aerodynamic | INBOX for purgastory

[ imagine if i said he's dead somewhere. but no, he can be found somewhere by the new healy river, though i will let you pick if it's pre or post-heals. it wouldn't matter regardless because he'd still be sitting there staring at the water and not being inside resting. sometimes you are simply distracted with your thoughts and do not realize there are people looking for you. ]

[It can be BEFORE THE HEALIES so he can look at Yosuke's general battered state of being (physical) (also mental). He will move over and settle down beside him with concern.]

What's got your mind so caught?

[ he startles a little by the sudden dahut, but he does pause long enough to give him a thorough once-over, all things considered. ]

I thought we had an idea of the dangers of this place, but I'm finding that we didn't understand anything at all.

[ there's much more to it than that, but it's a start. ]

[His head just cants to the side a little at the THOROUGH ONCE-OVER, curious but not prioritizing that curiosity just yet.]

Well! I'd say that's a fair assessment, given how badly beaten up you all were... I'm a little surprised you're still alive, given what we were starting with back in that room.

[THEIR MORTUARY ASSISTANT NPC BODIES.]

I'm kinda surprised too given how bad everything went from the start. [ which. ugh. ] Hopefully people are looking after the other three, I don't care what they say. None of this should've happened and I doubt any of them are really fine.

These ominous things you're saying aren't leaving me feeling very confident...

[WHAT DA HAEL HAPPENED TO YOU ALL.]

But! The other three are definitely going to be fussed over, just like you! We'll make sure you're all bandaged and tidied up so you don't die of sepsis in purgatory.

You probably shouldn't be. [ this is even more ominous, thank you. ] Somehow this was even worse than what happened after we ransacked PECS.

[ but hm hm hm... another glance to the water. ]

This is going to sound insane. [ okay? ] But the river feels... different.

[IT REALLY IS EVEN MORE OMINOUS HELLO.]

I'd believe that, too! [Because their rolls for that fight were SO GOOD SOMEHOW?? They really skated out of there in one relative piece...

He also just glances at the water and then back at Yosuke, uncertain.]

It's definitely a little concerning to hear after everything. What feels different about it?

[ made my life easier, yeah. ]

It's... it feels like it'll fix me. [ wait. hang on. ] The injuries, I mean. It feels like it'll heal those. Which is a really suspicious feeling to have about a river we haven't really thought much about in a place that keeps trying to kill us in different ways.

[wipes tear

Dahut's STILL NOT CONVINCED BY THIS AND IS IN FACT ANTI-CONVINCED BY THIS.]

Mmmmm, it really is suspicious! It is, isn't it?! I wouldn't trust that river not to snatch you right away and send you right back to that morgue! [...] Let's figure out a way to dunk you safely.

[He said "this is dangerous and suspicious but the scientific method demands to be fulfilled".]

[ of course dahut wants to do science at the risk of him maybe disintegrating in this river. and yet he's fine with that? it's a little hard to care about consequences at this point when it feels right.

he is still staring at the river. ]

... got any ideas? It doesn't look like it's moving fast or anything, but better safe than sorry. Rope, maybe? [ this is a stupid plan given the injuries but he's trying here. ]

[HE'S NOT GOING TO LET YOSUKE DISINTEGRATE IN THE RIVER. He wouldn't let Yosuke get in the river at all if he didn't already have a tiny inkling of a hypothesis about things that made him feel less worried about potentially putting an actual teen at risk.]

We do still have rope from our PECs harvest! [Not the harvest.] I could make a harness that wouldn't overlap with your injuries, but the problem would be getting you back out if something does go wrong. I'm not very strong...

[ dahut told yosuke he's sixty-five years old and yet yosuke still somehow keeps forgetting this fact. there's a low hum of thought though, even if his lips quirk up a bit about him calling it a harvest. ]

The river runs through this whole area, doesn't it? Maybe if we tie the rope onto something sturdy, I can always pull myself back up if something goes wrong.

[ dahut says "i'm not very strong" and yosuke will claw his way out of hell as necessary. ]

Would that work, you think?

[IT'S VERY EASY TO FORGET WHEN HE LOOKS AND BEHAVES THE WAY HE DOES.

He does just look at Yosuke at that, though, and also look at his injuries and then at the seemingly calm water that he does not trust at all.]

I don't really like leaving that up to the injured party here, you know... Give me fifteen minutes, okay? Do you think you can resist the allure of the river for that long?

[ like it's a siren river?? granted, with the way he keeps looking at it like he expects it to talk to him or something that's a fair question.

but. fake it 'til you make it. ]

Yeah. I'll be fine, fifteen minutes is nothing.

[YEAH HE DOESN'T LIKE THE WAY YOSUKE IS LOOKING AT IT. STOP LOOKING AT THE RIVER LIKE THAT YOSUKE.]

If you do anything silly while I'm gone, I'll even wake you up from the sleep of death to hang you upside down by your ankles!

[DON'T MAKE HIM WORRIED.

