tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post8416874159547355172..comments2023-10-06T16:12:33.803+01:00Comments on What You Are In The Dark: The Broken Bird and the Man Who Can't ForgetRaymond Shaughnessyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00917338991387631271noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-5443182616675129572011-01-26T20:13:33.550+00:002011-01-26T20:13:33.550+00:00Oh my. Mace. That would be...interesting.
And yes...Oh my. Mace. That would be...interesting.<br /><br />And yes, I'm sensitive all over. One part of being a Revenant is learning to fight through the pain. The healing factor helps. It's probably most effective to go for the ears, eyes, nose, even the tongue; we're pretty good at fighting through skin pain, especially since we can give ourselves an adrenaline boost if we want.<br /><br />However, the best thing of all would probably be electrocution. A non-wounding, super painful, debilitating, highly lethal kill? Yes please.Raymond Shaughnessyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917338991387631271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-44572654686854362022011-01-26T19:54:31.774+00:002011-01-26T19:54:31.774+00:00Another item to add to my keyring, then, along wit...Another item to add to my keyring, then, along with the mace--I assume Mace to the eyes is akin to having someone stab them with a knife if the pattern goes to the logical conclusion that all senses and all parts of the body are hypersensitive.Thage Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16450325574420169139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-3577411615191120292011-01-26T18:45:36.805+00:002011-01-26T18:45:36.805+00:00@Thage: Oh God yeah. Well, in theory, at least, in...@Thage: Oh God yeah. Well, in theory, at least, in practice we all wear earplugs for that very reason, but even earplugs have their limits. A foghorn right in my ear would be at least disorienting, if not extremely painful.<br /><br />@Ava: Glad to hear it.Raymond Shaughnessyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917338991387631271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-27879564005805058252011-01-25T21:05:35.712+00:002011-01-25T21:05:35.712+00:00Sure; punched you in the interface just now.
I th...Sure; punched you in the interface just now.<br /><br />I think I may be drunk on lack of sleep...<br /><br />~Avalesca<br />The ScientistAvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11957455148735788249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-49910750354996734582011-01-25T18:14:10.940+00:002011-01-25T18:14:10.940+00:00But I don't even watch football. ):
San Jose...But I don't even watch football. ):<br /><br /><br />San Jose is a cool place to live. Or you could come here to Atlanta, we have waffle houses. For some reason, but still.Lotushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07927345090583516481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-76789377621292337512011-01-25T17:25:48.269+00:002011-01-25T17:25:48.269+00:00A question about Revenants. Do your enhanced sense...A question about Revenants. Do your enhanced senses include hearing, and if so, would it be possible to incapacitate an attacking one with a foghorn, or simply yelling loudly into one's ear?Thage Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16450325574420169139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-87393268557471351392011-01-25T17:07:56.200+00:002011-01-25T17:07:56.200+00:00Ha, I hadn't even thought of that. Go with Gre...Ha, I hadn't even thought of that. Go with Grey then, what it lacks in grandiosity it makes up for with the sheer amount of symbolism associated with it, such as the Grey Stranger who visited Mozart before his untimely death.Raymond Shaughnessyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917338991387631271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-22003237044667871222011-01-25T16:58:00.620+00:002011-01-25T16:58:00.620+00:00And Marble has become somewhat... cliche of late.And Marble has become somewhat... cliche of late.Thage Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16450325574420169139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-84222098447034377102011-01-25T16:54:17.647+00:002011-01-25T16:54:17.647+00:00@Ava: Let's talk in private, I don't want ...@Ava: Let's talk in private, I don't want too many details of this getting out. Hit me at hisreach@gmail.com.<br /><br />@Thage: Yes, I agree. There's nothing wrong with offering free cheese to low-income families, I believe the whole thing was blown out of proportion because the government was taking few other measures to help low-income families.<br /><br />Call me whatever fits, dear Thage. Black, Grey, Silver, Crimson, Emerald or Onsible. If you want to go for an off-white colour that still sounds impressive, there's always Marble, though I must admit that I think Gray has a certain understated class to it.Raymond Shaughnessyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917338991387631271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-76009231050832943032011-01-25T16:07:21.158+00:002011-01-25T16:07:21.158+00:00In all honesty, if we got free cheese over here in...In all honesty, if we got free cheese over here in the States, I could safely say it would take quite the chunk out of my grocery bill...