Lily: Try to mix some chemicals [OTA]

[methodologicalanalyst]

You are once again LILY WHITE.

After finding out about the odd little things happening on your planet, you decide it's high time to get cracking on fixing the CHEMICAL MISHAPS in the canyons so you can actually go down and EXPLORE them. You have a nagging feeling there's entrances to DUNGEONS there, and nothing is going to stop you from LOOKING INTO THEM.

First, though, you figure you better open up yet ANOTHER memo, at least to warn the others that shit's going down.

-- CURRENT methodologicalAnalyst [MA] RIGHT NOW opened memo More Glitches --

well looks like its happening again
we got more glitches here
bits and pieces of my planet are beginning to turn black as if they arent even there anymore
you guys should start looking into this too!!
be careful please
for the moment im still working on fixing the chemical imbalances in the canyons on my planet
no idea if theyd be able to fix the weird black holes but its worth a shot


With that out of the way, you begin to MIX SOME CHEMICALS. The only issue is, most of the chemicals you've mixed before were FAIRLY SIMPLE and all you know is from the books. Thus, you're not quite as HANDY with it as you'd like, and your hand slips at a very inopportune moment, causing a massive chemical imbalance. It seems okay at first... until it starts fizzing wildly. You type one more message before trying to escape:


OH SHIT


You try to youth roll out of the lab, but to no avail; the chemicals spark an explosion, which spark even more explosions from the other chemicals in the lab. In a mass of explosions and smoke, you completely disappear from Wess' viewport and the memo ends on this note:


methodologicalAnalyst [MA]'s portable laptop exploded.



There is now a giant plume of smoke rising from where the side of your house used to be. Nice job breaking it, hero.

((OOC note: Despite her responses to the memo being 15 minutes in everyone's future (for reasons she does know how she did), it still will take her 10-15 IC minutes for her to actually respond from their perspective. Factor that into their reactions of her being alive as you will. :3

Also, since it takes her a bit to respond, feel free to hit each other up on the memo and discuss her fate until she responds!))

Comments

[artful_transgressor]

Oh holy shit what the fuck just happened there.

artfulTransgressor [AT] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.

AT: oh my fuckflipping god
AT: why the fuck wasnt this brought to my attention
AT: i mean eVeryone else whos died at least did it
AT: i dunno offscreen i guess?
AT: like there was no fucking indication that anything was happening until it was too late for anyone to do anything
AT: but this is right fucking here
AT: like a signed death notice
AT: which presumably could haVe been preVented if someone had caught it in time
AT: and being a hero of time thats kinda supposed to be my job
AT: goddammit
AT: i dont eVen think i know you but you had better not be dead
AT: or ill kill you myself

You are more than a little freaked out by this. The idea of this memo literally being a chronicle of someone's last moments is hammering all of your death-related triggers.

[methodologicalanalyst]

It takes a good while before you are able to respond, but that explosion sent you flying out of the house!

Thankfully you're okay enough to actually go back and respond to the memo, which you realized you left everyone hanging on... for about 20-25 minutes there. Oops. luckily you can post from the future so its not TOO too far after your incident...

Just long enough for everyone ever to have conceivably responded about how they think you're dead now.

FUTURE methodologicalAnalyst [MA] 0:15 HOURS FROM NOW responded to memo.

FMA: its okay
FMA: im not dead
FMA: i dont even know what happened but i guess my hand slipped
FMA: when i was messing with mixing the chemicals
FMA: now i have a nice hole in the side of my house but otherwise everythings kinda okay
FMA: i dont know how but i didnt get injured from it at all
FMA: just got the wind knocked out of me

[artful_transgressor]

You'd almost given up and retreated to doing shit on your planet to try and forget about the death-over-text you'd just witnessed when the memo is suddenly replied to.

And oh man is that a relief.

holy fuck
were not eVen friends and im still pissed at you for that stunt
what friends you do haVe are probably gonna be yelling your sponge clots off
so yknow
haVe fun with that karmic punishment

why the fuck would you mess around with unstable chemicals with shaky hands anyway
actually
why do you eVen describe it as 'messing'
pretty sure 'messing' is the last thing you want to be doing in any sense when dangerous chemicals are inVolVed
thats not the word of someone who knows exactly what the fuck theyre doing
messing is what you do when youVe got a bottle of faygo some hiVehold chemicals and a lot of reckless boredom
not when youVe got enough unstable chemicals in a canyon to take out part of a hiVe and all of a husktop
does eVeryone in this game haVe a fucking death wish

[methodologicalanalyst]

its part of my quest!
plus im a scientist so i can deal with this kind of stuff
i guess 'messing' wasnt the right word for it
im not just randomly mixing chemicals
my hands were shaky cause im not used to doing this that much!
im well versed in book smarts but i havent really gotten the chance to do that much in practice
and for some of these im on a bit of a time limit now that parts of my planet have begun to disappear
so that kind of came back to bite me in the ass
but its necessary to do this!
if i want to solve the mystery of how these canyons got that way in the first place
i have to find a way to neutralize the harmful ones and get rid of the others
whether that actually happens or not its what my consorts are expecting me to do

[twintimes]

You're similarly shaken, but after typing out your really angry reply, you've had the chance to cool down and focus enough to check what you can sense from the timeline, and... well. It might not be as bad as you thought at first. So that's good.

she's not deAd
At leAst I'm pretty sure she's not
lIke no AlArm bells went off on my end
I cAn't sAy If she's AlrIght or whAtever I'm not her server but she's defInItely stIll there
but wow thAt wAs
supremely unnecessAry

