@samsa, text

[anthropophagite]

This might be a silly question. But how do you suppose we should be counting our birthdays here?

I technically should be 19 now, I think.
But if it's Halloween, I'm still a bit away from my birthday, too.

Should I be 18 or 19?

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@junpei, text

[coolerjunpei]

depends on whether you're into linear time or desk calendars, i guess.

it was new year's day back home before i got here, so i just had to count. buuuut my birthday's in february, not the summer.

happy pseudobirthday?

[anthropophagite]

It would have been last month, actually. I guess with everything that happened, I wasn't thinking about it.

[coolerjunpei]

damn, happy late pseudobirthday then. how close is your calendar birthday?

[anthropophagite]

Oh, it's alright, I don't really celebrate my birthday.

My birthday is in December. So nearly 3 months away.
It's not a lot, in the end. I was just curious as to how others were counting theirs.

[coolerjunpei]

oh. well i just counted, like i said.

you could celebrate. here, i mean. unless you've got a thing about birthdays.

[anthropophagite]

I don't. They just never seemed that important. And I only had a friend to hang out with, so I suppose we did go out to eat and such.

That was a kind of celebration.

[ he can't eat anymore, though ]

[coolerjunpei]

on my pseudobirthday i microwaved myself some ramen and pretended to watch a movie. i'm not complaining, it was a great time, but i get it. birthdays after you're like 16 are pretty boring.

plus, not to be weird or anything, but what if we're stuck in stasis or something here? sooo not birthday-oriented.

[anthropophagite]

That's right, we don't know if we age while here, right?

[coolerjunpei]

right. all that weird shit turned up in that office, did you check it out? like that newsletter we all got? if they're studying us, maybe they did something to us.

[Like download them into a simulation!! maybe.]

[anthropophagite]

[ they defentively did something to them! Kaneki has found out he doesn't have all of his ghoul abilities anymore.

But he can't just say that. ]

Yes, I saw. They are certainly experimenting on us, directly and indirectly.

But with magic and other strange events, there is a possibility they could just stop us from aging, you are right.

[coolerjunpei]

that's what i was thinking. and the newsletter thing has got to be on purpose, yeah? nobody just accidentally includes their redacted secret documents in their halloween handouts. we are being fucked with on every possible level here.

[anthropophagite]

And also the things left at the university, as well. There are no books or any written words anywhere, but they left all those files on experiments behind..

[coolerjunpei]

did they leave them behind or did they suddenly appear, like the new places and the supplies? who knows! it's definitely not an accident, though. i've been through this shit before, nobody just leaves their secret experiment documents around in their murder trap by *accident*.

[anthropophagite]

No, not an accident. I'm certain they wanted us to see all of it.

I wonder if there is a point to it, other than making us more worried and paranoid.

[coolerjunpei]

like what? besides searching for clues, too, i guess... but they haven't set anything up like that so far, so i dunno.

[usually there are more puzzles by this point--]

[anthropophagite]

I think they are experimenting on us. And they are watching for our reactions to that.

[coolerjunpei]

of course they're experimenting on us. honestly, i'm a little relieved they're coming right out and letting us know. get to put a checkmark in that box in my Theories List.

soooo, you know, they can write that down in their spreadsheets too, if they want.

[anthropophagite]

Yes, I suppose now that we know for sure, there is some sense of... relief? Relief that we know something.

But what's the point of the experiment is still a mystery.

[coolerjunpei]

not sure i care too much about the point of the experiment. i mean, i'm curious, i guess... but unless it's going to help us get out of here, i can put "oh no what is the deep meaningful reason we're locked up in weirdville" on hold.

that's just me though. this isn't my first weirdville, so... it's exhausting.

[anthropophagite]

Knowing what they are looking for could help us to get out of here, I think. But like everything, that's a theory.

You have been through this before?

[coolerjunpei]

yeah, i have. 2 times before this, actually. there were fewer of us though, and the place was smaller.

definitely not the same mastermind. i know that much. whoever's in charge here isn't as efficient at getting their shit done.

[anthropophagite]

I'm sorry. That must be terrible.

Are you certain it's not the same people? Could they also bring people from different worlds?

[coolerjunpei]

it's definitely not them. they couldn't do something like this.

[...well-- no, no, nobody else here knows what the hell he's talking about when he starts in about SHIFTing, it's absolutely not the same.]

plus i *know* them by now, so if they were gonna ignore me for this long, that'd be pretty low. nah, it's different people for sure.

[anthropophagite]

I see.

I wonder if the alien theory is correct. That this is some experience by aliens to learn about us.

[coolerjunpei]

not sure that matters unless we have to spit on them to kill them or whatever, like in that movie where they died to germs.