ataraxion | ( 09 ) video ♧ there must be some way out of here said the joker to the thief

[ the feed opens on a shot of neal's thigh, swaddled in what looks like an armada of sheets, his sherlock's left-behind coat crumpled behind him, buffering the cold of the wall. then it slowly, jerkily moves up until everyone can get a lovely partial view up his nose.

for a normally well-groomed man, he looks fairly different from the usual-- dude's tore up from the floor up. he's also stripped down to a white undershirt despite what are pretty obvious signs of hypothermia, his hair matted and sweaty and with a month's worth of beard covering his face. he's staring at the wall beyond the communicator with rapt fascination, eyes wide and glazed.

after a long moment, he shrugs one shoulder in a jerky, awkward looking move and looks down, engaging in the world again with a shift that takes a moment. ]

Our smiling friend's not feeling chatty anymore, I don't think. Your loss-- we really bonded out there. Great conversationalist for a guy with no voice, that one.

[ his gaze drifts back to the wall, like he's forgotten he's talking to anyone else. ]

I still think there's merit to discussing the economic allegories potentially implied by the Wizard of Oz-- and don't start in on intent versus interpretation, death of the author is a valid concept even if you won't admit it. No more of the drawings, I'm tired of rabbits. Not even the Warholian ones.

[ he chuckles, hums a few bars and then murmurs to himself, smile tilting blank and frightened for a moment. ] Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay.

[ and now back to the communicator, with the first sign of any lucidity he's displayed yet: ]

I think I could use some help.

( ooc | SO NEAL IS BACK ~~from outer space~~. in-game it's early o'clock the morning of the thirty first. his walkabout went horrible and smiley took him on a little tour of the ship; he's suffering from moderate heading to severe hypothermia and dehydration with a nice dose of needs a damn sandwhich for good measure, so no straight answers on what's happened just yet.

irene adler v bbc is taking him to medbay where it's open season for action; otherwise anything network goes. )

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[ la la have a response because mike has poor impulse control and knows the song so of course has to sing along -- ]

Rolled off of their ship, and here's what they had to say / "We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore / We can laugh our lives away and be free once more"--

[ wait ]

Oops.

[ NEAL TOTALLY SANG ALONG IT'S COOL MIKE

and when he finishes his smile is beatific and completely out of it. ]

No, no. Encore-- know any Sinatra?

[ oh well uh. god, why does he always get into these situations-- ]

Depends, early stuff or later stuff?

New York, New York.

[ like duh mike. ]

Oh, come on, that's not even originally from Sinatra.

Possession is nine tenths-- Hound Dog was Big Mama Thornton, but Elvis is still the king.

[ there's a startled pause, a little breath and then-- ]

Neal.

Edited (nope autofill nope) 2012-10-31 07:34 (UTC)

Congratulations. The first step is admitting you have a problem. [ and then repeating it B). p.s. where the fuck have you been, amigo? also. that beard, bro. ]

Well, I'm sorry if the movie is the first thing to come to mind for New York, New York. You can't knock Scorsese, right? "Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the cum off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood."

[ but that's a completely different movie, mike ]

Irene.

[ neal's smile is wide and slow, eyes blown, hazy blue and focused on her left ear. ]

The whale turned out to be something else entirely. [ yes because that made sense. ]

Edited 2012-10-31 07:52 (UTC)

[ neal giggles at that, because he's a freakshow right now. ]

I'm not the one who needs that advice-- tell it to the city planner.

I've never seen a fighter that concerned about his hair.

[ see because rocky beat taxi driver, SHUT UP it's an awesome comeback if you're sick and kind of suffering a mental breakdown from a month of what was essentially solitary confinement. ]

Well, at least you aren't reciting beat poetry. [ Get it. But really, it's said with concern, because Josh is mildly concerned. ]

I think you should get to medical. [ Where Josh wishes he could be to meet you and help out, but sadly that's not an option tonight. ]

But that meeting place
isn't represented;
it doesn't occur on the canvas.

For the other side of the ship
is Heaven and Eternity,
with a bleak red haze over its valleys.

And the immense water of L'Estaque is a go-between
for doomed shuttles.

[ hey neal that isn't strictly how ginsberg put it. ]

Oh, I would.

Edited 2012-10-31 10:03 (UTC)

Did you know that rabbits are designed to be incapable of vomiting? Of course in the wild, it isn't an issue. Rabbits will instinctively eat the right balance of food in order to keep themselves healthy and functioning. They'll even eat their own faeces to be sure that they gain all the nutrients from the food they first ate.

It's in captivity that they face their biggest issues with digestion. Humans will oftentimes feed them an unbalanced diet, and due to their inability to regurgitate food, they can sometimes become blocked, and this will occasionally give the appearance of the rabbit having vomited. Of course, by that point, the rabbit will have undoubtedly suffocated, as they would be unable to remove the waste from their own mouths and noses.

It's...upsetting. Humans attempt to care for them. But they ultimately do more harm for them than good.

"We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore, we can laugh our lives away and be free once more."

[Harvey knows this song, of course he would. He laughs briefly, because he thought of the ship and goddamn isn't that a funny thought. The ship is no way a place to inspire laughter or freedom.]

Well, if you can quote Ride Captain Ride looking like that, I suppose you do need some assistance.

You jump from Taxi Driver to Rocky? That's a stretch, dude.

[ golly but wait he is also talking to a crazy person WAIT HE'S TALKING TO A CRAZY PERSON FUCK ]

Taxi Driver lost.

[ see it makes perfect sense ]

White Rabbit seemed too on the nose. I hate to be predictable.

[ and there's the edges of his usual charm peeking out from all the crazy, there. ]

As enthralling as this, I'm going to need to ascertain whether you're gone or not. I'd hate for this knowledge of music from a bygone golden age to be nothing more than crazy talk.

[ TAKING A BREATH AS IF TO REVEAL ALL THE CRAZY SHIT THAT HAPPENED

or wait no, he's going to hum old-time religion and quirk an eyebrow, because crazy or not neal thinks he's fucking hilarious. ]

[he is. a complete riot. harvey quirks an eyebrow at this, not phased by his space crazy antics.]

Hallelujah, we have progress. Do you even have a name?

Uh-huh, right. Heeey so, are you getting help? For your, uh, stuff.

[ ...you are four days late and christ fuck she was beginning to think you were dead. but no yelling can wait until after you are safely in a medbay. preferably hooked up to an iv or something. not under the threat of— well technically everyone is under that threat right now, aren't they? hm. well until you're not setting the curve of potentially dying. ]

A where would be exquisite, Mr. Caffrey. I'd prefer it if you saved your insanity for until you're actually in my presence.

[ ignore how she's bundled up in blankets and maybe using a burka in rather inventive ways. pretty sure you realize it's cold. ]

Edited (yes because the movie was made in the year 200. :|) 2012-10-31 12:10 (UTC)

i think this is what they call space crazy btw also thanks for quoting the same shit as me, write some original songs!!!

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