text; anonymous

[gradenine]

oh yeah heads up
ive heard from certain people who committed this themselves and
apparently if you kill someone here
you get your memories wiped of the incident altogether
not sure why they'd go out of their way to do that here but they do this sort of thing where im from all the time so im very used to seeing it
probably can't say the same for other people from other worlds so you guys have to educate me on that

so uhh
im not saying you should or shouldn't kill altogether
im not your mom
but just keep that in mind the next time you got some kinda murderous urge or something
the reason why im anonymous right now is bc i don't wanna reveal who did that in the first place
it might lead to some awkward icebreakers on their part
also i wouldn't lie about something like this if anyone's wondering bc i got no time to waste on leading people on

but this is probably the worst thing any newcomer would wanna see, huh
whoops
well... welcome to this city, i guess

( ooc: feel free to threadjack and craft theories! kromer/@gripper will also be answering questions about things she knows as a victim as well. )

Comments

[blattella]

I mean, if we're really going to get into that territory, I'd say that us being here without consent is pretty damn unethical too.

This isn't war. Don't you talk to me about war.

[heeroics]

[ Heero only knows how to talk about war, so he makes a note.

and he is also extremely literal ]

fine.

[blattella]

[Brother, who wants to relive war? C'mon now, up that repertoire! You can do it!]

Thanks. I'm not saying any of this is good, for the record. It shouldn't have happened. Look at the ghoulish way the 'victim' is talking about it. None of this is good.

It just doesn't seem like this place has much it can do to punish us, bar the cuffs, and apparently sucking out our memories piece by piece. Which is pretty big, I think, but not in the corporal sense.

[heeroics]

[ moving on??? no that sounds fake ]

then it isn't interested in the corporeal.

[blattella]

Well, we're more likely to be obedient if we end up with something impossible to regain on the line. Cuffs are to spook the easily-spooked. Memories, though? That's big. That's the real axe.

It's leveraging something we can't afford to bet the whole house on without losing ourselves, and if we do, then the City still wins.

[heeroics]

then it miscalculated.

those values are not universal.

[blattella]

True. But it's an almost, with humans. Or those close enough to humanity. Most folks find the concept of losing themselves altogether to be a horrifying one.

Not you? It's alright if you don't want to answer, it's none of my business.

[heeroics]

i've always been lost.

[blattella]

They'll find another way to punish you in time, then. Probably. Not wishing it upon you, but these things have a way of happening.

[heeroics]

i'm not like you.

[blattella]

What?

Okay! That's a good thing, congrats.