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]

Thank you for the warning.

[His dignity, Red.]

So we just have to kill each other quietly without letting him in on it?

[Wow, that's some bitterness.]

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Ideally, yes.

[...wow that sounded cruel.]

Sorry, I shouldn't have said it that way. But I made a promise to someone, and I intend on keeping it.

[killtheanimals]

This is a camp designed to make us murder each other.

[Her words, though blunt, are honest. Mitsuru values that.]

...Was this a positive promise?

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It was a promise to protect someone.

[I mean, it's probably obvious, but yes. She promised to protect Stan.]

[killtheanimals]

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Did you make that promise to someone in this camp? ...Currently or formerly.

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I did, yes.

[killtheanimals]

[He digests this information in silence, eyebrows knitting together. This is Stan's first year, so what does this mean...?]

...Was someone here who knew him outside of camp?

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It was.

You can't ever tell Stan about this, you realize?

[killtheanimals]

Or else you'll stop me again.

[In the lake way as opposed to the memory erasure way, or so he thinks.]

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Next time I might have to dump you on a roof somewhere.

[That is a yes.]

[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]

[...??]

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]

[.........]

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?]