Holy shit this thing is huge. Probably higher than any building on earth. But I could be wrong, I have no knowledge about buildings. Still, this thing is gigantic. And I doubt the elevators are working so.. fuck.
Actually they do work. But Elevators in the Empty city..
Are traps. Of course, should have known that.
Mhmm.
I fucking hate this place. So what Floor was it again?
279th.
Okay then. But first a break, I'm fucking exhausted.
Not too long though, this place freaks me out. Still silent as fuck, the closer I got to the tower the weirder the buildings got. They also look more like ruins than actual buildings. Honestly I can't even describe some of these buildings. Just looking at them makes my brain hurt.
For example: A triangle shaped wall, with three right angles. I don't even know how..
Anyway Time for a snack and then inside the tower we go. Why do I have a bad feeling about this?..
What's the betting this ends in a fight? One where you're exhausted, your opponent is prepared and dug in, and the terrain is against you.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin' this seems too easy. Even a broken Object would be guarded pretty damn well. If not put straight into use (most of the fears aren't fans of the dying man).
Oh, not to mention there's no guarantee that this one is broken. No offence, Shine, but this could easily be a gambit to free another shard from that particular object. If you had bad information, or even if you just wanted to help bring back deady.
Yes its guarded, by the empty city. Can't ask for a better guard than the multiverse itself. o:
DeleteBut yes its been going rather easily. But then again, I was the one who hid it. Maybe the City just doesn't care. It is MY object afterall, I've got dibs on it. ^.^
Trust me its "broken", I broke out of it myself. Not realy sure why I would free another shard, new shards are weak. (Not worth absorbing either, even if I did that stuff.) And who's deady? If you mean Moony, he is gone, part of the Instant now. :(
If it had a shard it wouldn't be broken and it would be a hell of a lot harder to find. Plus then we'd have to deal with its holder and those guys suck. :c
Yes, this has many ways of going wrong. But I didn't see you coming up with a better plan of stopping the Instant. So shush proxy. :p
~Shine
A better plan to destroy the instant? Not sure, but I'm not such a fan of trusting dying man shards, especially not those known for seducing and tricking it's victims. I mean, that's just standards.
DeleteSo for a plan, basically the same as this one with a slight change. Get a second source. From what I've heard the Archive has been rather interested in the shards. And they're pretty likely to help you trap the shard, given that it gives them the opportunity to do some testing on it.
So there's a better plan. Be quiet shard. :)
And deady is the dead man. Dying man. Whatever.
DeleteAnd I'm not a fan of trusting proxies. :x
DeleteSecond source for what? Getting trapped in the city? Maybe they know better places to find Objects. But since when is the Archive anymore trustworthy than me? o.o
I'll get Alicia out of here alive, she's my friend. She might not trust me completely but she sure as hell won't listen to you proxies. :3
~Shine
No way pHIL. If they're interested in a Dying Man shard, and a girl with a Dying Man shard inside her walks into their domain, I forsee them cutting out the fucking middle-man.
DeleteDeal with them through proxies (by which I don't mean servants of slendy, I mean through a middleman). And that's the thing. You, shine, are not really trustworthy. You have something of a reputation, and a possible motive to fuck over Alicia. I may well be a proxy, but damn near everything I've done has been above board, and the solution I proposed would've had no real effect if you'd been above board. The Archive is more trustworthy because they don't need to lie to get what they want. Trying a trick would just be a bit dim, and a waste of effort.
DeleteAnd Sanna. A heavily armed servant of EAT with a dying man shard. Wouldn't be very bright to act in bad faith there, especially given they're leery of trying that shit on other servants as well. Case in point, they might charge a lot, and the payments are somewhat esoteric, but they've come through for me when I've needed information.
I do have a reputation. A reputation of being one sexy ass shard. ;o
DeleteWhat motive would that be? o.O
~Shine
Damnit I'm not EAT's servant! (Alicia)
Yeah, you also have a reputation for 'seduction and trickery'. And the motive? Freeing another shard. Possibly. We only have your word that the object is broken. You could be taking the opportunity to gather some support, or take out some competition before it did break out.
DeleteAnd Alicia, you're close enough. You help EAT and have some measure of protection due to that. EAT would be rather irritated if the archive took you out, and there'd be several others who'd take the opportunity to grab some of their files if they were busy fighting EAT's campers. See also the state of the proxies in America.
