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Forty-Eighth Theory [Accidental Video/Action for Housemates]

Jul 31, 2011 11:46

[It should be immediately obvious that Don didn't mean to turn his journal on, and isn't even aware that it is on. He isn't looking at it. He isn't saying anything. In fact, he might not be awake. He's just sitting slumped in a chair, his head on the desk-like counter before him ( Read more... )

from the safety of his real home, didn't mean to post this, there's no place like home, being experimented on, asleep at his desk, has a history of stealing vehicles

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[Voice] | Filtered 100% semper_cogitans July 31 2011, 23:12:31 UTC

[The first thing Robert realizes is that Don is slumped there. Immediate panic button.

The second thing Robert realizes is that this isn't a filtered transmission. Even more panic button. So he filters his message as tightly as possible before speaking, soft but with a degree of urgency lent by everything repeatedly going to shambles.]

Don... Don, are you alright...?

[It's only after he speaks that he notices where Don is. Is that a vehicle, behind him?

... It's... it's strangely beautiful. The technology in it reminds him of his own home. But Don doesn't look happy.]

[Action] i_speak_softly August 7 2011, 03:52:45 UTC

[Don rubs the ridge between his eyes. He hasn't opened a neuroscience textbook in a while.]

So he couldn't see the note?

[Action] semper_cogitans August 7 2011, 03:56:17 UTC

It was... incomprehensible to him, sadly. [Robert sighs a little, rubbing his own face.] Which is why I was forced to resort to other methods...

... But he does know now.

[Action] i_speak_softly August 7 2011, 03:59:41 UTC

Okay. As long as he knows, he can protect himself.

[Action] semper_cogitans August 7 2011, 04:01:44 UTC

[... Yeah. Probably pretty well, at that.]

I am sorry to have put either of you in danger...

... But perhaps living with you and your family will help limit this, if for some reason this happens again. I am a liability...

[Action] i_speak_softly August 7 2011, 04:11:50 UTC

[At this, Don turns and moves away, pretending to take a great interest in the sub's navigational instruments.]

Where have you been? The last few days?

[Action] semper_cogitans August 7 2011, 04:17:40 UTC

Hiding, when I was not attempting to record data on this phenomenon... [Robert admits this somewhat uncomfortably, like he's going to be admonished for it.] These simulations have been... manifesting everywhere.

[Action] i_speak_softly August 7 2011, 16:23:20 UTC

[Possibly abruptly, depending on what Robert is thinking about:] Have you been talking to Giles?

[Action] semper_cogitans August 7 2011, 19:27:02 UTC

... I saw him recently, actually. [Awkwardly. Not necessarily a topic Robert wants to bring up because of the dirigible jelly, but he'll talk about it if Don asks.] Why do you ask?

[Action] i_speak_softly August 7 2011, 19:38:31 UTC

[Don feels bad for being so blunt, even though, as he continually has to remind himself, being blunt is the best way to talk to Robert.]

I thought he was going to teach you to fight.

[Action] semper_cogitans August 7 2011, 19:50:10 UTC

[Robert appreciates the bluntness, really.]

... Ah.

... Well... er, yes, that... that had been on the eventual itinerary. [Robert makes a noise somewhere between awkwardness and pain before admitting:] ... I, er, rather had a... hands-on experience with the subject, recently...

[It should be obvious he's not completely proud of this fact.]

[Action] i_speak_softly August 7 2011, 19:54:09 UTC

Oh? [Don is expecting the 'experience' to be another embarrassing training session, like what Robert had with Mikey.]

[While he waits to hear the story, he crouches down and begins inspecting the underside of the instrument panel.]

[Action] semper_cogitans August 7 2011, 20:02:11 UTC

[Far from it.]

... In... in a simulation of the Randi Institute, Giles and I encountered a simulation of a particular... s-species of non-human sapient. Dirigible jellies, specifically.

...

Zie went to attack Giles' eyes with neurotoxins, and... [Robert shivers slightly. It's a simulation, and yet he still feels ashamed of himself.] ... I... I struck zir, once. I t-tried to avoid zir eyes, I... I just wanted to distract zir attention away from Giles, momentarily...

... [Robert shudders anyway, allowing himself a moment of pain and fear and distinct self-loathing at doing something so reprehensibly un-Terran. He may have not seen a better option at the time, but it still bothers him.]

[Action] i_speak_softly August 7 2011, 20:15:13 UTC

[Don pauses in the act of pulling a screwdriver out of his belt.]

You defended him?

[It's natural for Don to think of things like this in terms of what one was protecting, rather than what one was attacking. It only occurs to him a half-second later that Robert is more than likely seeing it from the opposite perspective.]

[Action] semper_cogitans August 7 2011, 20:19:51 UTC

... It was intended to... p-protect Giles, yes.

... I know it was a s-simulation, but... but... [Robert trails off, biting his lip uncomfortably.]

... Giles... e-ended the simulation immediately after. [He was trying his best not to watch. Or listen.]

[Action] i_speak_softly August 7 2011, 20:23:18 UTC

[Don is a little baffled as to how Giles "ended" one of these runaway simulations, but he sets that aside for now, gesturing for Robert to come sit with him.]

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