[8] - Post-Port (Video)

[doctor_j_crane]

[It's pretty clear by the large amount of people in the background that Crane's currently sitting in the infirmary.]

Apparently, zombies exist and are fairly hungry. [Crane sounds absolutely terrible. As in worst sore throat ever. Important things got eaten by the zombies, bb.] Also, we seem to actually be on a magical barge.

[Pause]

Cue the candid camera moment. Your experiment is successful. I actually have gone so far over the other edge of things that I think this place might actually exist.

[Five seconds of slow clapping. Clap, clap, clap.]

My main question is why would the Admiral do this to us? What does he gain? Why is this happening? Why are we here? What are you wardens getting from this? Why not just leave us to rot after being dead?

[After putting that large amount of effort into that little rant, Crane bursts into a fit of some pretty serious coughing. After he finishes, he turns back to the camera, even raspier then before.]

Why do all of you people put up with this?


[Private - Max]

Thanks. For keeping me company in the infirmary. [Not sarcastic, genuine.]

Comments

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

It's true. If you don't believe me, you can ask Edward Nygma about him. Or the Joker, if that's your kind of thing.

he's being a goodnatured asshole instead of just an asshole. progress! :D

[amagicalmystery.livejournal.com]

Yes, Crane, tell me 'bout this Joker, he a part of the id or the superego? Or a repressed desire to...have some kind of forbidden sex, you'll have to excuse me, my time only got about as far as Freud.

Heh, all right, in all seriousness. Any story about someone called 'the Batman' is gonna entertain me for at least fifteen minutes. How'd he make you crazy?

Progress indeed! :D

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

The Batman has one of those exceedingly original names that describes exactly what he is. He is a man who dresses up as a bat, in order to fight crime. I assure you, you're not the only person to notice the leap in his logic. After assaulting more or less half of the city, he decided it would be a good idea to attack my with a rather unfortunate product while I was unarmed. It was a special chemical concoction that provided very unpleasant hallucinations. So if I am unstable, it's an after effect of that.

[amagicalmystery.livejournal.com]

...I'm not sure if I should yell at you for thinkin' we're all crazy after knowing someone like that, or shrug and say that's exactly why you assumed.

Chemicals that make you see things - that sounds real familiar. This bat study at the school of irony, by any chance?

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

Well, you can understand how I assumed that such extremes of insanity were indeed possible.

It didn't give him the right. He doesn't kill, or he didn't then, but he did that. It was very hypocritical.

[amagicalmystery.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't say a thing about the "right", that ain't my business. Just makin' sure I'm up to speed on all the details.

Either case, you wanted to see what happened, didn't you? Now you've got a perfect view.

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

The perfect view is useless. There's no way to benefit from it, and it effectively biases any future research.

[amagicalmystery.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna guess that was the idea. That or he's a 'taste of your own medicine' type, which I can't fault - in theory, I mean, nothin' personal.

An' you still see things now?

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

The 'taste of your own medicine' is the theory he uses, which is ridiculous, because he acts as if he's saving the city.

...I don't know. If the barge is real, maybe, maybe not. Strange things do happen around here though, so it's hard to tell if it's just me.

[amagicalmystery.livejournal.com]

Good test of that's if everyone else is seeing it, or just you.

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

That would be the logical solution, if there wasn't a chance this place was an asylum. Even if it isn't, most of the people here are clinically unstable anyway.

[amagicalmystery.livejournal.com]

All right, we honestly back to that? Do I sound crazy to you?

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

Not you. You're obviously one of the saner people here. I was thinking of Alastair, the Joker. Even people like Rex spend half their time having fits.

[amagicalmystery.livejournal.com]

[...smirk]

Heh, well. Ask me, then.

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

Next time it happens, I will. Supernatural things are probably in your area of expertise, are they not?

[amagicalmystery.livejournal.com]

[did he just get a newly-palatable enemy's trust handed to him? it's like Christmas!]

Some of them. And lurking 'round here, you learn others.

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

Yes, you would. There certainly seems to be enough of it floating around at the moment.