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[spectacularluck]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 45, early afternoon
Where: Everywhere

[ You've had your time to exchange candy and spooky stories, and the game has come to an end! Everyone who took part received a bag of candy to take to their train, as a bonus reward for the entertainment. Shortly before the game setting can fade away, Finn's going to declare the winners:

Thyme, Senna, Jasmine, and Clover ]

Aaand that's a wrap. With any luck, you guys had some actual fun. Don't forget to brush your teeth and, huh ... enjoy the candy?

Comments

[malignstar]

What do you mean?

[schrodingerscockroach]

I have a high threshold for bullshit going bad. Get it in my memories. Got it when Clover's hearts all got ripped out.

I know how I react to pretty bad shit.

To be acting like that would have to be...something horrific. With a very high bar of what's horrific.

I'd almost jump to it being damage from the AI implantation, except I'm not suffering that damage now, so it has to be psychological.

[malignstar]

—Wait, what's this about Clover's hearts getting ripped out?

[schrodingerscockroach]

It happened in my second trial.

[malignstar]

Fuck, how did I miss that?

[schrodingerscockroach]

No idea, especially when people had clockwork limbs a few days.

[malignstar]

Must've been when I crashed out for a few days. Sorry you had to put up with that shit.

Who ran it?

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Shrugs.] What I do.

Vampire.

[malignstar]

I don't think I've met that one.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Haven't seen them since.

[malignstar]

Anyway, you're allowed to be upset about stuff like that, you know.

[schrodingerscockroach]

It's not about being allowed, Felix.

It's about how I am. I'm not ashamed to feel or whatever, just had enough situations where I needed to be functional right then probably.

[malignstar]

I get that. I'm just saying maybe you can de-condition that. It sounds like an intensely demanding way to live. And unfair to you.

[schrodingerscockroach]

It's also how I can get my heart ripped out and keep my head together enough to stop my teammates from shattering their own hearts in distress.

[malignstar]

I get that. You just can't expect to be the rock all the time.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....why not?

[malignstar]

I told you, it's not fair to you. You need someone to buck you up once in a while too.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I mean, people do?

[malignstar]

Then why ask why not.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Because I am a rock a lot?

[malignstar]

I stand by my point.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Shrugs.] I'm....used to dealing with things most people don't.

Or just deal with a lot of wildly different, but still all about the same level of terrible, things.

[malignstar]

Doesn't mean they don't affect you.

[schrodingerscockroach]

.....

[Frowns a bit.]

I mean, that's hard to say.

[malignstar]

Stressful things always affect people in some way.