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[wheatdos]

[Oh god, now who is this guy? He's new, and he looks pretty mad. He's pacing the lobby like a mad freak. Fists clenched, hair ruffled and glasses broken, he's pretty hard to ignore because of the fact he's yelling out at the top of his lungs. Someone's gotta hear this guy.]

"Hello!? Helloooooo~
I said hello! Ca-can anybody hear me?
This is a joke... this is a joke right?
Someone-Someone want to tell me what's going on?"

[He pauses, and messes up his newly found hair, and then has a minor freakout. There he goes, talking to himself...]

"Ohhh my god, ahaha... oh this is ridiculous. THIS IS ridiculous, truly and utterly ridiculous!
I can't even conceive how ridiculous this is... this... this is like the epitome of ridiculous right here, right here in one place. It's-"

[He turns around, and trips over his footing, knocking over a vase. Oop.]

Comments

[Sorry about such a long response, I've been not feeling well.]

[wheatdos]

"Twilight sparkle, twilight sparkle. Alright, alright."

[He looks at her for a while, and laughs]

"I'm not bothering you am I? I- I actually kind've find this all to be quite enjoyable, really like-like some sort of crazy oh! Some crazy detective case. Yes! Yes,Following the clues, making hypotheses, it's like any detective film.

[He's reading a detective book as he speaks.]

nahh, it's fine. Hope you're feeling better!

[doublethefun]

Nay, I would not still be here if thou wert.

[headtilt] Thou dost know that fictional detective novels are highly exaggerated, yes?

I am, thankyou. :)

[wheatdos]

"Ex-exaggerated?"

[He sets the book down.]

"Nonsense. You- you simply look for the clues and you follow them to come to some sort of conclusion. No, no matter how crazy it is, they all have that same, same, component to them. We just look for it, and then we soolllve it. Like, like that. I'll be Sherlock, and you'd be Watson. It's it's a bloody brilliant plan, you don't even have to lift a... a uh, hoof! Just cover me is all.

[doublethefun]

[a skeptical look. Did you just give her the sidekick role?]

If it were as straightforward as that, I highly doubt that anypony would still be trapped here.

[wheatdos]

[Yes. Yes I think he did.]

"Haha, you're forgetting. You've got a genius here."

[He reads through a few pages in the book, in silence]

"...Would.... there be a lab here by any chance too?"

[doublethefun]

[there's a roll of her eyes]

Nay, I do not believe so. However, there is a clinic on the second floor; it may have the various apparatuses thou may need.

I've been super super sick, but good news is I'm back now. Nice and healthy.

[wheatdos]

"You're the greatest, the best. Did I tell you that yet? Very important, see with you I'm already making an immense amount of progress. It's great, really great. It's like you're some sort of spooky-voiced g-guardian, If-if that's even the right word to describe you."

[He flips through a thesaurus.]

"Colossal! Wait, no... that's the wrong great... um. Give me a moment. Uh... um...Ahhh... transcendental! Y-yeah, that's it."

[He's attempting to be nice. It looks like it's failing.]

That's good to hear!

[doublethefun]

[there's an amused sound] I will take that as a compliment.

Thus far, thou hast perused a detective novel and a thesaurus. Are they relevant to thy search?

[wheatdos]

[He is holding a book up and leans back, till he falls over, onto his back, looking up at a book. There, he begins to read]

"I-I'll probably, uh, most likely be able to tell you that in a few hours love. How about I, uh, sit here for a little bit, and then, and then I'll, well, we can talk about it then. I-I I think that would be great."

[doublethefun]

Take as much time as thou needest. My rooms are on this floor if thou wishest to find me.

[gonna get up and head to the door now. She...doesn't have very high hopes for this particular venture, but he's not too bad.]

[wheatdos]

[He's immediately absorbed into his books. They're all going to be read by him. All of them. One by one.]

[Shall we do a time skip? O:]

[doublethefun]

[suure.

And she'll be in her room, taking a nap because she's still a (mostly) nocturnal pony. The door's cracked open a bit.]

[wheatdos]

[Okay! Here we go!]

[Wheatley wouldn't actually see Luna for a while. About two weeks. He would be too absorbed in his need to get out that his concern for everyone AND himself had been... well, no concern at all. He however, once he had read practically all of the books in that library, he had decided to give that pony another visit. He had figured that she would be interested in his accomplishments, maybe? Maybe. The door was open a crack, so he would go in quietly, whispering into the room.]

