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[feeling betterish now so he gets the door, only wheezing a bit. Voice is still hoarse though from the coughing]

Hey.

For the record, this is not a pity visit.

[You just had the same symptoms as what was about to kill Silence had the FiN moms gone all in to save her]

I just wanted to make sure that shit is all out of your system.

[she did in fact survive what killed B]

I know it's not.

I'm resting. U and N and K and X are all doting on me.

How's Intensity? You look....

Yep.

[Still missing an arm and with a cut over his eye and throat. But he's talking again (unfortunately). You missed the brief period of time where he was silent]

Still better than how the majority of the units fared.

[And letting himself inside like you do. Does B have any other visible injuries outside of the cough]

[he. well he was caught in explosion but he managed to stay. Intact. and is more just battered and bruised from it than exploded or burnt at least. Being hit with debris is a bitch]

Even the winners looked like losers.

[in you come

sorry we got an upgrade

Entering AlcheME!’s dorm you find yourself in a large room instead of the normal common room. There is a pair of therapy couches draped with purple glittery linens, and display frames and cases along the walls for storing fanmail or pictures your children made at school.

Behind the couches is a giant dividing rift in the floor. It is filled entirely with pillows. There is no way across but to brave the pillows or jump.On the other side of the moat is a large, fanciful fountain that looks like a large group of crystals exploding from the ground with water pouring down from them into a basin. At the top of the crystals is a glowing orb, which produces a steady multicoloured fog. There is a platform just below the surface of the water capable of seating exactly One (1) Boy (Singular), allowing you to perch like some sort of feudal mermaid wizard lord, looking down upon the peasants.

Access to the rest of the dorm is behind the fountain, through a Mysterious Fog Wall. Ooooo~]

[????????]

That's quite the entryway.

Now that I am exhausted I am full of regrets about it.

[sits...on a couch. Amid many pillows]

I will spare you the indignity of enjoying the Pillow Moat with me.

If I toss you in will you sink to the bottom or float to somewhere else in dorm?

I sink and live in peace. Where no one can find me.

[going to tuck himself up, knees to chest, coughing a little briefly]

Anything Alcheme can help FIN with? Potions? Food?

[Live in peace...

Sits next to him on the couch if there is space. Otherwise he'll sit on the floor with his back to the couch]

No. It's mostly just healing bills and replacing limbs for us.

...

Are you cold?

[There is room! B is curled up after all and he's small

...glances in the moat where there's some blankets where he had been resting, as well as a goblet of half drank broth]

Little bit. But s'okay.

I'll do more lives soon so you can get healing points.

I don't need the points.

[Sheds out of his trench coat so he can drape it over B]

Unless that's how you're going to burn this restless energy of yours.

[huddles under it gratefully]

It's the only thing I feel true agency about....

And I'm doing a live or event soon anyway. Unless C gets back soon.

My minions now. Now they wear polka dots. And write supportive letters to their ex leader.

. . .!!

How long has C been gone?

[He just saw him not too long ago after that trauma game--- but those have been blurring together, haven't they]

Some time yesterday. I thought he was just working on a project but he...

He's out for a bit. But it's just temporary.

... We lost M too.

I wanted you to know so if we got a newbie soon you wouldn't have a panic when you didn't see C.

I see.

[Reaches over to ruffle B's hair to see if he accepts or rejects the touch]

So you're also working big brother overtime.

[leans into it even]

Now now, we all know I'm the soft lazy little brother who just gets doted on.

Honestly, I got too sick first game to be very helpful. Second game U did a lot of the work. I didn't pull my weight.

Except yanking a bullet out of U. John's classes did actually come in handy.

...I do wish C was here though.

[Then hair pets will continue]

Yanking a bullet out of U sounds like pulling your weight. Our thanks to the dear doctor then.

I lost my arm in the first round. Makes it hard to be an effective coal miner like that.

But there are other ways to be useful.

Was it crime.

Nothing so prestigious. I played Russian roulette with a stick of dynamite.

I did that too and then the mine flooded and I got pneumonia and became useless and everything fell apart because I couldn't be helpful.

Jail was warmer at least though. Good place to die.

...??!

[Well that's alarming. On multiple levels. But not to attract too much attention to it---

Still carding his fingers through B's hair]

Why did you get arrested?

Tax evasion.

Couldn't give him the slip?

Probably too sick by that point.

Yeah, I was kind of just. A coughing lump by then.

Didn't lose a hand though.

[idly plucks at Intensity's empty sleeve]