crusthatecean: (lucky for me I'm not the only one)
Karkat Vantas ([personal profile] crusthatecean) wrote2011-10-06 11:58 pm

♋ PCG 14

[Action; 1668 Benny Road]

[So, for the past few days, Karkat has been feeling vaguely off; just occasionally sneezing or rubbing his eyes. His troll self doesn't have allergies, so he doesn't really know what's going on, but as a human, he's definitely feeling it.

Finally, he wakes up one morning feeling sick enough that the female human drone doesn't drag him out of bed in the morning but instead calls school forces him to stay in bed. Anyone in the house can probably hear him swearing at her and occasionally trying to escape in the morning before he ultimately just gives up.]


[Phone; Later]

[Spending an entire day sitting around feeling miserable is really frustrating to him. So instead of being sick like a normal person, he spends the entire day drawing up a ridiculously complicated plan, and now he's calling about it. You can definitely hear from his voice that he's under the weather, though.]

Hey. So, considering the high frequency of situations involving dangerous undead hordes, inducements to kill each other, or just general examples of everything not bothering to stop for breaks on the road to catastrophe at all times, it's kind of surprising in a witness the clearest example of the failings of the human race sort of way that there isn't any system in place for what we're supposed to do. We have brand new clueless assholes showing up at least once a month and if they happen to get stuck in the wrong hive and don't know anyone who'll hold their hand through everything, we're saying they're shit out of luck. Oh, yeah, please call in and ask why I use hive instead of house and wonder if I'm a bee, that will be so helpful.

I don't particularly care about anyone clueless and new, but the odds are some of you do, right? And if not, just think that you might get panscrubbed (okay, droned, is that clear enough for you) and then you'll be the asshole with no idea what's going on.

Anyway, what I want is to hear from someone in every house in Mayfield. Let me know who in your sickening fake family unit can actually fight, who is a fucking psychopath we need to avoid at all costs, and whether or not you're willing to take in anyone extra next time everything goes to hell. I'll get the information out there when I have it so maybe it will be useful to someone unlike everything else anyone does around here.

If you call in with attempts to rile me up, observations that my alien culture isn't exactly the same as your own and that is somehow humorous, or anything that isn't on topic, I'm hanging up, so just answer the question.

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not keeping track by fake last name, so it doesn't matter.

Okay, thanks for replying with actual useful comments.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah yeah.

I'm getting tired of the stupid bullcrap of this town. At least someone is making a list that could be productive.

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
It amazes me that no one has thought of this. It's like we're not even trying to make this place livable.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
...Someone probably did. It had to have, at least once, and probably got lost in the mess of people getting droned.

It's not like it's an environment that lends itself to stability.

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Good point. I'd better make a contingency if I'm panscrubbed, although if I'm not here I probably don't care.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'd suggest it.

It's stupid to have only one copy of any documents here. We should be making several. Get them into circulation so people know what's actually KNOWN and here.

The big problem with your plan, though, is going to be updating. I mean are you going to make this announcement every time it swings around to when people come in, or what?

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
I don't have a problem with doing that. I have a large group here, too, some of whom can actually be depended on.

I'll copy the information and disperse it, and someone every month needs to take the job of updating it. While we're here, I can handle that. The odds are not even half the town is going to bother to respond.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[He opens his mouth, to say "you have a large group now, but stops just before it.

No. It's time to stop acting like a jackass. He needs to at least TRY not to be one.]


Sounds good to me. That's why those who do respond also need to tell about any other problems they know.

753 Partridge Drive. There's a guy there named Black Mage. He's stupid, crazy, evil, and powerful. Thought you should know.

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[He knows already; they've been coming and going regularly for a long time now.]

Good. Okay, I'll write that one down. I'm not going to publicize that we're listening who everyone thinks the crazies are, though. All that will accomplish is bringing out the grudges so it will be impossible to tell who is actually a problem

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
...Fair enough. But I wouldn't really suggest trying to verify it or not either.

He's dangerous. I'll just leave it at that.

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Checking in on every lunatic in town isn't my first priority, so I'll take your word for it.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-10-08 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, if you DID, could be a fun time waster for the next couple of years.

So y'know something? I'd kinda like to know who I just gave my personal information to.

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-08 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Fair enough. Karkat Vantas. I live on Benny Road. If you've any of the grey assholes with horns, I'm their leader, but don't judge me by them. For the most part they're all awful.
Edited 2011-10-08 04:26 (UTC)

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-10-08 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Seen some of 'em, haven't really spoken with 'em.

Tch. Know that feeling. There's some pathetic shmucks out there.

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-08 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
That definitely includes most of mine.

Satisfied I'm not putting your information to some nefarious use?

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-10-08 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Not much I could do about it anyway.

Really, if we don't trust some of the losers here, we're not going to get anywhere.

[And that's a lesson that took him about a year to figure out.]

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-08 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not expecting anyone to put their lives in my hands. But some level of cooperation has to happen, as much as it pains me to admit.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-10-08 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Tell me about it. If I could get away with just me? I would. But that isn't happening.

Least most mistakes here aren't....permanent, either.

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-08 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, there is that...

Anyway. I'd better go.

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-10-09 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Alright.

Talk to you later I guess.

[identity profile] crusthatecean.livejournal.com 2011-10-09 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Thanks for all of your help.