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prefers_chess

Escape 025

Jul 29, 2010 01:44

( Chalked on the Wall of Rudy Miller's Bedroom | Off-Network )

communicates entirely through mime, obviously up to something, guidance would be ecstatic, would have preferred garbage detail, not sure if want, i want to go home, impromptu curse, surrogate home sweet home, do not disturb, affected, nothing fazes rudy miller, forced to socialize, at least it's not alcatraz, evil genius, this is not cabin 13, shape up or you don't eat

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Action! (like I would pass on that XD) coffeenspeed July 29 2010, 09:06:26 UTC

[knock on the bedframe]

You okay, man?

Action! prefers_chess July 29 2010, 16:37:09 UTC

[Something rustles within, but there is still no visible sign of Rudy.]

Yes. I'm okay.

Action! coffeenspeed July 29 2010, 19:22:30 UTC

[Anthony's not giving up. he clearly cannot read]

You sure? If you need anything...

Action! prefers_chess July 29 2010, 19:54:25 UTC

I attached a sign in the hopes of dissuading people's concerns.

[His response is bland and monotonous, but devoid of any sarcasm.]

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laughs_for_two July 29 2010, 17:27:26 UTC

Mike doesn't wake up for the sheet placing or for the semi-conversations that Rudy is having via signs. He does, however, notice when he attempts to climb down via the ladder when he wakes up in the morning and there is a sheet in the way of his feet. Moving back onto the bed, he bends down over the railing to look at the sheet, and then bends down a bit further to read the sign upside-down.

"Oh no, not this again." He doesn't push the sheet aside but he does move up to the head of the bed and try to talk down through the mattress. "Hey, Rudy. What's going on?"

prefers_chess July 29 2010, 17:33:56 UTC

"I was nostalgic for camp and sought to relive one of the fonder moments of my youth," comes the mumbled answer. It is clear, however, that it is taking a lot of effort to get the words out; it's not sarcasm exactly, but it's just skirting the line of what the curse will and won't allow him to do. "Is the camera off?"

laughs_for_two July 29 2010, 17:41:05 UTC

...what. Mike frowns at the mattress, wondering if this has something to do with those mind-control aliens...or maybe it's something else. Anyway, something is definitely wrong and he wants to know what it is.

"Which...oh." He notices Rudy's device and jumps off the top bunk in order to go and turn it off. And then he takes it out of the room just in case and closes the door behind it. "Yeah, it's off." He comes over to crouch by the side of the bed.

prefers_chess July 29 2010, 17:50:37 UTC

The mattress rustles behind the curtain as Rudy rolls over onto his side, still silently bristling about the apparent inability to engage in anything but polite discourse. He's safe inside his head, of course, and in his mind he can run through every last irritable, snappish, cynical thing he wants to say aloud. But as soon as he opens his mouth, or even tries to communicate through writing, the compulsion to exercise perfect courtesy strikes.

At least now he knows that Mouse is a deity to be reckoned with, unlike some of the others that he's talked to. But it's small condolence.

"Thank you," he says, and stares blandly at the curtain. "I appreciate it."

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audio ][ adamantined July 29 2010, 19:38:31 UTC

Is that supposed to be a fort?

audio ][ prefers_chess July 29 2010, 19:56:39 UTC

To some extent.

[Clearly the signs are not working. And as loath as he is to resort to speaking, there's not much else that can be done, save to ignore everyone for the whole day. Which he would happily do, if people would just stop bothering him.]

audio ][ sorry for any slow /in class adamantined July 29 2010, 20:06:41 UTC

You've got a good sign going for you, but you're missing a flag.

audio ][ no prob! prefers_chess July 29 2010, 20:09:53 UTC

[After an agonizing moment, along comes his listless response, notable in that it is completely devoid of any sarcasm: ]

What a nice idea.

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/lols at sitaronthewater July 29 2010, 23:21:51 UTC

You sick or something?

/grumps grumps grumps | Audio; prefers_chess July 29 2010, 23:23:07 UTC

Yes.

Audio; sitaronthewater July 29 2010, 23:49:04 UTC

With what? Is it a curse?

Audio; prefers_chess July 29 2010, 23:52:15 UTC

Arguably. I am regrettably unfit to interact with other people at the moment.

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video; idomore July 30 2010, 12:09:53 UTC

It won't delete, I suppose?

video; prefers_chess July 30 2010, 17:34:38 UTC

[And out from behind the sheet comes that same hand with a new sign to display for the camera: ]

No.

video; idomore July 30 2010, 20:26:16 UTC

Too bad.

video; prefers_chess July 30 2010, 20:36:26 UTC

[Herein lies a long pause in which Rudy reflects upon the fact that if people would just heed the sign and leave him alone, none of this would be a problem. Hence the whole point of having a sign in the first place. Sigh.

No sign this time; his voice comes from behind the sheet, slightly muffled, and noticeably without any hint of sarcasm.]

I know. It's unfortunate.

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