thecomputer | DEAD 04

[Welcome, Anthy, Sakura and Simon!]

[You regain consciousness in a waiting room of some sort. Something is clearly odd - your entire body is slightly transparent, and everything you were carrying with you aside from your clothes is gone. On the plus side, you seem to be impervious to all harm.]

[There is an end table with two stacks of papers. One is a large area to write in (there is a small assortment of pens next to this), and the other all bear the same message:]

Congratulations! You have died.

Please wait in this area until such time as the exercise is terminated. At that time, you will be transferred to your appropriate afterlife. If you were assigned a Communist role, rest easy knowing that any ultimatum given as part of your motivation was false.

If you have any questions, please shout them into the air, and a representative will get back to you within 5-100,000 business days. If you have any final messages for the living, please write them on form B and submit it into the slot in the south wall. Delivery is not guaranteed.

[Sure enough, there’s a slot. In addition, a hallway connects this room with a much larger room, not unlike a movie theatre. A large screen on the far wall shows various events back in the facility as they unfold in real time. A side alcove provides slightly transparent popcorn and a water cooler, although hunger, thirst and exhaustion don’t seem to exist here.]

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I pegged her for one the night I died. Told your friend about it, too.

[His words are easy, despite the fact that physically he's tensing up a bit; at least it's at Newman, not you.]

Looks like we both bought Yomiel some time, didn't we?

He can thank us tomorrow.

[Simon is just the opposite: slumped and speaking flatly, like he's just plain out of shits to give.]

You know he will, too, because he's a morbid bastard like that.

Ugh. Like it's not already bad enough having to watch the Self-Absorbed Drama Queen Pity Party Hour over there.

[Waves his hand vaguely in the direction of Yomiel and Knightley yelling at each other over his body.]

[ahahaha holy shit]

...Well. Looks like you've actually got some bite to you after all.

If it makes you feel any better, Yomiel spent some time talking to my corpse like a well-adjusted person. At least he's yelling at something alive today.

Clearly not enough.

To be fair, yours still had a head. It's a lot easier to project your feelings onto something with a face.

You gave us Himemiya, so that has to count for something.

And with regards to the rest...well, there's also the part where Yomiel didn't screw me over personally. You got the bad end of whatever deal you had going with him.

...I'll admit it kinda pisses me off the way he's going on like he manipulated me into it, but I'm not mad at him for the plan. I saw a calculated risk for what it was and I took it.

How fuckin' noble of you. You want me to tell you that you did a good job?

No thank you! As it turns out, I'm taking the opportunity to vent a little. I apologize if you mistook that as any number of fucks given about your opinion.

Hey, as long as you don't expect me to kiss your ass and tell you what a smart person you are - so clever and calculated! - I don't give a shit what you say.

Edited 2014-11-17 00:32 (UTC)

Obviously not. If I were half as clever as I thought I was, I'd still have a pulse right now.

At least we agree on that.

And if they're even a quarter as clever as I thought I was, they'll kill both Newman and Fulbright tonight.

Edited 2014-11-17 00:45 (UTC)

Two things, then.

Hopefully your friend manages to last the night, he doesn't seem to be doing all that well.

Oh, he'll be fine. He'll have a nice, sad story to tell for the rest of his life about how he tragically lost his noble best friend. Might even get himself some pity lays.

[Bitter bitter bitter, wow is this guy bitter.]

You think he's that much of an asshole?

[..............]

Don't get me wrong, from what I've seen he's exactly that much of an asshole. But you'd know.

He's so much of an asshole he'll delude himself into believing every last word.

You're cute when you try to assert yourself, you know.

And you're not cute no matter what noises come out of your mouth.

I'm not trying to be.

You're trying to be a patronizing pain in my ass.

I talk to everyone like this, if you hadn't noticed.

You picked a bad venting target, princess, I'm sorry.

Who am I supposed to talk to? Little Miss Justice? I'm not feeling mature enough to deal with the red menace right now. I guess I can vent to Greed once the two of you are done playing footsie.

...What.

[fuck was that, keyes, you want to try again]

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