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003 - Voice

[When the journal turns on, all it can see is nothing but the ceiling. At first, there aren't any noises, either. Well, nothing except the sound of clicking from what sounds like a mouse. After a moment of that, however, that stops, and then Teddy's voice is heard, sounding a bit unsure.]

...Billy? I think my laptop upgraded itself.

[Another sound, one of faintly playing music that might have been heard earlier, is paused as Billy's voice comes in a little further away.]

Upgraded how? Is it running better?

No, there's just... stuff that wasn't there before, like some games I've never heard of. Come here a second...

[Something's being shut and set aside for the moment, and then there's the sound of footsteps noise as Billy makes his way to where Teddy's sitting.]

Maybe it's just an added Christmas bonus. .... 'Slender'? Are you sure that's not a virus or something?

Beats me. Guess I won't tell unless I click it - I've got avast, don't worry.

...If you break your laptop you can't steal mine.

I steal yours to play Skyrim anyway, your argument is invalid. Now, let's see...

[A double click as Teddy gets the "virus" started. There's a pause, and then a rather low, unsettling sound.]

...This is not a great beginning, Tee.

The title screen's kinda flee-the-room worthy, but... hmm. Not very virusy to me.

'Flee the room' is a good way to phrase it. I don't trust those crickets.

What, think they'll jump out and eat you? All I'm doing is walking through the woods...

Walking through the woods in the dark with no music. Something is going to eat you.

Well, it's not gonna be crickets. I think I'm supposed to find the thing that'll eat me.

It said 'find 8 pages', so thanks for the mental image you just gave me. I'll never look at my bookshelf the same way.

You're welcome. ... Whoa, wait, what just - did my screen just -

[And a creak of the chair - with Billy having his arms around Teddy's shoulders and jerking back the way he did, he ended up yanking the chair a little.] Oh my god did you do that?"

No, it's - Me moving made it stop. I'm starting to believe your virus theory, B...

Then just turn it off, it's freaking me out.

Hold on, I want to see where this goes. ... Oh, a building. Not sure if want.

...Don't you dare go in there.

I'm thinking I have to. And you don't have to watch if it's bothering you, I think I'll be okay.

I'm fine, I just- no, seriously, I don't think you should go in there. That is a death trap.

There might be a page in there; that's what I'm supposed to be looking for, right? Eight pages that'll eat me...

That's still not funny. .....Why is that hallway so dark. You have a flashlight. Why is it dark.

III don't...

[Whereas Teddy sounds distracted and focused on the game, Billy's babbling is beginning to sound a little shaky. This part's seriously claustrophobic.] Why are you playing this. Why would anyone play this? ...Oh god, can you even get out of there? Did you trap yourself? You totally did, didn't you? You're gonna die.

Nnno I'm not...

[Billy's starting to breathe faster as Teddy goes around corner after corner. Teddy, however, is quiet; having Billy be scared for him helps him out during games - uh, viruses like this. But after a moment of that:]

Oh my god an exit, get out, get the hell out, this is the worst place in the world-

[Teddy, on his part, sounds amused, even if his voice is just slightly shaky: the only time Billy really swears is if he's scared, and it's funny to hear.] See? I made it out and I'm not dead. Still didn't find a page.

This is a stupid game. It's stupid and it's boring. Just play Skyrim or something, okay?

Maybe if I can find a page - oh, some tanks.

No, no, no, no no no no no no...

[Another pause, with more quiet no's from Billy and silence from Teddy... at least, until a certain point.] ... Hm.

Oh shit, what was that, what is that right there-

Calm down, just a tree, camera got weird on me.

No it's- .....um.

Tree.

Shut up.

Heh heh.

Okay... So far I'm finding nothing.

Nothing but- your screen's doing that thing again.

Yeah, I don't - [And just as Teddy lifts his hand to tap the screen - ]

What is that noise!?

Agh, it's - I can't - What the fuck -

[Briefly, there's the sound of the chair creaking - but this time it sounds like it's being forced back even further and even jostled. Following right after is Billy letting out a scream and loud, incoherent sputterings of "shit shit shit" before his footsteps are heard again, this time much louder and quicker as he runs away, and the door slamming.

Teddy, however, just breathes heavily for a few seconds... before he lets it out in one long breath, then gives a brief pause as he looks around.]

... Billy?

[And more footsteps, much softer now that Teddy's walking to the door, where all that can be heard is muffled shrieking.]

B, it's okay, it's over now - let me in?

[... At least his voice is only shaky compared to Billy's screaming.]

((ooc: As Billy will spend the rest of the time being under a blanket, Teddy will answer for the most part, though the former might interject at some points. If you want Billy in on it for a threeway thread, just say so and we'll drag him out! For the record, replies will, in Luceti time, be answered about ten minutes after the entry, seeing how they must console each other after such a near death experience.

Also, the video we used for reference. Have fun!))

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Exactly. You're doing the right thing, Teddy, not listening to this one.

[Jack gives a haughty huff in Eugene's direction that is all theatre, eyebrows lifting pointedly over low-lidded eyes.]

Fear via entertainment media is a subtle and delicate thing you wouldn't understand, Mr. Watched-the-Saw-Movies-and-Retained-His-Appetite.

B, I told you you could stop watching any time. The blood is shared, the red sun rose because of both of us.

[He gives a glance at the journal at Ion's question, then back to Billy with a raised eyebrow, then back at the journal again.] It's the build-up. Kind of like a ghost story in visual form, only you actually see the ghost, too.

[...] And, in this case, it didn't have a face. Heh.

I don't think he can concentrate on his zapping skills right now. [He tilts the journal slightly so that both he and the bundle of blankets with Billy inside can be seen.] Anything you can tell me about a horror game that may or may not be deleteable?

