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[termineur]

"Uh, hi there. I'm probably out stomping through snow right now, so...leave a message?"

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@hotstud_xxx; text; Day 172

[rubikscomplex]

[He saw that obit. He's making assumptions, but House is desperately curious to know what happened with the doctor friend... mainly because he seemed like he'd be useful.]

suresh that annoying, then?

@godsend, text

[termineur]

[ And here it is. He expected no one would notice but House. That seemed to be the case, at least so far. He still didn't know what to do about this man, unfortunately. He'd been getting by only talking to him about theories so far, but he doubted that would work here. Time to try a new tactic. ]

Not nearly as annoying as you, House. Ask what you really want to ask.

[rubikscomplex]

[We're jumping straight into it, then. Okay. That's... troubling. He'd only been half-sure this guy was that kind of weirdo, even though he'd been prodding him. That about cements it.]

you take all the fun out of it, you know?
how'd you do it?

[termineur]

I'm going to take even more fun out of it for you. I didn't do it.

[rubikscomplex]

then what happened?
and don't give me some bullshit like you two separated and you
~never heard from him again~

[termineur]

See? You already know how it happened. He headed out to the aquarium, I stayed behind to search the hospital more thoroughly. I was going to meet up with him the next day. Didn't work out.

Honestly. Even if I did do something to him, why would I tell you?

By the way, I had to leave the hospital before the cat made it there. I got the new nurse, Claire, to agree to help out with collecting samples from Jia's body. I'll make sure you get copies of whatever she's sending me.

[rubikscomplex]

and i bet he didn't contact anyone else to let them know about his plans
if i were a power-hungry murderer
i'd thank my lucky stars i was in a place like this
makes hunting easy
i mean
unless your victim comes back
then it's super inconvenient
hypothetically-speaking, of course

and you'd tell me 'cause we're buddies!
and you wanna brag
again, speaking as a hypothetical murderer
i'd wanna let it out if i sent some guy to the freezer permanently
at least if i did it in an interesting way
if i screwed it up
or was just lame about it
i'd keep that quiet

i'll be sure to get in touch with the good nurse myself, too

[termineur]

[ He has to laugh, because it was pretty lame. He'd been trying for quick and quiet, and it turned out to be messy as hell. But the whole point of killing Suresh had been to keep people from knowing about it, and he's not about to mess that up now to brag about some lame kill he didn't even want to happen. ]

I expected him to be back already. Hopefully, he won't be too much longer.

It's weird how you always make me feel better. Maybe we are buddies.

Oh, I also found an SD card with an app called Diagnosis in the hospital. It doesn't look very useful, but I thought I'd let you know. I haven't found it capable of figuring out MN poisoning or anything unusual.

[rubikscomplex]

if i make you feel better
and we're not talking about a clinical setting
there's something wrong with you
like seriously wrong

[Like you have something in common with the Joker wrong.]

what does the app do?
scan you and give you a diagnosis
or just let you punch in whatever you want and come up with ideas?

[termineur]

Maybe it's just comforting, knowing that there's someone else in town that's even more pessimistic than me.

It's that second one. You put in symptoms and it spits out likely causes. It seems like it only works for easy stuff like sinus infections, flu, diabetes. But I haven't tried to push it, either.

[rubikscomplex]

now how could a guy with a name like zany taylor ever be pessimistic?
unless you're gonna tell me you've been using a fake name and a fake career this whole time
i might actually cry, dude
the tears are starting

you should tell lelly you got that app, anyway
he'll put you in the guide for good reasons
not the bad reasons that you're trying to avoid a listing for

now that does make me wonder
the admin sees everything
i wonder if she'd tell me if you're the reason suresh is dead
i think i might try that on the obits
that's sure to get a crowd
everyone loves gossip around here!

[termineur]

I have noticed that. Eve is such a Chatty Cathy, too. I'm sure she'd tell you all about it.

lelly, that's Alphonse, right? That's funny, I'm actually traveling with him now. I'll show it to him. I don't see what use this thing has, considering all the doctors here already. But maybe it'd come in handy for someone.

[rubikscomplex]

k

[And he'll go do just that. Sorry, Sylar. Did you not think he'd call your bluff?]

[termineur]

Let me know if she actually gets back to you on that. If we could actually get her to tell us when an anomaly killed people, that could be helpful.

[ He is so very not bothered. Can you see how much this doesn't bother him? ]

[rubikscomplex]

[He didn't actually get an answer (not unexpected), but he can pretend like he did.]

so, that was interesting
i'm just gonna stay the hell away from you
but i'm here to chat whenever you want, pal

[House never actually had plans to meet up with Sylar, and he doesn't particularly like traveling with more than one other person. So. This was sort of already his plan. He can make it sound damning, though. And hope Sylar doesn't go and call his bluff.]

