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aefenglom2019-10-21 07:59 am
firewalled) wrote in aefenglom2019-10-21 07:59 am
002 | Video
Name: Rich Goranski
Date: Backdated to Oct 14
Format: Video for initial post; various in comments
[Without so much as an introduction, a video plays. It's a little shaky with the recorder's nerves, and occasionally, a long talon partly covers the view of the scene, but it still shows what it needs to quite clearly.
Eventually, even with the struggle still continuing, the camera is turned away from the action, towards Rich. He has to hope what he just got will be enough to get the Coven to actually believe him this time, but right now, he doesn't have time to wait around. Direct action is needed, so he pings the friends he trusted: Michael Mell, Myr, and Niles. The message is still sent to everyone, however, so everyone can view the video and the panic in Rich's eyes when the camera is turned back to him.]
The SQUIP has lost it. It's going full villain again and I need back up. Meet me near the inn, I think it's trying to take Heere there.
[Without an explanation of what entails the SQUIP going full villain or who 'Heere' may be, he continues.]
Everyone else, please stay safe and-[He's cut off by something happening off screen, which makes him swear and stuff his watch into his pocket. There's about a minute more of muffled yelling and darkness before the recording eventually ends.]
~*~
[Hours later, there's another video tacked on to the earlier one, once the mist has finally started to fade away. Rich is back inside, his changes from before calming down enough that he isn't at risk of burning down Justine's whole cottage. He looks tired and worn, a few nasty scrapes on his face, but... there is a sort of relief in his expression, some sort of certainty that, no matter what happens next, he did what was right.]
Hey everyone. Sorry about that... I know I promised to be less of a downer the next time I posted on here, but... shit happens.
I'm just letting everyone know the SQUIP is knocked out. It had been using magic to charm and mind control several people, including someone I was bonded to, Justine, and a friend from home, Jeremy Heere.
Two of the people it was Bonded with, Linden Tailor and Connor, are also unconscious... guess some sort of trauma went through the connection when we stopped it. Since it was actively using mind control magic, I used Mountain Dew Red to deactivate... the part of it that was still a supercomputer, I guess. It should recover fine, and while it's passed out, I'm going to bring the recording to the Coven so they can see I wasn't lying when I told them what it did in my world.
If any of you were being controlled by it, let me know. It got to quite a few people when I saw it, but its powers should have worn off by now. It can be... a little traumatic, though, so my door's open if you wanna talk. Hopefully now that the SQUIP was... de-SQUIPped, somehow, this shouldn't happen again.
[With another tired wave, Rich signs off. He'd love to stay and chat but... he's pretty sure his roommates are still going to need a little more help in the fallout.]
((Everyone is free to respond! Rich will respond when he's done dealing with his roomies, who are likely either a) dealing with mind control withdrawal or b) having panic attacks over the SQUIP. Other players on Team Anti-Bastard Computer Man will also be responding a few hours after the events of the battle, providing information on what went down and vouching that yes, Shit Was Bad.))
Date: Backdated to Oct 14
Format: Video for initial post; various in comments
[Without so much as an introduction, a video plays. It's a little shaky with the recorder's nerves, and occasionally, a long talon partly covers the view of the scene, but it still shows what it needs to quite clearly.
Eventually, even with the struggle still continuing, the camera is turned away from the action, towards Rich. He has to hope what he just got will be enough to get the Coven to actually believe him this time, but right now, he doesn't have time to wait around. Direct action is needed, so he pings the friends he trusted: Michael Mell, Myr, and Niles. The message is still sent to everyone, however, so everyone can view the video and the panic in Rich's eyes when the camera is turned back to him.]
The SQUIP has lost it. It's going full villain again and I need back up. Meet me near the inn, I think it's trying to take Heere there.
[Without an explanation of what entails the SQUIP going full villain or who 'Heere' may be, he continues.]
Everyone else, please stay safe and-[He's cut off by something happening off screen, which makes him swear and stuff his watch into his pocket. There's about a minute more of muffled yelling and darkness before the recording eventually ends.]
~*~
[Hours later, there's another video tacked on to the earlier one, once the mist has finally started to fade away. Rich is back inside, his changes from before calming down enough that he isn't at risk of burning down Justine's whole cottage. He looks tired and worn, a few nasty scrapes on his face, but... there is a sort of relief in his expression, some sort of certainty that, no matter what happens next, he did what was right.]
Hey everyone. Sorry about that... I know I promised to be less of a downer the next time I posted on here, but... shit happens.
I'm just letting everyone know the SQUIP is knocked out. It had been using magic to charm and mind control several people, including someone I was bonded to, Justine, and a friend from home, Jeremy Heere.
Two of the people it was Bonded with, Linden Tailor and Connor, are also unconscious... guess some sort of trauma went through the connection when we stopped it. Since it was actively using mind control magic, I used Mountain Dew Red to deactivate... the part of it that was still a supercomputer, I guess. It should recover fine, and while it's passed out, I'm going to bring the recording to the Coven so they can see I wasn't lying when I told them what it did in my world.
If any of you were being controlled by it, let me know. It got to quite a few people when I saw it, but its powers should have worn off by now. It can be... a little traumatic, though, so my door's open if you wanna talk. Hopefully now that the SQUIP was... de-SQUIPped, somehow, this shouldn't happen again.
[With another tired wave, Rich signs off. He'd love to stay and chat but... he's pretty sure his roommates are still going to need a little more help in the fallout.]
((Everyone is free to respond! Rich will respond when he's done dealing with his roomies, who are likely either a) dealing with mind control withdrawal or b) having panic attacks over the SQUIP. Other players on Team Anti-Bastard Computer Man will also be responding a few hours after the events of the battle, providing information on what went down and vouching that yes, Shit Was Bad.))