Yeah, you've never heard of it? It's an internet meme, I think it started back in... 2009ish. Apparently it started from a paranormal picture contest on Something Awful.

[He turns onto his back, his one free hand moving to hold the blanket up slightly, if only to keep it from smooshing up against his nose.] The challenge was to make a photo creepy and submit it. Some guy made a couple of photos with kids in them, and he manipulated the picture to make it look like they were being stalked by this thing with long arms and legs, and no face. After that, people started to make a story about the character, put him in more pictures, made up some Creepypasta on him, and Slenderman was born.

[After that little story, Teddy turns his head to give a half smile.] I guess it got so popular that someone made a game out of it.

Edited 2013-01-19 07:12 (UTC)

Slenderman... Thought so. I've never even heard of it until now... I didn't even get one page, either. Now that I know what it is, I'll kick its face off next time. [hahahahahahaha get it]

You wanna play it with us sometime? At night, in the dark? [That's the only way to play video games, after all. And the best way to get Billy huddled up against his back.]

Dork. That's not even the right quote.

[There's a sniff from under the blanket, but from indignation rather than tears.]

You try playing it without getting scared.

Of course it's from the internet.

[Billy groans, burying his face into Teddy's shirt again, sounding exasperated, a shudder running through his body. The description of the invented monster brings an unpleasant mental image all too easily to his mind.]

All the worst things in the world come from the internet.

[ a cluck of her tongue. ] Oh, Billy. I don't blame him. [ she speaks up, as if that'll somehow make her better heard: ] Hear that, Billy? Don't blame you. I'd be hiding too.

[ she doesn't even know what they say, really. but it seems like the thing to say. ]

I'm guessing dragging it to the trash icon didn't work.

[ guess who you don't want running your tech support? ]

[There is a vaguely muffled response from the direction of the bed, his voice borderline petulant-]

I don't believe you.

Of course! I mean. You'd have to be living under a rock not to know Zelda! A kid with green clothes and a sword going on a journey and triforce happens and he meet the princess? We're talking about the same one, right? Not some weird parallel universe version?

Well, if you ever need a co-pilot for it I can always help out!

[How does one help out with these games...]

Oh, so you mean it scares you because of the way it shows up? That makes a little more sense...

[A soft chuckle. Totally not laughing at your pain, Billy, really.] I suppose I wouldn't know whether or not it would frighten me, but I've never been very scared of ghost stories either. How is it played, exactly?

[HE KINDA WANTS TO TRY IT.]

It's fiction. As in not remotely possible to be real. You can't take that stuff so seriously, it'll keep you up at night.

[This being said without the unspoken caveat that if Jack couldn't sleep, neither was Eugene sleeping. Pauses and smirks]

Is this where you get all these crazy ideas about cheetahs eating your sister?

Yes, thank you, and that is the last time I tell you about my dreams-!

[Sorry, Teddy, Eugene is just being something of a massive pillock now.]

Aw, don't be like that, Jack. Jaaaack.

[Hey, it was okay to be them in front of Billy and Teddy and maybe a little back and forth banter would help Billy calm down. Leans his head on Jack's shoulder and looks at him, not pitifully, but almost]

But they're interesting. And they make me laugh. It's not so bad, right?

[Leans back a little, looking at Jack's wings]

Your wings are all taut, don't be so defensive.

Oh.

[Well, now he's really curious. And a little apprehensive. But mostly curious.]

... would you mind if I, um... I mean... could I maybe try playing it for myself?

Kittens.

[There's the thump thump of someone leaving his room (followed by mewing - Amaya is chasing him) and going down the stairs to the living room, where a black cat with vivid orange eyes is curled around her three babies. One smokey gray, one black, and one black tabby.

And all of them are looking up to the camera with Puss in Boots eyes.

Well until the gray cat blocks the view of the camera and rears up against Law's leg to mewl loudly and insistently. FOOD. NOW.]

I look forward to it.

That would just end in your avatar's unfortunate, untimely demise again. [He sounds so dry he's a desert.]

I would not mind playing it with you, granted Billy can handle it.

Imagine that you're walking through a dark forest with nothing but crickets chirping, and all you have is a flashlight. You're supposed to find the eight pages, but you don't know why, and you don't know where they are. You get this sense that you're being watched, but you just can't see anything...

Sometimes, your vision blurs, and your ears whine. You don't know why, but you know you have to get out of there, and fast. Like something terrible will happen if you don't move.

[Yes, he's totally making this creepy on purpose. Probably to troll his boyfriend.]

Edited 2013-01-24 21:39 (UTC)

[Teddy gives a soft chuckle; He would go over and stroke the lump that he knows is Billy's head, but he's a bit too far away, and he doesn't feel like stretching just for that.]

I actually haven't tried it. Right now, I don't even want to touch the thing. I'm not hiding under blankets, but it's not something I'm anywhere near eager to try again for today.

[... Which means he might want to play it again another day.]

All the best things come from there, too.

[Deciding to forgo his position on his back, Teddy turns to his side again, to look down at Billy with a half smile.]

Most of the best things do, anyway.

That sure sounds like the version I'm thinking of. And the princess is captured a villain who can turn into a pig monster? And you have to save her by going through a bunch of temples?

[The only response Teddy gets is a muffled whimper and a pillow flung in his direction. Jerk.]

All hail the land of cute cat videos.

[He wiggles his fingers melodramatically, giving Teddy a pointed look. Yeah, he knows your weakness, blondie.

And almost immediately after, his lack of focus causes the magic night-light to wink out abruptly, and he shrieks. Not his best moment ever.

Goddammit.]

Believe me or not, Kaplan, I speak the truth.

[ awh. poor kid. ]

I wish Will was here. She'd know what to do -- both magically and technically.

Edited 2013-01-25 11:18 (UTC)

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