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[ecks]

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Night 97 (after being strangled); @hotstud_xxx; text

[rubikscomplex]

[It takes a little while of House considering before he settles on Ecks. She's literal-minded, eager to learn, and probably won't question why he's contacting her in the middle of the night to talk science.]

hey, kid
you know anything about physics?

text

[ecks]

[Fortunately for Doctor Greg Hotstud, Ecks is awake tonight. Unfortunately for Ecks, it is because she is not alone in this house. She must remain vigilant.]

Physics is the study of matter and its motion through space and time.
Why do you call me kid?

Day 112; text

[swatsflies]

Yo, Ecks.
You might want to filter that conversation with G.H. (Hotstudd/Greg/House) on his auction post.

text

[ecks]

Filter?

@jwatson; text; Night 126

[jumpthegun]

Hey, Ecks, it's John. Ms. Lockhart just told me you were involved in a fight the other night with Duster. Are you all right?

What even happened that started a fight?

text

[ecks]

Hello John. I have a concussion and I have been stabbed in the shoulder but I am not dead and I do not think I am going to die.

Doctor House was talking and Duster was talking and then Alfie came into the room and then Duster shut me in the closet and then I came out of the closet and attacked Duster and Alfie attacked Doctor House and Lockhart attacked me.

@duster, text; middle of the night 126/127

[bywolves]

Ecks. That's your name, right?

morning 127, she a sleepy girl

[ecks]

Yes. Ecks is my name.

Morning 130; @zd; text

[swatsflies]

Yo!
How are you doing after all of that crazy shit?
You feeling okay? I know we're all still recuperating on my end.

text, same morning

[ecks]

I feel better than I felt when people were underground. I am helping to dig a tunnel. The tunnel might be very important.

@Mnemosyne; voice; night 134; ITT vampire vicodials

[bookofnope]

Gregory House is a terrible influence. Terrible. Stop listening to him about eating spiders.

[That is what House told her, isn't it? Beckett is a little vague on the details. He's vague on a lot of things right now.]

text

[ecks]

He has not told me anything about eating spiders.

???

@hsiaoke; voice; Day 137

[heavensreader]

[Kesara is profoundly wary of doing this. But she has spent the last two days thinking hard, and one conclusion has been that this needs doing. She does not shy away from what must be done. Not her, sir, no.

Still, she sounds a little hesitant.]

Are you quite all right, Ecks?

text

[ecks]

[Ecks knows she ought to have contacted Kesara by now to tell her that she had arrived with the food, but she has been doing some quiet, unhappy thinking of her own as she rests.]

No. I am not quite all right. I am tired and my head still hurts sometimes and Doctor House died again and I am angry.

I brought the food to the tunnel.

@captaininvincible; text; Day 141

[notaquaman]

THIS EMAIL IS CURSED!!! BY OPENING IT YOU ARE NOW ALSO CURSED!!!

The curse has downloaded itself to your tablet, and soon it will change you too. In the end, this is what happened to the previous victims that the Admin brought to Norfinbury...true story, they were all turned into anomalies by the cursed force inside their tablets...! The only way to stop the curse from taking you over and causing you to wander in the snow forever is if you forward this email to five people within the next hour. Will you break the curse, or will you be doomed to wander as a mindless hungry monster until the end of time?!

THE CLOCK IS TICKING...

Day 142; @zd; text

[swatsflies]

[After this.]

Why is your name up on the obits?

late evening 142 | @Ecks | text

[ecks]

I to do no to understand thing you to say. I to think I to die????

@hotstud_xxx; text; Day 142

[rubikscomplex]

if you ever come back
you're going to tell me exactly how and why you died
and you never get to complain at me about being "bad at not dying" again
jesus christ
you had almost all of my freaking medical supplies, you moron

late evening 142 | @Ecks | text

[ecks]

I to die. I to think I to die. I to wake place - dark - place - bag - drawer. I to do no to understand thing you to write Doctor House I to think I to curse / you to curse / something to be very wrong.

@ASolomons; video; day 151

[devoutish]

[Alfie holds up two stuffed toy cats to the camera, raising his eyebrows. Still interested in trading things for fake animals, Ecks?]

[ecks]

Where are you? What do you want for the fake cats?

@hawkguy, text, night of Day 154

[awwnoun]

hey miss x
Guess it has only been a whole day but I'm just letting you know I'm alive?

I don't know if you care but hey I figured
frostbite buddies right so. I hope you're okay

@Ecks | text

[ecks]

i saw that you died
how did you die?

I am okay.
I got lost but I found my way back inside and I did not die.

My name is spelled Ecks not x

@snailfan98, text - Day 154

[inruins]

Greetings, Ecks.

I've been hesitant to write this. We've only spoken a few times, so I did not want to burden you with my problems. I know you are a busy young woman.

I have a simple request to make of you. If something happens to me, illness or anomaly, could you please keep an eye on Frisk? Calling them or making puzzles, something you know you can do to help. My last death shook them and I want to be sure they have company if it ever happens again.

