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Oct 10, 2010 21:54

[the device here cycles through a few different feeds - first a text field, blank, then audio, silence, hologram with... empty space, then finally video of somewhere in Kurzwiel]

[This happens a second time; but this time, there's no hologram, and when the video comes on, it is very quickly shut off. You get a glimpse of a handsome if thin and ( Read more... )

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text; heterochromiia October 11 2010, 05:47:17 UTC
[ it's just another stupid day of headaches and building the stupid new hive and karkat being an asshole retard as usual for sollux. that is, normal right up until the point where the murmurs of the dead suddenly warp and bend and then there's a- something. some kind of anomaly. someone who's dead and there and he can't hear them and it's wrong why is it wrong-

when an obviously new arrival makes a tentative post to the network soon after, sollux is paying attention. quite a lot of it. ]

ju2t got here, ii take iit.

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{ text; idkmybffhanna October 11 2010, 05:49:33 UTC
yes.

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{ text; ||PRIVATE heterochromiia October 11 2010, 05:58:48 UTC
thii2 ii2 probably goiing two be a weiird que2tiion.

can ii a2k what you are?

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{ text; ||PRIVATE idkmybffhanna October 11 2010, 06:02:06 UTC
[I'M IN A BAND I'M AN ISRAELI INDEPENDENT SINGER / SONGWRITER]

since we're already on a space station I suppose there's no reason to hide it

I'm a dead man

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{ text; ||PRIVATE heterochromiia October 11 2010, 06:08:37 UTC
oh

well that2

okay not the fiir2t dead per2on iive met but that wa2 under diifferent ciircum2tance2. gue22 that2 why ii feel liike ii 2hould be heariing 2omethiing iim not riight now. anyway 2orry for the awkward there. got a name, dead guy?

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{ text; ||PRIVATE idkmybffhanna October 11 2010, 12:35:36 UTC
It's not the most awkward question I've gotten. You hear things?

And no, I don't have a name.

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{ text; ||PRIVATE heterochromiia October 11 2010, 12:42:13 UTC
dead thiing2. yeah. all the tiime.

oh. huh. you dont remember iit? ii2 there anythiing iin partiicular youre called then?

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{ text; ||PRIVATE idkmybffhanna October 11 2010, 12:43:41 UTC
Ah. I see.

No, I don't. And no, there's nothing I'm really called. You're welcome to simply pick whatever seems appropriate.

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{ text; ||PRIVATE heterochromiia October 11 2010, 12:50:09 UTC
that ha2 two get pretty confu2iing. how do you know people are talkiing two you or calliing you or whatever?

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{ text; ||PRIVATE idkmybffhanna October 11 2010, 14:26:53 UTC
I've yet to have a problem with it. 'Hey you' is generally quite clear in context.

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{ text; ||PRIVATE heterochromiia October 11 2010, 16:36:51 UTC
okay, iif you 2ay 2o. iill come up wiith 2omethiing two call you when ii dont have a ma22iive headache, ii gue22 you can be "dead guy" untiil then.

anyway, welcome two 2acro2anct, ii gue22. you can call me tA iif you need two.

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{ text; ||PRIVATE idkmybffhanna October 11 2010, 16:58:29 UTC
'Dead guy' works well enough.

Thank you, tA.

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