crazier than i am now?

VFdFTFZF. [ voice, SPERO ]

ethericbit — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:03:01 GMT

[ today, there's just a short voice feed. no images, just yelling. ] Enough is enough!

I have had it with these stupid robots in this stupid city!

[ there's a pause, and then a small sound. "Meow." ] And the cats!

[ ooc: look who got wrath ]

RUxFVkVO. [video, SPERO]

ethericbit — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:20:05 GMT

[ What's this? This morning, everyone on the feed will see a young man in a classic detective uniform. He throws what appears to be a wooden pipe over his shoulder and points at the camera. Doesn't that tone of voice sound familiar? ]

Okay, listen! Obviously the scientists are testing some sort of...body-swapping technology! They're using us as guinea pigs! If we can just find them, or make a bargain with them, or something, then everything will go back to normal!

But it's probably just a Halloween prank, too... [ he adjusts his cap, and then picks up a magnifying glass from the table in front of him. ] Anyway, I'll be investigating any leads to where the scientists could be! If you have any, tell me, okay?

[ ooc: Jack's a detective, obviously. If you guys have any other "suspicious occurances" going on today, feel free to tell him about those as well! Looks like his plan to prank people is ruined. How ironic. ]

VEVO. [ video/voice/action(?), SPERO/ALT. SPERO ]

ethericbit — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:31:47 GMT

VIDEO;
[ Jack's plan: dodge the zombies and head to the subway to fix it with everyone else.

Jack's reality: the feed clicks on to bobbing up and down, the lens partially covered by his fingers. Obviously he's running from something, and those of you who know the area should realize he's not too far from the subway's entrance. ] Goddammit- [ and suddenly a plume of red and orange erupts behind him, and he falls over.

From the ground, the feed now shows the assilant: a messy-haired redhead with two big, bloody holes in her school uniform. She trudges over, and the feed goes out. ]

VOICE;
[ about a minute later, it comes on again, dampened in static. ]

Ow, uh...hey, wait, ▓▒▒ver...? Goddamit.

...Has anybody else g▓▒▒▒▒? I think I'm hallucinating now, or...▓▒▒▒▒▒▒. I've gotta get to the subway.

[ a pause, combined with the sound of uneven footsteps ] Oh, Eridan, if you blame this on your evil god dog again I'm going to ▓▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

[ ooc: he'll eventually be heading down into the subway once he flickers back into the real world; anybody who finds him will discover some burns on his legs that probably need medical attention. anybody near the subway who wants to run into zombie Annie should totally do so. ]

TklORQ==. [video/action, DISCEDO]

ethericbit — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:22:54 GMT

[ The communicator is sitting on a windowsill, which would normally be good enough to give you a good view of the area- if it wasn't for all this fog. But at this point it's not too bad. There's a pair of turrets sitting around, seemingly harmless. But watch for another minute or so, and before long, there's something different.

In front of the turrets is a lifeless body, female, tangled black hair, in a school uniform. If anyone gave it a good look, they'd see it died of starvation.

After a second, somebody steps into the side of the screen, behind the turrets. To some of you, that green jacket- which should really be washed-should look familiar. He appears to be holding a large piece of wood. But he does nothing but stand completely still. ]

Are you still there?

[ And with that, there's a sudden scream, and a second later the wood goes through one of the turrets, slamming it into the other and knocking them both over. There's some frantic shooting, but before long both stop, smashed wires crackling. ]

I don't blame you

[ But he just keeps on hitting them.

Two minutes later, the body flickers out. Jack finally looks up, seemingly shocked, and runs forward to where it was.

It's a bit hard to make out his expression, and you don't have much time to do so before the feed ends. ]

[ ooc: courier text in the post is the turrets, but in the comments it's just Jack in text mode. ]

RUlHSFQ=. [video, DISCEDO]

ethericbit — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:24:37 GMT

[ The feed starts out with meowing. Really, really whiny meowing. It's not until Jack gets his hand off the camera that Bern the cat comes into focus, sitting at the pier. She was left alone when Jack went back to Spero, but now that he's back she won't leave him alone again. ]

God, will you ever go away?