<br /><br />Glad to see you've committed yourself to a course of action, Black Rook. (or should I up you to grey now? It doesn't sound as impressive...)<br /><br />It's a pity you didn't defect several years ago, I used to know someone who made forged identity cards and passports for a living, but he was killed some time ago in a deal gone bad.Thage Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16450325574420169139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-72352566129765942712011-01-25T09:19:01.908+00:002011-01-25T09:19:01.908+00:00Hey, just re-read your post. Want me to bring an i...Hey, just re-read your post. Want me to bring an iPhone? Mum just let me use her card to book the tickets and some other shit.<br /><br />We gonna be Running or Residing? I need to know how to pack.<br /><br />~Avalesca<br />The ScientistAvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11957455148735788249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-66529511867788452582011-01-25T08:12:59.094+00:002011-01-25T08:12:59.094+00:00Judging by how long it'll take me to drive lik...Judging by how long it'll take me to drive like a mad-woman up to Liverpool and then the boat...tommorrow? I'll drive through the night. 7PM ish, East Wall, Hawthorn Avenue?<br /><br />Awww, it's not like I can help it! It's just a gift I have. :)<br /><br />Anything you'd rather I bring? Because I'm in the College Lab right now, testing that goo I got from Serena and need a list for when I get beck home.<br /><br />~Avalesca<br />The ScientistAvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11957455148735788249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-45355252875120958452011-01-25T08:04:42.725+00:002011-01-25T08:04:42.725+00:00I take your points. One of the downsides to arguin...I take your points. One of the downsides to arguing with a scientist is that they're usually right.<br /><br />As to where I am, I can be wherever you need me to be. I've driven from Derry to Cobh in about eight hours before. Give me fair warning, though, I'll need to plan the car theft.Raymond Shaughnessyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917338991387631271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-77355656924929604252011-01-25T07:57:43.402+00:002011-01-25T07:57:43.402+00:00......Then it seems I'll have to get ready to .........Then it seems I'll have to get ready to go back to the homeland then. doesn't it? Urgh, where did I put that damn passport....Balthazar'll be coming too, of course....Mum....she'll need to keep an eye on Serena still....I'll leave her the three dogs and the Electromagnetic door-frame I've been working on...<br /><br />You nearer Belfast or Dublin?<br /><br />Yes, yes I have. FREE CHEESE?! WHAT THE HELL, GOVERNMENT. SERIOUSLY. God, I'd thought "Free Potatoes" would have been more humourous....<br /><br />That's fine, it was a suggestion. But all of us need to co-operate at some point really, di-organisation only make him stronger does it not? If we were a cohesive group, maybe we'd stand more of a fighting chance.<br /><br />Who said we needed that information? We can reach our own conclusions (no pun intended) but anything you could offer knowledge-wise would be a boon, would it not?<br /><br />I never spoke to Fizzy, I doubt she knew of my existence, but just losing another member of our surviving community makes me feel enough drive to be a part of it.<br /><br />~Avalesca<br />The ScientistAvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11957455148735788249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-33946979688271453822011-01-25T07:31:08.974+00:002011-01-25T07:31:08.974+00:00Thanks for the offer, Ava, and may I say that it i...Thanks for the offer, Ava, and may I say that it is both great and awful to find another Irish person around these parts, but I have no way of getting out of the country. As far as the state is concerned, I've been dead for forty years and they generally don't give out passports to dead men. I did have a fake one I used to get out of the country back when I worked for Slender Man, but it was probably reported as such the second I defected and if I try to use it, I'll just end up arrested or worse.<br /><br />Besideswhich, have you seen the state of the civil service in Ireland these days? I'd be a year getting the application forms, let alone the fucking passport.<br /><br />As to the Intiative and the Alliance...I don't really get them myself. We're already a totally disorganised and woefully overwhelmed group, is there any practical purpose to creating factions? I mean, some people in this community have never even heard of Fizzy, I just feel there's a certain element of exclusion there when we form our own little club for people who want to honour her memory.<br /><br />As to the Keeper's Alliance, I'm not sure how effective I'd be, since the most important information I hold, the secret in the quarry, can't be divulged.Raymond Shaughnessyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917338991387631271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-20561863875974183152011-01-25T06:58:35.939+00:002011-01-25T06:58:35.939+00:00I really can't say anything better than Holist...I really can't say anything better than Holisticalice, "What you're doing because of regret [helps make up for it]" and I'll feel like a right dick if I try, but /please/ I've got to say:<br /><br />As a born and bred Dubliner, you're welcome here (but your Euros are WORTH NOTHING SO HA) if you can leave, see if you can get to London. We can pick you up from anywhere. Anytime. I feel /so/ unbelievably angry that he's in my HOMELAND that it's making it hard to type without swearing many, many times.