IC contact

[nobasisinfact]

IC contact

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Forward dated to June 1.

[11calls]

[It's a video call, which Alex doesn't normally do, but she's sitting at their kitchen table when she should be at work, and she's got a silver canister in front of her that one hand is keeping a hold of on for dear life and so tightly that her knuckles are white.]

Hi. I'm skipping work today. The portal people got in touch with me, and they were able to recover my memories. They're here. [Alex just raises the canister for a minute with a little smile.] Can you come home please? I just thought-- I mean I would rather have you here when I did it than not.

Re: Forward dated to June 1.

[nobasisinfact]

[Richard is still setting up his office. It's pretty sparse at the moment, but it's got shelving space and a few books lining those shelves. Sadly, no Black Tapes.

When she talks about having her memories he turns to look at her, brows creasing.]

Your memories?

audio un:pnwsalex

[11calls]

Okay, so don't freak out, but I'm sending you an address for after work. You have got to see this. It's super important but also a lot.

Re: audio un:TheStrandInstitute

[nobasisinfact]

[He's actually working in his office, so he'll just voice message back.]

Alex, what have I told you about being needlessly dramatic?

Forward dated to Simon's acceptance.

[11calls]

[There's something soft and raw in Alex's voice when she calls him and just says four words:]

Simon's here. In Riverview.

Re: Forward dated to Simon's acceptance.

[nobasisinfact]

[He'd known. Of course, he'd known. He's talked to Simon on that damned friendr thing. He'd told him rather politely (for him) to stay away, that Alex didn't need his sort of delusion. Not here. He knew that at home Simon's contact seemed to keep Alex in some kind of grounded state. Flying into flights of demonic fantasy, but grounded in her own way. She didn't need them here.

He would have told her when he got home, but apparently, Simon had invaded their home and beaten him to it; and the fact that Alex sounded shaken was, worrying. Especially when referring to Simon Reese.

He sent her a quick '5 minutes', before he was out the door and on his way back to the house. To tell the truth, it was probably more than five minutes just because the travel distance had changed. He was there, all the same, opening the door and looking for her, half expecting to see Simon sitting on the couch eating coco puffs or something else wholly bizarre for the deranged man.]

Alex, is he still here?

audio:

[11calls]

My black tape's here. I'm putting it on the network to let the tech people see if they can get anything from it.

[And then because she does in fact love him, she sends him a copy too.

Re: audio:

[nobasisinfact]

[The reply sounds exasperated and more than a little frustrated.]

You've already done it, haven't you?

[Somewhere in that tone is the phrase "You stupid pain in the ass, I hate you so much".]

1/?

[bardish]

Do you ever miss the days before texting??

[ He asks, WHILE TEXTING YOU. ]

[bardish]

flirting was so much easier before! You could just do it! You didn't have to second guess everything!

[bardish]

I realize now that this might make it look like i'm stealthily flirting with you but I promise you i'm not!!

4/4

[bardish]

but I AM flirting with somebody else. or I was? it got really confusing

so in short I miss the 90s

how are you today Richard?

audio

[11calls]

So, I'd like to host a party. A very small party. Not for me though. For Laura. Have you met Laura? She's 11, I think and she's never had a party before and she's friends with Stan.

She wants it small even, and I'm pretty sure she's never had a birthday party before.

[Richard, clearly she needs a birthday party.]

Re: audio

[nobasisinfact]

Are you asking my permission?

[Why Alex? Just throw the kid a party.]

Text.

[madeupnames]

Mr. Strand what the

[language, pete]

flipping flip, why am I talking to people from actual asylums???

Re: Text.

[nobasisinfact]

I told you Simon was, complicated.

[There probably needs to be more explanation there. It's just a matter of how much Simon divulged, wants to be divulged and wants to divulge himself.]

Simon is from a, unique situation, and never had the chance to develop properly. He needs friends. I assure you, he's entirely harmless.

