Room 105: Putty Patrol

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:01 pm

"I probably won't find out about your embarrassing fanfic, if that's what you mean."

by **Shari** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:08 pm

"Who knows. Hoping that kinda thing is the worst thing buried in there."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:29 am

"I'd think not knowing is worse, aye?"

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:32 am

"Yeah, what if it's a really good one!" she jokes before admitting to herself she's just trying to avoid things. "Okay... Take a look and see if you can tell what's wrong. But no judging!"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:33 am

"What, like now? I mean, I can if you really want. You just seemed a bit scared about it."

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:43 am

"Well yeah, but I've never let that stop me from doing things."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:46 am

"We can ease into it, unless you're a rip-off-the-bandage kind of girl."

Shari can feel a presence like dozens of birds crowding around her for an instant.

"Baby steps, aye?" Shari 'hears' in her head as Sam makes contact.

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:50 am

She does whip her head around and swipes at the air with her hands at the sensation. Whatever she'd been expecting, that hadn't been it. Cobwebs? Birds? What?

"That was... weird."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:51 am

"We're just talking, now. I'm in your surface thoughts. I can go deeper when you're ready."

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:56 am

"So this is just... whatever I'm actively thinking, yeah? So I can just not think about stuff I don't want you to know, yeah?"

Easy-peasy, nothing to worry about. Just gotta not think about the fact that Cam forged my student ID. No problemo! Wonder how long I need to keep this up...

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:57 am

"...I'm not the headmistress. Don't worry about that."

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:01 am

"Oh god damnit..." she realizes what just happened. "Wait, you don't care?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:06 am

"What, am I supposed to rat you out to the staff?"

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:07 am

"No, but some people might..."

Like that stuck up dork and his jelly girlfriend.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:18 am

"If the alternative is sending you somewhere they steal your shoes, I'll pass."

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:21 am

"Well at least I didn't make a mistake to trust you, cause, uhm, that secret didn't hold for long..." she says, feeling embarrassed.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:25 am

"Just relax. This isn't even the hard part yet. Ready to go deeper?"

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:26 am

"I guess! Let's go before I change my mind about this..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:33 am

"This is going to get weirder. Sometimes people pick up some of the imagery when I do this," she informs Shari before she descends deeper.

There's that impression of feathers again, this time accompanied by a brief flash of a flock of big black birds descending on her.

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:48 am

Shari's mind is, for lack of a better word, flexible. Even as Sam descends she can feel the other girl's mind draw on some of the imagery in her own head. Concepts and ideas crystallize into trees. It's not a very dense forest, more of a loose collection of trees with plenty of room in between them. Here and there are even paths. There are all kinds of trees from all kinds of areas. Needle trees stand next to oaks while agave plants make up the underbrush next to ferns. Like an arboretum that has grown a little out of control. In fact as the comparison comes to mind it takes shape, windows stretching around the collection of trees until they are enveloped by a large dome with sunlight streaming in from an somewhere outside.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 2:03 am

"...well that's curious," Sam muses as her avatar touches down.

"Anyone there?" She calls out as she walks towards the perimeter.

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 2:10 am

On some level, Shari can hear Sam, but she doesn't have the training, nor the natural ability to have much of a mental avatar beyond what Sam is already looking at.

"Well I can hear you..." her conscious thoughts respond as a din rustles the trees. Not that there should be much air movement inside a large greenhouse, but oh well.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 2:12 am

"Not unusual for me to find someone down here who's... talkative," she sends to Shari, starting to pace the perimeter, looking for a way in or out.

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 2:20 am

"Well it's hard to not think. Especially about anything particular but in general too, so I guess that makes sense..."

A cursory glance along the perimeter shows no doors as far as Sam can tell. She also notices that if she looks up she can see the sky but if she moves her eyes towards where the horizon would be the glass becomes opaque and milky, obscuring whatever lies outside the greenhouse.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 2:23 am

"This is... oddly isolated," she comments, continuing her pacing out of the perimeter, trying to get a sense of the lay of the land.

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 2:30 am

"I'm not really sure what that means."

Here and there Sam can spot wildflowers, although the occasional orchid stands among moss and ferns. There's a couple darker spots as well where the moss is thick and strangling other plants, the ground muddy and treacherous, in the distance she can spot a tree that has fallen and torn open the ground with it's roots. But all the time the wall of opaque glass stretches ahead next to her. There's no curvature to it that Sam can notice but it clearly loops back in on itself somehow because after a while she comes back around to the spot she started from despite going straight along the wall.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 2:39 am

Sam kneels down next to one of the muddy, mossy areas. She puts her hand to the moss, trying to get a feel for it.

"Hmm, and what are you? You don't seem to be helping..."

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 2:46 am

A flash of impressions plays out as Sam touches the moss. Hurrying through the rain to an overpass, cars rushing past overhead as she clutches a half-eaten muffin and a disposable cup of coffee with maybe a third or so left, having long gone cold and some indeterminate stains on the outside from when she'd fished it out of the trash. Not a happy memory, but still an integral part of the forest in it's own way.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 6:09 am

"...alright, suppose that belongs after all," she muses, moving on to feel out the fallen tree.

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:11 pm

It too seems to be part of the mindscape proper. She touches it's roots and she's flooded with a rather complex memory. Friends, or at least close to it, brought together by a mutual need of food and shelter. An abandoned building, occupied, turned into something that might be called home. A moment of inattention, a drowsy morning, a wrong face. She tries to fix it but they saw. Yelling. Anger. Somebody pulls a knife. They're scared. She moves on...

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:18 pm

She frowns, then walks up to the glass again, probing it gently at first.

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:30 pm

Something about this is strange. It kind of fits in on account of being a greenhouse, but at the same time that framework only exists because of the glass in the first place. Without it it'd just be a forest and it definitely is acting as a barrier of some sort. It's hard to tell if Shari put it in place herself or if this was done by an outside force but the more Sam thinks about it the more it seems that this was placed here. It's too convenient a break in what's otherwise a fairly natural theme without immediately being an obvious addition by shifting the theme ever so slightly. Metaphorically speaking that's a pretty clever way to create a barrier if it was done by another telepath.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:31 pm

"If I'm guessing right, this is where your amnesia starts..."

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:39 pm

"You're the brain lady... I can't really tell what you're doing, I'm just... remembering stuff. Nothing new, just things I hadn't thought about in a while. Was that you?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:40 pm

"I've been looking for things that seem out of place. So far those were natural parts of everything here. The glass is the only thing that seems like it's been added in."

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:43 pm

"You think you can do something about it? If i wanna get through glass I, well, break it, probably but I'm not sure I want you punching my brain."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:45 pm

"Then let's not have it be me that's doing it..."

Sam goes over to pick up a sizeable rock from Shari's mindscape and hefts it at the glass.

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:52 pm

"Wait, what?"

The rock is some kind of memory of punching a guy over having stolen somebody's shoes. Not hers even, so she does seem to have a certain sense of justice. Either way, it does pretty well as far as mental oomph goes and the rock crashes through the glass. It leaves behind a sizeable hole while sending large cracks racing through the rest of the structure. From the hole a dry air blows that carries with it a bit of dust from the expanse of sand Sam can see on the other side of the barrier.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:57 pm

"I'm working within the framework. There's glass here and bloody big rocks..."

Minding the shards, she steps through the hole.

by **Shari** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 4:07 pm

Sam steps into a wide expanse of desert. In the distance she can spot what appears to be a canyon of some sort, in another direction the ruins of a modern city sinking into the sand. In the distance she can hear the sounds of fighting, though it's less the rattling of swords and armor and braying horses and more the rattle of machineguns and explosions.

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