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[wrackful]

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[wrackful]

1. Welcome. I'd say you landed at a crappy time, but every month's been crappy, one way or another.
2. What if I don't need help?
3. What if I don't want my data collected?
4. What if I don't want to ask you anything?

[endow]

after seeing the posts that keep being broadcasted? everyone needs help.
you'd be a fool not to have me by your side

boys are curious, and you've already asked me three questions ;)

[wrackful]

Funny, cause it seems more like you're empty-handed, and you need me and whoever else you're trying this with to change that.

"Want". I'm not like other boys :) I can live without the answers.

[endow]

i don't think i'm empty handed, mr. murphy!
i spoke to roza and danny. they're fun
so you must be special ♥

[wrackful]

Not empty-handed, just really crappy at selling yourself. Got it.

[endow]

aha
murphy
don't be rude to me

[wrackful]

Yeah, people tend to react like that when I point out the truth.

See, if you'd sent me something like hey, heard you at the accusations, that place you were talking about sounds like it sucked, want to chat this would be a very different conversation. Instead, you came looking to trade. Except so far all you've offered is "help", which could mean anything or nothing and I've told you I don't need.

So: sell it to me, or no deal.

[endow]

[girl who thinks she's better than everyone meets guy who takes things very personally.]

that's how this works, only i never wanted your information on your world for something in return.
i wanted information on your world because i was curious.

i can offer my help, yes, but if you don't need it, i don't need the deal
which would have been a separate conversation.

do you pay attention to the small details or get caught up in the big ones?

[wrackful]

Me? Pretty sure all my old teachers would tell you I don't pay attention at all.

Not my world, by the way. Another place like this, people just waking up there from a bunch of different worlds, suddenly having to play crazy cult villager. The usual.

[endow]

what kind of teachers were those?
good or bad?

so you are familiar with cult-like situations and the multiverse
there is nothing usual about any of that!

[wrackful]

Does it matter?

Yeah, I'm familiar with a lot of things. Technically this is my 5th cult, now I'm counting, so I think that makes them pretty average. But you might want to check my math - like I said, wasn't great in class.

[endow]

are you joking???
yes👏it👏matters👏

this is my first time experiencing a cult. my world would not have allowed this
i'm more interested in making the shepherd pay for what he's done but i'd like to win, too.

winning comes second. i want to take him down.

[wrackful]

I'd have been as crap in class with a good teacher as a bad one, so I don't see how.

Thought you said you were new. What did he do to you?

1/2

[endow]

good teachers would see your problems and help you
bad ones will make you worse

📞voice message

[endow]

[his question makes her so furious she can't type— though her anger isn't directed at him. the spite on her tongue is obviously an offense on the world around her, on the shepherd and the game he's forced them to play. her voice is the voice of someone ready to poison, steel-cold and sure.]

What did he do to me? He took away my powers, made me get on my knees and crave to be used. He put me here. I am going to destroy him.

[wrackful]

[He's halfway through typing well, they all made me worse when her message comes through. Has to take a moment in the wake of her anger, before:]

What if that's not all him? We were at a house, before this place. Still all just being put there.

[endow]

Whoever or whatever is left, they should be counting their days. They should feel lucky I am here with nothing. I hate them. I hate them so much I wish they would drop dead.

[wrackful]

You wouldn't have nothing back at the house. You still wouldn't be able to do anything about it, but you'd have your powers back. Whatever they are.

[endow]

[a pause, volatile energy coming to a standstill to take shape in the form of five words:]

I'll do something about it.

[wrackful]

You'd try. Probably get yourself killed. Then you'll get brought back, and be exactly where you started.

That's if you're lucky. That making you crave to be used? The house does things like that too. Made us all think we'd lived totally different lives, one month.

[endow]

Not exactly where I started, Murphy. I'm lucky. If I die figuring something out I'll be one step closer to the better unknown. Someone is paying for what they've done.

[wrackful]

What, you're just going to keep running at a brick wall till you maybe one day finally make a dent? Sounds fun. Knock yourself out.

[Literally.]

[endow]

Make the assumptions you want, but you're implying I will try the same thing twice. If I find information, do you want to be included or left out?

Don't tell me you're happy here.

[wrackful]

You're wasting time playing the game, because you want to win. The game that's pretty obviously meant to get us all at each other's throats, us vs them against each other instead of what's actually screwing with us.

So, yeah. I'm making assumptions.

[endow]

Time said wasted is wasted time, and obvious is as obvious gets. I'm playing how I want to play before I get my hands on the Shepherd's throat.