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

[lickstheevidence]

I think you might be surprised how many LE officers were brought here, but that's beside the point. I don't know of any administrative officers, and that could be a problem as far as curbing abuse. You may be right that too many LEs and not enough oversight could be a recipe for disaster.

Point taken, but if there's no one overseeing the shops and other buildings, and no way to survive without taking advantage of what's being freely offered to us, then are they technically crimes? I'm not concerned with petty criminality. As my partner once told me, people do what they have to do and as long as they're not bothering anyone, I'll leave them alone. My concern is with the more serious crimes, such as this murder. Even with the City taking punishment into its own hands, given the nature of that punishment, is it really enough of a deterrent to keep those inclined from deciding it's not worth it to kill someone bothering them? I can't answer that.

I think that would be an acceptable alternative, given our circumstances.

[coolerjunpei]

i dunno, "are they technically crimes" is a slippery slope, isn't it? let's just answer that one with a hard no and leave it alone, before someone starts "is it technically murder if they come back to life"-ing even more than this post already is.

it'll be worse if whoever put us here shows up with an....incentive to start killing each other. like the promise to go home... so we need to get our shit together as a group real fast, before something worse than this happens.

[lickstheevidence]

That's what I'm saying- I don't think they are crimes, or at least, not crimes that I'm going to worry about. As far as the victim coming back to life, that's a harder question to answer.

On that we can both agree.

[coolerjunpei]

maybe we're supposed to... control ourselves? self-regulate, or whatever. not like making our own laws, but on an individual level, we're supposed to keep our hands to ourselves. then work together.

i mean, why else would people be losing memories of bad things they do? seems like a behavior correction on top of a punishment.

as if, though, right? it's already going sideways.

[lickstheevidence]

Isn't that what law-abiding citizens are supposed to do anyway? Anything else breeds chaos.

Somebody must be overseeing the goings-on in this City if they're taking those steps. As long as we behave ourselves, maybe we'll be alright. Or maybe that's what they want us to think so that we won't rock the boat. A little more guidance would be nice, rather than having to figure everything out through trial and error.