voice

[sarcastass]

This is exactly why you don't trust scientists.

Don't get me wrong, I'm as fond of education and exploration as anyone else, but really this problem would have been solved before it even started if we just burned all of the offenders notes and maybe buried his research under a few tons of cement.

Drastic, maybe, but I find it'd probably be a great deal less damaging to the population at large that way.

It'd be just awful if there were to be a Guardian compromised by this.

Can you even imagine.

I hope we've all taken something very important from this, when someone suggests testing a hitherto unknown and possibly dangerous chemical substance on an unknowing populace, we don't just stop at firing them.

If they don't have the moral compass to not suggest using an entire city as a pack of guinea pigs, they probably don't have the moral compass to not do it anyway when you tell them no.

Have we learned nothing from fifties sci fi movies?

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[unhappy]

[ She'd reply openly but she doesn't want to leave anyone clues as to where the hell she is. See, when people put a bounty on your head because they think you're dangerous even if you haven't done anything here it tends to be disconcerting when the next thing you see is something like this. ]

So your solution is to arrest people before they've done anything wrong just because you think they're a bad person?

voice

[sarcastass]

I'm sorry you're deaf.

That's actually not what I said at all.

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[unhappy]

Sorry, that was the optimistic version of what you implied with "don't just stop at firing them." Hard to be deaf or understanding about a cryptic statement like that.

[sarcastass]

Okay.

We're going to have a short lesson on listening comprehension.

Rewind to about the second sentence.

Listen closely.

... Did you listen?

I hope you did.

Because I just took all the mystery out of my grand, evil plan.

[unhappy]

OK but if they already know how to do it then that's just kind of you being a dumbass and getting rid of the evidence for how to fix it.

I must really be off my game if I'm assuming you had half a brain that I wrote that off as what you meant.

[hellish_butler]

[There's a knock at Szel's bedroom.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Sebastian.

Sebastian who?

It's Sebastian checking on his housemate.

Yeah, let's come on in. The door open and Sebastian peeks in.]

You know, Mr. Szel. I do have a bottle of water straight from Nova City, containing the very same poison that affected the citizens there.

Do you care to try a sample to test your theory? After all, your post to the network that you posted last night is quite...scintillating, that I picked this up after work for you.

Or do you prefer the usual cup of tea for the afternoon?

[You see, Sebastian is being so...thoughtful and polite, he isn't really teasing him with the irony.]

[sarcastass]

Which theory was that, the one that someone in power shouldn't have it or the one where we'd be better off if we'd nuked his research from day one, because if it's the second one, I don't think I'll need a personal sample of it.

[As usual the room he's in has gone... well right to hell, filled with a distinct eerie sensation, reality curling in at the edges as those invisible tendrils stuffed the room to it's gills.]

Not to mention at this point in my life if I did have a moral side to me, there's a good chance it could fit into the vents and it'd probably die in there too.

It's a complication I'd rather not deal with.

[hellish_butler]

Both. Ah well, I'm only joking. I don't want to see you split into two half halves of your worse selves.

[The interior decoration is quite an improvement really. It feels cozy and comfortable like home.]

Optimistic are we? It would be more hard work for me to do, just to clean out the mess that is your rotten decayed purity. The vents needs to be in proper order to filter the clean air throughout the mansion, you know.

[With a bit of a hum, Sebastian presents afternoon tea, served on a china cup on a china saucer.]

Your afternoon tea, Mr. Szel. And don't make it more complicated by arguing with teenage deadbeats online. That will make your mind rot as well. Don't make it a poor habit. That can get addicting.

[But then again, isn't everyone bored?]

[sarcastass]

If I didn't immediately murder myself of course. I'm fairly certain my purity is already rotten and decayed, but I'd hate to be wrong.

[The tea was taken with a nod and even a respectful 'thank you']

Sebastian, I'm not a terribly social person but I do require occasional interaction with others, and if that means making some idiot monkey on the local frequency scream in text like a ten year old for a few minutes, I'll take it.

I need to get to work opening my own subgate. You are wonderful company, don't get me wrong, but I was used to having at least one constant companion at home.

It's not quite as fun having conversations with yourself, and I hardly expect you to follow on my heels all day.

[Video]

[shy_mage]

S-Someone is... is poisoning people?

[A little slow on the uptake here. So asks the man living in the middle of the woods with his own personal water supply. Didn't help that the news tended to be something that he would 'get around' to reading and trying to figure out what was happening on the network would just confuse him. Somehow, this hadn't reached him...]

[voice]

[sarcastass]

While I'm sure they would hesitate to call it poison themselves, there's no denying it has some terrible effects on your average flesh and bone body.

It is, technically therefore, a poison.

There was an incident in Nova City. You haven't heard it yet? I can pull the information up for you.

[Video - Not that it matters]

[shy_mage]

Oooh...

[He was going to end up notorious for not checking things at this rate.

He shook his head. Which probably didn't really help Szel.]

N-No. I've just been in the f-forest. Is everyone... are they better now?

[LOL]

[sarcastass]

They were all separated into two different people, their 'positive' traits and their 'negative' ones.

It's all relative which is which of course, but that doesn't matter-

I'm almost positive at least that everyone has started to return to normal, and there's a considerable bounty on the scientist that laced the water supply to begin with.

[Voice]

[hugs_for_nugs]

[Cole's voice is airy and distracted, but very serious at the same time.]

They think they know and they think it will not be their mistake that causes pain. It's easy to think that.

It's easy to just look away, not see, they have a lot to think, too much in the day, dawning realization that they did wrong. Shut down, it's not their fault. It's easier when it's not their fault.

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[sarcastass]

Well it's never their fault, is it?

It makes so many choices so much easier when you can just claim you had no choice, or that the end result was not your doing.

[hugs_for_nugs]

It does. [He sounds very solemn as he says that.] It's why this happens. It's also easy to look back, to look away, looking, seeing what they didn't. Finding fault, feeling like you know best, no one is all the way correct.

[sarcastass]

Well the fact of the matter is I actually do know what would have been best for the situation.

It's not like this hasn't happened at least a million times before in some shape or another.

[Audio]

[firstrose]

Fifties sci fi movies? [She has no idea what you're talking about.] And here I thought it was called common sense. Though it's true that despite the name... [It's not that common at all.]

Re: [Audio]

[sarcastass]

You'd be surprised how in this location, how often those two coincide.

But for all the names we give it, common sense really isn't that common.

[Audio]

[firstrose]

Or so I've noticed. We should think of renaming it.

But then... Don't you think you're wasting your time trying to get people to use something they don't have?

Re: [Audio]

[sarcastass]

What kind of helpful member of society would I be if I didn't at least attempt to encourage critical thinking?

Even if it doesn't work, I can still admit that I at least made an attempt.

[He also gets the honor of saying I told you so later]

voice;

[needssouls]

Seems not. I mean doing something like that is just obvious something will go wrong. Maybe e should just be glad it wasn't zombies or soemthing.

That would have be awful.

Re: voice;

[sarcastass]

We already have zombies here, at least we'd know what to do about it.

voice;

[needssouls]

Yeah, in Everglade I believe, but we don't need them in Nova City, at least the ones who have no control over anything and will just kill you on sight.

Not sure what the zombies are like actually in Everglade though.

Re: voice;

[sarcastass]

Stupid, mostly.