Helpful for Authenticity

-- epinephrineElectrified [EE] has begun pestering serpentLinguist [SL] at [23:13] --
<epinephrineElectrified> Hi.
<serpentLinguist> Oh, hey.
<serpentLinguist> What's up?
<epinephrineElectrified> Um.
<epinephrineElectrified> I'm not sure. What /is/ up?
<serpentLinguist> A direction or orientation. Above, or towards the sky.
<serpentLinguist> And, in said direction, more sick and injured people, doctors, nurses, and medical equipment and supplies.
<epinephrineElectrified> Cool. Is Spenih the sun, then? She seems to be east of me.
<serpentLinguist> She's in a west-facing room.
<serpentLinguist> Broken ribs, broken arm, broken collarbone, extensive burns and bad scar tissue from unwatched healing, cuts, bruises and scrapes all over, and she's unresponsive.
<epinephrineElectrified> [> Epi: Wolf-whistle.]
<epinephrineElectrified> That's pretty extensive.
<serpentLinguist> Awake, stares at nothing, won't make eye contact, won't eat unless fed... textbook corruption damage.
<epinephrineElectrified> Admittedly, I haven't had quite enough contact with corruption to know how to explain it to presession medical personnel
<epinephrineElectrified> but do you want me there?
<serpentLinguist> It took a /lot/ of Pits-diving.
<serpentLinguist> Ah
<serpentLinguist> Uh
<serpentLinguist> Sure.
<serpentLinguist> Story I've been going with is commonlaw partner.
<epinephrineElectrified> Um. Also, for the record, I'm Ring-voyage siblings with Zeimah, who in turn is one of Spenih's 'daughters'
<epinephrineElectrified> so should I opt for nephew, daughter's friend, something else?
<serpentLinguist> ...I'm not sure if you could pass for related, genetically, but there's marriage and adoption. Nephew works.
<serpentLinguist> ( Oh, and one of her eyes isn't responding to stimuli at all. Possibly extensive vision loss, maybe blindness - they don't appear to have clued into the fact that they're oilslick black. )
<epinephrineElectrified> (Oh. Huh.)
<epinephrineElectrified> (At least the normalfield is still running.)
<epinephrineElectrified> (Not that it does anyone much good at this point.)
<epinephrineElectrified> So I traded in the motorcycle for something I can actually drive without accidentally wheelieing it
<serpentLinguist> Mmhmm?
<epinephrineElectrified> You're in Michigan, right?
<serpentLinguist> Mmhmm. Grand Rapids.
<epinephrineElectrified> That's about... four days out from here. Three if I push at night and sleep through rush hour.
<epinephrineElectrified> By that point, the bags under my eyes will be helpful for authenticity.
<serpentLinguist> My Replayee's not un-rich, and I dropped some stock-cultural songs onto Bandcamp and iTunes, after a thorough search to make sure they didn't exist yet. I should be making a tidy enough sum to put us both up easily.
<epinephrineElectrified> Good. My replayee's a redneck in a trailer park who apparently was very good with spray paint.
<epinephrineElectrified> The credit cards were already up to their limit before I got here.
<epinephrineElectrified> By the way, let's assume I do web development for a living. It's true enough.
<serpentLinguist> They were missing "V'la l'bon vent" and "This little Light of Mine"; I should actually be making a killing if the Pits correlation between introducing well-known songs in worlds that don't have 'em and song popularity in most worlds actually holds true.
<serpentLinguist> Oh, we should talk programming sometime.
<epinephrineElectrified> You do too?
<epinephrineElectrified> Yeah.
<epinephrineElectrified> [Type "Myra taught me." Backspace. Decide to say nothing.]
<epinephrineElectrified> So, uh.
<epinephrineElectrified> Should I know anything else before I go?
<serpentLinguist> I'm French. Like, Parisian. Accent and everything. Tall, athletic, silver-haired girl with grey eyes.
<epinephrineElectrified> [You've known exactly one other silver-haired girl with grey eyes.]
<epinephrineElectrified> [Maybe this is why Myra...]
<epinephrineElectrified> [No no think about that later.]
<serpentLinguist> Anything I should know?
<serpentLinguist> Like, general appearance or anything?
<serpentLinguist> Or should I just assume rail thin / somewhat chubby neckbeard?
<epinephrineElectrified> I've got Korean looks but not the accent, 5'8", and sea-green eyes.
<epinephrineElectrified> And, uh
<epinephrineElectrified> I might freak out a little at your appearance.
<serpentLinguist> Should I break out the dye?
<serpentLinguist> Contacts?
