Dib Membrane (Older) (
fearofpiggies) wrote2013-09-02 07:46 pm
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It had been a few days of radio silence on Dib's end. His house's AI picked up the IMs he missed with 'Dib's not home, pal. He's off doing that dumb deep research thing he does. If he dies, I'll let you know' and that was the end of it.
And Eddie was right. He was doing that dumb deep research thing he did. In fact, he had been in an abandoned amusement park that had been built on top of an old factory site that had lots of fucked up deaths attributed to both places, and even more fucked up hauntings. It didn't help that some freaky cult of demon worshipers had been using the abandoned haunted house attraction as a meeting place and had been doing rituals there for years, thus inviting in literally every dark presence in the immediate area of the site. It was basically the only time Dib could be talked into going to an amusement park without getting him grousing.
When he returned home after three days of extensive research and recording of phenomena, Dib was exhausted, but satisfied with the results he'd gotten. His first order of business was to take a long shower to wash off the dried ectoplasm that had gotten on him, as well as the three-day stink of someone who slept in his car instead of getting a hotel room. He didn't bother brushing his hair back or shaving, because he'd be going straight to sleep after winding down from an adventurous weekend. Once he stepped out of the bathroom, he made his way out to the living room, sprawling out on his sofa to see what he'd missed on his social networks.
Not much, it seemed. He didn't keep a very long list of contacts; the few that he kept were in alternate dimensions, or in the vague shadow agency of the Swollen Eyeball Network.
Do you never sleep? He wrote to Sollux, having seen him actively online practically every hour of the day, over the course of about a month.
And Eddie was right. He was doing that dumb deep research thing he did. In fact, he had been in an abandoned amusement park that had been built on top of an old factory site that had lots of fucked up deaths attributed to both places, and even more fucked up hauntings. It didn't help that some freaky cult of demon worshipers had been using the abandoned haunted house attraction as a meeting place and had been doing rituals there for years, thus inviting in literally every dark presence in the immediate area of the site. It was basically the only time Dib could be talked into going to an amusement park without getting him grousing.
When he returned home after three days of extensive research and recording of phenomena, Dib was exhausted, but satisfied with the results he'd gotten. His first order of business was to take a long shower to wash off the dried ectoplasm that had gotten on him, as well as the three-day stink of someone who slept in his car instead of getting a hotel room. He didn't bother brushing his hair back or shaving, because he'd be going straight to sleep after winding down from an adventurous weekend. Once he stepped out of the bathroom, he made his way out to the living room, sprawling out on his sofa to see what he'd missed on his social networks.
Not much, it seemed. He didn't keep a very long list of contacts; the few that he kept were in alternate dimensions, or in the vague shadow agency of the Swollen Eyeball Network.
Do you never sleep? He wrote to Sollux, having seen him actively online practically every hour of the day, over the course of about a month.
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"There'th one more thing you should probably add to the readout," me mentioned after a few moments. "If you really want to fine-tune thith I mean. It won't take long to gather the data and I imagine it'll give you better data for really fine motor thkillth." With that he once more sifted through his sylladex, retrieving his laptop and booting it up, finding one of his online friends to start to bother. He told them a little bit of what he was doing, mostly getting a confused response as he lapsed into the technical language. Eventually the window was filled with a wall of yellow text that he'd tapped out just as quickly as anyone would have expected of him, and he bit the troll on the other end farewell before putting the computer away again. He looked back up at the monitor readout and smiled faintly at the information scrolling by.
"Time for the fun part?"
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"Okay, now I need you to imagine doing something you can't physically do. Tell me exactly what you're imagining you're doing. It can be anything. Like maybe you have a sixth finger on your left hand, or you're opening up a hidden compartment in your forearm. Y'know, whatever it is. It has to be realistic in your mind, though. Like, as real as imagining you're making a fist was. You get me? It'll help the data if you tell me exactly how it works in your mind." Dib looked over at Eddie's camera, and smiled a little. "Eddie's recording the audio so I don't need to dictate everything you're doing. Just go ahead and start whatever it is you're not doing."
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"I might not be doing it for fortune or fame, but I'm sure as hell not going to turn down commissions on it. And I already have a certain spidery bitch who's really interested in upgrading her arm." He shrugged, "I've got a thing or two I want, myself, but that comes next."
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"But maybe you should fill me in on what you were thinking."
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Once Dib had been pushed down to sit back comfortably his lap was straddled instead, Sollux' arms coming to rest against the back of the couch on either side of his head.
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"Not gonna be much fun if you're --," he took a sharp breath as he rolled his hips in time with Sollux's bulges, "If you're going to keep up doing everything right."
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