"Hello? H-hello? Anybody home? Anyone in here?"

[doublethefun]

[those ears twitch, and then she's lifting her head up and blinking drowsily at the intruder.]

Hast thou not yet learned to knock, Wheatley?

[wheatdos]

[He looks like an ABSOLUTE WRECK. His glasses seemed to have re-broken, and his head is a matted mess. His face seems to be dirty with some sort of soot, and his lab coat and clothes look as if they were burnt. He's grinning rather goofily however, despite that]

"Hehehe, glad to know that you at least remember, my- my name. I was worried you wouldn't and then we'd have to start over. You know, there's a guy in this castle who forgets things everyday, psht. I feel bad for him. Hehehe..."

[doublethefun]

[a few more blinks as she wakes up enough to appreciate his appearance.

Hopping off the bed now.] Didst thou become involved in an explosion of some sort? Hast thou groomed thyself at all?

[wheatdos]

"Um, oh this? Uh, hahaha pay no attention to this, there was just a little, um, accident. Yes. It was pretty, um, pretty bad but I managed to put out the fires. So, so I suppose that was good. As for grooming... well...sss... um, not really, but that, that cant actually be nessecary I mean. There's too little time in the day, I'm obviously not going to waste it."

[He rolls up his sleeve and takes off his glasses, trying to clean the soot off with his arm, but it only smears. He's burnt in little patches, all over the place, including his arms]

"Oh! But the good news is... each and everyone of those books have... been properly gone through with a fine toothed comb. Success, I must tell you."

[doublethefun]

[she wrinkles her nose and then starts shooing him towards the bathroom with a wing]

Thou may tellest me thy findings while I introduce thee to soap and water. And a brush.

[wheatdos]

[He stumbles over as she shoos him. He looks a little confused, but continues to speak anyway]

"We-well, it's fascinating really. The things that you can learn from a book. It's as if my entire brain capacity has increased exponentially. With alot of zeroes. Alot. And, and well- if you'd believe it, some of these people wrote- wrote books about this... castle! About their findings, and apparently, well... um they all failed, but I can easily go through their plans one by one and look at it! It's great, you'd be impressed if you saw it, that's for sure!"

[doublethefun]

If these are books written by the residents, then it is nothing that we, as a whole, do not know already. What have they tried previously?

[once they get to the bathroom, she'll start filling up the tub with warm water. And take his glasses, fix it, and lay it on the counter.]

Thou shouldst take off thy clothes.

[no embarrassment whatsoever; ponies walk around naked all the time.]

[wheatdos]

"Well- loads of stuff. Apparently someone tried burning the castle down at one point and they were punished. Other times this castle'll do things to make sure that you don't get too close to-"

[He stops]

"What? Why??"

[He panics slightly]

"You're- you're not trying to get me in there are you?? It's... it's cold! And... I could drown! I think- at least I read it in a book!"

[doublethefun]

[hm. Burning doesn't work, and punishment.

Frowning.]

Thou reekest most strongly. I assure thee, it is not cold and thou wilt not drown. Nonetheless, thou may placest thy hand in the water to test the temperature of the water.

[wheatdos]

"No! I won't! That stuff is horrid. Absolutely n-"

[He looks at Luna and stares at her, pouting like a baby]

"..."

[Slowly... one finger, he sticks his finger into the water. OH GOD ITS TERIBLY... not that bad actually. He raises his finger and observes the water on his hand]

"...I... I smell? Like, like what?"

[He looks heartbroken]

"Not... like a human?"

[doublethefun]

[yeah cute faces might work better when you've showered within the past two weeks]

Like the worst sort of human.

[and she'll dump in half a bottle of bubble bath for good measure]

[wheatdos]

[HIS HEART. IS BREAKING. WHY DID SHE HAVE TO SAY THAT. Wheatley lets out a whimper and sighs. He tries to not look affected, but he cant, his voice cracks too much.]

"Okay, okay okay fine! Just. Fine, I'll do it. I'll, I'll i'm going!"

[He removes his clothes, and stumbles rather clumsily into the water, splashing water everywhere.]

"Ommmmnngfghhf.. IM DROwnngkggggningg... mmhng..."