[termineur]

[ It's a lucky thing this is text, because Sylar immediately forgets this innocent (if extremely annoyed) persona he's trying to cultivate and wants to demand what House was told. Who could House be messaging privately right now? Should he do damage control? But he catches himself with the realization that House almost certainly would've posted it up for the world to see, if he'd gotten anything conclusive. He's probably safe, for now. ]

Aw, you were going to come meet me before? How sweet. Did she actually get back to you with something? Will you tell me what she said?

I'm glad we can still chat, though. All of us should be focusing on solving these problems, not stupid internal struggles. I expect we're going to have to know how this place works back and forth if we're going to want to have any sort of control over it.

[rubikscomplex]

"@ADMIN
did @godsend murder suresh?
you're supposed to see everything
why don't you actually stop people getting killed before it happens?"

"Law enforcement has been contacted regarding identification of a crime."

[So he's twisting the Admin's words there, but that's the general gist of it. And it still doesn't technically implicate the other man. It could be referring to past crimes... like the Joker. But he's not going to just tell Sylar that she didn't tell him anything. That would be losing. And he does hate to lose.]

so, you know?
that little date i had planned is going on hold
shame
i was planning on getting some schnapps from elric
we could've had fun!
while solving problems together
like one big happy family

[termineur]

[ Well, damn. That's definitely a response. But House could be lying, easily, and it really doesn't matter. Whatever happens from here, House doesn't have any proof. And 'law enforcement' clearly doesn't exist. And now he knows the Admin won't just blab to curious inquiries. Good. ]

Wow, you really didn't hold back.

It's too bad. But if you're still willing to work together remotely, I am, too. I'm not under any illusion we're going to escape from here, but I'd like to at least know what's going on.

[rubikscomplex]

[What's irritating here is that the guy isn't fazed. This would be easier over voice or video. He can't actually read many tells here when Sylar's not tripping over his own lies like their first chat.]

and that was just the first part of the conversation!
i think the spiderbots captured your best side, personally

good for you
way to be a team player
for part of the team, anyway
the least-annoying part of the team

[termineur]

Do you think it's the spiderbots that are taking video? I always figured the nanites in our systems allowed for recording essentially through our eyes, and perhaps just about anywhere. Some of the videos in the Data app seem like that.

[rubikscomplex]

[That's a thought that has occurred to him. And it's terrifying.]

how very "the final cut" of you
i think this one had a bird's eye view
so unless the cat was hanging out in a vent and watching you...

[termineur]

Oh, come on. If you somehow had a video like that, you'd be plastering it all over the network.

So- if Eve can literally look out of our eyes, I don't think Winter's going to really be able to do anything for us in the stealth department.

[rubikscomplex]

[Oh, now that's interesting.]

kid, if you think i'd waste good blackmail material on some moral crusade
you really don't know me
talk to rhysie
i sat on info for half month
still sitting on juicy deets from a few different people
i'll use it when i need something from you
i don't need anything from you right now

if evie's looking out of our eyes
she's doing a piss poor job of actually making use of that ability
i'm not that worried

[He's actually kind of worried. Thank you for the additional dose of paranoia, Sylar.]

[termineur]

You should know, in that case- you don't need to blackmail me. You're one of the people actually making some progress in this place. I'll help you with what you want, even if you're a pain in the ass about it. And I'm sure you won't believe me here, but just for the record? You have nothing to fear from me.

Evie has a lot of us to watch all by her lonesome. I'm still worried.

>video

[rubikscomplex]

[He doesn't believe that, no, not when he's antagonizing this guy as much as he is. But... he does have a task if Sylar's looking for something to do and willing to be useful. Which, like the Joker, he seems to be. For the moment, anyway. He's more level than the Joker, at least. House switches briefly to video.]

You wanna help? Look for these. [Sylar will receive a view of one of the ragdolls with its face scribbled out.] You know what the Prophet eye symbol looks like, right? Go to the places around town with that symbol and break through the wall, draw the symbol on the mirrors, or try anything else weird you can think of to find one of the ragdolls. Building 16 on my map is a likely candidate, too. No eye symbol, but there's something weird going on with the window up there. I took down the boards more than a month ago. Light filters weird through them. Try drawing the Eye Symbol around a few places in there.

Forget about them watching us. We can't stop it. It's pointless to think about it.

((ooc: House is referring to Building 15 on the OOC map.))