♋ PCG 18

[crusthatecean]

[He isn't familiar enough to think twice before eating what just looks like another strange type of fungal food product. He doesn't feel the effects until later, when the feeling of intense terror and hallucinations overtake him. Even then, plagued by horrifying visions and the sensation of his vascular sac beating in his thorax so violently that he feels it might burst, he isn't aware this is not real or unusual.

In his visions, the walls are splattered with colorful gore. He's hunted by unstoppable predators he can't hope to flee or leave behind. He and everyone he knows is going to die. And worst of all? Preventing this was his responsibility, and he's failed. He's more than failed. All of this was his fault. The red lines cracking through the sky, destroying everything and everyone and ensuring their last safe haven will be gone is the same color as the red running through his veins. He is the cancer, and he will destroy everything he loves.

The sensation and knowledge is unsurprising. His worst fears come to life is something that by now, he is all too familiar with.]



[Action; 1338 Benny]

[Early in the afternoon, soon after the mushrooms have taken their effect, Karkat can be found in the family room of the house. He's still lucid, but he's pacing and clutching his garden sickle, and occasionally looking around at the walls and jumping at shadows. There's something clearly very wrong here; he looks either like he's about to bolt or like he's about to be sick, and he's muttering to himself.]

Oh god. Oh man. Fuck. Fuck. Oh man. Oh god.

[Phone]

[Karkat's voice over the phone is trembling badly; rather than his usual angry and loud tone, he sounds panicked and hollow.]

Okay. Fuck. Okay. I need everyone to fucking listen right the fuck now.

Those red lines earlier mean that Mayfield is going to be destroyed. We're going to need to find a way out, everyone, that's...that's something we can do. Shit. Okay.

If that's not enough, Gamzee, he's gone completely shitfucking off the fucking deep end again. He...fuck fuck fuck. If you see him around, stay away from him. Oh god. He's incredibly dangerous. I...shit, shit, I'm sorry, I promised I wouldn't let this happen, it's all my fault for not...I'm sorry...

You probably won't hear from me again, so don't wait for me to find a way out of here any way you can. I'm so sorry, you guys, I fucked up everything.

...Bye.

[He hangs up and won't answer any calls, but you may find him at or around 1338 Benny. He has definitely deteriorated from earlier, though, and it's evident from the way he'll react to anyone who approaches him that he may attack you with the sickle he's brandishing.]

((OOC: Sorry to post again so soon! I will still backtag the other post too. Feel free to action tag in response to the phone call or just in general, he'll mainly stay around his house but if you prefer he can be outside. Thanks!))

Comments

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Go back in time and stop me.

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

Stop you from what? [She don't have her time powers bro. Fresh out of them.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Fucking up everything.

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

Don't say stupid things Karkat. You didn't screw up everything.

It was more like a group screw up. We all kind of did things that led to one another. But things will get better, I'm sure! We got this far for a reason.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

It was my job to prevent group screw ups. But instead you went back in time over and over again and doomed yourself to take care of my mistakes.

You never stopped the worst mistake I made, though, the one that ruined everything.

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

They weren't just your mistakes. And as the Maid of Time, it was my job to go through the doomed timelines.

We were close to winning. It's the actions of all the parties involved that led to Jack's attack.

And that didn't stop us either. We still have a lot we can do Karkat.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

It's more than that.

When I sent the grubs back, what if you had stopped me from sending back mine? Wouldn't that have fixed everything?

[heardeadpe0ple.livejournal.com]

It probably wouldn't you know. It sounds like it might have, but there's a reason why you exist in the alpha timeline. If you had not sent yours back, I'm sure it would result in a doomed timeline instead.