It's life's illusions I recall. I really don't know life at all.

[gunslingersai]

Roland Deschain has to return to his apartment in the Gauche again, as much as he'd rather stay away forever. He needs more clothes and ammo. He's bled through the arm of his shirt, again, and he can't afford for anyone to notice and connect the blood with his face and the face on the TV box

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[egyptiansoldier]

Daniel is on alert for suspicious activity in the Tower. He's dealt with terrorists before, but this is different somehow.

He spots JD from a few floors up, thanks to some headache-inducing application of that nifty x-ray vision trick, but by the time he gets near it's obvious that this kid isn't with the CLF. Unless they spend their spare time ghost-hunting in Wanderer-infested buildings.

"Find a lot of ghosts that way, kid?" he asks, slightly amused.

[sensi_doctor]

JD jumps about a foot into the air, dropping the bat and flashlight. He whirls around.

"Ohthankgod." As much as he wants to meet a ghost, he has a feeling he would be very scared to actually... meet one. "Uh. Yeah! A ton! I'm a pro-fessional, can't you tell?"

He blinks, looking down at his feet.

"Okay. So I never found one before, but there's a first time for everything!"

[egyptiansoldier]

Okay, threat level here is smaller than... the smallest thing Daniel knows. And he had to listen to Carter ramble on about microbiology once, so that's saying a lot. Sorry, JD.

"What were you planning to do if you found one?" he asks, nudging the dropped bat with his boot. "Not hit it with this thing, I hope." Because that would be foolishness. And quite probably futile.

[sensi_doctor]

"No! The bat would just swish through a ghost, but it was more for protection in case there were non-ghost-creepy things that tried to... attack me. I could swing it around threateningly and stuff!"

JD picks the flashlight back up.

"I was just gonna talk to the ghost. I thought it'd be a cool adventure to-" write in my journal about. "Have. My friend Nate says there are ghosts here. Thought it'd be kinda awesome to find one."

[egyptiansoldier]

Daniel barely keeps back a sigh. Tourists. "Fair enough, but be careful. Most of the ghosts in here are... rather unnerving."

He turns to walk away, then stops and looks back over his shoulder. "Oh," he says casually, as if in afterthought. "And steer clear of the basement. We have a homicidal supercomputer down there."

[sensi_doctor]

JD stares after the random guy that walked up and started to walk away, again. He's confused.

"How can a supercomputer be homicidal?" It makes no sense. He is one of those types of people that no one should tell not to do something to, because chances are he will want to check it out, especially if it involve cool things and he doesn't think he will die by doing so.

He has to find the basement, and then maybe just stand nearby... he wouldn't get too close to the supercomputer just in case it could really kill him somehow.

[egyptiansoldier]

"Trust me, you just don't want to mess with her. Don't make me say 'I told you so'." Daniel figures that should be enough warning for any normal, rational person.

...like he's totally made a living working with "normal" people.

"Stick to the ghost-hunting. I'm sure you'll find one sooner or later. Good luck." And maybe if he does find one, it'll scare him enough to not go down into the basement.

...or maybe not.

[sensi_doctor]

JD bites his lower lip. He just wants to see. He wouldn't mess with a homicidal supercomputer.

"I would never make you say anything you didn't want to," he says, absently, as he looks around for the door to the basement... or er, ghosts.

He looks for ghosts. Not a homicidal supercomputer.

JD only wants to know what one looks like.