, she has to move away from the place that she loves, she can't focus on anything where she's been moved to."]
  118. [03:14] <corCon|online> ["And Vicky's doing that thing where you scream at characters in horror movies about how stupid they are, can't they hear the dramatic music? Can't they see that shadow creeping up behind them?"]
  119. [03:16] <corCon|online> ["Fuck, Sally didn't even kill a single imp during her entry. She was in the hospital, she hid in the medicine dispensary. Everyone else there died, and she couldn't move until her sister came and forcibly dragged her up and through the gate to stop the spawning."]
  120. 04[03:17] <esoRem|online> ["I'm not sure that needed to be shared." You say, coldly.]
  121. [03:20] <corCon|online> [Lift a hand to cover your eyes. "She said I could. Check with her if you want. I asked whether she'd ever explained what Vicky was, and she couldn't even remember. Which isn't all that surprising, either, but we covered what I could and couldn't share."]
  122. [03:20] <corCon|online> ["Mind if I continue?"]
  123. 04[03:20] <esoRem|online> [You nod and gesture to continue with your hand. Filing that information away.]
  124. [03:21] <corCon|online> [With eyes covered and closed, you just take his silence as 'permission' and roll on regardless.]
  125. [03:22] <corCon|online> ["If she's still ashamed of that, that's something for her to bring up with her 'rail. Which I /will/ push her to if she won't do it of her own accord. But by no fucking means was she in a position to be able to start fighting, not when she'd been lied to about what the game would entail."]
  126. [03:23] <corCon|online> ["But back on topic."]
  127. [03:23] <corCon|online> ["Vicky wasn't just a troll-glitched dreamself that Rage snapped AA. She was a thirteen year old /child/ who had been hating Sally for so long that she just utterly /embraced/ the madness that the game forced on her the moment Sally broke their connection for once and for all."]
  128. [03:26] <corCon|online> ["Why do you think she was so sloppy? She barely had any experience she could really call her own, it was such a fucking /miserable/ attempt at making everyone hate and mock Sally because she barely knew how to function around other people."]
  129. 04[03:30] <esoRem|online> ["I was under the impression that...she was attempting to make Sally miserable first and foremost." You deliberately catch yourself on the pronoun.]
  130. [03:33] <corCon|online> [You note the pause, and the pronoun choice. "That was going to happen either way. But if she made people think that- well. Dreamselves are meant to- to help fill in where we're struggling to express ourselves. Be silly where we think we need to be serious, be rude when we'd usually hold our tongues." There's an odd, almost fractured note of longing in your voice, that quickly vanishes.]
  131. [03:34] <corCon|online> ["And if she could get everyone to think that Sally was actually like how Vicky acted, deep down? Then they'd leave her alone, and that would hurt Sally even more, for longer."]
  132. [03:38] <corCon|online> ["Mind you, she fucked that one up pretty beautifully because she didn't even consider that people would believe Sally, because they're her friends, when she protested everything Vicky said or did."]
  133. 04[03:38] <esoRem|online> ["mmm."]
  134. [03:40] <corCon|online> ["So that's what Vicky was. A very long-broken dreamself. I could speculate for fucking perigrees about how Sally coulda turned out if she'd had a properly working dreamself, to help take some of the slack over the years. But whatever." Sigh.]
  135. 04[03:40] <esoRem|online> ["And you aren't that."]
  136. [03:48] <corCon|online> ["By some miracle of the game, I'm not." Sit up, leaning forwards on your legs, which are still hooked over the arm of the chair. "I could tell you, if you really want, about the panic attacks I had when I woke up, because I thought the memories I had were really mine, and I was so disgusted by what she'd done. And about how everything hurt so /very/ much in those first months, because I
  137. [03:48] <corCon|online> didn't know what it felt like to just- stub a toe, or get a bruise, and /really/ feel it."]
  138. [03:50] <corCon|online> ["I hated it all then, but I'm glad to remember it now, because those were /my/ first experiences."]
  139. [03:51] <corCon|online> ["Thankfully, Vicky really is dead. She ever comes back, I'll be first in line to gut the bitch, before she gets near anyone else. I'd eradicate every trace of her from the bubbles if I could. Only other thing left of her is memory, and I'm only leaving of that what I absolutely have to."]
  140. 04[03:53] <esoRem|online> ["And Ceecee? How does that fit in?"]
  141. [03:57] <corCon|online> [Shrug. "She picked out the 'corinthianConsequence' handle early. Stupid threat, played to her sense of drama. I only used it because I was confused and scared of playing loose, and couldn't think of anything else. Ceecee was just a pseudonym playing off that."]
  142. 04[04:00] <esoRem|online> ["And the apaCir thing?"]
  143. [04:04] <corCon|online> ["Last bit of ammunition she had against Sally. She hoped it would take Ribbit down for good- and ruin Ross' opinion of her. She was betting on Spenih's clade overreacting. Or, well- more than they actually did. Are you seeing the pattern where her plans are pretty shit to start with and are executed even worse?"]
  144. 04[04:05] <esoRem|online> ["mmm." You finish off the water bottle before talking again. "And the door just...changed all of that."]
  145. [04:07] <corCon|online> ["I hope you're not expecting me to explain how. I think it's a pretty safe defense to point out that we're all in here, endlessly replaying until death, because the Game is a big, broken thing and that Door is the most broken part of it all."]
  146. [04:08] <corCon|online> ["There's not a whole lot of precedence when it comes to 'what happens when a dreamself passes through /and/ makes it to the other side'."]
  147. 04[04:09] <esoRem|online> ["It just seems very convenient from where I'm sitting. And frankly, I think I can afford to be a little cautious here."]
  148. [04:17] <corCon|online> [Drop your head onto your knees. "Scott," comes the muffled drone. "We live in a giant video game. Sally essentially had an evil twin. We live amongst aliens. You're /dating/ one. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, I'm just-" Lift your head up, looking vaguely irritated, hair all a mess from the flipping back and forth. Visibly struggle for words, hands clenching and making vague, dramatised strangling motions in the air in front of you.]
  149. [04:20] <corCon|online> [After a moment or two of this, collapse with a huge sigh back over your legs, head back down on your knees.]
  150. 04[04:23] <esoRem|online> ["Look, for all I know, the door added patience and intelligence without a realigned moral centre. I can't see into your head or heart, and I'm not willing to bet both my kid's life, future or not, and my best friend's girlfriend on your word." You respond levelly. "You want me to trust you? That comes with time. You have certainly given me a lot to think about, but I'm not going to change my mind here and now based solely on that."]
  151. [04:26] <corCon|online> [Flap your hand without look up. "I know, I'm not really expecting you to. Just- a thouuuusand percent done." You get up out of the chair, fastidiously fixing hair and clothes. Then looking at him. "You going to be any more cranky than usual if I bother you about questing tomorrow?"]
  152. 04[04:31] <esoRem|online> ["Depends if I can find whats bothering Mary or not." You've already brought your computer back up.]
  153. [04:34] <corCon|online> ["Fair enough. I'll drop around tomorrow, keep me updated if anything changes before then." Turn and head back towards the stairs leading up towards the Gate.]
  154. 04[04:36] <esoRem|online> [You watch her leave, and go right back to searching the servers for something that could explain it.]
  155. [04:37] <corCon|online> [Scene]
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