Yet I've done nothing but help Alicia. Your mistrust makes Shine a sad Shard. :c ~Shine
DeleteSo far. You could br running a long con, or maybe you just didn't see a worthwhile opportunity before. What I want to know is why you're so averseto Alicia getting a second opinion. Seems rather suspect.
DeleteA second opinion from a proxie? No thanks.
DeleteNow see what you did, you made Shine sad. She's crying in the corner (of my mind, I guess?)Not really though.
This Instant thing has been going on for too damn long. I don't have time for a second opinion. And I really doubt the Archive would risk their own ass to get me an Object.
If you had given your opinion earlier, when I asked for ANYONE's other ideas a few post back, I would have considered it. But its a bit too late now for that ain't it?
All I'm seeing from you is an attempt to make me doubt going through with this. Which is exactly what I'd expect from a proxy. It won't work.
Doubt can be useful. For example, when you're taking advice from a shard of a fear. You know, occasions where you may have bad information. Then you could get a second opinion from the archive.
DeleteAnd I reckon they would probably ask for the object as payment. After you've used it. That is what we in the business call very good security for something that you really don't want to get loose.
And hey. Sorry 'bout not mentioning earlier. Not sure if I was following the blog back then, not to mention being rather busy looking into my own potential enemies. And not taking everything from one source.
As a final point, what makes you think I'm acting in my capacity as a proxy? You seem rather prejudiced, when I don't have much reason to mislead you. Wouldn't help me any, and it has the potential to make you last longer, which would kill more proxies. Unless I have some information which you don't, which I don't. 'Cause you aren't worth the effort and expense to get the good information. No offense.
So, to summarise, that was just me talking in my capacity as a paranoid guy. The fact that I'm a proxy just means I have access to information you, as a sleeper, don't. Does EAT even have sleepers? Or are you just a willing servant or what?
Goddamit I'm not EAT's servant. I don't even do stuff for her. The rake thing was an exception.
DeleteEAT just wanted to study my resonator-ness. In return for letting her do that, I get free acces to pretty much anything. I do have to mention that she stopped studying me a while ago. Apparently it wasn't getting any results. And now it's just too busy to care about kicking me out I guess?
Don't ask me whats keeping her so busy though. I've asked her, It won't tell me. Whatever it is it has her worried. And I'm not sure thats a good or bad thing.
2: Proxies are always proxies. If you can make me doubt, I'd be an easier target. Sounds like a psychological proxy bullshit tactic.
Or maybe you really are telling the truth. But yes I am prejudiced towards proxies. So I I'd rather not take your word for it.
Shine however has helped me each time. Over and over. Sure I don't trust her completely and she can be annoying. But at the time this was my only option. And I can't turn back now so this arguement is pointless. And if Shine is tricking me, then I'll use the fucking Object to seal her instead.
Meh. Best of luck. Hopefully it isn't a ploy.
DeleteOne thing to consider, though. You were helping EAT with it's studies, right? So there was a possibility that thay'd bear fruit. I don't claim to have any idea about resonators, but what if that research had bore fruit? Wouldn't that gain EAT more power, or capabilities,leading to more people being consumed? I somewhat doubt EAT was just going into it for the scientific interest.
I doubt I could help EAT "consume" more people than it already can. Because if it wanted to, it would have camperfied us all already, except maybe you servants.
DeleteThanks to EAT I can defend myself from proxies. And I'd rather risk giving her a slight edge and live to fight another day than Slendy catching me and doing god knows what with me. He got my father, he ain't getting me too.
So you help EAT in return for protection? Why does that sound familiar/ Could it possibly be because that's why like half the proxies are in this? Because they get protection? And the training and resources to defend other proxies in turn? Often against the servants of other fears?
DeleteNah, you're right. We're definitely in the wrong here. Slendy definitely isn't the lesser of several evils.
Lemme just rrrroll in here. *dancing*
DeletePeople in The Archive serve the Blind Man, so yeah, if they're giving either of you info, you'd be horribly naive to simply believe all they tell you.
It's not the conventional definition of bias that drafts Alicia into distrusting you, pHIL, it's common sense. You have an agenda, serving your Owner, and your Owner doesn't like Alicia. It's not as irrational as you paint it out to be.
