video; @unknown

[redshiftnpc]

[ The communicator bobs, turns, points at the floor. There’s muttering from a voice some of Anchor’s residents will recognize. When the camera rights itself, it’s a close-up of Creepy Joe’s face, the eye that was formerly sealed shut now open and writhing with tiny flower-like tentacles. His other is steady, crazed blue.

His mouth is still twisted, his lips still curving upward on the ruined side of his face, not quite hiding teeth too long and sharp for a human mouth. There’s movement behind and between his teeth, though it’s hard to see what it is until he opens his mouth--more tentacles, tiny flailing things growing from the insides of his cheeks, the roof of his mouth, his tongue. They make him lisp hoarsely as he talks.]

Don’t go down. Don’t do it. You’ll open the way to worse things, worse things, worse.

[ He glances behind him, and in spite of the close angle, some at Anchor might also recognize where he is. In his little hole in the wall, where he was recording the actions of Anchor’s new residents. ]

Trust me. I came back, didn’t I? I came back to help.

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[redwinekindofgirl]

[Okay, gross?

But she answers in kind only because she knows damn well that he already knows what she looks like.]

Last I could tell, you came back to fucking perv on us you creep. What are you doing that's so goddamn helpful?

[redshiftnpc]

[ He blinks his one good eye rapidly, clearly startled. ]

Perv on? I didn't. I don't. It wasn't for that.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Yeah right. Don't know what the hell kind of place you come from where watching people through hidden cameras they don't know about isn't creepy as fuck. [Julie isn't buying it.]

But go on, fucking change my mind.

text; @onni

[scowlish]

[Well, this is...bothersome. Worrying. The tentacles everywhere looks really familiar i a very bad way.]

What happened to your face?

[redshiftnpc]

I don't remember. Time. Time happened to everyone.

[scowlish]

It looks like something from home.

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[writtendestiny]

[Poison has a lot of questions. She doesn't look too taken aback by his appearance - she has seen many things worse - but she had needed to steady herself before answering and even as she speaks she can feel her heart pounding.]

... Who are you?

[redshiftnpc]

I'm Joseph. [ He tries to make his voice gentler, though it's hard to tell. ] I'm Joe.

[writtendestiny]

Joseph. [She echoes it back, keeping her attention on his 'good' eye. It would be more difficult if she was really standing in front of him, but...]

I'm Poison. [Maybe he knows that already?] I... recognise that room you're in.

[audio | @SCARAMOUCHE]

[numerouno]

Things even worse than you, babe?

[audio]

[redshiftnpc]

[ If only Scaramouche could see the confusion on Joe's face as he tries to figure out if that's flirtation or not. ]

I'm... here to help. I'm helping you.

Video

[itsnotaonesie]

[Well tits, that sure is a thing, huh.

Peter really isn't sure how he should be feeling about this. On one hand it's kind of a relief since now he's pretty much positive that Joe had been the one creeping on them before. On the other hand, he still has no idea what to actually make of Joe. He decides it's probably best not to start pointing fingers for the whole spying thing, at least for now.]

When we met you outside, you said you didn't wanna come back here at all. What changed your mind?

[redshiftnpc]

[ OH LOOK Peter gets a smile, and isn't that a horrifying sight. ]

Peter. [ The smile fades into thoughtful confusion. ] Thought... I thought... Thought you were the only ones. But then others came, and I knew it was happening again.

text; @aa

[livingdeadgirl]

[ Some of Anchor's residents will recognize this guy. Ami is not one of them. And while he is a cool-looking monster, that's got to be extremely uncomfortable. ]

whoa holy crap
are you ok

[text]

[redshiftnpc]

No.

Are you?

[audio; un: longinmouth]

[abheirrant]

Being vague is a poor way to convince people not to do something.

[And that's the thing about Creepy Joe he's going to address, apparently. Not the teeth, not the tenteyecles, not anything about his face, but his inability to understand that when someone tells another person not to do something, they are definitely going to do it.]

[redshiftnpc]

[ CONFUSION ]

It's a warning. I'm warning you all.

text; @@totheark

[0thingsonmymind]

*That's an interesting face. Maybe this guy should wear a mask.*

cameback from
what

[redshiftnpc]

Outside.

The waste.

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[enumerator]

[ arya stares back at creepy joe, her gaze measured, focused. there's a part of her that wants to be frightened -- arya has worked with dead bodies, many of them foul and mangled, but she's never seen one as grotesque as this. but she keeps her gaze steady, determined to be calm. fear cuts deeper than swords. ]

What is down there? What is the worse thing?

[ then, because arya knows what it feels like to have a side of your face smashed in, she adds: ]

Does it hurt, your face?

[redshiftnpc]

So many.... So much....

[ He shudders, closing his good eye. ] There's so much bad in the dark.

[ Joe touches his face. ]

Yes. Face. Arm. Chest sometimes.

[audio | @hot.damn]

[circumitus]

[Flatly:] Oh good, must have missed the memo where we're all supposed to know who the fuck this asshole is.

[ audio ]

[redshiftnpc]

I think it's you. That's an asshole.

video; @ren

[killthepast]

[ Kylo's in the middle of experiencing memory loss here, SO. SHOULD BE FUN.

Anyway. He watches the video. Squints at Joe. Listens to his message. And when he speaks, his voice is gentle, curious, but concerned, because the man looks to be in a terrible state and soap opera amnesia is making Kylo a temporarily semi-decent person for the time being. ]

Did that-- [ Gesturing to his own eye. ] --happen to you 'down there'?

[redshiftnpc]

[ Joe covers his own eye, apparently self-conscious. ]

Yes... No one looked for me.