@prom.argentum

[mercurio]

[the first thing everyone gets on the network feed is a set of two pictures, several minutes apart from one another: one and two are somewhat blurry. there doesn't seem to be any context, other than it's been posted by @prom.argentum. soon enough, text appears, however.]

alright sup hi hello everyone, i’m not expecting anyone to be able to do anything cuz let's be real: i am doomed to be stuck in here forever but i just wanna be able to record the last few minutes of life that i have in this world

these vents are so spooky and also i am highly claustrophobic and i don't think this shaking is an indication of anything good

ugh

hey @deimos.fighter
it was your turn to go into the vents

wh y

have i been forsakesdfsFHSGhdgn

[no one can see this, but he sure turned left and fell... further down the vent. his screams can probably be heard if you're aboard one of the underground trains...]

[two minutes later, this picture gets introduced.]

hello?? ok i think i landed on like.. some uncharted vent territory
NOW i'm recording this so that the public can know that dennis told me to go left and that led me straight dOWN AN OPEN SHAFT, THANKS A LOT, DENNIS

[silence]

uh... i think i just saw a cockroach the size of my hand
??? i'm gonna throw up

@deimos.fighter
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Comments

[mercurio]

do i seriously gotta?? the app shows it as a misspelled word

ramuh's the only one with a beard
it's a really long freakin beard

[kleptocratic]

It's a title, not just my name. [ Though he doesn't like being called Gen, that wasn't actually what he was getting at. ] It's the name given to the court thief. My grandfather was Eugenides, and his father before him, and so on and so forth back to the days before the gods gave us vents to crawl in.

Do you think he trips over it?

[mercurio]

so have i been disrespecting you all this time?

also: nah, ramuh's cool and he floats

[kleptocratic]

You've been doubting me. It isn't the same thing.

[mercurio]

there's no wildlife AS FAR AS WE KNOW

[but thinking of back home helps, a bit]

there are so many ~mysteries~ from back home
wish we could go back one day and figure it all out

[mercurio]

you gave me a depressing rhyme, dude

[kleptocratic]

Ancient wisdom.

[mercurio]

isn't ancient wisdom depressing?

[kleptocratic]

Most of the time. Sometimes it's just boring.

In this case it's a distraction.

[mercurio]

oh

...


dude that worked

[windowsills]

Please be careful, Prompto!
You need your health to do your job. And you are fairly new to this position as well.

[covertness]

of course it did
whose vent system?

and are you okay?

[inherited]

Now that we're past that part ...

How the heck did you get in there?

[reneger]

twink
use the internet, you have it

[kleptocratic]

Of course. I make an excellent decoy.

Will someone be down to help you?

[mercurio]

yeah! they will be

thanks eugenides

[mercurio]

it's for work
i'm fixing something? well uh the control panel needed a manual reset so sometimes we end up going into the vents but i always draw the short end of the stick

[mercurio]

uh one of the train stations! that's why A52 is delayed

i'm okay! dennis mentioned he'd come find me so i'm trusting him
he also works at the same stuff

[mercurio]

tbh i would be happy with a break for a few days... vent crawling is NOT what i wanted to sign up for

[windowsills]

I see. What did you sign up for?

[ pls appreciate her restraint from going into full MOM MODE ]

[mercurio]

fixing the train system's circuitboard...? ugh i just wanted to learn mechanical stuff

[windowsills]

Are there circuitboards in the vents? Can you use one to signal for help?

[mercurio]

oh nah i needed to reach the room with the control panel through the vents because the wall's been boarded off
something about how it's all done remotely??
but whoever designed this forgot that sometimes you just gotta manually turn something off and on

[gastaurknan]

So that would be better than coming to your aid so you can kick his butt instead ?

[kleptocratic]

Be blessed in your endeavors.

[ the equivalent of "yw" ]