PC: DR SCIENCE BROFIST

[tombtaker]

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W0 - SATURDAY

[tombtaker]

[ he'll be on the observation deck, seemingly pretty entranced by the starscape out the window - but once he realizes someone else is there he starts a bit, trying to pretend he wasn't just lost in thought. ]

For the record, not my first time seeing this landscape.

[egodist]

I wasn't going to ask.

[begging scien to be even 3% more pleasant to engage with

but he does find himself curious enough to ask - ]

Calmer now? Or is the frustration simply more dormant?

[tombtaker]

[ honestly, he does a soft snort of amusement at that. the fact that he's such an asshole is actually getting to be hilarious. ]

I've always been perfectly calm.

[OKAY, LIAR]

Frustration is a different emotion. Think I've moved onto anger now. Yourself?

[egodist]

Should I examine your head for amnesia?

[this is so funny but also let the man have his rewritten history]

I've been annoyed since I woke up, and I imagine that'll be the case for the entirety of our stay.

week zero, monday

[egodist]

[so here's scien, minding his business, playing suika on his I.R.I.S. the way that his man genuinely enjoys puzzle really kicks my ass. but there's this moment where he does it, he gets a watermelon and his points surge—

and even though there is a hint of amusement, of delight, it is muffled. it's like it's been put through a filter, the emotion dissipated into something that isn't quite there. a false equivalent of happiness

when he looks to lucien, he tilts his head]

You. Does your world possess games such as this?

[tombtaker]

[ hello! if scien wants to experience some undiluted feelings, he is getting a really good wave of ... general psychic malaise. a sense of skin-crawling paranoia, and an exhaustion so profound the walls are starting to move. someone should probably force him to sleep but he has a good feeling that is not going to be scien.

he'll lean over to inspect the game, squinting a bit as he observes, and despite the whole aloof persona he is clearly kinda fascinated. you can't always take the circus outta the tiefling. ]

If it does, then not in my circles.

[egodist]

Care for a game?

[he makes a gesture to lucien's hand. he'll show you how to find it in the settings, since he generally assumes it's probably not super familiar technology.

also, hilariously:]

If you pass out soon, at least don't do it in a public walkway. People take to tripping over others here.

[he knows this exhaustion... he's familiar with it.... he's just so sleep-deprived all the time he is not there yet]

W0 - FRIDAY

[tombtaker]

[ well, lucien is pacing around the entire place and chainsmoking like a fiend, so that's probably pleasant to interact with when you're trying to Mourn. ]

Doesn't make sense.

[egodist]

[scien isn't necessarily pacing but he's also on the move. he checks every window, every vent, every area that has a passageway or door as if he's looking for something. anything.

his emotions are still not quite right - like they're not being processed correctly - but what is there is this odd, unfamiliar sense of anger from him. it builds slowly until it reaches the point that it's overwhelming - until it stalls. disappears entirely. starts to rebuild itself from nothing.

surely it's fine]

Tell me what you experienced.

[tombtaker]

[ offering out the packet of cigarillos. ]

Boring night, all told. Don't know anything that's of use. I didn't see either of them most of the day yesterday.

W0 - SATURDAY

[tombtaker]

[ hey buddy how's it going? having a normal one? lucien will walk up to the hannibal lecter glass here and stand close enough to it to be heard. ]

No longer a god, eh?

[egodist]

[scien is

horizontal again i'm sorry this man is really splayed out on the ground looking at the ceiling. his emotions are still in that tight little box bundle, but the strongest one that leaks through is this sense of being lost.

super average time here]

Is that what you want to be?

[tombtaker]

[ that seems fair enough. horizontal is a good place to be for crises of faith.

he hears this, does a soft noise through his nose and tilts his head. if the emotion-share is still powerful enough to overcome the lost feeling, then maybe some of that emotion from earlier is reflected back at him. trapped. ]

Want is no longer in the reckoning of it. It doesn't matter what I want, whether I choose king, or god. I am one. I will be one. I am on the threshold of ascension.

Or I will be subsumed by it.

week 4, post-mini event

[egodist]

[does the embed once and never again because i'm lazy. it's pixel shu unless i say it's not pixel shu.

though it's kinda convenient to both be hosoyan? for example, the way that if someone isn't directly looking at him or paying attention, they might hear someone else's voice and intonation. someone who died a few weeks back.]

You and the Heart Thief have such a complicated relationship. I've learned too much about it, and yet I found myself disappointed when you didn't summon him twice last week.

[HELP. NOT THE RANDOM RELATIONSHIP COMMENTARY]

[tombtaker]

[ NOT THE FIRST THING BEING RELATIONSHIP COMMENTARY

he has a lot of questions but honestly he first just has to be mad because this is so insulting. he doesn't know who heart thief is but you know what he's smart enough for contextual reading of the statement, he can figure it out. ]

I did summon him, it wasn't a guarantee it would work and clearly something went a bit awry.

[egodist]

[it's not like scien would lead with a hey hello how are you....

but that

makes him laugh]

Oh, that's much funnier. He's going to be quite cross with you.

W6 - SATURDAY

[tombtaker]

[ hello armless one. ]

You could always get a fake?

[ gesturing to his own replacement part, a mechnical eye. ]

[egodist]

I feel like I've had this conversation a few times...

[but he tilts his head]

It would be simpler for me to recreate my entire body at this point.

[tombtaker]

Feels a bit baby out with the bathwater if you ask me, but fine.

[ he can DISCARD HIS WHOLE BODY if he wants. ]

That's something you can do?

week 6, sunday

[egodist]

[deposits pc on you

but auction items are unlocked :) which means that in the stasis bay, where scien had been spending a solid amount of his time, he's looking at the now glowing, active, awake reliver machine. it thrums with a foreboding energy and scien is at one of the monitors, running a diagnostics check. when lucien wanders in, scien glances up]

Don't get too curious.

[absolutely terrible instruction in fact probably counterproductive]

[tombtaker]

[ TERRIBLE INSTRUCTIONS he will immediately break them. ]

Oh, certainly, I think we should let two insane people work on their mad projects today with zero consequences. That will work out well for us.

[egodist]

Oh, I'm just an insane person doing set-up for my mad project today. I'll find out my consequences shortly.

[stop]

endgame

[egodist]

[scien's in the medbay! he's working! of course he is! though he has one simple bit of praise for lucien:]

Nice shot.

[on that 20 bravo]

[tombtaker]

Quite honestly not entirely sure how feel about you praising me.

[ STRANGE ... UPSETTING ... he craves it ... ]

What are you working at?

[egodist]

I can never do it again, if you'd like.

[he's mostly teasing though]

If I were to say 'salvation'?