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Ugh, I feel like this is all I do anymore...

Newcomers. Doubtless you've heard the basics of where you've found yourself already, from your so-called "family" or otherwise. Dist the Rose is here to give you a more in-depth explanation; that is, a letter that I myself have been so generous as to compose for you. I'm giving one out to anyone who asks, new or old; for those who have the old version, I've updated it to include the basic gist of what happened last month.

Simply come to either the library or my home, at 1767 Beaver Street. Any drone should be able to tell you where the library is; I'll be in and out of the shelves myself. Look for a slender man with pale hair and glasses.

[Action A]

[If you go to the library earlier in the day, you will indeed find Dist wandering in and out of the rows of books, alternately doing the shelving and sorting that the job requires and peeking through the books himself, pausing every so often to write down a title.]

[Action B]

[On into the afternoon and evening, he's in his driveway, detaching the gun from the Kaiser's belly; it's scorched all to hell and clearly no longer functional. He really has no clue how he's going to fix it without just building a new one from scratch, and without his lab that in itself will be difficult. Dammit, Mayfield.]


(ooc note: if you're not interested in cr with dist, there's no need to post in; you can give your character the letter without threading with me if you'd prefer. ^^ it's out there for you guys; just assume dist gave it to you without incident[shockingly]. a bit of retroactive interaction is fine too, if this shows up before you officially intro; just don't, like... dig it up a week from now if your character wasn't here.)

A

Date: 2011-04-11 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
What's the worst thing you could think would happen to you?

A

Date: 2011-04-11 04:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theworstpriest.livejournal.com
Well sir, I could think of a lot of terrible things. It's a pretty long list, I've have trouble picking out just one.

A

Date: 2011-04-11 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
Mayfield will do worse.

A

Date: 2011-04-11 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theworstpriest.livejournal.com
.....

Yeah, you're right, that's pretty profoundly depressing, sir.

A

Date: 2011-04-11 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
People die here all the time. They make a game of it. This past March? They made a joke of turning us against each other.

A

Date: 2011-04-11 04:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theworstpriest.livejournal.com
....

[... That goes a bit beyond just depressing, Dist]

Who would...

Why?

A

Date: 2011-04-11 06:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
Because they're bastards! They love to hurt us, and they just confirmed that they'll do it for absolutely no reason! And get used to it, because you'll be here for a while. No one has escaped.

A

Date: 2011-04-11 06:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theworstpriest.livejournal.com
... There has to be some sort of way out. This doesn't make any sense...

[Well, he's going through the letter now, skimming, rather]

There has to be some sort of reason behind everything, they wouldn't just... There has to be a point...

A

Date: 2011-04-11 07:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
There is a reason; no one does anything for no reason. The problem is that we don't know what that reason is.

I've gone over this countless times for countless newcomers. You, at least, seem like you have some sense. You don't have the expectation that you'll just walk in and do something that even I couldn't manage in over a year.

A

Date: 2011-04-11 03:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theworstpriest.livejournal.com
[Rather like falling into some horrifically twisted version of Alice in Wonderland really... He can't even believe half the things he's reading now. All of this is true?]

All these people here... They're all just doomed to die? Over and over again...

[As if any reason was ever good enough, but there wasn't even an excuse...]

A

Date: 2011-04-13 02:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com
It's possible to avoid constantly dying, though I think I may be on my seventh life at this point. To do so would involve falling in with the town's expectations, though, and completely sidestepping some of our more... psychotic residents.

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