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[blacksky]

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[oorah]

don't get cocky. i'm doing OK so far too tho, karen not so much.

[blacksky]

You'd be cocky if you were winning too. Now what's wrong with Karen?

[oorah]

no one's winning here el.
she's sick. real sick.

[blacksky]

What does she need? I can take care of it.

[oorah]

nothing helps.

[blacksky]

What do you mean nothing helps? What was the point of finding a place with resources for the sick if they can't fix her?!

[oorah]

don't yell at me. all i can do is try to make her comfortable until this goes away.
have you checked on matt?

[blacksky]

I'm not yelling at you! I'm yelling at this awful place and its absolutely useless doctors! You shouldn't have to make her comfortable. They should do their fucking jobs!


I'll check on him now and glue myself to his side because I know him. He won't say anything about feeling bad until his arm falls off.

[oorah]

we don't have any doctors elektra. we have some kid vampire who fancies himself one and a bunch of equipment we don't know how to use.

don't even joke about that. keep me updated.

[blacksky]

Of course that's the situation. Could you please tell him to stop acting like he is one then? Because when people fail me, I tend to start cutting things off.

And I will. Don't worry. I've been keeping him alive a lot longer than you have. He'll be fine.

[oorah]

he's one passenger i wouldn't stop you from teaching a lesson so don't look at me.

keep doing that then, and i'll keep karen alive. i've been good at that up till now too.

[blacksky]

Don't make me talk me out of it! Matthew is the one in charge of stopping me usually. I don't need the lecture about how I need to learn self-control right now!

But, fine. We'll keep them alive. You better not get sick too and force me to care for all three of you. I swear I will never love anything again if you do.

[oorah]

fine. don't kill alucard. it's a time sink anyway.

but my track record on this station isn't great OK? don't put that on me.

[ aka he may or may not be sick already himself??? oops. ]

[blacksky]

You're already ill then. What is it?

[oorah]

[ fuck ]

it's like before. maybe it's in my head.

[blacksky]

Or maybe our captors were testing out whatever is causing this on you first. Let's find out.

[oorah]

how?

[blacksky]

Easy. I'll hit you when you least expect it. Trust me I will know if it's in your head or not.

[oorah]

it's just in my hands so far. i think. maybe my feet.

[ he's realizing if he can differentiate that then maybe he isn't making it up. goddamnit. ]

so you think this place is an experiment? we're rats in the maze.

[blacksky]

I have two thoughts on this after our little meeting: the first is that clearly someone fucked up. I think whoever survived the 'end of the world' that woman was hinting at when we arrived kidnapped whoever they could feasibly get to fix their fuck up. Why else would we need to unlock this place like it's a big puzzle? Or the shuffling cast of kidnappees? They are preparing us to succeed where they failed.

The second is this truly is an experiment. We are being tested because some sick bastard with a god complex likes tormenting people. That's why the people keep changing. Maybe they're getting some decent data on us. Who could say? I am leaning towards the torment because only a complete bastard would look at that cute little girl trailing behind you and think 'I bet she'd be interesting to watch while I infect these poor idiots with disease and kill a few off for fun in gruesome ways.'

The final stage of the test will have us try to save the world we see outside. I'm guessing failing means we die like I suspect the last crew did.

Either way, they'll die when I find them so it doesn't matter.

[oorah]

[ wow that is a lot of words. and it's obvious she's thought this through seriously. ]

i agree with you. it's a black site if i ever saw one.

[ and he'd seen a few. point is- ]

when we find them. all of us. [ he's gonna get his team-up if it kills him!!! which you know, it probably will. ]

[blacksky]

I'm not shutting you out, Francis. I'm a big fan of your work. We will need to lose some weight when that time comes.

[Aka they probably need to ditch Matt.]

[oorah]

[ oh right the one not down with murder. yeah they can ditch him. ]

he told me he'd make an exception once. pretty sure if anything qualifies this will.

[blacksky]

Anger is a better look on him than guilt, but we'll see what happens when we get there.

[oorah]

maybe we'll uncover a brig by then and we can waste time debating with him like the old days.