Video: SN Marshes

[gristle]

[When the video flicked on, it's the edge of the dome, and Beverly drags the camera from the edges before she pulls the camera back to show on her face.]

Uh. The abandoned domes are all gone. All of them. Every entrance to them. It's like they were never there. I don't understand. They're gone!

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text » @e.kaspbrak

[wheezed]

( wait, shit– )

Bev what do you mean they're gone. All of them?????

[gristle]

Yes. All of them. Every single one. I’ve tried all the entrances. It’s not like they just moved. They should’ve been right here and they’re not.

video; un: eleven

[experiment011]

[ Eleven is visibly confused and opens her mouth to speak a couple of times before stopping herself to find the right words. ]

Gone how?

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[gristle]

I don’t know how. They’re just. Gone. Like they were never there to begin with. The doors are gone even.

[experiment011]

Does this happen a lot? Domes being gone?

[gristle]

No. It's never happened before. Not even when we were flooded.

video; un: garbageman

[badimpression]

[Alright, so weird shit goes down here pretty much every second day, but this sends a particular chill down Richie's spine. It feels like being locked in, somehow.]

Fucking pardon? Suddenly what, this is Looney Tunes? We can just erase entire ass doors and rooms from existence?

[gristle]

I mean we know they move around sometimes. It’s why you can never just map it or count the domes and stuff. But the abandoned domes have been here for ages and every time someone leaves their domes get dumped out there. But now they’re gone.

[badimpression]

Alright, so, maybe they'll come back? Maybe this is just a particular brand of weird bullshit we haven't seen yet?

[He says it like he's hoping Bev will agree, but doesn't have much faith she will.]

[gristle]

Maybe. I mean hopefully. I honestly don’t know.

Voice; un.Ben.Solo

[havethestrength]

This hasn't happened before?

[gristle]

No, not since they appeared months ago!

[havethestrength]

Has anyone tried asking the Sphere? I could ask Rey to try if no one speaks it's language.

[Or he could try, but Rey is nicer to machines.]

[gristle]

The Sphere doesn’t listen to anyone! It’s only ever talked to us once in the like eight years Max has been here!

Text un. TheStrandinstitute

[nobasisinfact]

Are you alright?

[He doesn't care about the abandoned domes disappearing right now. Only Bev.]

[gristle]

No! I'm not alright, this crazy shit just happened, Richard! They're just gone!

[nobasisinfact]

But are you physically alright?

[gristle]

It’s not a fucking physical issue, Richard!

video - un; wanda

[minus1twin]

[Wanda appears with a coiled Bjart resting around her, making her size appear smaller than it is.]

I've noticed. I don't think this has happened before. Has it? The abandoned domes only showed up a few months after I first arrived.

[A beat.]

It might just stop with them but I think we should contact the council.

[gristle]

No, it hasn't, Wanda. They haven't even shrunk in the time since they showed up. I really don't understand.

And I mean what are they going to do about it? It's not like they can control what the Sphere does!

[minus1twin]

Neither do I.

[She exhales a heavy sigh.]

Probably nothing but it's times like these that we should keep a level head. We'll take what this place throws at us and come out on top.

[gristle]

This is such bullshit.

[gadaboutdetective]

[Well that’s... really weird.

First and foremost,]

You were outside them when they disappeared, or were they gone when you went looking for them?

[Because he worries, and there’s potential danger to domes just disappearing. He does recall that she goes there with Thor.]

[gristle]

They were gone when I went looking. I thought it was just that the domes shifted the way they do sometimes, but there's no entrances to them and you can't see them the way that you should be able to!

[gadaboutdetective]

That’s strange. I’m very glad you weren’t inside them at the time though, Beverly.

[This could be bad (he’s inclined towards assuming the worst anyway), or it could simply be just a case of the abandoned domes being closed off. They had only been discovered a few months ago.]

When did you last see them? I know you and the others visit them more frequently than I do, I’m uh— wondering how long they might have been gone already...

[Detective Brain is on now that he knows they didn’t disappear while she was in them or anything.]