[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]

What, by all the hells, did you break?

[failgoyle]

I didn't break anything!

[ringslinging]

Okay, you didn't do it.

Which, translated into plain English, means "I did something and it's bad."

[comebewe]

Jules, you bloody moron.

[amadine]

Of course. Loud denial without any accusation being levelled is never an indication that the person making the denial has just fucked up in a truly magnificent fashion. How silly of me to assume.

[shiroganeheir]

What did you not do?

[failgoyle]

No, no, I didn't do it! I...had everything under control!

I was just trying to crack the operating system!

[failgoyle]

It's not my fault! It worked fine with the door!

[failgoyle]

Exactly!

It's not like I was trying to hack into the ominous bit of whatever-the-hell-it-was technology under the hospital or anything!

[failgoyle]

Nothing! Nothing! Nothing at all!

[shiroganeheir]

Generally when one insists that one did not do something, there is something that was done.

What do you believe yourself to have done?

[wholeheaded]

What happened?

[ look everyone else has the "Jules pls" thing covered he may as well try another angle. ]

[failgoyle]

I was just trying to check out the machine, that's all!

[failgoyle]

There was this thing under the hospital and I was just looking at it, I wasn't doing anything!

[wholeheaded]

It's okay, Jules, I believe you. [ not entirely true but experience tells him this is probably the best route to take. ] What hospital? Where were you all?

[failgoyle]

On the island, there was this airlock door underneath the hospital, and I hacked through that, and then under there was another machine, and I thought I could get that, too, and I guess I couldn't because now we're back here!

[capital_asset]

Are you all right?

[He'd also like to know exactly what it was Jules didn't do, but everyone else seems to have that covered already.]

[comebewe]

That door wasn't a goddamn dimensional portal, you idiot!

[wholeheaded]

[ that's all sounding... a little familiar. sort of. ]

Back up a little, I just came from the Roman Empire: what island?

1/2

[failgoyle]

Wh...a...

2/2

[failgoyle]

It was a DIMENSIONAL PORTAL?!

AND NO ONE TOLD ME?!

[failgoyle]

Oh, yeah, fine, fine, I'm alive and my laptop made it back with me, I'm absolutely super aside from everything else in my life right now!

[failgoyle]

Okay, so some of us ended up on this island in the middle of abso-freakin'-lutely nowhere in the wilderness and there were like wolves and bears and piranha plants and things, and it was awful, but we found a city, only it was dead and there was no one there, and then there was a hospital in the city, and there was some freaky-ass door in it, and I got through that, but behind the door was a weird machine, and I was just trying to see if I could turn it on...

[comebewe]

Maybe they would have if you'd decided to, oh, I don't know, wait before you start messing with the weird machine? In the vault that people from other dimensions apparently came from? In the middle of the goddamn deserted island?!

[wholeheaded]

....did you go to Belljar? And it was... what do you mean, dead?