♊ 21 ♊ [Text] [Back dated to within 30 minutes past 'dawn' on the 23rd]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

*The handwriting is sloppy, but being written in the dark and by a shaking hand will do that.*

plea2e tell me you can read thii2.
anybody.
anybody plea2e tell me they can 2ee me, ii don't want two do thii2 agaiin, plea2e 2ay 2omethiing.

IB? where are you? 2tay where you are, ii don't know what happened, even the fake 2un wa2 gone.

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[bffpoltergeist]

[Audio]

[Liz isn't much bothered by the oncoming darkness, but then she hasn't really been here long enough yet to be scared of it; and hearing about it is different than living through it.

But this is different. Someone she knows is in trouble and, if she's not totally living in a reversed world, sounds scared as hell. This makes things different and the poltergeist isn't going to stand idly by.]

Sollux??? I can see your entry... where are you????

[thii2ii22tupiid]

*Sollux is not scared of darkness, if this were regular darkness he'd be fine. But as soon as he recognized the tunnels he freaked out.*

ii got lo2t agaiin.

[bffpoltergeist]

[Liz has yet to experience the tunnels, so it's all semantics in her eyes. In the end, though, it sounds like he needs help and that's enough for her.

She looks out of the common room in the barracks, biting her lip for half a beat before replying again.

As she's speaking, Sollux, she's shoving several tealight candles in her pant pockets.]

Is there, like, anything distinguishing around you at all?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

black, the tunnel2 are ju2t darkne22.

[bffpoltergeist]

[Well, shit... that's not the best of leads to his location at all. Candles stuffed rather sufficiently into her pockets, Liz takes up one of the lit ones and heads on out.]

Okay... umm... don't get mad, or like, yell at me or anything, but, like, stay where you are, okay? I can't find you if you, like, wander around...

[She had no idea if she was able to find the troll, but she could walk through walls and that would help her more than hinder, right? She could certainly cover more ground than others, this way.]

Were you in the barracks?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

NO!
2tay where you are, the2e aren't 2afe, you need two 2tay out.
ii wa2 goiing back two the barrack2 but the tunnel2 2howed up.

[bffpoltergeist]

[Her laugh is weak and she's shaking her head, even if you can't see it, Sollux.]

Sorry... you don't, like, leave your friends to fend for themselves. Never did it back home and I'm, like, not doing it here. I've got some candles and stuff, so I can, like, see where I'm going and stuff.

[Her bravado is a bit stretched now that she's out here in these dark ass halls.]

Besides... I'm, like, a ghost, remember?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

even iif you can 2ee iit2 all black, don't come, even gho2t2 can get trapped.

[bffpoltergeist]

[Liz hadn't thought of that, but she was already out and moving, her journal in one hand and her lit candle in the other.]

Well... I'm, like, already out and moving and was when I heard you post, so, like... might as well help if I can.

[All lies, but she wasn't about to ignore him when he was clearly in need of some solid grade-A saving.]

I mean, if I'm going to get trapped, then, like, I'm going to get trapped either way, right?

[Stubbornness, she has it. Time to focus on the problem at hand.]

Where were you, like, coming from when you were heading toward the barracks?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

the liibrary, but iit doe2n't matter, the2e tunnel2 aren't really the keep or 2ome diiferent part or ii don't know, you can't fiind me iif you aren't iin them and probably not then, ju2t 2tay out.

[bffpoltergeist]

[Liz snorts, although she purses her lips in contemplation at that. If she was to find Sollux, clearly trekking across the Keep wasn't the way to go.]

Well, then how do I get to the tunn-

[Hadn't Derek, Chloe and Sollux told her about the tunnels? She stops and looks down at her feet, brows rising.]

You mean the tunnels under the Keep?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

ye2.
ye2, the tunnel2 around the keep, but they moved or 2pread or came for me.

[bffpoltergeist]

I got the okay for Liz to find Sollux. Incredibly unlikely though it may be, and it will be after hours of her own stumbling around lost and she could just kind of find him in the tunnels. It would be totally random and the likelihood of it ever working out again in the future is pretty much non-existent. She can't use her ghostly powers to shortcut or she'll die... I'm cool with whatever you'd like to do, bb.

[Liz bites her lower lip and is silent for a moment. She was absolutely certain she'd been warned about those tunnels for a reason and here she was thinking about ignoring all those blatant warnings to go off wandering on her own.

But... Sollux was a friend and, scary or not, friends didn't leave friends out hanging in the dark. Exhaling, she straightens a bit and sets herself in a determined line down the hallway, the glow of her candle flickering as she walks as darkness swallows the area around her.]

Well then... I better start looking, huh?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

I'm cool with her finding him in his room whenever, prolly hours after he got caught.

no, liiz, don't look, 2tay where iit2 2are, ii'll be fiine.

[bffpoltergeist]

Shall I make a new post for said findings, or continue here, commentlog style?

[Her tone is firm and no-nonsense.]

Too late. Already moving. Nobody should, like, be stuck alone in this.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

here is easier.

damniit liiz.