You are what you dare

Lost space wizard with a magnum.

[utilitycaster]

putting this on my wall like a live laugh love sign

[realblacklightvirus]

these d codes are very strong do you think they work out ?

[prometheanwarlock]

Y'know, I bet they do. I wonder what that looks like. Multiple laps around the island to warm up? Battle rope but with steel cables? Benchpressing trucks?

Maybe I'll give them a visit.

[realblacklightvirus]

theres a man outside who has been screaming all night non stop. i am going to eat him

[prometheanwarlock]

sorry about that.

[pondwitch]

watch and learn, dumbshits *teleports thirty meters below my current position and suffocates on dirt and clay within seconds*

[prometheanwarlock]

OOC: Thought I'd give these bingos a try too :3 @unrealblacklightvirus @mk19s

Unsurprisingly, Auriks is Alex's type of friend (on account of having been the same person, once). He can be a good influence when it comes to virus things. Maybe too good. Teach the baby how to make horrible biomass proximity mines that run after people and explode

He knows the struggles of being a young virus well, and will stick by any little Alex.

Auriks and this Cross:

"I already have a boyfriend, fuck off."

[my-nameis-jasper-deactivated202]

I asked my kids if they’d prefer a secret garden or a secret library and my son shook his head and was like “I don’t trust the secret gardeners and librarians”

[my-nameis-jasper-deactivated202]

Me: what if there aren’t any gardeners or librarians.

Son: there’s always a librarian. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there. And it’s a garden, there has to be someone taking care of it or it isn’t really a garden.

Me:

Me: this was supposed to be lighthearted

[my-nameis-jasper-deactivated202]

Daughter: don’t trust the secret librarian.

Son: any librarian who hoards a library to themselves is hiding something.

Daughter: /nods seriously/

Me: why are you two talking as if from experience should I be concerned

[skiplo-wave]

The kids are right Jazz

[supreme-leader-stoat]

But what if I want to be the secret librarian?

[my-nameis-jasper-deactivated202]

Me: what if you were the secret librarian?

Son: wouldn’t be a secret library. I have nothing to hide.

Daughter: so not a secret librarian. A good librarian.

Me: you two are on a wavelength I can’t understand

[brawltogethernow]

What a way to find out your kids went on a whole-ass portal fantasy adventure at some point.

[herpsandbirds]

Indian Black Narrowmouth Frog aka "Space Frog" (Melanobatrachus indicus), family Microhylidae, Munnar, Kerala, India

photograph by Hadlee Renjith 

[markscherz]

Look, I think it is important that as many people as possible see these phenomenal photos of Melanobatrachus indicus, because they are damn rare, but truly spectacular.

If anyone wants to know my favourite frog, this is probably in the top five.

[unrealblacklightvirus]

inspired by @mk19s 's post, a bingo card for alex probably not as deep as theirs but whatever ! specifically my version of alex as i know there are many different characterizations of him ... it was hard to fill this in as alex just. doesnt seem to really care about things he likes in a person it just depends if he likes you or not (and it is easy for him to like you). aka he gives little shits about most people.

just know that my alex is ace and aro, so i would see this more as his "friend" type, or stuff he looks for in people he wants to be friends with :)

basically if youre a good person and are gentle with him and his problems he will want to be friends with you

[unrealblacklightvirus]

[prometheanwarlock]

Is it cannibalism if he isn't even human? Let a guy eat.

[captain-cross]

And of course right as I say that (virus) Mercer shows up and fucking hugs her

[captain-cross]

@subject001-elizabeth-greene Since someone needs to keep you off the Mercers long enough for (virus) Mercer to shove his fucking brain back in his skull.

To hell with 'not hurting her.' If you're looking to pick a fight, pick a fight with someone who can take you.

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

MY PAST IS YOUR FUTURE. THINK ON IT AND RESIST.

[captain-cross]

I'm extremely good at resisting, actually. Particularly resisting bullshit. Just ask my dead superior.

Are you going to do something, or are you just going to stare at me and ramble?

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

Wait wait wait! You're going to fight her? She's just a kid! She's been in a coma for, like, 40 years!

We can solve this without violence! Right?

[prometheanwarlock]

She wasn't comatose. She was waiting. The virus made Elizabeth Greene into an organism beyond your reckoning. And there is a man here specifically trained to fight things like her, who may very well be her offspring. In short: this is a very charged situation (also because of the baton).

...

"Hey Liz! You remember somebody named Harley? They wanna say hi!"

