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02 ( video, dated to about 4 am after resnik's post ) ✂ you can't HANDle the truth

[oh boy, this guy!! psyche, nobody cares. the man who's been introducing himself as Rudy Cooper is currently wearing a lab coat, looking slightly off-put (???) and standing in what some viewers may recognize as the poorly-lit morgue. any of that stuff in the previous sentence except that last bit isn't exactly immediately evident, however, because the camera only picks up a few seconds of his face and the white of his stupid coat before he deftly turns it around to face the rest of the room.]

In case you're wondering -- and I'm pretty sure nobody was -- our extreme home makeover doesn't end in the halls. [the camera pans right, stopping on one of the empty cell doors that Aidan's post recently highlighted! there is most definitely a mask on it, and that should be identifiable to pretty much anyone on the network.] You know, in the spirit of full disclosure. It's just as permanent here as anywhere else, for the record -- believe me, I've tried.

[a beat.]

That's about it on this end. Any ideas?

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[ Nothing but a dark shape in the dark, an outline just about visible, but video none the less. ] Are there masks on the doors of the occupied cells?

[BATMAN WHY WON'T YOU SHOW ME YOUR COWL I LOVE YOU
no, okay! he swivels the camera to show that this is, in fact, the case.]

That work as an answer?

Cute. [ He says in a way which conveys that it is absolutely not in any way cute, actually, thank you very much. Oh look, the darkness is moving again. ] The morgue was supposed to be under surveillance.

[ So helpful. ]

Funny thing -- it was. Turns out security detail's got nothing on whoever did this. Or whatever.

[ There might have been a discernible cowl visible for a fraction of a second. Batman pauses on a perch, looks at the video and then switches it off.

Not even saying thank you is a thing. ]

[ALLLLLLLLLLLLL BYYYYYYYYYYYYYY MYSELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLF
DON'TWANNABE]

Huh.

Guess I missed adding Halloween on my calendar.

You're telling me. What is it again -- the 31st of Spacetember?

Somethingtember. But I'm really regretting that I didn't think of Spacetember myself. That has way more poetic flow.

Always eleven more, right? Assuming there's any point to assigning a twelve-month calendar system to the Tranquility at all.

To be fair, I don't think there's much point in pretty much anything that happens on this ship. Beyond the mysterious endgame or whatever. But it's kindof whatever we've gotta do to pass the time, you know?

Yeah, I got you. And it's better than sitting around waiting for the next catastrophe, right? Man cannot live on sporadic trauma alone.

But it does lay a solid foundation for complex PTSD.

True enough. Any psychiatrists who end up here are gonna have their work cut out for them.

I dunno, the last one made- a special effort to make sure he could continue to find work.

[NICCAGEYOUDON'TSAY.JPG]

Yeah? I take it this wasn't exactly... Hippocratically sound.

How familiar are you with Batman?

Semi. Why?

He was Scarecrow.

Yes that's literal.

Whoa.

[internally he's totally OuO though]

Kinda B-list, isn't it?

You should've seen the fear gas. It was kinda too perfect that he was the ship's shrink for so long, yanno?

Eesh. I'm figuring he was also the only shrink.

[ NO

NONONONOTHALLOWEEN. ]

[WHAT'S THE PROBLEM NED, DON'T YOU WANT TO DRESS UP AS YOUR SEXY TWILIGHT VAMPIRE COUNTERPART]

[ Wow, that's pretty rude, but no!

Gosh. ]

[RIP the brian-ned-moniz group costume of 2012 :'(]

You're... in the morgue?

[ SHE'S PRETENDING SHE CAN'T REALLY TELL because that's really creepy okay ]

I am, in fact, in the morgue. [he says this lightly! BUT HE CAN STILL SNIFF OUT THOSE ELLIPSES so his tone dips into explanatory.] After what happened before -- you know, with the lockdown and all -- it seemed like something to check out. And I do work here.

Well yeah, I know. I was just kinda hoping you found a brandy new room. With tiny little doors that lead to tiny beds meant for our pets. Or something. I dunno. [ sob this is the last time Wichita lets herself get a little optimistic. ]

Don't I wish. But better the devil you know, right?

.....Fuuuuuuck that.

Pretty much.

Shooting them won't work.

Edited 2012-11-01 07:03 (UTC)

Are you sure you weren't trying hard enough?

Just kidding. Duly noted.

Edited (SAME HIDEOUS ICON TWICE IN A ROW, WHOOPS) 2012-11-01 19:39 (UTC)

You could put your mask on and I could shoot you in the face if you don't believe me.

Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll be good.

Suit yourself. These fuckers are pretty much indestructible though.

You got anymore information about what they are?

Probably no more than you. I'm not omniscient, I'm just the guy with the coat and the morgue access.

[brian briefly switches back to video, panning to the masks on the occupied cell doors, then to the cells that are distinctly unmasked. he adds, out loud:]

But I'm guessing they're not just down here to tie the ship's new feng shui together. If they are, someone did a lousy job.

Morgue access? You into that kind of shit?

[But he does take note of the doors that don't have masks on them.]

Do people live in the ones with the masks?

Edited 2012-11-06 02:41 (UTC)

It's not exactly unique. Just one of the perks of medstaff, if you're into that sort of thing.

[HE DOESN'T SAY... WHETHER OR NOT HE DOES is that on purpose? hahaha surely not]

People, yes. Living, no.

This place has all types, doesn't it?

...Wanna run that by me again?

You're telling me.

It's pretty self-explanatory. I don't know about the creepy open ones, but the others? Definitely occupied.

Edited (why was that in smalltext what is wrong with me) 2012-11-07 22:41 (UTC)

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02 ( video, dated to about 4 am after resnik's post ) ✂ you can't HANDle the truth

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