<br /><br />May I also propose you join The Isabel Initiative and/or The Keeper Alliance? You'd be rather helpful, what with your previous experience.<br /><br />We do /actually/ forgive you. Not wholly of course, that would be an insult to memories, but we're trying to buoy your spirits, right? We don't do that to people we want to die.<br /><br />~Avalesca<br />The ScientistAvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11957455148735788249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-74821285196672486762011-01-25T06:06:42.680+00:002011-01-25T06:06:42.680+00:00"Does [regret] make up for what I've done..."Does [regret] make up for what I've done?"<br /><br />No, Reach. It doesn't. What you are doing because of that regret does. <br /><br />"And that anger needs to be put to better use than beating myself up. I'm not giving up."<br /><br />Please never do. <br /><br />I may never know you, sir, nor may you ever know me but the very fact that you're fighting at all, with everything that's happened to yourself, your family and your friends, this small fact, buried deep in the bowels of internet, gives me more hope than anything ever could. Keep fighting, Reach. I hope others will be brave enough to join you soon. I support you and I know they do, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-19383488221510016322011-01-25T05:39:54.594+00:002011-01-25T05:39:54.594+00:00You're right. You're always right, somehow...You're right. You're always right, somehow. I'll make up for what I've done. I've never really put much stock in the idea of Slender Man being killed and if he can be killed, then I'm not going to be the one to do it.<br /><br />I wish I could say that I was going to protect those who might be able but I can't get out of this bloody country and there's no one here to protect.<br /><br />I guess all I can do is keep moving. But I'm sick of using Internet cafés and breaking into people's houses. First thing tomorrow, I'm getting myself an iPhone, dammit.Raymond Shaughnessyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917338991387631271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-82388945082828194622011-01-25T05:33:03.837+00:002011-01-25T05:33:03.837+00:00I suppose you'll just have to keep doing good ...I suppose you'll just have to keep doing good until you feel your karma's been restored to balance, then, rather than give up and drop out with it still in such horrid disarray.Thage Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16450325574420169139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-20074099578600240372011-01-25T05:18:40.708+00:002011-01-25T05:18:40.708+00:00@Lotus - Yes, I fucking deleted your piece of shit...@Lotus - Yes, I fucking deleted your piece of shit retarded post. Go shove a serrated knife up your puckered rectum. There's nothing <b>fun</b> about this, this isn't a game like your fucking retarded American football. People have had their lives ruined by this, people have had their lives ruined by <i>me</i>. This isn't <b>fun</b>, you little cunt.<br /><br />@Thage - You know, you really are quite amazing. I could fall for a woman like you, if I wasn't twenty-six years your mental elder, fourteen years your physical younger, an inhuman abomination and you weren't a lesbian.<br /><br />@Jean - Maybe nobody <i>else</i> blames me, but I still blame myself. It's just something I've always done. I've had forty years to agonise over everything I've ever done, from taking Slate's deal to spitting in Slendershit's face and...well, getting my daughter killed.<br /><br />Am I a good man, really? Sure, I've probably improved the world a bit by killing Aria but what about all the damage I've done to it? All the lives I've ruined, all the lives I've taken, all the lives I've crushed in between my fingers as if a human was as inconsequential as a fly.<br /><br />Am I not the same person who committed those crimes? Should I not be judged by the sum total of all that I am? Does my regret now make what I did before okay? Does it clear me of all charges? Does it make up for what I've done?Raymond Shaughnessyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917338991387631271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-45549069890607249092011-01-25T03:42:51.739+00:002011-01-25T03:42:51.739+00:00Nobody blames you, Reach.
Everyone makes bad deci...Nobody blames you, Reach.<br /><br />Everyone makes bad decisions. We learn from them, we move on, we do better the next time. <br /><br />You're a good man, Reach. I hope you know.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12202514317973089226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732599415793018949.post-56309420587331340652011-01-25T03:30:03.191+00:002011-01-25T03:30:03.191+00:00It's like I said, dear Rook. Nothing with havi...It's like I said, dear Rook. Nothing with having comes easy. Forgiveness is the hardest thing someone can do, but there's little in the world worth more than it.Thage Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16450325574420169139noreply@blogger.com