[Walkabout to 4th Wall] Oops

[failgoyle]

Alright, we're under the hospital, past the airlock, there's a...thing down here, I dunno what it does...but I'm going to see if I can crack it like I did the airlock door. Seeing as how I'm the best-qualified and all...

[There's a long pause with a little bit of the psychic equivalent of Jules muttering coding nonsense to himself.]

Huh, that's weird, I wonder if--

[It is at this point that the shift back to Liminal occurs, and that everyone, not just the people on Walkabout, will be able to hear it.]

I DIDN'T DO IT!

Comments

[amadine]

Sensible ideas, by the sound of things. Didn't you ever stop to consider the possibility that playing with ominous machines beneath an island that's abruptly lost its entire population might be a bad idea?

[Says the woman who walked through a portal inside a magical volcano, once upon a time.]

[failgoyle]

I wasn't playing, I was trying to use my professional expertise to see if I could get any important information!

[amadine]

Your professional expertise with something you couldn't even identify?

[failgoyle]

It had a computer system attached, I'm really good with computers!

[amadine]

Apparently not with this one.

[failgoyle]

I don't know how that happened! I must've tripped some kind of fail-safe...

[amadine]

Which is precisely why playing with ominous artifacts beneath a dead city is a bad idea.

[failgoyle]

But it wasn't playing!

[He is entirely innocent and without blame here! So he claims.]

[amadine]

That's exactly what it was! Pretending you had a better grasp of things than you actually do won't change matters at all.

[failgoyle]

It wasn't pretending! I really thought I knew how all their systems worked even if I didn't know what the thing's main function was!

[amadine]

How could you know how it worked if you didn't even know what it was?

[Sorry, Jules, the intricacies are a bit lost on her.]

[failgoyle]

I thought it was gonna tell me when I got deeper into its code!

[amadine]

...Please tell me you didn't connect your brain to the ominous artifact beneath the dead city.

[failgoyle]

No! It was just with a laptop! I don't have anything for a direct brain link or anything crazy like that.

[amadine]

Gods be praised for small mercies, then. You might've made your brain actually explode.

[failgoyle]

Give me some credit, I generally know what I'm doing with computers.

[amadine]

Now you just need to work on knowing when not to do it, yeah?

[failgoyle]

I...guess so?