<epinephrineElectrified> No, no, I just... memories, y'know?
<serpentLinguist> Mmhmm.
<serpentLinguist> We've got a lot of talking to do, before we get in-session.
<epinephrineElectrified> Yes, I'd much rather do that in person.
<serpentLinguist> Alright, then.
<serpentLinguist> It'll be good, having you about.
<serpentLinguist> May I ask something of you
<epinephrineElectrified> [Great. You just got told by an amateur that you need to get your shit together.]
<serpentLinguist> with the promise that you'll actually carry it out?
<epinephrineElectrified> What is it?
<serpentLinguist> Because this is serious capital 'I' important stuff that ought be discussed at length and dropped gently, not spoiled and you freaking out.
<serpentLinguist> Dawn, our coplayer? If she uploads any pictures, don't look at them.
<epinephrineElectrified> ...
<epinephrineElectrified> I'm going to assume there's a timeline reason for this, so all right.
<serpentLinguist> Mmhmm.
<serpentLinguist> You said it yourself - preferrable to talk about some things in person.
<serpentLinguist> If you look anyways? Talk to me about it.
<serpentLinguist> Not her.
<epinephrineElectrified> She doesn't know something important about herself and you're keeping it from her for a reason. Got it.
<epinephrineElectrified> Does she have facial disfigurements or something?
<epinephrineElectrified> And a mirror phobia?
<epinephrineElectrified> No, that doesn't make sense.
<epinephrineElectrified> You know what maybe I should just wait and see what happens.
<serpentLinguist> I'll answer all of your questions and more once you're here.
<serpentLinguist> Most of them with the truth, too.
<epinephrineElectrified> ...
<epinephrineElectrified> Most?
<epinephrineElectrified> I'm sorry, but do you seriously think sheltering everyone from reality and Balkanizing everyone else's knowledge is going to go well?
<serpentLinguist> That last bit was a joke, mostly.
<epinephrineElectrified> ...
<epinephrineElectrified> Mostly.
<serpentLinguist> I will answer serious questions seriously and honestly.
<epinephrineElectrified> How do you define "serious"?
<epinephrineElectrified> And "honest"?
<epinephrineElectrified> Concealing the truth doesn't work, I know that much and I'm /certain/ Myra would have told you as much unless she changed drastically in her last five sessions.
<serpentLinguist> Serious as in questions about Myra, my native session, or the details of my subsequent sessions, for one.
<serpentLinguist> Other topics which you feel are important.
<epinephrineElectrified> So. Is this because the timeline will break, or because you have taken it upon yourself to ensure the timeline doesn't break except to your benefit?
<serpentLinguist> Questions that would be more suited to a CF topic will be treated as such, and subject to embellishment, misdirection, or outright unbelievable statements, to be taken as you will.
<serpentLinguist> This is because Dawn will break, at some point in the session. And I have a misguided, desperate wish to keep it from happening in such a way that will result in her blaming other people for it.
<epinephrineElectrified> How do you know?
<serpentLinguist> Because she and I weren't ever supposed to roll together /ever/ again.
<serpentLinguist> We're going to break. How much, I have no idea. But I /would/ like to try and control it, as much as the game would allow.
<epinephrineElectrified> So some weird shit went down in your native session, said native session had both Myra and Dawn in it, and you were never supposed to roll together again because of aforementioned weird shit.
<serpentLinguist> In a nutshell? Yes.
<epinephrineElectrified> Let me guess. Someone got shinyfucked to Skaia and back and now you're swapping soulpieces whenever you come close to each other?
<serpentLinguist> Sort
<serpentLinguist> of
<epinephrineElectrified> "sort of"? Did Myra fuck up so badly she disappeared into thin air?
<epinephrineElectrified> Did you forge the will she sent out?
<serpentLinguist> No. I helped her film it.
<epinephrineElectrified> Did someone have a Cataclysm and swap around everyone else's appearances and Dawn ended up with your face?
<epinephrineElectrified> Were you the one that killed her because she asked nicely?
<serpentLinguist> I am going to ask for time away from the computer, now.
<epinephrineElectrified> Are you /lying/ about being in the same session with Myra?
<epinephrineElectrified> Huh?
<epinephrineElectrified> Fine.
<serpentLinguist> I will answer these questions in person.
<epinephrineElectrified> I suppose I'd better get going, then.
<serpentLinguist> Truthfully, and as straightforwardly as I can manage.
<serpentLinguist> You have permission to ask for clarification on anything.
<epinephrineElectrified> I said I'd be there.
-- epinephrineElectrified [EE] has ceased pestering serpentLinguist [SL] at [01:14] --