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[HELLO, TRANQUILITY.

Topher looks... well, the phrase "like hell" would be apt. He just arrived in medbay roughly ten minutes ago and after making sure his supply of the cure was properly handed out to the staff to resupply, he has retreated to some dark corner to scream at the network. He hasn't showered or bothered to get much of the horrible combination of blood, vomit, and various other terrible substances off of him, so he... Looks quite a lot like this. This is not a happy Topher. Happy Tophers go shower immediately and fuck the fact that there's probably forty people down there getting their showers on.

It takes him a minute to get past teeth-baring, heavy-breathing, nerd-rage, and when he does, it's very clear he had to put the communicator up on top of something so everyone can see his wild, frustrated gesturing.]

I think- I really think we need to sit down and have a little lunchtime poll, Tranquility. I don't... I don't even know if it's lunchtime, because my sense of time is a little shot to complete hell, but for this particular argument's sake, let's pretend it's lunchtime.

Now here's your poll question- and remember, there are no stupid questions, so don't just immediately write this off as me just babbling like a crazy person, 'cause that's not what this is at all.

Okay. You're building a big spaceship for God only knows what purpose. What do you put in it? Kitchens? Holodecks? A really fancy bridge that has that one button and a couple levers that seem to do everything? Those are reasonable answers. I commend you for having those answers. Good for you. You're a sane person. Gold stars for the sane people on the ship.

But if you answered black holes and terrifying hellbeasts, then you have brought me to my next question as well as proved any and all points I might have about who the real insane people are.

So Captain, my freakin' psycho Captain and his little engineer too. What the hell is wrong with this ship? 'Cause a bunch of us just nearly died to fix something that went wrong with your systems and then nearly got eaten by something that got loose in your labs- labs we didn't know even know existed until now, because no one tells us anything. I think we deserve a lot more than a pat on the head and a bunch of vague answers.

But maybe that's just me. I mean, it's not like me and a bunch of other people didn't just risk our lives to save our friends or anything. It's not like they deserve to know what they nearly died of.

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Edited 2012-06-19 19:24 (UTC)

Amen, kid.

[ What else can he add, really? ]

[Were he not in the middle of hell beasts and attempting to gather up what data he can get his hands on in that doomed department, Charles would totally be listening in on this!]

[Absolutely nothing. Topher slumps against the wall and... realizes his communicator was still up on top of something and has to sort of fumble for it before he sinks to the floor.]

How is it on your end? I didn't ask before I... Yeah. [Because he's pretty sure he's a walking health hazard right now and does not need to be in med bay until he's gotten his bearings.]

[FIGHT THE POWER, CHARLES.]

[Damn power! Putting all these scientific goodies in the middle of hellbeast central.]

[TOPHER COME ON this is totally embarrassing mostly because Wheatley knows that mess is at least 80% his blood and vomit and he doesn't really feel like being reminded that he can puke and bleed and ooze strange blue fluid. GO SHOWER.]

I am sorry. For vomiting on you so many times. It is considered rude, I'm aware of that. But, uh, I do think maybe you should...clean it off.

[ tony's actual thought process right now. ]

i feel like i should be patting you on the back for this impressive manliness you seem to want to show.

also. IT WAS WHEATLEY WHO VOMITED ON YOU?

Edited 2012-06-19 19:42 (UTC)

[ irene is literally curled up on her bed watching this oh topher. ]

Oh my, aren't you attracting attention to yourself.

[Wheatley. There are moments when Topher really, really has to seriously remind himself why he wants to be your friend.

This is one of those moments. Unfortunately, because you almost died and it was kinda his fault (the hellbeast part), he only mimes THE STRANGLING FINGERS OF FRUSTRATION ONCE (which you can't see, because he turned the video off for your benefit- YOU'RE WELCOME, PRINCESS) and then twenty minutes later, comes back to respond, now clean.]

It's not really considered rude when you have death plague. They give you a free pass for that. [It's a "dammit, Otto, you have lupus" situation.] But hey, if you don't go near controlled substances, we won't ever have to have this conversation again.

it's been a really bad week. someone had to say it.

[skjdfskl GOD, TONY. DON'T BE A DOUCHE.]

it's not like he has rabies or anything.

[See this, Irene? This is the end of Topher's rope. It had a good run. For a rope.] What's anyone gonna do? Lock me in a room next jump or put me on a creepy list? If that's what it takes to get answers out of these people, I'm kinda okay with that. People are dying. That's usually the part when the games have to stop.

No. It's the part when those losing the games say they should stop. And unfortunately, I don't think our dear captain is on the losing end.

[Shhh come on man this is his strange roundabout robot way of saying "thanks for saving my sorry ass" just go with it.]

Right, so, we'll call it even. I did warn you about hellbeasts, after all.

[ISN'T HE A GREAT FRIEND.]

[It's just really hard to deal with the terrible reality that there is someone more awkward than he is. Sob. Cry. /insert sad violin version of Rad Bromance here]

That was mostly a fluke, but I'll give you that, 'cause I... did almost get you killed.

If there are better suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Really. I would. [WHAT IS GAME THEORY???]

[And that is met by approximately three seconds of silence.]

I was dying anyway.

Yeah, but... [STOP MAKING HIM FEEL THINGS.] You didn't exactly have to be stuck in a maze with me the whole time either.

What happened to the system?

Interstellar travel is not without its inherent dangers.

Can anyone tell if those things used to be some of the crew? [Because this has been bothering him since he saw them.]

[ LOOK HE APPARENTLY DOES NOT LIKE WHEATLEY ON PRINCIPLE. ]

i hadn't noticed that it was a bad week. at all. i mean, really, i puke black vomit up all the time and turn funny colors.

...you sure about that? because you two did just come back from casa de hellbeasts.

...Hellbeasts, you say.

[RELEVANT TO HIS INTERESTS.]

I'm also quite curious about these questions.

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