Sure Got Kafkaesque in Here

[googledox]

[It comes on Saturday's comm, during a lull in the fighting, when the liquidators have all been stopped. It's text but the text-to-voice options means people can hear the message on the go, especially since people can have their comms float along with them as they move.]

[It's difficult for him to hit the buttons without messing words up. He opts to keep his sentences short and simple. Thank goodness for auto-capitalize and auto-spell]

Using Saturday's comm. She found me outside.

Brainiac 5. I'm alive.

Fell in Stuff. Was dying.

Alive but changed. Bad. Typing is difficult.

No thumbs.

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Voice

[walkingballpit]

Brainy died.

[ And he is audibly upset at having to say it outloud, even though it's confirmed that Brainy is alive in some form. ]

What was I supposed to think? What would you have thought - what makes the most sense with the least crazy - crap!

[ There's some huffing on his end, and what sounds like a team's worth of heavy boots echoing down a hallway. After a moment, Robbie continues in a whisper.]

I'm sorry. Next time, I will assume you fart miracles and marshmallows. I promise.

Re: Voice

[googledox]

Stop. Fighting.

Not now.

Re: Voice

[wheyoftheadept]

Damn right you will.

[the good mood fades from her voice]

Listen, can you page Kerrigan? Brainy's new body can't seem to talk and it's freaking him out. He's doing better now, but like...

[she trails off]

Maybe she can help him? He's got some kind of psychic thing going on, I dunno if he could do that before, but it ain't words, just feelings.

Voice

[walkingballpit]

She’s about as paged as it gets.

He’s an empath, here. I don’t know how much that will help with communicating, although exasperation comes through the link really well.

Re: Voice

[wheyoftheadept]

Yeah, I heard. Maybe she can boost him, help him use it to talk? That'll help, I think, until we can figure out how to unfuck the situation.

[the idea that it might not be a thing you can unfuck is simply not worth entertaining at this time; they don't really know enough about anything. but it had been clear that being unable to speak clearly had been terrifying Brainy]