[Final Day] Endgame

[arsgoetia]

There is a noise like broken glass as the giant shadowy snake wavers in place, then falls over, hitting the roof so hard that dust billows up on on various levels of existence, making the whole building shake. You begin to see more people all around you—flickering, as if the layers are merging into one, the separations between them vanishing.

Superimposed over the snake's fading body—yes, there is, in fact, a giant shadow snake, visible to everyone now, even those who had just been fighting Mithos—is a man in a labcoat bending over on his knees, shuddering and grasping at the ground.

"Sssssss . . . thissssss . . ."

He jerks abruptly, then sags a little more, as if losing energy, trying to force his eyes to stay open, but . . .

Comments

Re: Madison's Room

[necessaryevil.livejournal.com]

[watching you, are you sane yet]

Re: Madison's Room

[peacockeyes.livejournal.com]

[yes]

My apologies for earlier... and thank you for getting me down.

Re: Madison's Room

[necessaryevil.livejournal.com]

It's fine. You didn't cause me any harm, you were merely difficult to communicate with.

Re: Madison's Room

[peacockeyes.livejournal.com]

I'm glad... I can get violent when I'm like that.

Re: Madison's Room

[necessaryevil.livejournal.com]

I suppose that might have been awkward, but it turned out all right. What happened?

Re: Madison's Room

[peacockeyes.livejournal.com]

I'm... programmed, but it went wrong so the program takes independent action at times. It's survival and goal-oriented, its main goal is back in my own world, do it'll act according to what will return me to Ilegenes faster.

Re: Madison's Room

[necessaryevil.livejournal.com]

[well, ninjas can be sort of programmed so I can kind of understand that :|a]

I see. So when you dealt with the sigil, the program took over?

Re: Madison's Room

[peacockeyes.livejournal.com]

Yes. The walls tried to draw me in... it tells you its safe-- when I was starting to give up, the program overrode me and took over.

Re: Madison's Room

[necessaryevil.livejournal.com]

I see. Interesting.

Re: Madison's Room

[peacockeyes.livejournal.com]

[it scares the crap out of me, but you don't need to know that]

... right.

Re: Madison's Room

[necessaryevil.livejournal.com]

["interesting" is a vague word]

If the program overrides you, that implies it takes control from you.

Re: Madison's Room

[peacockeyes.livejournal.com]

Yes, something like that.

Re: Madison's Room

[necessaryevil.livejournal.com]

[and that seems pretty unpleasant, but he'll be tactful]

I see. How are your injuries?

Re: Madison's Room

[peacockeyes.livejournal.com]

[showing Okita, looking resigned. They don't look good]

Re: Madison's Room

[necessaryevil.livejournal.com]

Isn't Sera a healer? Ask her to look at them.

Re: Madison's Room

[peacockeyes.livejournal.com]

I will.

Re: Madison's Room

[necessaryevil.livejournal.com]

All right.