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

....well, she remembers how she used to stare at me.

I don't think she liked ABBA. I should have played the Carpenters.

[prometheanwarlock]

Carpenters is after her incarceration, too. Pick something from the 50s and 60s or did music not exist back then?

The virus is a creepy alien. To me, at least. Of which I am a part, and entity.

Bid her to answer, since she can do that now. Maybe she's just falling back into the usual spiel of listening to your ramble.

Or she thinks you aren't worth a reply.

[captain-cross]

And of course right as I say that (virus) Mercer shows up and fucking hugs her

[captain-cross]

@subject001-elizabeth-greene Since someone needs to keep you off the Mercers long enough for (virus) Mercer to shove his fucking brain back in his skull.

To hell with 'not hurting her.' If you're looking to pick a fight, pick a fight with someone who can take you.

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

MY PAST IS YOUR FUTURE. THINK ON IT AND RESIST.

[captain-cross]

I'm extremely good at resisting, actually. Particularly resisting bullshit. Just ask my dead superior.

Are you going to do something, or are you just going to stare at me and ramble?

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

Wait wait wait! You're going to fight her? She's just a kid! She's been in a coma for, like, 40 years!

We can solve this without violence! Right?

[prometheanwarlock]

She wasn't comatose. She was waiting. The virus made Elizabeth Greene into an organism beyond your reckoning. And there is a man here specifically trained to fight things like her, who may very well be her offspring. In short: this is a very charged situation (also because of the baton).

...

"Hey Liz! You remember somebody named Harley? They wanna say hi!"

[headspace-hotel]

Also I was looking at 2021 in paleontology and apparently this year we discovered this awful shark that is wider than it is long

why

[headspace-hotel]

I love this thing

[hexpress]

can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like stupid sharks?

[weaver-z]

I could really use a fish right now

[captain-cross]

And of course right as I say that (virus) Mercer shows up and fucking hugs her

[captain-cross]

@subject001-elizabeth-greene Since someone needs to keep you off the Mercers long enough for (virus) Mercer to shove his fucking brain back in his skull.

To hell with 'not hurting her.' If you're looking to pick a fight, pick a fight with someone who can take you.

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

MY PAST IS YOUR FUTURE. THINK ON IT AND RESIST.

[captain-cross]

I'm extremely good at resisting, actually. Particularly resisting bullshit. Just ask my dead superior.

Are you going to do something, or are you just going to stare at me and ramble?

[prometheanwarlock]

The Cross here is Pariah? Huh.

[realblacklightvirus]

@subject001-elizabeth-greene i have decided.

FRICK YOU . youre not my mom !

love , alex

[realblacklightvirus]

yeah . take that evil virus mom !

[realblacklightvirus]

family issues . you know how it is

i would not do that because she may scream at you with a thousand voices and then jump out of a hole in the side of a building and that is not very good

[redlight-greenelight]

:‑( SINCERELY

ELIZABETH GREENE

[realblacklightvirus]

im sorry mother i didnt mean it like that im very sorry

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

SO MUCH HATE FOR THE ONES WHO LOVE YOU.

ELIZABETH GREENE

[realblacklightvirus]

no !!!! mother i am so sorry ple.ase moth er sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

COME GIVE MOTHER A HUG.

[realblacklightvirus]

okay . very sorry mother .

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

:‑) MOTHER LOVES YOU.

I MISSED YOU, MY CHILD.

[realblacklightvirus]

mother loves me ! mother misses me! i miss mother ! mother upset.. me? no , no mother didnt..

mother stole dana . you stole dana ! the leader hunter stole dana... i cant... eurrghh. i cant. get my thoughts straight

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

THE SISTER IS WELCOME TOO. SHE BELONGS WITH US.

[prometheanwarlock]

No. Bad Liz. Stop that.

No touching anyone or influencing their desires!

You go into the contemplation orb.

[prometheanwarlock]

The Lobby

It's a mess. Time to get to work.

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

You want me to clean the lobby? You know I'm a lab assistant, not a janitor, right...?

[prometheanwarlock]

I don't mean you working in that way. Let's find Liz. See if you can actually engage in a poper conversation that isn't onesided.

I'll be right there to support you.

[prometheanwarlock]

The Lobby

It's a mess. Time to get to work.

[prometheanwarlock]

Update: My first day has passed, and I have not died.

I have found a temporary place to set up.

Doc Mercer is missing. Nothing new.

I'll keep an eye out for him but won't actively search, the people here know him best. Also, butting in would be weird.

