♋ PCG 19

[crusthatecean]

[Phone]

[Karkat is calling! He sounds a little shaky this time, and he speaks quickly, dropping the normal amount of too-long-didn't-listen ranting.]

Okay, idiots, it's that fucking time again. My safe housing list for December is in the communication receptacle outside 1338 Benny Road, so come get an updated copy, or your first copy if you're new. I feel like by this point this is pretty self explanatory. If you have any information to correct or you want to add your house as a safe one, just call me.

[As he says, the list will be available in his mailbox. If you have any changes, please comment to that post!]

[Filtered to Beta Session Trolls; Hackable to 1338 Benny]

Okay, so some things. First of all, Equius and Nepeta are droned. It's fine, a lot of us have been droned and we've always come back. Anyway, they're probably just back in our session being sickening in piles of shit and not having anything awful happen to them in any way, so there's always that.

...Moving on. As I'm sure some of you have noticed, there are some trolls other than us showing up here. Adults. Some of you morons have been probably been stupid enough to talk to them.

I've been checking them out and I've come to the conclusion that we can't trust them. No matter how they seem, we just don't know enough about them, and frankly a lot about their existence is fucking suspicious.

So new rule, so ordered by your leader. No one is to talk to or otherwise communicate with any of the adult trolls. End of discussion.

Aradia, Feferi, Eridan, I need to talk to you privately.

Comments

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[bullsit.livejournal.com]

Oh, uh, oops, sorry?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Who did you talk to?

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

Uhhhh...shit, I think I done already broke that motherfuckin' rule one or two or three or four times.

Phone

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

If you are looking for a safe place to hide in emergencies I've regained my ship and it has a few feet of armor plating.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Fucking typical. Who have you talked to?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

That sounds useful. Where is your ship?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

947 Beula Street. Its the space battle cruiser. You can't miss it. I just ask that any people hiding there respect that other people may want to hide there too when the town is.... Stupid.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

I forgot, honk.

[phone, private to Karkat]

[cullscuttlefish]

Karkat, it's Feferi. I think I've got my filters right. What's going on?

[It's not that she isn't worried about the others, but Karkat's right. No sense worrying about them. But she is worried; she trusts the Dolorosa and the Disciple. She can't not.]

Filtered

[chastesaw]

I'm certain you possessed the utmost in good intentions, Karkat, but your new rule seems a bit...

...well, premature. I haven't felt anything untrustworthy in them at all.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Good.

Don't talk to them again.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Sure, my note contains a long preamble about the importance of not being a selfish waste of space.

Can I get a name, then?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Right.

So, uh, Sollux told me he told you some things about the future.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry, Kanaya, I forgot that I am completely incapable of making character judgments or leadership in general. Everyone should just assume I don't have any good reason for this decision and do what they want.

[cullscuttlefish]

Yeah. He did. About what happens when he moves the Veil.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Ruri. Hoshino Ruri. Though the town calls me Hanamura. Really its not important, Ruri is fine.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I'll get you down on next month's list, then. Thanks.

((Would you mind replying to the actual list too so I don't forget to add her?))

[chastesaw]

That is not what I said, nor what I meant, and I am certain you are aware of that.

Perhaps you could elucidate on your aforementioned good reasons? If there's something I've overlooked then of course I'll listen, but it's difficult to merely accept "I don't trust them" as rationale for cutting all contact when... I do.

I think we can learn from them.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Right. Among other things, things not relating directly to him and that probably didn't need to be said to anyone.

Things that are a private matter, much like the private matter of exactly just how many of the folders on his husktop are filled with unnatural fetish porn.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

Aww, but they all be seeming like real cool motherfuckers. Ain't it being what all a good miracle that we got more trolls around other than us twelve?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Hey, what if instead of questioning me, for once everyone just listened to me instead of forcing me to explain my rationale? That would be crazy, it would almost be like I was some sort of leader or something.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

No. It's not a good miracle. It's the worst kind of anti-miracle. Their existence here, to me, is roughly analogous to the existence to you of a scientific formula proving shiny objects are pointless naturally occurring bullshit.

[cullscuttlefish]

...I reely didn't need to know what was on his husktop, Karkat. Thanks for the mental image.

But on a more serious note, yes. What happens with the Green Sun, what happens with you and Gamzee, what happens with Rose and Dave and the Tumor.

I haven't told anyone else any of that.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Good. Let's leave it that way. If I feel future information has to get out to everyone, I'll call a meeting to share it. Otherwise, anything to do with future plans or murderings or relationships is on a need to know basis.

[chastesaw]

*An audible sigh.* A dutiful subordinate listens to her leader's words and follows them, but a faithful one will inform him when she believes him to be erring, or perhaps allowing his judgment to be clouded.

I have never met another troll like myself in my entire life, Karkat. I want to learn from her.