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[othellovonryan]

Noise

It starts as just irritation. A metaphorical crawling under your skin. Things are too noisy, too bright, there is too much happening all the time and you can't take it all in-

Then silence it, make it yours, make it you, take control and destroy what will not submit

It sounds so inviting, a freedom from the noise, but its wrong, its wrong, its wrong and the noise is getting louder, mechanical and foreboding as it sees you, it knows you are there, and it wants to make you apart of it.

Anatawa hitorijanai

For a moment, there is quiet.

You breathe.

And fall through water.

Comments

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

Oh, you know. Dontron's gone off the deep end. Hyperfocusing to an extreme degree. Putting blinders on anything else. [He glances over at working Donnie, eyeing the chain.] Typical Donnie getting demon possessed things.

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow raises an eyebrow. ]

Does he get possessed often?

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

Eh, depends on your perspective, but this is a particularly bad instance. He's not even doing jazz hands, this one loves to put on a show normally.

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow considers. ]

I kinda figured "chaining himself to a project until he finishes" was his usual MO. But.... I got some spare time to make a guy stop hyperfocusing.

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

Good to check, but considering the project he's working on... [And 'oof' kind of face.]

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow grimaces. ]

That bad, huh?

[ WELP. TIME TO GO LOOK AT WHAT DONNIE IS DOING. ]

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

Eugh boy. [He's just saying.]

[SURE IS]

[THE BUNKER]

[AND IDEAS TO MAKE IT BETTER]

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

[ So the first thing Crow is doing is snatching those up. Every last bunker plan.

Actually.

Can he put those in his crafting materials inventory?? DON'T WANNA WASTE SCRAP PAPER. ]

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

[He can totally put the scrap paper in the inventory. Does he go for the tablets with plans too?]

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

[ Absolutely yes, he knows better. ]

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

[A good idea. For his goals.]

[Donnie is less okay with that.]

Wha-CROW! Give those backs! [He's on his feet.]

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

Not a chance!

[ He's pulling his double saber off his back and attacking the chain in an attempt to break it.]

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

Crow! [He's moving to tackle into Crow, but man, that just makes the chain TAUT]

[And I assume Crow is physically strong enough to cut through a chain, SO THERE YOU GO, turtle is gonna do a tackle and isn't chained up now.]

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

[ HE IS IN FACT STRONG ENOUGH, and tackled now! Give Crow credit though, he keeps his grip on his saber and manages not to accidentally cut Donnie with it.]

Donnie! Work on something cooler!

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

[CROW IS]

[At risk of getting pulled into a headlock and noogie.]

I work on plenty of cool things and I can do that after you give me my stuff back!

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

Not a chance! You're just gonna work on the bunker again!

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

I-

[There is a pause in the noogieing.]

[Frowning.]

I'm kind of bored of it, actually.

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

[ GOOD he does not like noogies!

Crow pauses. ]

Tell you what. I'll give you back the tablets.

If.

If you promise not to work on the bunker anymore. And seriously promise me, none of this "I won't" and then stabbing me in the back and doing it anyway. Because I promise you, I'll never trust you again if you pull that shit on me.

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

I would never stoop so low as needing to stab someone in the back.

He's confidence so take that with a grain of salt!

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow glances at Leo. ]

So then, whaddaya say? Do I let him have 'em back?

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

Depends how patient you are for the Cain Instinct or getting him a shiny.

Stop talking about me like I'm a dog. I am not so easily distracted. I am a scientist and my interests turn to what is more relevant to the situation at hand!

[Pause.] I do believe that promise though. You don't seem the type to lie on such things.

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

I'm really not.

[ The type to lie about it, he means. ]

I'd still work with you, still talk with you. But trust? That's something very different.

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

[There is another pause.]

You already trust me?

Re: The Lab

[bad_crowmance]

[ Crow sighs. ]

I'm gonna be real, after the whole bunker fiasco, you're on thin ice. But it's not gone entirely-- mainly because I could tell something about it was off. Your mystic stuff.... was the wrong colour. And it was living.

So I've been holding onto that. "Don't lose the faith in him, not yet."

Re: The Lab

[othellovonryan]

Oh.

[A pause.]

That is actually very nice to hear, I wasn't sure on that. Not that you're wrong to, of course. I am amazingly helpful. [He does let Crow go, standing up and practically preening.] Really, I don't know what I was thinking. I rushed the work, it could have been better- [He turns to look at the tablets.]

There's the shiny. [Moving over to help him up.] Sad to say there's no getting Donnie to not work on shady inventions. Really...really no way. [He looks to the side to a screen that says 'how to get trackers in family without their knowledge.'] But hey, that's what Selfishness is for. To figure out what the line is between thinking and reality.