curiosityvoyage: make it (but terror takes the sound before you)
Dustin Henderson ([personal profile] curiosityvoyage) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2018-01-07 03:49 pm

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—and, got it!

[When the feed cuts in, the first thing anyone might see is—a mop of brown curls. Wow. So exciting. After a moment, a young boy's face comes into view, blue eyes alive with an excited curiosity. Some more adjustments, and the background finally makes itself clear: the kid's in a park somewhere in De Chima, and he happens to be dressed like a Ghostbuster like it's Halloween or something.]

Hey, so, I've got a few questions. A lot of questions, actually. [So many curiosity doors, so little time.] To start with: anyone else here from Hawkins? [He hopes so. He—really doesn't want to be alone.] Man, Mr. Clarke'd have a field day.

[Eat your heart out, Hugh Everett.]

Secondly, has anyone started up an imPort A/V club yet? I'm a little curious about how it would work, especially since people from all kinds of different worlds with varying levels of technology keep getting pulled in. I think it'd be a great opportunity for us to learn about technology from other worlds, and from this one too. I know I'd love a crash course in how to use this—they called it a phone, but it doesn't really look like one. [Phones looked very different where he's from, and they definitely can't do half the stuff this device can.

Something warbles shrilly nearby. Dustin's head turns, and he bends down a little out of frame to talk to something just off-screen:]
Shh, Dart. I'll feed you nougat later, just gotta finish this up first. [Turning back to the comm:] Also: Is there a species on your world that, appearance-wise, might be comparable to a pollywog but isn't? Like, pollywogs are cold-blooded and need heat and light, for example, but that particular species actively avoids heat? What kind of food would you feed it? [Beat.] I'm asking for a friend.
micycle: (under pressure)

[personal profile] micycle 2018-01-08 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, more got through. Little baby ones. Only they don't stay little for long - they eat and they eat until they're the size of wolves.

[He knows he's getting a little worked up, the way he tends to, but all he can see in his mind right now are hospital halls, strewn with-

(mangled bodies)

-bloody labcoats, bullet shells, broken equipment. His breathing quickens, and he tries to swallow down the rising panic.]


It can't live with us.
micycle: (should i stay or should i go)

[personal profile] micycle 2018-01-08 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[It feels terrible to let Dustin down like this, but Mike knows it's the only way. After all, if he's too terrified to let that thing near him, it must be nothing compared to how Will would feel having it in the house. Dart's gotta go, even if it causes a rift. The party's no good if the party's been eaten by a giant lizard.]

I'm sorry, man. It's just... [He rubs his eyes and peeks around, as if checking to see if he's got any company.] A lot happened after Halloween.
micycle: (should i stay or should i go)

permaprivate.

[personal profile] micycle 2018-01-10 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know how much I can tell you, but...

[He really doesn't want to deal with any grandfather paradoxes, of course. But he told El, after all. He told Will. With a careful breath, he switches the feed to private. There's still one person he hasn't told, after all - Nancy.]

There's a new monster, a shadow monster. The demod- [Goddammit, Dustin.] The baby demogorgons are its army. [And it's in Will's head, and it's taking him from us, and we're probably all gonna die, and El's back but she's probably gonna die too, and- Mike feels his chest constricting, his vision tunneling. He shakes his head.]

Just.. come to the house. Zero-zero-six. We can all talk about it together.

[Away from Nancy, though.]
micycle: (walk like an egyptian)

[personal profile] micycle 2018-01-10 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mike's eyes go W I D E.]

Don't tell her anything!
micycle: (everybody wants to rule the world)

[personal profile] micycle 2018-01-10 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
She's just gonna freak out and get mad at me!

[With good reason.]

I don't need her trying to be Mom.
micycle: (under pressure)

[personal profile] micycle 2018-01-11 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm the only one who knows about it so far. Will's... [He cuts himself off, shaking his head.] Look, I'll tell her, but only after she calms down about everything else. She won't stop worrying about me, it's annoying.
micycle: (take my breath away)

[personal profile] micycle 2018-01-14 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
No, he's from around the same time as me. Dustin... [He leans in a little closer, as if that might given him more privacy.] Will got sick. Not normal sick, but like... Upside-Down-sick. I don't know how much he remembers.

[And I don't know if he gets better, he doesn't say.]
micycle: (sign o' the times)

[personal profile] micycle 2018-01-15 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
That was part of it. But it kept getting worse. And I think he still doesn't feel quite right, so just... treat him like normal. Don't make him feel different.
micycle: (atlantic city)

[personal profile] micycle 2018-01-19 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
We’ll figure it out. I’ve watched him go through it once already, and I won’t let it get that bad again.

[Said with quivering authority, like the matter of Will’s safety is in his jurisdiction.]