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hey
watson
watson
john watson
dr john trainwreck watson
dr john i dont wear the deerstalker he says overlooking a totally rad drawing of him in one like an ingrate watson
dr john i take care of everyone but myself watson
hey
stop being dead

[It's a long while for the reply as John's busy having a panic attack, getting to shelter, and contacting other people. He doesn't really want to deal with Davesprite right now, but it's something that needs to be done. John turns on voice to text.]

I've stopped being dead just for you, mate.

[Oh thank god.]

good job
clint told me what went down and from the sound of it he and jay both feel pretty shitty over it
but what about you
what did you lose and how are you feeling

I'm as well as can be expected. Probably better off than them. I've been fully healed from my injuries.

[He's going to gloss over what he's lost.]

[He's under the impression that a loss can be something more sensitive than just losing voice or vision for a while, so lucky for Watson, he doesn't press him on this.]

yeah i saw clint and hes a big sad lump in a church frock
i had to shove him off a couch because he wouldnt stop his pity party
so then he was just a sad lump on the floor
i would have bugged jay about it more but hes him
btw we kinda made up the other day so dont worry about that
glad your injuries are gone though
can you walk normal again and everything

Like it never happened. [Which is intensely discomforting, in and of itself. While John appreciates not being crippled like that anymore, just having something like that completely wiped away makes it seem almost unreal, like Bucky was never there to do anything to him.

He tries not to dwell.]

I'm glad you made up. Both of them could use more friends just at the moment.

good to know
im gonna try to avoid getting gravely injured and dying again in general
but if it ever happens its kind of reassuring that if i come back itll be back to normal you know
take care of yourself and stay safe out there

[He knows the thing with Bucky wasn't Watson's fault, and he knows too that the anomaly happened so fast no one could do much. But it feels right just the same to tell him that. He wants him to be safe. Watson could serve to take better care of himself in general, after all.]

im not sure friends is the word
jay and i have an understanding
hes better than i gave him credit for
meanwhile clint lives his life like a stray wandering dad who doesnt know how to look after himself
and im the little orphan bird he keeps trying to adopt unsuccessfully while i tell him to stop being dumb about his feelings
sherlock was a dick to him about you too which didnt help

Edited 2016-10-20 20:06 (UTC)

['Take care of yourself.' There would be a bitter laugh from John if he weren't uncertain whether or not the voice-to-text would pick it up.]

It's good to have understandings, then. I did hear that Sherlock lashed out at Clint. I'm going to apologize properly when I get the chance. He tends to cut when he's upset, and he's very good at finding the right place to stab.

I'm sorry you had to hear about that, Davesprite. I hope you've been all right the past few days? I wasn't gone very long, but it's never pleasant to wake up missing time.

hey
no
nuh uh no
no you dont
dont you apologize for sherlock being a dick
thats on him like i told you last time
you dont get to apologize for me hearing about it either
i was supposed to hear about it because guess what i give a crap about you and i dont want you to be dead
give clint a hug and tell him youre alright and make him stop blaming himself for you dying
but sherlock is a grown man who can deal with his own fuckups
anyway im fine
clint is back with jay and natasha and im with my group
nothing else has blown up while you were gone

Edited (bluh bluh dumb bucky and his name fuss) 2016-10-20 20:18 (UTC)

[Well, you're asking the impossible there, Davesprite.]

I plan on making it up to Clint. However he'd like me to. Let me just put it that way, all right?

As for Sherlock, I think we've gone round enough on that.

Glad to hear nothing else has gone mad, though. The last thing I saw before the anomaly was that video the Admin uploaded.

yeah alright

you mean the one with the missiles
were they nukes
it would explain the radiation
didnt know the town had its own scifi force field
who decides bumfuck alaska is enough of a target to attack like that
who decides bumfuck alaska is the place for any of this
why couldnt they have done this someplace warmer so we arent constantly freezing our asses off

The mushroom cloud at the end there points to nuclear missiles, yeah. Not sure why they would be coming from the east, though. Missiles aren't like airplanes. If they were coming in from the east, they probably originated to the east of Norfinbury. So that's... Canada, maybe somewhere in Europe. Or I suppose a warship off the east coast could manage that.

I think they probably attacked this town for whatever machine is bringing us here and maybe Andromeda.

here i was gonna guess russia
you know given winter and everything
and wasnt that what the cold war was about
schools havent existed for three years so fill me in if im off base
do we actually know when the machine was built though
why would they need to bring us in if there were still people there living regular lives

What year are you from? The Cold War ended a long time ago by 2013. Suppose it could have gotten put back on, but at least in 2050 from Winter's stored memories, everything was fine. Provided she's telling the truth. We haven't got much to go on for that at the moment, though.

We don't know when the machine was built, but it might have been made for a different purpose and was put into service here to fulfill the population quota afterward.

2009 which is why im asking
it was over by then
but i never really had normal schooling and then the world ended
so hell if i know what the cold war was actually about
aside from those damn commies ruining the color red for everyone

whats this about a population quote
are you speculating or is it like a confirmed thing

[John has stern words waiting for you history teacher, Davesprite.]

We got the quota information from Mr. Robert Miller. Norfinbury's meant to have 100 people.

[John adds a link to go with that.]

so thats why nat told me to read that post
thanks for the link
do we know how many people are here right now

I'm not sure. Something like 70 people at the moment? If it's true about us and the anomalies filling the quota, then that means that the more normal people there are, the fewer anomalies.

so either we put up with monsters and all the problems that happen with them
or more people get subjected to this death trap
great
id ask if this place ever stops being horrible but the answer is no

Yeah. Everything is a Catch-22 here. Only way to win is getting to the center. God knows when that'll happen.

[Or if it will happen with as short a time as they have left.]

let alone what well find there
or why it is we have to get there
like sure thats the win condition but then what
especially if there really is some eldritch motherfucker lurking under the town

Best thing we can do for the moment is cross that particular bridge when we get there.

yeah probably
not like options are thick on the ground anyway
good luck to us with not dying

I've got faith in us, and aren't you American? You people are meant to be optimists, aren't you?

americans are meant to kick ass and shout about eagles and tattoo flags on our faces
but the entire universe is dead where im from so its a moot point

@featherydouche; text; morning 170

@jwatson; text; evening 170

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