002 - Audio

[iamtetsuo]

[It's time to play the 'who's awake at 1 AM' game! If you're not, Tetsuo's talking softly enough that it might not wake you. If you want to see or answer this later in the day when normal people are awake, feel free, but please specify.]

Everybody's got powers, right? That's why they want us to stick around...

[You can just hear how much he likes that prospect. He all but spits those last two words out like it's a curse.]

So anyway, I'm curious.

How many of you have 'side effects' from them? Anybody know? I know there's gotta be more than one... but it's not all of you, is it?

I - nnghh. I wanna know why that is... why's it only some people?

Comments

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[iamtetsuo]

[This is officially making his head hurt more than it did. What.

Are you sure this is all real. This isn't sounding like it.]

Huh?

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[kanadian]

When you go home, nothing will have changed, and no time will have passed.

Hell, apparently, it'll be like you never even left, even for you.

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[iamtetsuo]

So it's not real. None of this is.

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[kanadian]

I don't...I wouldn't put it like that. It's real in the moment, right?

I mean, I wouldn't want my time here to mean nothing, even if it's only to me in the here and now. I'm building a life here, and it's still a life.

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[iamtetsuo]

But if it's like we never left, what's the point?! I'll just wake up back there... isn't that what you're saying?

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[kanadian]

Yeah but... Do you want to do nothing the entire time you're here? Because I wouldn't. I may as well make the most of the time I have, if I'm going to have it.

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[iamtetsuo]

Hehhh.. I see what you're saying.

If you gotta dream, might as well dream big.

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[kanadian]

Well -- yeah, just like that.

And who knows, sometimes... sometimes things happen there and here. Good things, I mean. Not the bad ones.