[Unless you're not into cryptic phone calls, the possibility that Simon might murder the people who he feels hurt you and being stalked with bilocation.

But you're totally up for that, right Peter?]

After Peter falls off a roof.

[11calls]

[She fed Peter and watered him, and reminded him about water and advil before sending him off to bed. It was nearly one am at that point, and she hoped that he'd go even if she had no real guarantees that he would. But now that the crisis had passed, and Peter was no longer present to poke and make sure that he was okay, the freaking out that she had shoved aside in that moment came back in force.

Due to the lateness of the hour, Alex didn't stomp into the house, but she came a bit close to it, wearing his sweater over pajama pants and she headed into the study and poured herself nearly an entire glass of scotch before she slammed it and refilled it, all the while mumbling about stupid teenagers and stupid spiderman.]

Re: After Peter falls off a roof.

[nobasisinfact]

[Richars was already in the study, reading. Or at least he was pretending to read while actually trying not to worry about the idiotic teenager who had hung up on him when he clearly needed adult supervision.

When Alex practically came storming in and bee-lined it for the scotch, one of the more expensive bottles at that, he raised a brow as he watched her pound down a full glass, then fill it again.]

That scotch isn't the type to do that with.

[11calls]

With Peter leaving, I want to finally tell him the truth. Don't worry, I'm not going to let him think you're going to end the world or whatever. But I think just given everything, he deserves to know.

[Especially because she knows about that whole pesky Infinity War half the universe dying thing.]

Do you want to be there?

[nobasisinfact]

Yes.

anon text

[spherenpc]

So I heard a little birdy tell me you were looking for scotch.

Re: anon text

[nobasisinfact]

And if I were?

Audio | UN: RighteousFather

[10milliondollars]

Hey, Richard, it's Rhys. Sorry about threatening to ask Alex. It was just a joke. Didn't mean to stir up trouble.

[And then, because he can't leave well enough alone--] Why are you so touchy about it, though? Does it have to do with those black cases from Alex's memory?

audio un:pnwsalex

[11calls]

[After Simon's memory share, Alex has a mighty need. So, here she is doing something that Alex doesn't do all that often.]

I just wanted to say that I'm sorry. For when my memory was shared last time. I didn't realize how weird it was to see yourself through someone else's memory. Especially when it was so... sexualized. I'm sorry.

Re: audio un:pnwsalex

[nobasisinfact]

It's not something you could have prevented.

[sphererpmod]

[The following static happens at 3:33 am. It lasts for apparently 13 seconds. At the end of it, there is just a flash of text with it. When the message is played back or played for other people, it becomes less clear and degrades until it's completely gone.]

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[11calls]

[Alex doesn’t know it, but what she thinks is a general message over the network is just going telepathically to him.

And she sounds worried and scared to death.]

I think there’s something wrong. With me. I mean. I don’t I don’t know where I am and when I ask the network it just keeps saying unknown. Is this a new nightmare or something?!

[nobasisinfact]

What does it look like?

[Does he sound panicked? He's 1000% panicked.]

Private Audio

[spherenpc]

Would you mind telling me why your girlfriend just came here and shook me down for ten bottles of my best shit?

Re: Private Audio

[nobasisinfact]

Ask her.

Private Audio

[spherenpc]

Keep this to yourself until the post goes up, but I need a favor.

Re: Private Audio

[nobasisinfact]

I assume this has to do with what's going on.

Sphere (Outside of Dome) - December 22nd

[unknownmoirai]

[In a simple box is a new collection of handwritten notes about Angels & Demons from Inesa's home world as well as magical symbols that denote 'gates'. She also has a note that says that he can write out his notes and disprove the information but that he might find it interesting. With it, is a pair of rings for him and Alex.

On the package is a note, written in Inesa's hand.]

Perhaps I am wrong but I hope you enjoy this.

And take Alex somewhere nice.
~ Inesa