[closed] and since we've one place to go

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Who: Nathan Drake, Elena Fisher, Agent Washington, Agent Maine, Kyna Midha, Staci Pratt, Poe Dameron, Taako Taaco, Lup Taaco, Peter Parker
What: Nate leads a polar expedition out to the mountains.
Where: Out on the tundra; at an undisclosed excavation site in the foothills.
When: February 1-14
Warnings: PG-13+ for swearing, descriptions of dead bodies/science torture. :(




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WELCOME TO SNOW HELL

the journey | the door | the bunker | the lab

Comments

[theweakhavepurpose]

Yeah those things. And I am absolutely not making it up.

[Also true fact - same woman used those things rigged up to a lock in order to secure her bunker in New Dawn]

She's pretty obsessed with fishing.

[itsnotaonesie]

The shooting a dude over the singing bass part, or the singing bass being haunted part? I guess both are equally disturbing.

[see there's obsessed with fishing and then there's BATSHIT]

[theweakhavepurpose]

Neither.

Though the haunted part might be Rook fucking with us by sneaking batteries back into it. The shooting was definitely a thing.

[itsnotaonesie]

Oooooh, fish pranks. See, now, fish pranks are fun, I can get behind that.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Fish pranks are not fun after a twelve hour shift and it's one am and that thing starts fucking singing and scaring the shit out of you.

[itsnotaonesie]

...Okay, fair. I take it back.

Was this Rook known for pulling pranks, or was the fish thing like, a one off thing?

[theweakhavepurpose]

No he did it all the time.

Just usually not to me. More to Hudson and the Sheriff.

[itsnotaonesie]

He played pranks on the Sheriff, too? Did he ever get in trouble or was it more of a "oh that Rook's up to his shenanigans again" sorta thing?

[theweakhavepurpose]

He got stuck on desk duty filing all our paperwork for three weeks once. The Sheriff has no sense of humor whatsoever.

[itsnotaonesie]

That in itself is actually kinda funny, not gonna lie. And hey, you didn't have to do paperwork for three weeks, right? That counts as a win.

[theweakhavepurpose]

It absolutely does. I kicked back at my desk and watched youTube and ate candy and grinned like a fucking asshole the whole damn time.

[itsnotaonesie]

Oh man, livin' the dream. If he was dropping Billy Bass's Greatest Hits on you, he totally deserved that.

[theweakhavepurpose]

He did.

But uh... I hope he's okay. I hope they're all fine back home.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Peter doesn't verbally reply, but he does nod in understanding. He knows that concern all too well, considering the state of things back home before he'd arrived here.]

I've... heard that time doesn't move forward back where we came from, as long as we're here. Not really sure how much I believe that, or if it's even a good thing if it's true? I guess it depends.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Someone also told me that we don't remember this when we go home. So it's like we never even left.

I don't know which part of that is more horrifying, that the world is paused while we're here, or that it's gonna fuck with our minds even when we've left.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Well that's a fun thought isn't it]

...You know, I'd say that the world being paused is worse, if only because not remembering this place if we go back doesn't sound all that horrible. At the same time though, I don't like the idea of forgetting all the people I met here? So... actually, that's a tough one.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Gotta really suck for people who made friends here that they don't even get to remember.

[Like all the people here who made Pratt smile, even if it was just for a few moments. :( ]

I guess it would depend on how long you're here for. If you're here for years it might be better for it to be paused, but for the people who are only here a few weeks... I dunno. I guess if you don't remember it you don't want to try and explain missing time and missing memories.

[itsnotaonesie]

Yeah, no kidding. All you guys is the biggest thing that I would want to remember.

[The only thing, really. Which means he'd be really confused by all the selfies with monsters he has in his phone, but hey.]

What I wanna know is like, what happens when someone who died back home ends up here? Would time stop for their world too? None of this stuff really makes any sense.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Kinda the only thing worth remembering.

[he sort of grudgingly likes you guys. Kinda. In that if any of the people who've talked to him ever got hurt he would skin whoever hurt them and make a rug out of their hide.]

We need a manual. Or an informative TEDTalk.

[itsnotaonesie]

[THAT'S... NICE? It's probably better to be friends with the crazy guy than to be on his bad side right???]

Maybe if the gods would stop jerking us around all the time and just give us straight answers, we could slap something like that together.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Do you think they do that intentionally? Just to fuck with us? Because I'm starting to think that they're kind of dumb and don't realize what they haven't told us.

[itsnotaonesie]

I hope it's just stupidity and not them intentionally keeping stuff that we could use to help them from us. Otherwise we're kinda boned.

[theweakhavepurpose]

The only way I can see them keeping it from us is if it would help them, but we could somehow use it against them? I don't see them willingly sharing any weakness - that wouldn't be very smart of them.

[itsnotaonesie]

I guess that makes sense, but at the same time, how many of us would be likely to turn on them? If we knew what their weaknesses are, we'd be able to protect them way easier.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Probably a lot more than you'd think. If people thought killing them would get them home. Or get them what they wanted.

Or just for fun. We have some legit terrible people here remember?