[ The cat does nothing. With a huff, Jack focuses the camera on himself. ]

...So we all died, right? Everybody who was sick. [ He looks a bit mopey for a second, then just serious. ] It doesn't really mean anything around here, since everybody always comes back, but...still.

[ With that, he grabs a rock and throws it somewhere. You can hear the cat meow again. ] Uh, by the way, does anybody want a cat? It's really annoyi- hey, stop! Stop it! [ and look, now Bern is jumping on top of Jack's chest and pawing at the screen. How can you resist?! ]

U0VWRU4=. [video, DISSIMULO]

ethericbit — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:33:36 GMT

[ Thanks to that spider inside him, Jack's not one to feel sick about anything. Back at the Court, this kid hadn't eaten in days. But due to the chip, though, using all four transporters and showing up in Dissimulo was a rather sickening experience, but luckily not one he didn't recover from quickly. After traveling about the area, he didn't find anything nearly as interesting as the observatory back in Spero.

What he did find was a certain cat.

After checking the frequencies of various people, most of them on whims, the video feed flicks on to an apartment that isn't Jack's, but some of you should recognize. His expression is one not of anger but- jealousy? and he's holding some papers in his hands, seemingly ripped out of a journal. ]

Sunako and- uh, Ange, I think. Their feeds are gone, so I guess they got to go home. Lucky. I don’t know what they did, but it’s pretty mean of them to leave and not tell anybody how. [ That’s not sadness, not at all. He’s too bitter. For once, he doesn’t feel like yelling at something to show that. ] Heh…

Ange had those poems that Rika girl wrote. The one who brought you guys to that other world that one time. Her cat’s here, too, if anybody wants it.

[ Speaking of Bern, she finally makes an appearance nuzzling her head onto Jack’s arm, like cats will do- ] Hey, shoo! [ -but he pushes it away. Not too hard, mind you, he only kicks at monsters and robots and the like. ~~Mostly terrible ones.~~ ]

The poems don’t make any sense, though. They’re just nonsense, so they’re not gonna get us anywhere. [ He scowls. For a second it seems he’s going to turn off the communicator, but then: ] Oh, hey, bodyguard dude. I guess you can take Sunako off the lost and found now.

[ Out of nowhere, a wide grin. Just for a second. The beginning of a dry laugh.

The feed snaps ends abruptly.

ooc: for your own reference, the poems. ]

U0lY. [video, SPERO, BACKDATED TO THURSDAY NIGHT]

ethericbit — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:37:33 GMT

[ It's dark. But if you look closely at the feed, there's fingers passing over the camera, putting it over a telescope lens. And though it's blurry, you can make out something resembling a city at the bottom. It's probably not familiar to you, but it is to the person running this feed. ]

...Hahahaha! I've got it! I've got our way back!

[ And the camera pops back up to a laughing kid with a wide grin. As he speaks, he's running back down to the lower floor of the observatory. ]

How many of you would be able to set up electricity around here? I sure can't, but I can work machines. If we can get this place up and running again, the stuff in here has gotta be able to get us back home. The machines in here, they can show you different worlds- The Court was there! It's probably just like the machine the scientists had, the one that brought us here.

[ he flips the camera away from him, revealing he's not only got downstairs, but the desks with computers. ] I can get into this stuff, easy. It probably has the password being "password", stupid stuff like that. If we can get all this back up and running, I can- we can get out of here!

[ There's a bit of muttering and walking around then, as if he was so excited he forgot the feed was on, as he then walks up to that big machine in the corner. Anybody who's been to Spero before might recognize it. Then after a second he begins talking again- ] If we can figure out this thing, it's all over. Hahaha. Oh, uh- if you guys still want to explore everywhere else, I guess we could do it this weekend or something, but we sure don't need to do it now.

[ Behind what the communicator's camera can see, he smirks. ]

RklWRQ==. [video, SPERO]

ethericbit — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:08:56 GMT

[ Leaving Discedo wasn't that hard for Jack. In fact, it was easy. Obviously he wasn't going to find anything else there, so it was time to look somewhere else- and Spero was a good start. And he's ready to start going somewhere with it.

