Camp: private conversations

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Respond here for a private conversation with Red! All comment threads are screened.

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[killtheanimals]

Please don't.

[He has a thousand problems and doesn't need that on top of it!!]

...Next question. Can you tell me anything about this voice?

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Not yet. I've sent an email to my superiors for more information, but they haven't gotten back to me at this time. If you're concerned, I will let you know once I get more information.

[killtheanimals]

[Is this a joke.]

The voice in our heads. The one telling us to kill each other.

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Yes, someone told me about that.

[Guess who doesn't hear it.]

Which is why I'm seeking guidance on what to do about it.

[killtheanimals]

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Do you really think we all just had colds last week?

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...yes?

[SHE REALLY DID THINK EVERYONE JUST GOT SICK.]

[killtheanimals]

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We heard a voice tell us that unless one of us killed another, we would all die. Those illnesses were killing us, Red.

That's why Lillith murdered the Pastor. To save us from certain death.

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...

[yeah uh. Nobody thought to mention that to her.]

I'll see what I can find out about that.

[killtheanimals]

[Well gee no wonder we almost burned this camp to the fucking ground.]

We heard the voice this week again as well. So wait--

In all the times you've come here... why did you think the campers would kill each other?

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Normally they don't kill each other in the first week. And when they do, it's...

[She trails off there, looking a little beside herself.]

Normally it's not all good kids, like it is this time. Normally we get bad teenagers. Delinquents, violent criminals, people like that. There's good kids mixed in too, we can't have a camp full of violent people, but in the past it's usually been those violent ones who cause problems.

[killtheanimals]

[Good kids.

"""Good kids."""]

Are you sure it was just because they're violent?

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I have everyone's files, Mitsuru. I know what their pasts are.

[Which means she knows all about you too.]

[killtheanimals]

[He has done a considerable amount of murder. But since this has yet to really bite him in the ass:]

"Files?"

[Why would anything he did in Vision be recorded?]

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I have files that tell me about each one of you. Detailing your past, the decisions you have made, that sort of thing.

You weren't particularly kind, were you?

[killtheanimals]

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How could you...?

[Neither confirming or denying the kindness part, that doesn't much matter to him honestly. But that information--

How would someone be able to get such a thing?]

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It's my job to know such things. A Facilitator understands the world around them and makes the pieces fit together properly. They make sure the code runs perfectly.

Well, hypothetically speaking. You are a person, not code.

[killtheanimals]

...Yet you didn't even know about the voice. And why even bring code into it?

[Since clearly they're all people.]

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It was a metaphor.

[She's a programmer, Mitsuru >T]

The voice isn't from your world, so it's not in your file. It's not in anyone's file.

[killtheanimals]

[He's eleven and from 1999!! Coding isn't a commonplace thing!!!]

So you don't know everything about this world either, then.

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No, they generally prefer it if people like us don't know much about their world.

[killtheanimals]

"People like us?"

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I come from another world, just like you do. The people of this world are generally distrustful of 'otherworlders'.

[killtheanimals]

You're from another world, yet you keep coming back here of your own will?

[He sounds dubious. Why???]

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It's more like I chose to stay in this world. Permanently.

[killtheanimals]

Why?