He skitters off after that, though... Can Yosuke actually wait the 15 minutes.....]

[ brain haunted.

in all seriousness he really is just torn between :o? and :tails: about this, but he turns his head back and waves it off. ]

Maybe let's not do that when one of my ankles is the problem, man. [ it's entirely possible he's in some mild form of shock actually since he's just been sitting here with his broken-ass bone, too.

but there he goes!!! goodbye dahut, when he comes back he will find yosuke floating in the river like goofy.

okay, he will not find that, but he will find that he has since pulled his limbs in a little closer and appears to be fiddling with his phone so he's at least distracted himself for a bit while he waits. ]

[BRAIN FUCKING HAUNTED.]

We'll take care of that soon if the water doesn't!

[The way this is helpful but also sounds so ominous. Don't float in the river like goofy about all the shock you are in with your injuries... wouldn't that be funny if dahut just never came back.

HE DOES THOUGH. Exactly fifteen minutes later with something in his hands.]

O-kay! It's not the greatest since I was in such a rush, but this should do the trick! And if it doesn't, I'll dive right in after you, since I'm the overseer of this experiment!

[IT APPEARS TO BE... basically a harness of rope attached to a slapshod mechanical pulley system with a part that can be planted into the ground fairly securely. He sure did just build this in a quarter of an hour with the stupidass stuff they scrounged up at PECs.]

[ he would not blame dahut if he never came back is the thing.

but he does, and yosuke looks momentarily surprised as he looks up from his phone before quietly flipping it closed and setting it aside. where the hell did he get his phone? maybe he went to go get it before he came to the river, who knows. regardless, he's eyeing this pulley system and slowly raising an eyebrow. ]

Huh. You really are a genius. [ just sort of matter of fact. it wasn't that he didn't believe him, but this is still a lot for fifteen minutes. ] If you really think this will work, let's give it a try. Should I strap in first before you plant the anchor into the ground?

[ for what it's worth he's mostly impressed because their second time venturing to the tv world his bright-ass idea was to tie a rope around his waist and make one of their friends hold it so they wouldn't get lost. predictably, the rope snapped and they made her cry. ]

[Where DID he get his phone. Damn, teens are tech addicts in all worlds... But!! He skippidyhops his way over, laughing as he crouches down beside Yosuke again.]

I am! [THE ARROGANCE OF GENIUS.] Even if this is hardly genius-level, it'll do a much better job at reeling you in like a cute little fish than I could on my own!

[To answer the question, he will plant the anchor into the ground first and then hold the harness up.]

Show me where your worst injuries are, okay?

[YOSUKE... DON'T JUST MAKE GIRLS CRY.]

[ again, naoto exists so he's not even fazed by dahut going "yeah i AM a genius." he is more fazed about being compared to a fish given the way he kind of frowns, but that is neither here nor there. down does the anchor and he looks at the harness curiously, lifting his probably still bleeding hand to poke at it. ]

It's, uh. Kinda everywhere on the front? I don't think there's really much space that it won't overlap, so just do what you have to do. I'll be okay.

[ debatable, but he also isn't in the market to make it more difficult when dahut is doing him what he views to be a favor. HE DID NOT MAKE HER CRY ON PURPOSE he's just stupid. ]

[HE SAID YOU CAN BE AN ARROGANT GENIUS BUT WHY CALL ME A CUTE FISH, STOP THAT. He's so valid, even if he's a dummy who makes girls cry on accident.]

Ooh... Ugh, the fact that we don't have any sterile medical spaces is really giving me a headache! Ideally, I'd want to patch you up at least a little before throwing you into a spooky purgatory river... [He misses his lab... He misses his sterile equipment..... SCALPEL WHERE ARE YOU. SUTURE KIT WHERE ARE YOU.]

Mmmmmm... Can you lift your arms? I'll do my best to secure it in a way that won't put too much pressure on your front if I have to pull you back.

[ yeah! ]

Knowing how this place is going, any sterile medical facilities we'd have would have some weird shit attached, too, like locking you inside until you confess your biggest pain or something. [ he hates it here so damn bad suddenly. he understands where dahut is coming from though because the river is creepy-looking and he has a few open wounds and a swollen ankle.

however, he does lift his arms fairly easily. ]

How's that?

If the facilities were actually usable, I wouldn't mind having to play along with the weird stuff...

[SAID WITH A LITTLE SIGH because life is not so convenient most times. It's fine though. He will look over his injuries a bit, eyeballing things, and then scoot his way around Yosuke, winding the harness in a way that will basically put most of the pressure on his upper back instead of torso or shoulders.

Gives it a little testing tug...]

Is that okay?

[ he thinks that the other option is you'd have to cause pain to make them usable, but he doesn't say that. rather, he's silent while dahut hooks up the harness, letting it settle and tug before there's a short hum. ]

Think that's fine. [ which is good, because he begins walking toward to the water like he's not really paying attention anymore. ] We'll see how this works, but... you're smart. You were smart back there, too.

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