When the feed clicks on, he's sitting on the ruins of one of those former buildings- in the pouring rain of the storm, yes. ]

Alright, no time to waste! Who's gonna be exploring this place? Back in Discedo, the scientists could take things out, but I bet they didn't bother cleaning up here! That huge university probably has papers about stuff, like how they could've brought us here. And there's some sorta trailer park near the ships, that might have something.

Anyway. Who's coming with me?

[ ooc: see this post! feel free to add a little ooc note saying what dates would be good for you guys to log this, too. maybe we can go back to that post for further plotting, too, as not to clog things up ]

Rk9VUg==. [ video ]

ethericbit — Wed, 18 May 2011 00:22:39 GMT

[ Jack's sucking his fingers on his right hand when the screen comes on (they're covered in tape? Who cares!). It's been a full month since he last posted to the network, and he's sick and tired of this thing shocking him.

But with that crazy guy biting people last week, and Sollux and Eridan just getting their own chips out, he actually has something productive to talk about. ]

Stupid dumb machine...

[ back to smiling ] Okay, so how many of you have gotten your chips out? I know it makes people all crazy and sick and that junk, but do they do anything else? Screw up your brain even more? Put you to sleep for awhile? I don't wanna waste any more time figuring this stuff out!

Oh, and how much of this place have you guys explored? 'Cos I bet there's something important you've all missed, if we're all still stuck here like this. Haha.

VEhSRUU=. [ video, backdated to saturday afternoon/evening/whenever people are up ]

ethericbit — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:45:18 GMT

[ Jack is a sopping wet mess. Mainly because he's standing in the rain, and he doesn't look like he's taking the time to leave. If you thought he looked bad before, this probably makes it worse. And despite it all he still seems to be in a good mood. ]

So everyone's waking up? Hahaha, took you long enough. Sleeping for that long seems pretty boring to me.

[ He looks down at the screen, eyebrows raised. Right now he thinks the scientists did this, rather than a chip problem. ] So what? Did you guys dream about anything?

VFdP. [ voice ]

ethericbit — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:16:43 GMT

[ If any of you are still awake late at night on April 2nd, you'll hear a voice message. Jack doesn't sleep- can't sleep- so he doesn't care what time it is. The feed begins with the sound of scratching. Specifically, he's scratching his neck. But you can't see that.

But in a second, you'll hear a teenager jabbering in your ear. ] So, um. Hey! I was wondering about something.

Is there any sort of computer system in this town? I mean, I haven't actually seen a computer, but we have these...things, so I thought maybe they all traced back to something. Maybe like a giant mastercomputer or whatever. 'Cos I think I'd be able to get into that, and see if it had anything on how to get out of here. I want- I need to get out. Soon as I can. [ Get to the power station. Find her. Other things, as far as the spider in his brain's concerned. He can't stay here for too long. ]

Uh, yeah. That's it I guess. If anybody knew anything that'd be pretty awesome, hahaha!

T05F. [ video ]

ethericbit — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:53:14 GMT

[ Dark, rotting cities filled with strange creatures? Oh, Jack knows those. He knows them well. But this definetely isn't Zimmy's city- no people who fizz out when you poke them anywhere.

And considering he woke up on a lab table, there's only one other option he can think of- this is some other part of Gunnerkrigg Court. Or some place owned by it. And he's got something to say about that.

Please welcome a very scruffy lad with a slightly psychotic grin on your screen. ]

Hahaha. You found me. So you're trying to get me to break down by putting me somewhere else, right? [ A pause.

And suddenly, he goes serious. Angry. ] ...Well, it's not going to work. I don't need your help! Just need to see her, is all. So if you want to get anything out of me, you've gotta bring her here, or I won't give you nothing! How'd you even find me, anyway?! I haven't eaten in days. I know how you track people around here! Through their food! [ Of course, he's nowhere near the Court. But he won't realize that unless you tell him, Discedo. ]

And if you're not going to do that, I'll just leave. I can get out of here. I can get out of anything.

[ And then he'll press something on the communicator and then just sit there in a huff. Guess he thought he turned it off. ]