network: un: n1CxC4Ge

[calculo]

WHO: robbie & you
WHAT: network stuff
WHERE: hanging out near the creepy river
WHEN: at your leisure
NOTES: n/a but will update as needed

( robbie's mostly stayed away from the network save for answering a few people here and there. but, maybe he's curious. maybe he's bored. maybe he's a little bit of both and that's why he clicks his stupid phone thing on now. )

everyone still alive?

( might as well check. there's been a lot going on. does that mean he cares? probably not. maybe not. okay, maybe he does. )

anyone formulated a theory on what happened to this place and why it is the way it is?

( might as well ask something meaningful while he does this. )

startin' to think i may be dead and this is punishment for all the stuff i did when i was alive. eso sería demasiado fácil, sin embargo.

( joking? serious? he's not telling. )

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@JACKED_MAN

[snikthatch]

[ Finally, someone who makes sense. ]

what do you mean, too easy?

[calculo]

( thanks for the compliment, logan. )

this place is a chance. it's more than i expected to get whenever i finally died.

[snikthatch]

I don't know if I'd call being trapped in a snowglobe a chance

@xxDARK_STARxx

[omniavincit]

Dying wasn't like this.

Almost the opposite.

What'd you do?

[calculo]

to die?

car accident.

( caused by a gang shooting but details. )

[omniavincit]

[ Sorry, he thinks of saying, which is funny—nobody's offered him condolences, and he appreciates that. There's nothing to be sorry for.

A car accident, though...your life ending in a turn taken too fast, a malfunctioning airbag, the crunch of metal. Everything reduced to scrap. ]

Is that the last thing you remember?

@IZZY

[techknowlogical]

"Why it is the way it is" in which respect?

[Because wow, does he have theories. So many theories. Gotta' narrow down which theory a bit.]

[calculo]

why does it keep changing? places don't tend to do that so fast and without evidence of the change.

[techknowlogical]

They can if they're not obeying the standard laws of physics that we're used to. My initial hypothesis is that this place is in contact with more dimensions than we're used to perceiving, and travel can happen through the additional "directions" that we're unaware of.

@xXxSALTLICKERxXx

[fumitory]

still alive so far. who is this?

we could formulate theories until the sun burns out - and i still dont know if we would hit the mark. ive spoken to a few people who think the world is alive itself - sentient.

if this is punishment then i suppose we could have done worse. ( speaking from Ben's professional observations, this isn't exactly Hell as he knows it. )

[calculo]

robbie. guess i should be glad that my name's just gibberish when you got something like saltlicker. who's behind that name?

( what a lucky man you are, ben. )

suppose you're right. at least i think we're alive. can't be sure but seems like that's the case.

[fumitory]

( god, this is going to happen every time he talks to someone new over these stupid devices, isn't it. at least he recognizes Robbie, from those rooms. )

this is ben - from the room nonsense. ive had it suggested to me that licking salt is what deers do. and people drinking tequila. i engage in nothing to do with deers or tequila - so your guess is as good as mine. ( oh, so very lucky. )

well im in no business to go testing that - but while everything ive encountered here has been quite bonkers I wouldn't call it torture necessarily.

not yet at least.

where did you end up after getting out of that ridiculous room?

@iCu

[sorrypardonyesthankyou]

yes pardon no still alive sorry so's this place

[she...doesn't usually need to use speech-to-text at home. especially not on a years-out-of-date phone.]

[calculo]

yeah, i don't really know if i like the thought of this place being alive.

( but it moved so...what was it if it wasn't alive? )

no experience with that particular thing.

[sorrypardonyesthankyou]

me neither pardon mostly yes kind of saw something yes similar but not quite sorry sorry

@DR_DOGFISH

[wontgraham]

purgatory's a new theory.

i think most suffering hurts more while you're alive and have consequences to try to avoid. or run towards. something for motivation.

i'm not sure how useful this place would be if we were all dead. [ Not that this new theory isn't going to haunt him for a while regardless, though.

oh, and another thing: ] that handles not your actual name, is it?

[calculo]

it's not my name. i'm robbie. and i doubt you're name's dogfish either, right?

( if it is, your parents were cruel, will. )

i'm not sure what this place is useful for now. it's just running us in circles.

@XXXtra_TerrestriEL

[itselbitch]

we all have our sins to bear. it's because it isn't easy that i don't think it's death.
also the fact i'm still fighting to not die in death makes like zero fucking sense to me

[ he's not bitter, he's just really tired of putting up with it. ]

how are you holding up?
aside from not being on fire anymore [ since then melty phone and no texting etc. ]

[calculo]

wish there was more i could do for you.

( and he does mean that. )

i'm fine. i'm not on fire anymore. that's another part of me.

[itselbitch]

it's the thought that counts

[ and it really is sweet, given where they started. ]

like locked away in pocket dimension another part of me or like i made a contract with the demon another part of me?
if you feel like talking obviously

if you'd rather discuss the latest political scandal i'm also game

[ there isn't any. it's a joke. cause there's no one else here. get it??? ]

@XXSK3LLYXX

[ragnarsson]

Beginning to think this is like Hel. [The Norse one, not the Christian place that was near identical in pronunciation.] A place where time stands still and nothing ever happens. Not a punishment but not a reward either. You just stay in a place where there's no joy or passion forever.

[Quite eloquent for the teen whose usual methods seemed to consistent of smashing people's skulls in with an axe, but Ivar wasn't stupid. He saw things other people didn't.]

[calculo]

( quite the name you had there, ivar. )

nothing ever happens?
you missed the mirror stuff or were you just able to figure out quicker than me?

[itselbitch]

yeah mainly why i'm not mad, even if it hurts like a bitch sometimes

[ oh, robbie... eliot wishes he could think that way, but-- ]

is frankenstein innocent for what he did to his monster?
i set the monster free and he used my body to unspeakable horrors
it wasn't my intention consequences are still consequences

[ like q being fucking dead. ]

@TARGYLE

[decisiveconquest]

For the most part.

I suspect foul magic and a lot of it.

Did that occur to you too? (She has thought she must be dead since she first laid eyes on this place.)

[calculo]

foul magic? can't say i thought magic specifically.

but, i've seen some weird stuff happen, magic or not. impossible things made possible.

and i think while being dead's an easy explanation, it's probably too easy.