savetheearth | Showtime #002: Video

[So those few who have been graced with Mac's visage before, here it is again! Except his hair, far from being its normal slicked-back comb, is a unkempt mess. He looks like he's recovering from a bad fight, and there's the slightest jitter to his movements that's hard to place.]

[Looking around the room, it looks like a classic 20 year old's room. There's posters (mostly videogame oriented), a stack of movies next to a TV, an unmade bed and a clothes hamper, among other things. But two things probably stick out.

1 - he's wearing glasses. And those that remember seeing his eyes probably don't remember them being quite so... blue.
2 - there's a sledgehammer laying next to the swivel chair Mac is taking a seat in as he addresses what is probably some sort of webcam.]

This thing's on, right? Hey, Numberinos. How was your weekend? Mine was spectacular. You know. Sat around, got to watch my vision go to shit in real time, became part of the eye color change club. Oh, right. And I hit up a warehouse nearby with Thunder Corp shit.

Now, I'm not going to lie to you, it was a clusterfuck. I managed to get out of it, though, more or less intact. Oh. And I grabbed a present for you guys.

[He reaches off camera, grabbing something he tosses into the air real quick, before throwing it down onto the desk. It's a water bottle, about three-fourths full with water. ...Except it's water that has a nice, healthy pink glow to it.]

So yeah, casual reminder to newbies - don't drink the tap water. That shit'll give you the gigglefits and apparently the police are looking for those, now? Maybe they're trying to out us that way... [He quietly thinks to himself before gathering his thoughts, nervously running a hand through his hair to stry and slick it back again.]

Okay, so. There's like. A chemist on this network, right? Or someone who has like. Degrees and shit they can use to figure out what's in this, because I'm not so certain I want to hang onto this bottle of possibly water contaminant possibly something worse forever.

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Very little to do, as contaminant can't be filtered out.

Imagine guards present. How did you get past them?

No way to identify what the hell this is or anything? I mean... it's glowing. You'd think we'd be able to derive something from that... like. Ugh. I dunno. I was never that good with chemistry.

As for the guards, it was pretty lax. There was only one there, but they managed to mess me up pretty good. Managed to get out easily enough before backup arrived, though.

Have never seen it before. Only reacts with those of us connected - has no effect on normal cells. Other than that, nothing.

Not worried guard will identify you?

They've started phase two.

I admittedly have no idea what phase 2 is but I'm almost inclined to believe you.

Thanks for getting on my case about the water, by the way. I had no idea what was going to be in that warehouse - I only had a bottle of water on hand because of that.

So I guess I do owe you an apology, about getting on your case about being the crazy water conspiracy theorist.

So we have no idea how to really work with it then.

Damn. Was actually hoping it was something useful. Though this seems more... concentrated, I guess is the word? Unless we've got a sample that actively glows pink.

Covered my face up for the most part. They might be able to identify me by hair color and eye color, but that's about all they got.

Wow, having bad eyesight must be so hard for you.

[ #Sarcasm. And then, in an annoyed but less sarcastic tone: ]

What present? Are you showing us something? Ugh, you people.

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Concentration mostly irrelevant, unfortunately. Wish I could do something, but contaminant remarkably stubborn. Would be fascinating if not for implications.

Guess you really blindsided me with that revelation.

[Yeah, sorry, shitty blind joke. WHOOPS.]

Seriously though, didn't realize we had blind people accessing the network now.

It's a bottle of water. Glowing bright pink with the contaminant. Though it seems like it's not necessarily as much of a revelation as I'd have hoped it'd been.

No backup from the other Tunnel Snakes, huh?

[ ...THAT JOKE... ]

Well, that sounds safe and healthy. "Glowing" and "bright pink" have never before been applied to water I've drank, so far as I know.

Are all you punks who drank it going to turn into fish or mutants or something? Is that what happened to Sharky?

Phase two is just the next step in the water poisoning plan! It's so potent now, you can even see there's something wrong with it!

This is why I've been trying to warn people, even if it does make me sound pretty crazy.

(Thanks for the apology, by the way!)

Edited 2013-08-18 22:20 (UTC)

...Haven't heard that moniker is a while.

[Taken aback. He rubs his chin a bit, then-]

Officer Light?

It was "Detective", kid, and not anymore.

[HE'S SUCH A SHITHEAD AND I'M REALLY SORRY.]

Sharky? I don't know a Sharky. But the contaminants are pretty much made to give you a full on gigglefit. And apparently the police are looking for that now. So there's that.

But now you got me curious. What happened to Sharky?

[ you're on her LIST Mac. No one knows what that means but you're on it ]

Sharky, the kid with the shark teeth. You know. He just said something recently.

[ his name is not actually Sharky. ]

He got shark teeth. Totally ought to become a shark-themed superhero, too.

So it goes.

I haven't been a Tunnel Snake for a while either, but admittedly I've still got a few contacts I can tap in case I need to run amok.

But no, this was a solo mission. Pretty straightforward. for the most part. Except the part where it all went completely haywire.

But straightforwardly haywire.

Edited 2013-08-18 22:24 (UTC)

Sounds like quite the adventure.
You went all by yourself?

[ YOU LITTLE SHIT YOU LITTLE SHIT YOU LITTLE SHIT ]

[GUESS WHO HAS TWO THUMBS AND IS COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS TO ANY MALICE TOWARDS HIM.

THIS GUYYYYYYYYYY]

safest way to do it, yeah.
figured the more people to come along the more ways shit could have went wrong.

Oh, right, Trav. Yeah, I don't know the specifics, but apparently things happen when you drink the water. It appears to be different for everyone. But it also throws you into a highly suspicious gigglefit.

How brave. You're very lucky that things seem to have worked out okay. You could have gotten yourself killed, and possibly even compromised everyone else's safety.

[ YOU LITTLE SHIT ]

Yeah, Sharky.

[ who is this Trav of whom you speak ]

...Yeah, I think I'll try to avoid the apparently pink and glowing water all the same. Lame personal preference, I know.

jesus christ is everything involved in this shit pink or purple. these are some fabulous aliens were dealing with.

[NOPE, STILL OBLIVIOUS. TRY TO HATE A LITTLE HARDER THROUGH THE INTERNET, ELLIE.]

yeah. if there were more guards that could have gone really bad.
but there was only one on last night and they seemed pretty absent-minded about the whole thing.
it was definitely luck more than anything.

oh god, do i evenn want to know what else is pink or purple we've been dealing with?
and are we -sure- it's aliens? i've been kind of hoping it's been mole people.

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