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unknownseas2022-07-17 10:19 am
bathymetric) wrote in unknownseas2022-07-17 10:19 am
Week 6
Good morning, New Rapture. A new day is dawning.
Another week at the bottom of the sea. You may start to mark the passage of time by the increasing number of people you seem to be bleeding each week - look how few of you there are now. Nearly half your number gone, and for what? The shadowy machinations of some madman? You've met some others, but they seem unable or unwilling to solve this problem for you. Time marches onwards.
In the abyss, New Rapture starts to wake. It's small things, for now - the lights of a building here and there, the flicker of a neon sign for some small business. The restoration of this city continues.
Speaking of this city, there's a new branch of your little slice of it to explore. It's certainly the most picturesque of the branches you've seen.
There's more to see and do, citizens of New Rapture. And hey, there's coins to get, too.
SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
[ ooc: Welcome to the sixth week of Unknown Seas Round 3! Please make sure to mark any investigation toplevels accordingly, post your ac, and you can reach either Mayor Fontaine or Eleanor for conversations! ]
Another week at the bottom of the sea. You may start to mark the passage of time by the increasing number of people you seem to be bleeding each week - look how few of you there are now. Nearly half your number gone, and for what? The shadowy machinations of some madman? You've met some others, but they seem unable or unwilling to solve this problem for you. Time marches onwards.
In the abyss, New Rapture starts to wake. It's small things, for now - the lights of a building here and there, the flicker of a neon sign for some small business. The restoration of this city continues.
Speaking of this city, there's a new branch of your little slice of it to explore. It's certainly the most picturesque of the branches you've seen.
There's more to see and do, citizens of New Rapture. And hey, there's coins to get, too.
SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
[ ooc: Welcome to the sixth week of Unknown Seas Round 3! Please make sure to mark any investigation toplevels accordingly, post your ac, and you can reach either Mayor Fontaine or Eleanor for conversations! ]
cw: suicidal ideation
Right.]
…Then why didn’t you do it?
[It’s a tactless question, but he thinks - maybe there’ll be something in the answer to it.]
cw: suicidal ideation
It wouldn't help anything. There'd just be another motive. I can make up a nice, self-sacrificial story to explain it. I can make myself sound good. But at the end of the day, it'd just be about me wanting out of here. And I can't...do that to everyone. Not the people here, and...well, I doubt anyone at home would ever find out, but...it'd be awful.
cw: suicidal ideation
[That's his way of underlining that he'd give a shit.]
But, uh, it's good you know that, so I don't have to drill it into you. [He wishes he was better at this. He doesn't expect to be good at anything, he's given up on that, but if he could at least help his friends-] And it's...something, you know? To hold onto.
[He's kind of been standing there all this time, hasn't he? Misfire drops to somewhere closer to Brett's level.]
...I think we all wanna live, anyway, when you get right down to it. Just that sometimes you can't see any other option around whatever it is that's facing you, or you can but it just feels so impossible that it might as well be written off. But here we have an end goal of 'get Fontaine to stop making us kill each other and go home', and...it sounds crazy, but I think - despite our rag-tag bunch - we might be able to actually do it.
cw: suicidal ideation
And that.
[He looks sidelong at Misfire as he talks. Even sitting together, he still has to look up a bit. Chewing on his lower lip a little, he finally nods.]
Yeah. It's not about...I do want to live. Just not like this. It feels like...it's impossible for me to live through this, so I might as well exit on my own terms instead of suffering through a few extra weeks.
[He shrugs a little, trying to downplay that a bit. It sounds sort of harsh, but like he said - he knows all the reasons not to.]
You really think this ends with more than one of us getting out?
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Yeah, I do.
[He says it with a nod and just a touch of embarassment, like he knows it's kind of unrealistic.]
What can I say? I think I might have a little bit of faith in you losers.
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Don't say it like that, that's nice!
[Maybe a little unrealistic, yeah, but it's still nice!]
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[Brett.]
Consider who I’m talking about for a second.
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