pc catchall | superhell | chandra

[engineers]

i made this pc filter early because i laughed at a joke about calling chandra a chad and then completely forgot about it until right now

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week 0, tuesday

[engineers]

[ a text! ]

Hi, Chandra. I just wanted to say thank you for looking out for Lavi and Eto. I heard a little about what happened.
Are you alright?

[astika]

Nothing of consequence happened.

[engineers]

Lavi said something about a wolf...?

[astika]

There was a wolf at some point, yes.

[engineers]

[ lu bixing has never interacted with a real wolf. just lin jingheng, who is close enough but probably slightly less bitey. maybe.

anyway ]

Did you get the medical treatment you needed...? Eto was bandaged, and Lavi told me he had
Chicken pox, which I'm not entirely sure is true.

friday, week 0.

[astika]

[in the planetarium again........]

Do you ever leave this place?

[engineers]

[ help. lu bixing glances over his shoulder at that - and then huffs a laugh, and jokes, a little lamely. ]

Feels like home.

[ being among the stars.... ]

I just wanted to see if it was any different from last night.

[astika]

Doesn't seem like much has changed around here, if anything.

[engineers]

Aside from the obvious.

[ dead hunter 2 ]

... I have to wonder why. Maybe that's just some form of special torture. [ though it doesn't seem like he believes that, too much. ]

[astika]

Who knows? Maybe he got into a fight with someone for some inane reason and lost.

[unfortunately chandra doesn't seem even remotely affected because sometimes you just don't feel anything over murder]

week 1, thursday

[astika]

[yo chandra is tracking lu bixing down after people have had time to fuss over him because he doesn't feel like dealing with that part]

What happened?

[unfortunately this is not said in the tone of someone asking out of concern or empathy but someone looking for info, sorry lbx he just figured you'd be the least annoying of the bunch]

[engineers]

[ chandra is right because this is probably the best choice in this regard. there's not really much to fuss over - he's really uninjured and aside from just watching over lin jingheng, he seems mostly okay, if tired.

he glances up when chandra approaches, and sighs, rubbing his temples. not even bothering with a little smile or anything, just businesslike details. ] We all ended up on an island off of the ferry out of nowhere. There was a box we were instructed to put our hands in and no other way off the island, and it took us to a spaceship of some kind and said we had to do 'team building exercises.'

[astika]

[he at least gives lu bixing a glance over to make sure he's not about to keel over, before he continues.]

Well, from a certain perspective, nothing brings people together like violence and injury, yes...

[engineers]

[ nah he's totally fine. none injury! just stressed from a long day. ]

Yeah. We were supposed to solve an unsolvable puzzle, for the first round. The second, they created a copy of Lin, and we had to figure out which was real. The third was just Akira and Ryo - I was trying to help Lin and I missed most of it. All of them were difficult decisions with high stakes on purpose.

And then, once the last decision was made, we were returned here without any fanfare.

[astika]

[let lu bixing sleep]

Difficult decisions with high stakes... Yes, I can see how setting people up with such things might be entertaining to certain crowds.

[anyway]

Was there anything worthwhile from it all besides Akira's kit, or was the only purpose to inflict suffering?

week 2, monday

[astika]

[sup, lu bixing. if he happens to be wandering around the dorms, he might see chandra standing outside of his room, holding a pink spear that looks almost as though it's made of hardened light.

he's just examining it with a thoughtful, if slightly confused look on his face.]

[engineers]

[ nerd brain activated im sorry ]

Oh - good morning Chandra, what in the world is that...?

[astika]

... An item belonging to Surya, God of Light.

[still frowning as he looks it over, though.]

[engineers]

[ fascinating... ]

And it came to you? Is Surya... do you two interact often?

[astika]

... We do—which is why it's strange that I have no recollection of him using this item, or what it does.

week 4, monday

[astika]

[hello lu bixing....... if he happens to be in a house for the neighbourhood for GIANTS, he may notice chandra walking by, holding onto loose yarn. it's unfortunately trailing behind him on the ground because he has, like, one truly functional hand and it's busy with the main body of yarn and he has apparently decided he does not care if this is a tripping hazard for anyone else.]

[engineers]

[ chandra what are you doing.

its okay lu bixing is. it looks like he's trying to finagle some kind of physics pulley situation in one of the kitchens in one of the giant houses, and when chandra walks by... it catches his curiosity....? and he peers over. ]

Chandra...?

[ hello ]

[astika]

[he pauses, at least.]

What?

[engineers]

Solving the labyrinth...?

[ he gestures at the big old piece of yarn. what are you up to ]

[astika]

Making a rope.