*It's Margulis' first appearance on the network, and...well, he looks horrible. He looks like he's barely slept in days and he looks almost sickly pale, except for where he skin is inflamed red from the cold. His scar is an angry red line down the side of his face and it doesn't take a doctor to figure out that it has to be causing him pain. It's no wonder he looks somewhat annoyed, right?*

I hadn't thought you the sort of coward who would leave a message and then refuse to show his face, Jin Uzuki. Or have your scant manners finally failed you completely?

More generally, I've been indisposed for the past two days. If anything of note has happened in that time, I'm interested in hearing about it.

[V/V looks like she has something important to say.]

I know that the cold is getting to all of us, and I've been reading about ways to survive in the cold... and I've found out that body heat is a really good way of keeping warm. People trapped in blizzards are supposed to stay close to each other to stay alive...

Therefore! I'm going to arrange the tower's first snuggle-in.

...I think it's the first? [She looks unsure briefly before shaking her head and pressing on.] Bring as many blankets as you can spare to the fourth floor tomorrow. We'll use our body heat to beat the cold.

And if anyone tries to do anything inappropriate, I'll hit them. [This is not as much of a threat as it could be if V/V weren't a wisp of a girl, but she delivers it seriously.] So you don't have to worry about that.

Right, I think that's it. Please tell me if you're coming.

[KOS-MOS appears on the terminals. Covered in blood and guts.]

Shion, I need to be cleaned.

[This isn't on the network, so to speak. On all of the network terminals- all of the ones that they can access anyway, - is a little paper note taped to the screen. No name or any indication of who wrote it.]

Warning:

Critical Failure.
Temperature control frozen.
May result in frostbite.

Abort, retry, blanket?


[Feel free to tear them off and react. You have been trolled, Animus.]