[artful_transgressor]

yeah i didnt get any either but
that kinda doesnt mean much does it
weVe already lost some people within the session
and i know i sure as fuck didnt get pinged for them
they just sort of died while no one was looking
so i guess we only get buzzed for the deaths of people critical to the timeline
and since we dont actually know 100% whos critical to the timeline or not
this totally could haVe been a real death happening here

also
what was unnecessary

[twintimes]

her blowIng herself up wAs completely unnecessAry I meAn

well
At leAst for my tImelIne
I cAn tell who's stIll pArt of It or whose tIme Is stIll ongoIng
I cAn't do thAt for the other sessIons
so even If I don't get pInged to sAve people I guess there's thAt

[twintimes]

lIly oh my god whAt Are you doIng whAt's hAppenIng you reAlly hAve to Answer thIs rIght now you better not hAve blown up wIth your lAptop whAt the bloody hell wAs thAt even you hAd better FUCKiNG aNSWER OR i SWEaR TO YOU i WiLL FiND YOU aND iT'S NOT GOiNG TO BE FUCKiNG PRETTY BECaUSE a-FUCKiNG-PaRRENTLY YOU FiGURED iT WaS a FaNTaSTiC iDEa TO BLOW YOURSELF UP WHiLE WRiTiNG a MEMO
LiKE ENOUGH PEOPLE HaVEN'T aLREaDY FUCKiNG DiED
SO HELP ME WHaTEVER POWERS THaT BE
iF YOU DO NOT GET BaCK TO ME
i WiLL TEaR YOU a NEW ONE PERSONaLLY

[methodologicalanalyst]

FUTURE methodologicalAnalyst [MA] 0:15 HOURS FROM NOW responded to memo.

oh my god
that was not supposed to happen
im so sorry for worrying you ria!!
i let the pressure of the situation get to me and i messed up

[twintimes]

WE'RE TRYiNG TO KEEP EVERYONE aLiVE HERE
SO iF YOU WOULD FUCKiNG NOT BLOW YOURSELF HaLF TO HELL
THaT WOULD BE STELLaR
BECaUSE REaLLY THaT HELPS aBSOFUCKiNGLUTELY NOT aT aLL NO MaTTER HOW GLaD i aM TO KNOW YOU'RE OKaY

..why Are you doIng tImey thIngs now though
I thought thAt wAs kIndA
my job

[methodologicalanalyst]

like i said
it wasnt supposed to happen
i had everything under control
but ive never actually used some of these chemicals so all i knew were what was in the books

timey things??
what do you mean??

[polygraphing]

holy zhit did lame blakc text human juzt die

[callouslystalwart]

A shame. ~~CS
That was probably the most interesting one. ~~CS

[polygraphing]

yeah maybe
but her blakc text waz zuper lame
not zaying zhe zhoulda died for it
juzt ztating a fakt

[callouslystalwart]

Hemoanonymity is rather cowardly... ~~CS
But ~I~ don't suspect such a concept applied to the humans. ~~CS

[callouslystalwart]

...Well that was certainly disappointing. ~~CS

Really. You EXPECTED MORE OUT OF HER. You're actually a lot more upset about this than your RATHER DOUCHEY message lets on.

[methodologicalanalyst]

FUTURE methodologicalAnalyst [MA] 15 MINUTES FROM NOW responded to memo.

i wouldnt let a mistake like that cost me my life
not letting that be the end
theres still too much science to do

[callouslystalwart]

...Ah. ~~CS

Don't let on that you're relieved. Even a bit.

Well did you at least learn something? ~~CS

[apiarycryptonaut]

W4it, more glitches, um???
Wh4t do you me4n?
Wh4t glitches were there... before, um, huh, wh4t?
Oh, oh oh oh!
W4it you me4n your... pl4net, I think, yes?
Th4t seems str4nge, yes!
I wonder why th4t's... h4ppening to pl4yers, um-

... ... ... ...
Lily, no, wh4t, why????
Why would you blow... th4t up, huh, wh4t????

[methodologicalanalyst]

FUTURE methodologicalAnalyst [MA] 15 MINUTES FROM NOW responded to memo.

im fine, avispa
i just accidentally mixed some chemicals without being careful enough
...
anyway
yes more glitches
theyre popping up all over the place
like i said
black spots popping up everywhere on mine
im not sure if its safe to step over them or not
you need to watch out for stuff on your own planet

[apiarycryptonaut]

Oh, um, m4ybe you... could drop something in... one of them, m4ybe?
To see wh4t h4ppens!
4nd um, I'll be... s4fe, I promise, yes!
I won't get in... 4nything d4ngerous, I won't!

[tetchytmesis]

You stare at your BLANK SCREEN. And stare. And stare.

And then you take a deep breath and put your fingers to your keys.

-- tetchyTmesis [TT] BEGAN PESTERING methodologicalAnalyst [MA] --

l.
i.
l.
y.

[methodologicalanalyst]

You would respond, but you are currently OUT COLD.

The smoke surrounding your house should be subsiding fairly soon, though, and you being out cold makes it almost impossible to know that you are currently being CARRIED BACK to your house by your iguana consorts.

Being fairly light has its advantages, you'd say.

If you were awake right now.

[tetchytmesis]

Okay, you see smoke on the screen now, so that's something. Guess it wasn't a blackout, but just the thick smoke obscuring the screen.

Still.

Eventually, the smoke clears and you see her being carried in by her consorts. You squint. Is she...?

one. of. you. tell. her. to. wake. up.

You probably said that in vain. You're not sure consorts are smart enough to read.

[celestialcavalier]

you did not just do that.
if you died i am going to fucking bring you back to life so i can kill you myself.