OFFICE HOURS

[didntgetdadslooks]

Got something you want to say to your good friend The Professor's Assistant? Come on in, don't be shy! Her official hours are daylight hours - girl has to sleep? after all, probably - but if you knock on the door at night she'll generally answer. Please just make sure to leave the in-game date and time in the header of your toplevel!

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cw: mention of doing horrible shit to kids, as birkin does

[fivestagegod]

[this man is ostensibly doing his best to help as many people as possible get out of here alive

this man also literally melted the face off an orphan

it was an accident but he's not precisely sorry

morals really aren't a thing he takes into consideration, is what i'm saying]

So was it worth it? Exchanging that for all of this. Promise I'm not going to yell at you if you tell me it was.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ Angel shrugs. ]

Don't know. The Professor described some parts of it, but even he doesn't know why I'm like this. But even if it's selfish, I'd rather not be 85 pounds of skin and bones, I think.

[fivestagegod]

Believe it or not, I'm not entirely against self-preservation. Hell, I thanked the guy for bringing me here just because being here means I'm not bleeding out on the floor.

Wouldn't recommend that, by the way. The whole dying thing. Not the best experience I've ever had.

[He's pretty sure he wasn't dead when he was brought here, he last remembers actually thinking stuff and he's pretty sure he heard Annette come in, but he was a bit too preoccupied with the whole...everything else to really care much about it.]

[didntgetdadslooks]

I'm not planning on trying it if I can help it. End of the day, I guess I would rather be alive than not.

[ ....this is one hell of a conversation to have while folding origami ]

[fivestagegod]

Yeah, well. Lucky you, getting to make that choice at the expense of us getting to, I guess.

[Because he hasn't thrown nearly enough shade at you in a while.]

I get it, though. And hey, it's not like I can complain too much - if people weren't really enthusiastic about staying alive, I'd be out of a job. Literally, given what my life's work does.

[...Mm.]

Did your little savior ever tell you about that? The sort of stuff I've been creating?

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ Ah, the shade. She'll almost miss it if he goes and gets himself killed. ]

There's some stuff about it in here. No pictures or... excerpts from your research papers or anything, but.

[fivestagegod]

You probably don't want pictures. The end results are nasty even by my standards, which I imagine is telling you everything you need to know.

That's what was in the case I was asking you about, incidentally. G-virus samples. I should actually have two more than what was just in the case, but...

[He shrugs.]

Let's just say there was a reason I was asking what was done to me before I got here. Because I'm pretty sure I was thinking about doing something due to the whole dying thing. Something way over on the stupid side of things.

[didntgetdadslooks]

You're G-Virus free right now, as far as I know. It's all back where we took you from. Even if the machine tried to bring it in, something like that even The Professor would probably return to sender.

[fivestagegod]

No, I...get the feeling we'd all know by now if I weren't. G works pretty fast, and it's not really something you can turn off once it gets going - though I guess it's good to know it's not just dormant or something, because that was why I was trying to discourage bloodletting as a solution this past weekend.

[the idea of setting off his healing response with anything had potential to be super-ugly if that was the case?]

[didntgetdadslooks]

Oh... yeah, that makes sense.

[ No One Needs That... ]

Unless you were infected without knowing about it before coming here, you shouldn't be infected now.

[fivestagegod]

...Last I remember, I was still considering it. And trying to actually get up the ability to move, because, you know, I'd just been shot by four people with automatic weapons.

[Three? Four. There were four people there. Did all of them shoot him, he doesn't really remember, due to the whole "getting shot a lot" thing.]

I also didn't know because I had no way to know how much time I was missing between what I last remember and being brought here, and if all that missing time was spent in your people's charming company. But no, I wasn't infected before that, and there's no way I could have been without knowing it.

[didntgetdadslooks]

Then there you go. We would have known before putting you in here for sure, as long as infection shows itself within a few weeks.

[ Well hey, there's a nice subtle way to say how long processing was, at least. ]

[fivestagegod]

[Huh. Good to know.]

I guess it'd be too easy if I absolutely flipped my shit and killed everyone, wouldn't it. Even if that's one of the acceptable outcomes, according to your savior.

[didntgetdadslooks]

Yeah, but he prefers you do it of your own volition, not, you know. Virus-inspired.

[fivestagegod]

[Oh, that's...hm.]

Is that important to this whole thing, as he goes? That we do things of our own volition.

[didntgetdadslooks]

Or at least that you think you are. He wants to... wear you all down, so to speak.

[fivestagegod]

Holy shit. That's charming, it really is.

[Christ. He'll stop with the folding for now, though.]

Anyway, I'll leave you to...whatever it is you do after murdering the hell out of one of us, I guess. Hopefully the rest of them aren't so damn stupid that we get a repeat performance.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ she sort of... throws the paper she's been working on folding onto the ground near the door in a gesture that's totally a moment of anger, yup for sure ]

Right. Well hey, that's definitely something we actually agree on.

[fivestagegod]

[He just kind of laughs it off, dismissively, though he'll definitely take it with him when he goes.]

Yeah, yeah, I know. You didn't read the fine fucking print.

[Again, he'll save it to be looked at later, when he's on his own; what's this one?]

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ Remembering things from before - Professor doesn't know. He's upset with basically all the stuff you're finding, yelled at the cleaning staff for a WHILE after last meeting. Don't have much more for you than that, except that The Professor doesn't exactly fence. Trying to figure out why a sword on my end. ]