Thank you for your time.
- Toriel

text (good god I am so sorry)

[ecks]

Greetings, Toriel

I will help Frisk. Frisk is a friend. Do you think something will happen to you? I think you should try not to let something happen to you.

@hsiaoke; voice; Day 160

[heavensreader]

[Kesara's heart is pounding in her throat. She's short on breath. She has to do this, though, she has to. Don't get angry, don't be afraid, don't stop thinking...

Nightmares are just nightmares. You wake up.]

Do you still want to kill me?

@Ecks | audio

[ecks]

[What is this? Why this, why now? Ecks listens to the little voice, confused and then sad and then frustrated. None of this is revealed in her voice.]

I do not want to kill anyone. I do not have to kill anyone.

@determination, text

[despiteeverything]

Ecks are you anywhere near Kesara's tunnels

text

[ecks]

Yes
I am northeast of the tunnels
I am getting food.

@makeme; audio; morning 173

[coyoteking]

Hey, Ecks. We're in the Pass now, and I got those stuf- fake animals. You still around?

[And because paranoia is a hell of a thing-]

You with anybody?

text

[ecks]

[She's getting more in the habit of matching formats these days...but not while House keeps disapproving of her conversations. Best keep this to text.]

I am in the tunnels beyond the pass but not as far as the museum
I am with Doctor House right now
Are you with anybody?

@notasidekick; audio; afternoon 181

[nursetemple]

[Claire continues her checking up on people with Ecks, keeping it to audio when she finds the corner of a room to sit in and contact a few people. She's concerned for Ecks, for several reasons.]

Hello Ecks, it's Claire. I just wanted to check in on you, hear if you're doing okay. Last night was...well, it was something, for sure. How are you? Do you need anything?

audio; afternoon 181

[ecks]

[The voice on the other end is a near monotone, Ecks's inner turmoil masked by lack of expression.]

I am alive. I am alive and I think that I am still a person.

@hsiaoke; voice; midday 181

[heavensreader]

[She'd been trying not to linger on the night. On what she thought. On what she did. But she can see nothing and has nothing to do but walk East, and Kesara's mind wanders, wanders.

Until she ends up calling the one person whom she knows for a fact will be honest with her about it. About murder.]

Ecks? Are you alive?

audio | afternoon 181

[ecks]

I am alive, Hsiaoke.

[She sounds like she's on the move. The sound will come in and out as the conversation goes on; she's orienting her tablet to use its screen for light rather than getting a good sound recording.

text

[ecks]

I do not have a program we could contact Winter with
we cannot contact Winter because Winter has been blocked from the network
after the people who control the network read the things people were saying on the network about Winter and to Winter

[HINT. HINT.]

@ASolomons; audio; night 189

[devoutish]

Hello, Ecks. I'd like to speak with you for a moment. It's about House - I've got an idea, to make him be more careful. You're interested in that, aren't you?

audio

[ecks]

I cannot make him do anything.

@hotstud_xxx; text; Night 189

[rubikscomplex]

[Well, after this mess, he has to message her privately. Regardless of what he said before, this is important.]

you need to call off whatever trade meet-up you have with solomons
or send someone else to do the trade in your place
stay away from him
and royce

text

[ecks]

[Unfortunately, Alfie messaged her first and she's already in conversation with him when she sees the message from House.]

you are the one they are going to hurt
you are the one who needs to stay away now

again

night 189; @username; text

[advanced]

[They don't even know each other that well, but she is the one he thinks of here. She would understand. Somehow, it makes him feel better to see if she's doing well, to know at least one of them can break free of these bonds.]

How are you?

[Straight and to the point.]

text

[ecks]

I am alive and I have food
and I am not alone
and Red Cat is not dead anymore
and I have not killed anyone else

it is good right now
how are you?

action, day... 194?

[awwnoun]

[ Clint wakes up to - having his face licked.

It startles the hell out of him. He yelps and sits straight up - and then groans, because ow, he hurts. It's the pain that makes it so that he doesn't realize exactly what was licking him for a moment. In fact, at first, he doesn't even register that it could be a dog. ]

Aww, gross. Ecks, I hope that isn't you that -- [ A beat. And then he focuses on the dog that's waiting patiently for him to notice. -- Dog!

... Lucky! [ And Lucky barks happily, tackling Clint to cover him in gross dog kisses. ]

[ecks]

[Waking up now is almost like waking up in the white room, not remembering when she fell asleep and not understanding right away where she is. Ecks sits up sharply when she hears a creature let out a cry nearby, startles further when she sees that it is a wolf dog and that it is on top of Clint.

They are all very fortunate that she does not think to pick up her shovel as she lurches across the room, reaching out to knock the animal off of him.]

You must not eat Clint --!

@ASolomons; audio; day 196

[devoutish]

I'm going into the tunnels and out again today. Where are you?

text

[ecks]

[Oh -- oh, he is very nearby. She chooses text, because she thinks it will be easier to lie that way, even if it is only lying by not telling the entire truth.]

I am leaving the tunnel entrance and going south today

@hotstud_xxx; text; Night 205

[rubikscomplex]

where did you wake up?

10 minutes later

[rubikscomplex]

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