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[Loki's having trouble sleeping. The turbulence has his heart racing and stomach dropping with every sudden motion, and while he knows the likely reason why, he's not about to admit it. And while the Navarch's offer of medication is kind, he's not so certain he wants to knock himself out entirely while he's paired with his current inmate.

So he's up. And tense. And looking for a distraction. Perhaps he's not alone.]

Is anyone else awake? I'm not one for pills, unfortunately, so I haven't managed a single wink. And now I am just terribly bored.

Who's up for a chat? We're all still fairly new here, after all. Can't hurt to share the basics with the group, yes?

For example: Why are you here? Or why do you *think* you're here, at any rate. That should get us through the rest of the night on its own, for some of you.

But I also have time to hear all about your tragic childhoods and major regrets, if you'd like. Might as well get started on graduations while we've got the extra time. And what better time for baring your soul during a bout of insomnia?

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You don't want to go first, Loki?

i'm bored too
convenient

gathering intel i see

I imagine it has something to do with the murder.

u kidnapped me. none of you are my friends. i don't want to chat. build a tomb out of dicks. mummify yourself. die. majorly regret being fucking kidnapped

Edited 2022-01-22 05:21 (UTC)

How do all of you type on these things so quickly

practice
hand stretches can help
it might be easier to use both thumbs starting out until you can do it with just one

Edited 2022-01-22 07:09 (UTC)

I only have one.

[And Aki has never heard of glide typing. Or that you can resize keyboards...]

How badly is that going to inconvenience me [/s]

( oh. well you're in luck cause: )

i only have one to type with too, actually
i use swiping to spell out things when it's not something complex i need to type manually

practice is useful for all that too, but it starts with familiarizing yourself with where all the letters are first
after you get that down with muscle memory, it's a lot smoother

Swiping [ok, sigh, he will hunt down the question mark for this] ?

I've used computers before so I'm not completely unfamiliar, but normally people call each other if they want to talk. Or meet in person.

[He sounds like such an old man...]

( ...yeah that's definitely what an old man would say, since bucky would agree that that's what people normally did before texting was a thing. )

say for example you want to spell the word cat
hold your thumb down on the c and, without lifting it up, drag it to the a and then the t before lifting your thumb up

it'll add the word in, and you can correct it if it guessed the wrong word from where your thumb moved, but if you do that with the next words in the sentence you're forming, it'll keep adding the words and spaces for you so you don't have to keep hitting each button one at a time

Edited 2022-01-22 08:41 (UTC)

[An extended silence as he experiments with it. Like. Kind of hilariously long.]

Huh

Ok, that's helpful. I see what you mean by it needing practice.

Thanks 👍

( which is yet again relatable as being something bucky did himself, once upon a time. )

yeah no problem

btw
if you ever need an extra hand feel free to hit me up
trying to lace up your shoes with one hand is the worst

I'm here because someone said "do you want to be alive again" and I said yes.

That's it

It was a stupid move on my part

Meet me somewhere and we can talk.

[Why the fuck does everyone want to type on this thing all day?]

I thought it impolite to go on about myself if nobody asked.

[A soft lie, perhaps, given he commissioned statues and plays about himself...]

But the short version is that I need to ensure that I go back to my reality with a means to keep it from getting horribly worse. I'm hoping my windfall will help with that. Possibly more than one, depending on what needs solving, I suppose.

And if anyone's going to be a good warden, it's someone who's graduated themselves, right? Hence the Navarch's invitation, I imagine.

[That's a lie. He certainly wants to do well, if only to make his own life easier, but he's also waiting for the Navarch to realize that the God of Lies was a poor choice for an authority figure. Any day now.]

Or just creating a sense of community amongst strangers.

Not all of my motives are ulterior.

that wasn't meant to sound accusatory
it's fine to want to learn more about people regardless
one man's gathering intel is another man's making friends

that said we're wardens so it's part of the job anyway to gather intel


i'd ask if you wanna play cards or something but there aren't any cards on board

That is likely the first part, yes.

But the Navarch picks specific inmates. Ones who can improve, in theory. Go back to their reality better than they left it.

How are you with change?

I can't imagine that tomb would be structurally sound. Unless the dicks were also mummified. But that might be less insulting, somehow.

Anyway, you weren't kidnapped. You died. If anything you were rescued from being dead.

Your reality. Oh, I can't WAIT for this. This is going to be such a complex roux of bullshit you're about to feed us. I've got Michelin star reviewers waiting on my text whenever you're ready to debut this fucking masterpiece.

Edited 2022-01-22 18:12 (UTC)

Practice.

Which I suppose you'll be getting a lot of. These things don't seem to have video or audio features. Perhaps the Navarch could alter yours, if you asked.

Edited 2022-01-22 18:29 (UTC)

You'd rather be dead?

the penis tomb is a piece of architectural shit and isn't structurally sound you talk to me like I don't know what disinformation is? like i don't know that if you just repeat something big and impossible to me enough times I'll get tired of arguing with you and act like I believe it, just because everyone else does and I want to keep up with them. Fuck, now I'm awake. I need a smoke so bad that my chest hurts. I didn't even know that could happen. I hate this. I hate being here. Why me, why are you doing this to me?

[Claire feels mildly agitated. Maybe it's just residual annoyance from chatting with William...?]

That would be the hope. But I imagine every reality has a laundry list of problems, no? You might be here a while.

What

How

How do I change it

[HOW DID EZIO FIGURE THIS OUT AND HE DIDN'T. Loki is tech savvy! This is humiliating.]

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