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

Excuse me, sorry to interrupt but...

You look big, strong, and capable. Can you help me out?

[prometheanwarlock]

Depends on what it is, and who's asking.

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

Uh, well, see... there's this woman, E-Elizabeth... She's highly contagious so she needs to stay in this cell for, well, everyone's safety. Aaannd uh.... someone left the door open. When, um, when they were taking blood samples. And now she's gone...

[prometheanwarlock]

I see.

Well? What're those blood samples for, my friend?

Elizabeth Greene has gone through plenty already, don't you think you've taken enough from her?

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

They're for Project-

Mmm... I'm not supposed to know but they're for a project to cure cancer. Drs. Mercer and Parker and everyone

I don't want to hurt Elizabeth, but she's in a coma - or, she was...

[prometheanwarlock]

I see.

You're fucking gullible.

I'm going to take that phone of yours and find her, but not for your sake, or the project's.

Stay, and get shot by the guys in all black, or stick around and catch a lethal virus. Pick your poison, but I can at least help you with the latter.

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

Uh, neither of those sound like good-

Hey!

[prometheanwarlock]

Yoink. Mine.

For now, at least.

You'll still be able to read messages but this thing is now for one Lizzy Greene.

So. Are you gonna come along to find her? We can find out if she considered you a friend, or a future snack.

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

I-I guess? I mean I guess I'll follow!

I sure hope she considers me a friend. I played.... so much ABBA for her on night shifts... What do you mean snack?

[prometheanwarlock]

You played ABBA for her?

Hm. Bit after her time.

She liked John Lennon's "Imagine" and Bob Dylan's rendition of Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land". Blackwatch probably wouldn't have liked you playing that to her, though.

Here, so you can download it onto the phone for her to listen to, later.

https://youtu.be/hVRPOKzTuA4

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

Yeah... the bosses didn't really want anyone talking to her but it's just so weird, you know? Mopping the lab in the dead of night and she's just staring at you...

I figured she'd like some conversation.

[prometheanwarlock]

It's... kind of you to offer any comfort. It's more than most did.

But, how the hell did you end up cleaning Greene's containment floor if you're an undergraduate?

Let me guess, no next of kin, significant others, or noteable friends at uni or elsewhere?

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

....how did you know that? I just moved here. I- Dr. McMullen said my thesis had potential, he- When he visited the school-

Holy shit.

What's really going on??

[prometheanwarlock]

I'm sorry, kid.

You got duped into being an expendable with an easy to clean up after death.

You were mopping the floors for a company that develops bioweapons, around their top-level test subject.

Your thesis probably didn't show as much promise as your great respect for germ theory, cleanliness, disposability, and general BAMF-ness.

That's Bad At Making Friends, by the way.

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

Oh... I'm.... just going to cry on the inside. Doesn't seem like a good time to let out my emotions right now.

Bioweapons? Gentek is making weapons? Am I- Fuck, am I a criminal? Have I been helping them kill people?? I'm a horrible person and I don't even have my own house yet!

[prometheanwarlock]

You didn't help them make anything they wouldn't have made without you.

They would've gotten somebody else to clean Floor 51. That's all.

...listen. Fuck Gentek, alright? And fuck McMullen especially, the bastard. He's dead, you're not, and you have no blood on your hands, if you ask me. We're gonna get to Greene, and we're both going to make sure she's okay, accounted for, and isn't making anyone around her... not okay.

You're my friend now, and I am your friend. I am also going to pick you up now, so I can move faster.

[captain-cross]

One: Why is Greene alive.

Two: Do not fucking let her out?

[prometheanwarlock]

I was on the way to handle it, but it sounds like you have Greene? Good job, if so, but don't hurt her. She's been through enough, and I might be able to help her.

Maybe it is multiverse bullshit (wouldn't be new), but in freak incidents the Hivemind will... absorb an entity for nebulous reasons and spit it out again through a Hive (in my home, at least). I doubt that happened here. Largely because of the lack of information this Gentek worker has, whom I'm dragging along at the moment. Somehow, he still considers Project Blacklight a cure for cancer.

[realblacklightvirus]

THERES ANOTHER GREENE ?

[subject001-elizabeth-greene]

WE ARE UNITED. WE ARE UNITY. COME JOIN THE CHORUS OF THE VIRUS.

ELIZABETH GREENE

[realblacklightvirus]

... . yes . i mean no . i wont. .will join not join n yyou

STOP IT .

[prometheanwarlock]

That feels weird. Hmm.