SUBJECT: So, uh ........ a8out whatever is up with this place?

[hypertoxic]

[ USER: #005682 ]

Since there's fuck all else to do, I decided to try flying around and seeing how far I could get! Not gonna lie, I would have ditched every single one of you losers if I could.
8ut I couldn't! No matter how far or high I fly, there's just ........ nothing. Nothing at all! Though if you go up high it gets pretty fucking cold, so I don't recommend trying it to people who aren't dead.
Anyway, there's your upd8. We are even more trapped than we previously assumed!

Comments

[parodeity]

my go to is usually "that creep who lives in the vents" or "jack mcstabbington bear"
like
how many people did that guy even stab
you would think he would find an upper limit someday maybe get bored but like no
i am pretty sure he stabbed lik
90% of us
or something dumb as fuck
im tempted to run the numbers but that sounds like a complete waste of time
and im not quite bored enough for the temptation to take hold just yet

[murdery]

Nope! I'm Henry!

[He didn't get a great look at Vriska when they were in the well, what with the crowd making things difficult, but he gets a load of her now. She's unlike anything he's ever seen before, and that's awesome.]

Holy cow, what are you? Some kind of demon?

[hypertoxic]

[ there's a pause.......

but then she smiles, even if it's on the tired side of thin. ]

No, you dork, but that would be pretty awesome! I am an alien species. We're called trolls.

[murdery]

I dunno what aliens are, but that sounds pretty awesome already!

[But hey, they're here for a reason. Henry immediately starts digging through his robes for various bits and bobs.]

So, what kind of hex ya want? Got a problem that needs fixing?

[heartsteals]

My angry friend, I am perfectly willing to believe you're a ghost, considering everything else going on. It wasn't meant as an insult.

#ffff99

[troubadamsel]

Ill manners aside, the information is appreciated.

Let me just clarify - beyond the woods, and beyond the ocean, there are no other distinguishing landmarks? It just stretches on?

Also, it is spelled "update".

[drubbings]

[ Apparently they were going there, much to Terezi's intense displeasure. She had hashed over this conversation a lot in her head, but it still wasn't coming any easier. Or going the way she hoped it would. ]

TH1S 1S R43L 4ND H4PP3N1NG
1 W4NT TO S4Y 1M SORRY 1T 1S H4PP3N1NG BUT 1M NOT SUR3 1F TH4TS TRU3
TH1S 1S 4 CONFUS1NG MOM3NT SO YOULL H4V3 TO FORG1V3 M3 FOR B31NG 4 L1TTL3 OFF MY G4M3!

TH4T W4S 4LSO SOM3TH1NG 1 NOT3D 3V3RYT1M3
WH3N YOU S4Y SW33PS
DO YOU M34N 3X4CTLY ON3 4ND 4 H4LF

[ In other words, is she the Vriska she killed with her own two fronds. ]

[dreidels]

This stuff just happens. One day you and your buddies want to make some extra cash, then you're being deported to a detention center in Miami, and the government tells you you've gotta go to Peru for a mission or you'll be sent to Guantanamo Bay.

If there's a way to get in touch with anyone back home, my best friend would help us get out of here. I have a feeling we're on our own with this bullshit.

you know, i'm gonna action this, pip;

[messianic]

[Solely from the typing and when the responses come in, he can kind of figure it out--]

... Is this your forum post?

You're--that dark blue?

[hypertoxic]

Not a thing! Just endless emptiness forever. Pretty cheerful!
Can you people really not figure out the typing quirk?

[hypertoxic]

I'm not sorry it's happening.
I don't know. Time is pretty much endless and infinite when you're dead. 8ut if you're asking me if I'm the Vriska you know........
I'm at least pretty sure I am.

[hypertoxic]

I have no idea what you're talking a8out, 8ut to 8e honest, that sounds like the same sort of un8eara8le questy 8ullshit I had to go through for a while. It sucks!
Yeah, we're waaaaaaaay out of reach of our home universes. So we will have to figure this out for ourselves!

[hypertoxic]

Oh what, NOW I'm civilized enough for you to talk to????

HAHA WORKS FOR ME

[hypertoxic]

[ Vriska kind of picks up her head, letting go a soft "hm?" before she can think better of it.

She just stares at Minato, stares at his laptop, and then stares at him again. ]

Yeah, I'm not really going to make a secret out of it, my typing quirk is pretty distinctive. Why, what's up?

[hypertoxic]

Sta8?
Holy fuck, are you talking a8out Gamzee?
Yeah, that guy turned out to 8e a psychopathic creep! Who knew. All that sopor slime had 8een dulling some serious high8lood credentials!
Fuck him. He did weird and creepy things with my 8ody. ::::(

[hypertoxic]

I'm from another planet, obviously. Man, what kind of backwards society are you from?

[ vriska will watch him curiously, leaning this way and that to try and better see what he's doing. ]

Uh... I dunno. You can't resurrect people, can you?

[heartsteals]

Were we not speaking already?

I apologize for offending you. It wasn't my intention, really. My tone doesn't carry well through text, it seems.

[parodeity]

him and jack
and yeah he sure fucking did
cant say living with a dude who liked to behead bodies and stick them in jars was like
top notch in terms of roommates
in fact it was the opposite of that
not that i ever saw him that much
i think i saw him in a hallway once but otherwise there was just kinda the knowledge he was there?
and then sometimes youd come across some creepy bullshit he pulled and go well that sure is a thing
and then youd immediately book it in the opposite direction because absolutely no one has time for that

[messianic]

[I can't believe they just casually have been chilling in the same house and never really chatted much but also, I can, because look at them.]

I guess I just wanted to ask without it being so public, about what you said...are you okay? [What she said there, about being dead... it sure didn't sound okay, and that's the sort of thing that honestly hits close to home.]

[i_cant_die]

I'll ask my new friends and one new enemy. This is going to be fun.

Need to find marshmallows.

[hypertoxic]

I don't know, may8e you shouldn't 8e making baseless assumptions a8out people you don't fucking know and calling them uncivilized 8ecause they're DE8D? Just a thought!

[hypertoxic]

[ this is the kind of people that they are. enormous fucking nerds.

annnnyway. she's quiet for a long moment, staring like she isn't entirely sure what to make of him. ]

I mean... yeah? I guess so. I'm not there anymore. Whoever brought us here somehow returned me to the land of the living without actually reviving me? It's not so bad. I am just kind of glad to be around people again.

[hypertoxic]

Lol. Karkat had a lot of sta88y "friends."
I wish I could say I was surprised. I always knew there was something off a8out that clown. It is pro8a8ly for the 8est you avoided him. Who knows what insane thing he would do?
I should have kicked his ass when I had the chance. Not that it would have made a difference, 8ut he would have had it coming!

[messianic]

[Correct.

Minato's quiet while she talks, expression contemplative.

Hm... The way she says it--it really does sound incredibly lonely, and he can't blame her at all. Not being around people...because you're dead, but somehow aware of it...

It's a special sort of awful, isn't it?

He listens, and there's a pause as he considers it, and then... as if out of nowhere:]

I know we just kind of ended up in these houses at random, but I hope you don't mind if I stay for awhile.

[(So she's not alone, when she sounds so lonely.)]

But thank you for explaining it to me.

[murdery]

[Moving right along from that...]

Weeeeeeeeeell, [and he draws out the word for a comically long time] you'd be surprised! I've done Risen before, but I can't say they make for very good conversation! [He giggles at that.]

Haven't figured out how to make 'em the way they were just yet, but I'm not sure why you'd wanna. Corpses turn all gross and fall-apart-y after a while.

[He stills his search and turns fully to her.]

You still want me to give it a go?