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☠ VIDEO (dated october 15)
[Normally, Sans prefers text. It helped him sidestep the inevitable set of questions that arose when most humans got a look at him. Of course, text had its limitations. There was something about the old book that couldn't be directly translated through a roughshod filter of comic sans.
Lack of experience translates to poor focus when the video starts streaming, but aside from that blurriness the feed is notably steady. No gaps, no garbled words, no sudden disconnects. A nice change of pace for anyone who attempted network communication in the past couple weeks.]
Testing, one, two. [The video is focused on an old book, open to a few blurry pages.] Seems like the Nerd Herd came through, so here's hoping I am too. [Anyway.] These last few weeks I've been pretty booked checking out the library. There're some racy tomes in there, fyi, for those of you into that kinda thing.
[He flips the page. And, while blurry, the hand doing the flipping is definitely... fleshless. The page itself is hard to pick out specifics, but a lot of it appears to be annotated with handwritten notes.]
This one's a bit on the dry side, but for all the former Thisavrou residents... Well, looks like whoever survived came up with a nifty name for what went down with Mother. The Great Catastrophe. Catchy, right?
I'm gonna upload some pages. I get the feeling people who lived through it might be able to speak to its accuracy more than me. [The pages come in later, thankfully much more readable than the video.] Reason I'm wondering is, uh...
[He uploads another page. This one mentioning a passage of light. It bluntly details how several crew members walked into, but did not return.]
Look, I get the Ingress's been gone for three hundred years, but... sound familiar to anyone else?
Lack of experience translates to poor focus when the video starts streaming, but aside from that blurriness the feed is notably steady. No gaps, no garbled words, no sudden disconnects. A nice change of pace for anyone who attempted network communication in the past couple weeks.]
Testing, one, two. [The video is focused on an old book, open to a few blurry pages.] Seems like the Nerd Herd came through, so here's hoping I am too. [Anyway.] These last few weeks I've been pretty booked checking out the library. There're some racy tomes in there, fyi, for those of you into that kinda thing.
[He flips the page. And, while blurry, the hand doing the flipping is definitely... fleshless. The page itself is hard to pick out specifics, but a lot of it appears to be annotated with handwritten notes.]
This one's a bit on the dry side, but for all the former Thisavrou residents... Well, looks like whoever survived came up with a nifty name for what went down with Mother. The Great Catastrophe. Catchy, right?
I'm gonna upload some pages. I get the feeling people who lived through it might be able to speak to its accuracy more than me. [The pages come in later, thankfully much more readable than the video.] Reason I'm wondering is, uh...
[He uploads another page. This one mentioning a passage of light. It bluntly details how several crew members walked into, but did not return.]
Look, I get the Ingress's been gone for three hundred years, but... sound familiar to anyone else?
[video]
[It's not exactly surprising, but Sans finds himself confronted with yet another gap in his picture of the events. He hadn't thought to ask Wanda at the time -- too overwhelmed by Peter's disappearance, by his own lost time, by everything -- but the opportunity was here now and he wouldn't let it slip this time.]
Who were the other eight?
[video]
[ Snake runs through the list in his head, taking a moment to filter out the names that won't mean much to Sans. ]
76, Ryuuzaki, Texas... Pretty sure the rest of them are all newbies. Relatively speaking.
[ Still, that makes five that Sans would know, five that he wouldn't. It goes to show that Snake isn't the only one who's stuck around for way too long. ]
[video]
Then again, she'd been drinking hard, hadn't she? Maybe he should've asked her a few more questions.]
The old guy, the couple, the witch, and you, huh? Thanks for letting me know, man. You filled in some gaps for me.
... You alright? Sounds like it was pretty messed up.
[video]
At the question, he lets out a breath and draws his hand over his mouth. It's difficult to explain to someone who hadn't been there. ]
We all made it through. Most of us were mind-linked to Mother when she decided to go off the rails, and what we saw there is probably enough to give some people nightmares, but...
[ He takes a look around him and shrugs. ]
We're alive. That's something.
[video]
[For some, anyway. Then again, telling a survivor of a horrible ordeal that living wasn't all it was cracked up to be sometimes was a little much, even for a guy with his sporadic and questionably applied tact.]
Look, hit me up if you want a drink or something, alright? I'm, y'know. Around.
[video]
Have you seen what they have for alcohol around here?
[ It's not a great selection, as far as Snake has found. Then again, from what he remembers of Sans? Somehow he'll track down some decent liquor in this place, against all odds. ]
[video]
[On the contrary, Snake. Everything is decent liquor if you have impossibly low standards.]
Guess I'll have to think of some other way to get you to loosen up, buddy.
[video]
[ It turns out that Snake's standards aren't that low. He would be willing to smoke pretty much anything that might pass as a cigarette at this point, though. ]
Nicotine would be a good step in the right direction, but that's been a bust so far.
[video]
[As much as 'luck' is in play here. Sans chuckles, before it melts into a sigh.]
It's good talking to you, buddy. [And he means it.] Take care of yourself, and keep me in the loop.
[video]
Sure. You do the same. You've already found out more than most of us, so...
[ He nods. Credit where it's due. ]