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[awakenerd]

Who: anyone
When: day 57, afternoon
Where: anywhere it's a mingle

[This is a mingle but there is a comment in a Chain Chat to the whole train!]

Rean: A while ago some of us were discussing a festival where every team puts on a production, game, booth, whatever, maybe based around team bonds or interests.

What do people think? Maybe it's a good time to to talk about it again?

[Feel free to discuss with each other! Or just mingle as usual.]

Comments

[bad_crowmance]

Listen. They hurt you. And more importantly, they hurt your comrades. Badly. You want revenge for that, right?

[ It's a wild guess, but revenge is a feeling Crow can understand. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

They lied to us. [And that is not Dusk's usual cadence. Sounds more like when he said he was Rpsilon in the memory.]

They have to pay-have to hurt-for everything- [and back to Dusk.]

[bad_crowmance]

[ Hmmm. That's interesting and Crow's filing it away mentally. ]

If you keep scratching your neck up, you'll injure yourself. It'll make it harder to get revenge. You need to breathe deeply, try to calm yourself down.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I-I can't. The voices. There's too many voices-

[bad_crowmance]

Just focus on one voice. Pick a voice and focus on it. It might not make the others go away, but it'll help if you concentrate.

[schrodingerscockroach]

My voice-I need my voice-just-

[Which one IS it?]

[bad_crowmance]

Don't be in a rush. Take your time, find which one sounds the most to you like you and follow that one. It's not a rush. It's not a contest. This is you, and that's worth taking your time to get it right.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Time....time to get it right....

They never gave me time, I don't-am I really getting-?

[bad_crowmance]

You have time right now.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Time....

Just needed time. Always said....time.

[Closing his eyes, trying to untangle things. Was it even him who needed time....?]

[bad_crowmance]

[ Someone needed time. Right now, Crow is going to fall silent and give Dusk that time he needs. He'll stay right there, a solid and real presence, but he won't reach out to touch him or interrupt Dusk while he's trying to concentrate. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[For a time, it seems to work. He's starting to calm down.]

[But when the voices re in his head, its hard to get away, breathing starting to pick up.] Who...? Whose here, whose body, almost had it-

[bad_crowmance]

[ Hmmm. Crow considers that, trying to decide what angle to work from will be best here. ]

It's fine, it's not a contest.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Contest....no, not a contest, not competing...was competing...?

Leaderboard, there was...

[bad_crowmance]

Do you know what it was for?

[ It might help if he has something to focus on. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Ranked us?

Always....ranking us.

[bad_crowmance]

So basically, it was just a load of bullshit designed to mess with your head.

[schrodingerscockroach]

They wouldn't come....wouldn't ask...