41 || Video [locked parts are easily hackable]

[timisnotme]

*So Tim has already discovered the strange foot and a half tall action figure of Brian. And after getting over his initial terror of a moving and sort of living doll has vaguely come to terms with the thing. Right now it's sitting on the couch with a controller in it's hands, next to some chip wrappers and soda cans. Obviously now that he has a

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[40410]

[ Don't mind the bright red graze across Alex's cheekbone. ]

Shit. You have one too?

[timisnotme]

Yeah. I guess everyone does. It's not so bad. It's a mini Brian. WHO CHEATS AT VIDEO GAMES.

*That last part was directed back over his shoulder at the doll, who turns and flips him off before going back to the game he's playing.*

[40410]

It's not Brian. Don't let it make you think it is.

[ Wow, someone's got a bee in his bonnet. Good thing he's not speaking loud enough for the doll in the background to hear. ]

[timisnotme]

What? It's close enough. What difference does it make?

[40410]

It'd be just like the mansion to make us think they're really - those people.

[ Which is why Alex now has notes to himself in the appropriate drawers, reminding him that they're not. ]

Yours hasn't tried to hurt you?

[timisnotme]

Nah. He's probably enough like Brian that he's too lazy to do that. Who uh.. Showed up for you?

[40410]

[ His mouth twitches in distress. ]

She's - not someone you know.

[timisnotme]

Oh. You okay there?

Did it attack you or something?

[40410]

Yeah.

[ Ah, yes, that was a bit of embarrassment that a doll managed to land a hit on him. But for the most part he's still on edge, uncomfortable with the fact that there's still a trained attack doll right there behind Tim oh my god. ]

It doesn't look like everyone's is doing that. [ Someone's been spying on the network. ] I don't know what the difference is.

[ Barely-unspoken implication: be careful, for crying out loud. ]

[timisnotme]

*The fact that Tim is so cheerful and nice probably has something to do with it.*

I dunno. I think it's kind of cool. Even if it is just an event.

[40410]

Right.

[ Well, he has no doubt that if the thing does decide to attack, Tim can hold his own against a little toy. He mostly wonders how Tim can stand to hang out with the doll of a friend who must have been Operatored. ]

Be careful.

[timisnotme]

*Mostly because Tim doesn't KNOW that Brian got Operatored.*

I will be.

So I uh.. Heard that J got out of here.

[40410]

[ Alex actually intended to bring that up in this conversation, so he looks surprised for a moment that Tim already knows. ]

Yeah.

That's a good way of putting it.

[timisnotme]

I dunno. *shrug* It's not so bad here.

*Mostly because he knows what's going on here and isn't just.. a body for Markus to use. So he actually prefers being here to being back home.*

You think J is there you know.. without all of us?

*Us meaning the Operator and Masky*

[40410]

[ Alex could disagree with Tim about the mansion being okay in about a thousand ways, but he kind of likes the fact that they can have non-doom-laden conversations, so he refrains. Just narrows his lips, noncommittal. ]

I think so.

[ He's not sure how it works, but there must be some sort of time discrepancy accounted for. ]

I hope at least he's there without the...

[ Beat. He doesn't quite look behind him, but his eyes move as if he's about to before he reins himself in. ]

You know.

[timisnotme]

Yeah. That's kind of what I meant. Too bad we couldn't all go home and he..it.. got stuck here instead.