Re: [video]
Tell me about it. He really did go full anime villain at the end. I seriously thought there was going to be some episode breaks so we could all yell and charge up.
I don't know about the best, but... it's a start in the right direction, I hope. Once it wakes up, we'll see where it's at.
[He's really hoping he didn't do something absolutely, terribly distressing to it with the Red. He didn't want to damage its brain, even if that would kind of be deserved... he just hopes whatever is left of it is still okay, and maybe a little more sane.
The question is so bizarre that he honestly has to take a moment to absorb the fact that, yeah, he's talking discontinued soda flavours as a means to prevent the robot apocalypse. With a skeleton.]
I don't really think so. Not unless you like, poured it all over them. A SQUIP activates with regular Mountain Dew, so I think it was just something in the ingredients that can determine whether it activates or deactivates.
Even if it did, it's discontinued now. I just have what my friend brought over from his stash.
[video]
[They can share both those hopes, then. That the SQUIP wakes up a healthier, better person... And that this particular soda can't deactivate any and all computers.]
And you just have a small sample... Maybe that's for the best.
I bet an alchemist could try to make more... But you don't need much, right? It's a back-up weapon. A special attack, for emergencies.
[He doesn't want Mettaton to be unfortunate crossfire in this conflict, after all. Deserved as the conflict does, from his limited knowledge, appear to be.
And Papyrus is in no hurry to ask about the worst of it - it would be a number of shocks, and no mistake. There's things that humans get up to that monsters don't do, maybe because of some difference in their souls, or maybe because their desperate shared situation encouraged a degree of kindness in them. Petty meanness, neglect, avoidance... But murder and torture were rare and horrific, underground.]...
[video]
[Rich finds himself laughing just a little, and it's a relief to know he can actually still find things funny right now.]
Definitely just for emergencies, though. I had been planning on holding on to it until I needed it... and then I needed it before I thought I would.
Are there a lot of other robots around here, though? I've only met one besides the SQUIP.
[video]
Oh, there's at least two more. One looks incredibly human, except he has little lights in his head. And the other... He's the sexiest rectangle you'll ever meet!
When he's not being, uh, humanoid.
[Papyrus is still so used to his favorite celebrity's box-bot mode that he forgets, sometimes, that Mettaton can change between two forms.]
Either way! There's no mistaking him for a robot.
[video]
[Rich... isn't sure what to think about him anymore. He hopes now that he isn't being brainwashed, he'll be easier to get along with. Luckily, Papyrus' other description prevents him from getting too moody.]
Um. I'm sorry, I think my ears are broken. I swear you just said he was the "sexiest rectangle" here. I can't remember the last time shapes were sexy. Unless you count that acute triangle in my geometry homework.
[video]
[Well, that's one way to convince students to pay attention and learn, he guesses. Though wouldn't it cause a different kind of distraction? Humans are mysterious.]
...But no! Your ears are fine. Sometimes people are geometric shapes. Like when they're monsters. Or robots. Or robot monsters... or robot monster-monsters. And some of them are sexy!
Especially when they feature in so many hours long films. Lying about... Posing seductively... Flower petals raining down...
[Papyrus' expression goes a little bit dreamy as he gazes off somewhere else, before sending his message. Some of his favorite films, truly.]
[video]
Right, I think I've got it. Just never really thought of non-human-shaped robots as sexy. Honestly, a lot of robots in my world are as humanoid as possible. All the shape ones just make us think of them like adorable puppies or something.
[Rich doesn't have that weird attachment, and in fact, was quite distrustful of the Roomba in Jake's old house.]
And... I don't think there are a lot of robot actors either. That sounds like a movie to add to my watch list.
[video]
If I find a copy... and a way to watch it, here... I'll lend it to you. Or invite you over to watch.
[Come to think of it, Mettaton could always film a new one... But can the watch even record videos lasting hours long? Would it even be the same, in these small sepia screens? It's hard to say.]
I guess all that makes sense, about your robots. Your world is all humans, right? So your robots look like you.
[video]
[So Rich can't really imagine a television running well here, either. Still, there's a hope to hold on to, at least.]
Yeah, as far as I can tell. It's just humans for us. I guess we'd want to model them as close to ourselves, but I expected a little creativity!
[video]
[He's unwillingly - begrudgingly, out of friendship - heard more than he wanted about certain cat-eared anime protagonists. And that one was supposedly human, other than the ears.]
But, it will surely happen someday! Someone will figure out a way. Magic does so many other things. Even power robots, sometimes...
[And the more people who come from other worlds with different kinds of electricity and magic, surely, the more who stand a chance of making magic here imitate all the electrical technology he knows and misses.]
[video]
[He probably would have gone for that, considering the figurines Rich has been unfortunate enough to see in his friend's room.]
It seems like it can do a ton of stuff here! It's kind of why I wish I could use it myself, instead of having to sit here and breathe fire.
[Because the gods are assholes and love the irony, he supposes.]
[video]
[At least by the standards Papyrus still expects. Not like turnskins, who get strength, and stronger smelling, and allergies to silver... None of the flashy cool moves that burping fire could lead to.]
Sigh. Magic does seem cooler. Sure, they might explode if they don't do enough... But who wouldn't! Go up on the wall, cast things into the woods...
[video]
[He obviously doesn't talk about it much, but surely Papyrus recalled the scars.]
Anyways, I'd much rather make magic fireworks or like, build toys out of thin air or whatever. My friend Jeremy's a witch too, actually, and even the little things he can do are pretty cool.