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[de_void]

[for anyone who has had the pleasure of being around stiles in the last couple months, he's suddenly looking far better. less panicky, less wan, and perhaps a bit more determined as well.

for anyone who is particularly familiar with stiles as a person (and considering how out of sorts he's been since being brought to the tranquility, that's really only going to be the people he knows from back home) they'll know that a determined stiles is almost always a dangerous one.]

So it's good to hear that at least some of us aren't willing to just lay down and accept our abduction without a little bit of a fight. [a little fiercely] I for one am through with letting myself be manipulated or toyed with by our mysterious evil overlords.

I wasn't in the hallways when everyone started disappearing last month, mostly because I had just come back from being lost in the hallways. But I saw a brief mention of paintings in the latest recon report and I thought I should share with anyone who was interested to know the details of the mural I came across while I was wandering in the hallways.

Y'know, just in case it helps with any part of the deeper mystery of this place.

[he moves away from the comm for a moment now before coming back with a rough sketch (he's no artist like lydia) to show everyone: a blocky figure standing firmly, with a thin neck that seems to support nineteen heads, each with sharp red eyes. he keeps the image in view for a beat before setting it aside.]

Not sure what it means, apart from being super trippy, but it never hurts to have all the information, right?

[he pauses, considering, before continuing with a slightly more forcefully upbeat tone.] And I guess on a completely different note, anybody here a psychologist, or have any sort of experience in that kind of capacity?

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[treasonista]

Seventeen, eighteen... Nineteen? That just seems excessive.

[ Yep. This is happening. Sorry, Stiles. (Not sorry.) ]

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[de_void]

Take that up with the original artist. If you can figure out who that is, I guess.

[i'll say it again, goddamnit odessa]

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[treasonista]

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that I think you're to blame for this. I'll bet that thing's chiropractor makes bank.

[ Don't act like you don't love her grossly inappropriate thigh high boots. ]

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[c24]

Well, that's totally comforting. Thanks, kid.

[ Demons back home, demons here. This is getting a little repetitive for his taste. ]

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[de_void]

[and demons inside stiles' head, what's your point, john?]

I'm not trying to be comforting. If you're comfortable here, you're forgetting where you are.

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[c24]

[ Point is it's getting old!! Still he can't help but chuff at Stiles' earnestness, getting lectured by a damn pipsqueak. Great. ]

Alright, alright, easy there, Tiger.

How big was the thing? Was it only the monster or were there background details, like people or other imagery?

[ Generally a good mural is going to tell a story. Not that he would... know... that kinda stupid stuff. Obv. ]

[lostkings]

Think i'm gonna have to stick with you on the just being trippy part.

[de_void]

Even if the art was supposedly pointless at the time it was originally painted, stuff always winds up making it's way through in the image regardless.

I'm not gonna dismiss anything I see or hear in this place.

[lostkings]

Why would they hang it out on the wall if it didn't mean something, right?

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[starbuckslord]

Wow, that thing looks like Death. [ The amused tone should probably suggest that he's not being serious.

He just has to occasionally rip on Thanos and his girlfriend, even if the psycho is never around. ]

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[de_void]

[and despite this stiles is taking him somewhat seriously.]

Like, death, Death? What sort of theological representation?

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[starbuckslord]

[ Wow, he wasn't expecting anyone to actually take him seriously. ]

Well. Not anything religious, actually. Actual death. She- it, occasionally likes to parade around as a Gothic Mary in a set of robes. Last time I saw her, she was turning her back on the loon who was in love with her.

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[cliver]

[ cringing, though she sounds calm enough. ] Nineteen's not the best number, symbolically speaking.

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[de_void]

[a nod] Yeah, that's definitely a pattern that's starting to emerge as we dig into this stuff a bit more.

What sort of thing comes to mind to you, when you first hear it?

[he's taking notes, okay.]

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[cliver]

Well, the gentleman [ Peter Bishop. She's keeping up, too. ] mentioned the Bible already — it's got to do with the divine order of judgment. Timely and justified judgment, I suppose. [ arching her eyebrows. ] And we skipped the nineteenth jump, you know. Our first local outside of the crew arrived in the mysterious gap, but no one else. I doubt that's a coincidence.

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[altercate]

What are you doing?

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[de_void]

You're going to have to be a bit more specific than that.

[chuffle]

Oh, lord.

[de_void]

What?



Hi, by the way.

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[dogbane]

well fuck. howd you come up with that drawing

ive a photo from the May recon looks exactly like it. there was others too

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[de_void]

saw it when I was wandering the hallways. do you have photos of the other stuff too?

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[strayed]

Stiles.

[This seems like him finally asking about ship things, and she feels vaguely responsible.]

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[de_void]

[stiles smiles at cora, and it's mostly the stiles of old that she knows. he's not 100% of course, but he's getting there. he's starting to make the right choices.]

Cora, hey. What's up?

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[mathematically]

Were you attempting to draw a hydra?

[ There's a lot of things she can say about this entire thing, but starting with the drawing seems like the safest bet. ]

And there used to be. She left a while ago, I don't think anyone else's replaced her.

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[de_void]

Noooooooo. No, it was definitely a human body under all those heads, but it did sort of remind me of a hydra.

[he sighs in a sort of, knew it was going to be this way but still sort of disappointed manner, shoulders slumping a bit.] Yeah, I got that from someone else after my first jump, I was just sort of hoping that it had changed since then.

[perking up a little now] But you are just the girl I wanted to see! Talk to, I guess.