People in the archive tend to deal in good faith. They aren't much of a military power (at least in England), and they need some odd stuff, which people like me trade for information they've gathered. For example, that redlit proxy that tried to fuck with our supplies in return for information on certain groups. That information was confirmed, in part at least, so I have little reason to doubt it. They'd probably cut a similar deal for the Object, once there was a shard in it.
DeleteAnd Slendy also isn't much a fan of most of the other Fears. So it'd fit the agenda to help prep Alicia for a plot by a shard. Which would most likely have it's own agenda. At the least, it may have prevented her from being overtly manipulated in future. Which would be a Good Thing on both sides of the fence. apart from EAT's and possibly the Dying man's sides. But it's practically my job to piss those things off.
Also, why the dancing? It seems a little undignified.
DeleteHEY. I LOVE DANCING. DANCING IS DIGNIFIED. I did belly dancing classes and that shit was AWESOME. *dancing*
DeleteDisclaimer: if I was remotely dignified, I wouldn't have bashed in a proxy's head with a cistern lid, I wouldn't curse like a sailor, and I wouldn't be buddies with necrophiliacs and proxies.
Hey, cursing like a sailor can be dignified. You just have to use classy swearwords. Like buggery. Or damnably. Anything you could picture a WWII fighter pilot saying.
DeleteFor example:
Buggery, the damnable bosch wankers are on my tail. Wilkins, would you be a toff and shoot them to buggery? thanks, old chap.
See. That's incredibly dignified! Shame about the cistern lid and necrophiliac. Reserving judgement on the proxy bit, if you don't mind.
Or it can be incredibly rough.
DeleteYou lost yer cake mate? I'll fokhin 'ave ya. Yer in fer a right bollockin now, ya soft git.
OH MY GOD, we can talk in British slang and no one else will understand it. Would you Adam and Eve it?
That is pretty creamed rice. Still, with cockney rhyming I don't have a scooby doo half the time, so it might not be best to be talking a la mode. Could be a right pain in the Gregory.
DeleteBut here's the million quid Q: why can swearing be classy, but dancing cannot?
DeleteIt can, but none of the classy dances (fandango, tango, ballroom etc.) fit in a van. Also, it rather famously takes two to tango. And ballroom dance.
DeleteYou don't need much space to belly dance. And some ballet, an arabesque is a good excuse to "accidentally" kick Vikady in the face.
DeleteYeah, but the only time the words 'belly dance' and 'dignified' should share a sentence is this sentence explaining why they shouldn't share a sentence.
DeleteAnd kicking Vic is amusing, but not terribly dignified.
Sorry for the late response, boring admin to sort out on short notice.
What? It is very modest and dignified. It's Arabic.
DeleteThe difference between me and you proxies is simple, I don't hunt down runners. Technicaly I only hunt down the Instant and I think we can all agree that guy needs to be stopped.
DeleteNot my fault you proxies try to attack me every other day and force me to use deadly violence.
One good thing about this empty shithole; No proxies here.
@Sanna: OOH belly dancing, sexy. *cough* Dammit Shine, you don't say those kinds of things.
I said nothing! You did. ~Shine
<.< Yeah just ignore that last part.
I don't hunt down runners. Mostly in supplies, politics and a correspondent for the blogs. The fact that runners have come after me is by the by.
DeleteSo yeah, you'll need another difference there to justify yourself.
HAY! Belly dancing is MODEST, people. Now I'm paranoid.
DeleteI haven't danced in ages. And I wouldn't dance in the van. It's spacious, for a van, but still crowded enough that at least someone would get an unwanted lap dance, no matter what style you do.
You don't hunt down runners? What do you call this? You weren't trying to recruit him for the local volleyball team.
DeleteThere's a difference between hunting and keeping an eye on someone. I didn't bring a weapon, and I didn't make contact.
DeleteBesides, we were one short on our volleyball team and the big game was the next day.
I know its modest, but those movements.. <.<
DeleteSorry, hanging around a half naked (straight) girl (even though she's a nest) and not getting any action makes Alicia a horny girl. And my mind tends to oversexualize things that aren't supposed to be when I'm horny.
Which is just my excuse for having a mind thats always in the deeper parts of the gutter. :x
Also: Lap dances are never unwanted. xD
I'd also say something to Lovett but Sanna already covered that.