[network/open] I've got an IT question for you...

[inlieuofadad]

Who: Gil Arroyo + OPEN
Username: g.arroyo
Warnings: NONE AT THE MOMENT



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Comments

un: bright

[abrightboy]

Who are you talking to?

[inlieuofadad]

[A lengthy delay in response, then:]

God damn it.

[abrightboy]

Do you want to just bring your phone over and tell me what you're trying to do?

[inlieuofadad]

Ive got this.

[abrightboy]

Do you tho?

[inlieuofadad]

Its though.

[abrightboy]

You have to reply in the message thread for the subscription service you want to stop. If you want to stop a subscription service.

[Not that he would know that you have one.]

But consider whether you do, tho.

[inlieuofadad]

[ A pause that's long enough to indicate that he is not poking out a message, he is in fact putting some pieces together. ]

What did you do?

[abrightboy]

Just helping out, like I usually do.

[inlieuofadad]

What kind of helping out?

[abrightboy]

The helpful kind. You seemed lonely.

un: freakscene 1/SEVERAL

[cacophonish]

gil are you ok?

[cacophonish]

did that psycho bug chick infect your phone??

[cacophonish]

ARE YOU BEING ATTACKED RIGHT NOW GIL???

ok done

[cacophonish]

HELLO?

??????

gil are you dead

[inlieuofadad]

I am alive and unharmed, I promise.

[cacophonish]

how do i know you're really gil now

[inlieuofadad]

You know it because I still cannot for the life of me get that pizza stain off my track pants.

[cacophonish]

ok that checks out
what happened?

[inlieuofadad]

About a week ago I started getting persistent text messages from OkEros notifying me about messages

and "winks."

[cacophonish]

huh?
is that like a phone sex hotline? only with texts?? a phone sex text line?

[inlieuofadad]

From what I can tell, it is a dating app. Which I do not need.

[cacophonish]

are you sure?

[ Maybe you could use a dating app, sir. ]

un: Kugrash

[ratjesus]

i'm not doing anything

you suspicious of me cause i'm a rat? huh?

[inlieuofadad]

[ You can't see it Kugrash but Gil is scowling at his phone in reading glasses while moving it closer and then further away to try and get the fucking thing in focus.

He needs to get actual reading glasses and not the cheap drugstore ones.]

I am suspicious of you for plenty of reasons that have nothing to do with you being a rat.

1/2

[ratjesus]

hey fuck you

2/2

[ratjesus]

you're right though i do suck

whatever

i just think you could be a little nicer, jesus, you're supposed to be like kind and caring and shit

[inlieuofadad]

[ Ironically enough, Kugrash saying he sucks stirs up a little bit of a contrarian mood in Gil. He doesn't like it when people belittle themselves.

--but wait, hang on.]

Who said that?

un: cupkate

[bossyboiler]

Are you trying to unsubscribe from something?

[inlieuofadad]

[ His life. ]

Someone signed me up for text alerts from a dating app.

[Does he realize this means someone signed him up on a dating app? Questionable.]

[bossyboiler]

That was rude of whoever did that. Do you have a suspect in mind?

[inlieuofadad]

I get the feeling he was trying to help me feel

more at home.

[bossyboiler]

So you know who it was?

un: mercyme; text

[graveyounglady]

If you wish to turn off the device, there is a button on it. You need only press it and hold.

[inlieuofadad]

[ RIP his dignity. ]

This one you have to hold two different buttons for it to turn off.

Turns on with one though.

[graveyounglady]

Do you require assistance in this task? I understand some people may have lost limbs or fingers recently due to the mold.

[inlieuofadad]

[ Oh no that's very sweet. It makes Gil smile, dissipating some of his crankiness. ]

Very nice of you to offer, but I have all the necessary digits.

[ Then, bc what is looking up someone's username: ]

Who do I have the pleasure of talking to?

[graveyounglady]

Apologies for my manners, sir. I have become too accustomed to the ways of this world. My name is Mercy Graves, Sister of the Spring Tide. May the spring bring life to you and yours.

Is there some other way I can help you? You seem to be most vexed.

un: Aberration

[aelwyn_aberration]

Having a stroke?

[inlieuofadad]

It certainly feels that way.

[aelwyn_aberration]

Well, quick, we need a song choice for your funeral.

[inlieuofadad]

"I want to break free."

[aelwyn_aberration]

Poetic. They'll be wondering if it's a secret riddle for weeks. I'll see to it.