Okay...so we spent most of yesterday afternoon most displeased because Tenebria is...herself. She cut off our internet (so we were off-grid) our power (so all the fans we've had in the house to prevent us from dying because we can't open the windows died so the humidity basically ate us alive) and then attempted to break into the house NOT JUST ONCE. NOT JUST ONCE.
BUT THREE TIMES.
Tenebria is REALLY persistent. You can defenestrate her, hit her repeatedly with a cricket bat, get her in the fact with pepper spray and she will just KEEP COMING AT YOU. Really determined, I'll give her that. She doesn't even have a healing factor, no matter how injured she is she just keeps going. It's more than a little bit creepy. Then she just decides "oh to hell with it" and ups and leaves. Seriously.
Okay, I don't mind her leaving, makes it easier for us to recover, but her motives are pretty incomprehensible. She's explained the way she thinks over on her tumblr, but it doesn't explain the way she seems determined to destroy us one minute then "meh, I'm bored, I'm leaving" the next. Utterly bizarre. We have no idea what to make of her.
Sigh. I'm going to hope for a quiet afternoon. Chester is a happy puppy because he managed to find a second-hand DVD of the first season of Blackadder (which I have never seen, shame on me) so we're going to watch that and hope Tenebria doesn't decide to crash the party.
--Vivi
Alright, you've given her the chance to back the fuck off.
ReplyDeleteNext time she tries to break in, give her a 9mm injection of lead.
She could be trying to KILL you.
Not observing, actively breaking in.
She tried to cut off all avenues of communication, potentially so you couldn't call for help.
For all we know she wanted to get in and kill you both.
It is within your legal right to shoot someone who is actively trying to break into your house. (At least it is here in the US. I dunno about NZ.)
Okay, now she's just gone from bitch to terrifying. What the HELL. o.o (It supports my theory about her trying to wear you down though. And I'm almost inclined to agree with JediZero about shooting her, but I don't know how well that'd work...)
ReplyDeleteAnd it's okay, Vivi, I've never seen Blackadder either. *blushes*
Stay safe.
~Alora
I'm not sure, we'd have to look up the laws. We'd rather not kill her, but next time she tries to break in we won't be so nice about ejecting her from the premises. I'd rather not shoot her, just in case she gets the police involved, but if she tries that shit again she will regret it. In any case, hopefully she'll go wherever she goes when she's not harassing us to lick her wounds, since we still have barbed wire on the windowsills and no matter how determined she is she can't be stupid enough to try that again before she's healed up somewhat.
ReplyDelete--Chess
Blackadder is my favourite thing.
ReplyDeleteBut the last season makes me cry.
She cut your communications off. She tried to break in, not once, not twice, but three times.
ReplyDeletethat isn't harassment, that's the tactics an assassin would use.
Cut them off from all other contact, so they can't call for help, be it friends or the police.
Then, do whatever you can to get to them. Stealthily if possible, if not, straight up get in there. They can't really call for help, its not like they can do much to stop you.
The one good thing is that for all her teleporting capabilities, she apparently cannot simply appear inside your house.
...Who says I intend on killing them? I just wanted to play with my new friends!
ReplyDelete...and for that matter, who says I can teleport?
--T
...Are you giving us a hint, Tenebria? Most unlike you, I thought you said we'd have to figure you out by ourselves?
ReplyDelete--Vivi
I was clearing up some misunderstandings. Besides, it's fun feeding you little tidbits of information and then watching you theorise C:
ReplyDeleteHrm, if she can't teleport, it could be she has the ability to go faster than the human eye can register.
ReplyDeleteOr she can turn invisible. Which I doubt.
To be invisible, one must bend light around you, much like how if you put a penny in a glass of water, it refracts and alters the apparent location of the penny.
As a byproduct from this bending light around oneself, you cannot see.
The human eyes take in light reflected off of surfaces to create the images we can see, this is how colors work too. A certain color of light is bounced from an object, to the eye, and all other colors are absorbed.
But if the light is bending around you, its not going into your eyes to allow you to see.
