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text. ID: aldraper. 004-Night.

[personal profile] ployboy 2015-06-13 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
I found a card like the one you showed on the network. It turned my tablet off for a few seconds. [-long enough for a very heavy and distinct oh shit feeling to pool in his stomach.] After that it had downloaded a new program called Keys. My card was a different color from yours though. I don't know if they all do this. Thought you'd like to know.
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[personal profile] ployboy 2015-06-13 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[The strong, silent type? Tim knows how to deal.]

A folder. I assume it's to store passwords. I found the card in what I can only assume was a teacher's home. I was notified I then had a key to a "Lounge". Putting two and two together, now I've got a key to a teacher's lounge in that elementary school. @Admin's putting Easter eggs out there for us to entertain ourselves with.

There's no promise your tablet will turn back on if you try the same thing just like there's no promise the "key" even works, or that there's going to be anything worthwhile behind the locked door.
Edited 2015-06-13 16:02 (UTC)
ployboy: <user name=beruna> (That my things were fake)

[personal profile] ployboy 2015-06-13 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[That'll do it, then. Night's turning eventful anyhow.]

Do me a favor. Don't tell others what I found. It doesn't mean anything yet. I'll let you know if the key ever works.
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day 004, night - text - @claytonator

[personal profile] dr_unconscious 2015-07-05 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Following this transaction, Clayton figures Max won't want to discuss the details of the video, but is still stubborn enough to contact him and show his appreciation for getting it instead.]

Max,

Glad you were able to get the SD card to work. Thanks for sharing the video--it's a good reminder of what we're searching for.

Stay safe, and keep in touch if you can.

- Clayton
armoured: (gen] resting)

voice @LELRIC; 015; night; private

[personal profile] armoured 2015-07-18 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's been a few days since he's talked to Max, and Al has been worried about him. He doesn't doubt that the stoic man is more than capable of taking care of himself from a survival standpoint, but there is something very broken about his world view and that touches Al deep inside.

So he waits until the rest of his group have settled down for the night, and slips off a little way with his tablet. He's decided, happier for making the decision, that he won't give up on Max. He'll keep coming back, and keep proving someone cares, until he can help even a little.]


Max, are you awake?
armoured: (gen] headtilt)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-07-21 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[For a long few minutes Al grew more and more concerned that something had happened to Max since they last spoke. Perhaps he had got hurt, or worse, or... And then Al would be proven a liar, after being unable to protect him and help him find some small sliver of hope for himself.

So when Max does finally reply, Al can't help but let out a sigh of pure relief that hisses down the tablet like static.]


Me too.

[Wow, how unnecessary. Of course he's awake.]

I just wanted to check in, I've been worried about you.
armoured: (gen] ellipses)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-07-21 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, worried.

[He decides to focus on this for now. Max is obviously used to survival, he sounds surprised that anyone could even question this, but he obviously isn't used to other people caring one way or the other if he lives or dies.]

You and I are friends, and I worry about my friends.

[Max isn't going to be consulted on this, he has no choice, he has made a friend.]
armoured: (gen] bro determination)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-07-21 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, we are.

[He doesn't sound at all put out about that, he has already long deduced that Max is deeply troubled and needs help, so most things he says just roll off Al like water from a duck's back.]

Or, at least, you're my friend even if I'm not yours. That's not really a decision you get to make for me. I like you, and I worry about you because I want you to be safe.
armoured: (gen] sitting with ed)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-07-21 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I can worry about us both.

[He hesitates. This might be pushing a bit far too fast, but he tries to keep his voice soothing in order to mitigate his words.]

I don't know why you think you have to be alone, but you don't. I'll be here if you need someone for anything, any time.
armoured: (gen] neutrality)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-07-25 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe, so why haven't you?

[The question is deceptively mild. Al believes that Max, somewhere deep down, does want to have friends and allies. If he truly had no wish for it, and it was easier to ignore others, then why hadn't he before now?]
armoured: (angry] disapproval)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-07-26 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Max...

Al waits for a full minute, but he isn't going to give up that easily, he's not going to give up at all if he has his way.]


That's childish, you know?
armoured: (gen] follow me)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-07-26 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[It doesn't surprise him, not with the clues Max has already given about how broken he is under the surface, and nor does it scare him. It just makes him more determined to help if he can, because this kind of pain in someone else makes him ache inside.]

No, it's not enough.

[His voice get a little gentler, as if soothing a spooked animal.]

I don't know why it scares you to be cared about, but you can't stop it just by pushing me away. I'm going to worry about you, and I'm going to try and help you if I can, because you are my friend even if I'm not yours.
armoured: (gen] sigh)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-07-31 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[His heart twists in his chest. Poor Max, how many people must he have loved and lost to think that any friend is doomed to die and haunt him? Al's voice gets even gentler, sympathy throbbing through every word.]

Max, I promise I won't die. I've got too much to do to let myself die before it gets done... besides, my brother would never let me live it down if I died and left him alone.
armoured: (gen] jazz hands)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-08-01 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sighs, but he's not going to back down. Years of arguing with Ed, and determinedly forging forwards towards a seemingly impossible goal, has made Al completely stubborn in situations like this.]

I won't let myself die, don't you feel that way? Survival is the only option. Don't you think you can make promises to survive if your will is strong enough?
armoured: (sad] thoughtful)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-08-02 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you want to survive?

[It takes all his self control to ask this question calmly, instead of giving into the irritation and fear rising in his chest. Max is so hopeless, it truly terrifies Al.]
armoured: (gen] elementary)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-08-06 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay.

[He isn't going to argue the promise any more, he'll dial it back a little and try for baby steps.]

Then if you want to survive, you'll use anything at your disposal that can help you do that, right? Then use me. I'm here, and I want to help and support, you'd be a bad survivalist if you didn't make use of that for as long as you had me around.

[Which, unspoken, is forever in Al's head.]
armoured: (gen] attentive)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-08-13 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't say rely on me, I said use me.

[This goes against Al's philosophies, but he's trying a soft approach in the hope it will work.]

Don't think of me as a friend, or even as an ally, just as a tool to be used. That way you don't have to worry about depending on me, you just use me and the help cooperating with me can give for as long as it lasts.

[Which will be forever.]

And if it doesn't last, then it's just like a tool breaking. It's nothing to be upset over, or-- Just keep in contact with me and share information, that's not so hard, right?

[He's relying on the spark of something inside Max to start caring through exposure, and Al can gently and slowly move him over from reluctant ally into friend. If it has to start this way, then Al will take it, he just won't plan on 'breaking' ever.]
armoured: (gen] follow me)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-08-13 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[He hates this, he hates that Max is so spooked by the thought of even an ally that it has to be approached this way.]

Mm, okay. But... if we're going to keep in touch about information, maybe we should try to keep a regular contact, okay? It doesn't have to be every day, or even every other day.

[He's pushing for every little victory he can get.]
armoured: (gen] neutrality)

[personal profile] armoured 2015-08-14 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
...thank you.

[He won't bother Max any more for tonight, not when he's pushed and won a small victory. So he just finally hangs up to leave Max in peace.]