Basically, if you want to be invisible without the aid of incredible technology not yet availible, you're going to be completely and utterly blind.
oooh, good thinking.
ReplyDeletepity you're barking up the wrong tree C:
Alternatively, you could have the capability to slip into another plane of existance.
ReplyDeleteMuch like how I theorized how the ruins were more Vivi and Chester were 'manifesting' on another plane, you could actually exist on another plane altogether, and be 'manifesting' on our plane.
Or even making use of 4D movement.
As an example, when you have a 2d surface (say a sheet of paper), imagine someone a few inches tall walking along the side of the paper, from one end to another.
It takes a while, but if you take said paper, and fold it, you can bring the starting point, and the ending point together without anyone needing to walk there.
Its been theorized that anyone able to see/manipulate the fourth plane of existance (if there even is such a thing.) Would be able to do much the same to the 3D plane.
You could even be a disguise for the SlenDERP, attempting to find another way to get close. You share many of the same tactics. Seeming to vanish, reappear, and simply staring.
Or my previous theory is correct and you are in fact SlenDERP's bastard child, and if so I do so wish you the best of luck because you are sorely in need of therapy.
Ooh, impressive thinking, but it's nothing that complex~
ReplyDeleteYour mistake is that you assume I affect the physical world. I exist on it, but I cannot manipulate it any more than a regular human.
--T
Again, you could slip through different planes entirely.
ReplyDeleteDifferent planes are still physical. The Other Place is still a physical entity.
ReplyDeleteThink of it this way- I can't be invisible. But I can make people think I am.
--T
Perception fields? You're a psychic of some sort?
ReplyDelete~Alora
Not quite. You were right- I am a Conduit. I can play with people's perception, with their senses. If I wanted to I could dance around inside somebody's house singing the best of ABBA, and they wouldn't notice me at all.
ReplyDeleteAnd people think all the Sci-Fi I've read would never be helpful. So, what's your game? What'd you do to Vivi?
ReplyDeleteIf you're a conduit, why serve SlenDERP?
ReplyDeletethen again, that is an assumption. You could be part of a third party.
I am all I have left. I have to do everything I can in order to survive. I go where the power is, where I am least likely to die.
ReplyDeleteI was one of you once. I had ideals once. Everything fell apart around me, because I made myself believe a lie, that things were going to be okay.
They weren't. I'm okay now, because I've found the truth, and I've gotten accustomed to it, and it doesn't hurt anymore.
I'm numb. It's wonderful.
--T
It doesn't have to be this way, Tenebria. Thinking that everything is going to be okay isn't a lie, it doesn't make you naive. It makes you human. You don't have to give up your humanity to be safe. If you let Vivi go we can help you. If no one else wants to, I will. Please, you don't have to do this.
ReplyDeleteBut if you insist on doing this, we will have to stop you.
Please. No one has to get hurt.
~Alora
You're wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt's not going to be okay, it's never going to be okay, the light at the end of the tunnel is just one of your enemies smiling and holding a torch.
I can't feel...anything.
--T
That's not true. It doesn't have to be this way. Tenebria, I can help. Please, let me help.
ReplyDeleteHang on...
tenebria, my name is daniel. alora's not lying to you. i thought that everything was lost, too, but she helped me. she can help you.
you don't have to be numb anymore. it doesn't have to be like this. there's still hope. believe me.
and what if i want to be numb?
ReplyDeleteyou don't know anything. you think everyone can be redeemed, that the power of love will save you all when i know so many people love couldn't save.
i want to be numb. it's the only way i can live now.
I'm not going to pretend that love can save everyone, and I'm not going to pretend that I can fix everything. I'm giving you an opportunity to save yourself, Tenebria. Please, take it. It might be the only one you get. We want to get Vivi back, no matter what it takes, but I don't want anyone to die or get hurt if they don't have you.
ReplyDeleteDo you really want to be numb, Tenebria? Do you?
~Alora
I have been saved, Alora.
ReplyDeleteThere's nobody else I'd rather be.
Okay. Then...in that case...
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry.
~Alora