audience: cloud

[mygod]

Comments

[residentmerc]

Prison's too much. It'll just fuel... whatever's going on there.

[ whatever the HELL is up with catholics and karma. ]

[wolftonic]

Set up a corner of the elementary school then.

[ time out (real) ]

[residentmerc]

Like when they put kids on a stool...?

[ can we please give them a dunce hat ]

[wolftonic]

Exactly that. [ they put on a dunce cap and face the wall for 15 minutes and think about what they've done ] Disciplinary action.

[residentmerc]

Maybe if we tie 'em to the chair to make sure they don't just walk off.

[wolftonic]

I'll let you all deal with the manhandling.

[ he is just a support unit. ]

I don't mind practical questions like these, if you have others.

[residentmerc]

[ i sure did but ive forgotten them all in the face of shitposts. he nods at that and idk : ]

The... hole thing. That lets the other three talk with us. You know what made that happen?

[wolftonic]

[ that's okay i've never remembered how to ask an npc a plot question in my life ]

This isn't what any of you want to hear, but I can only speculate. I assume it's that this dimension and that one are connected, in some way. The layout of this town is similar to that of the village—the fog exists in both places. Originally, I thought of it as a one-way mirror, where we can see them but not the other way around.

The hole runs contrary to that. But it's getting larger and more refined by the week. Our machine already ripped through so much dimensional fabric—it isn't so strange to imagine that this is an irregularity caused by that, like, for instance, a hole in cloth that's being torn wider with time...

[ a pause. his ear flicks. ]

This is more War's specialty, though.

[residentmerc]

[ he shakes his head ]

Not like I fully get this stuff myself. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't something specific anyone did we should be trying to... recreate. Or something dangerous we should be trying to stop.

[ either of those things would be a pain. ]

So they're sort of like two identical worlds. But... parallel? Or something. [ he is trying to compare it to the ff7 multiple world thing sephiroth introduced to him 5 minutes before the end of the game i still dont fully understand and neither does he, so he shakes his head because Not The Point ] You implied we can change ours. Maybe not on purpose, but... at least influence it in some way. You think there's a way we can use that to affect their version?

[wolftonic]

A few of you have suggested rebuilding the machine we made. But it'd have to be improved on its original version to be worthwhile, or serve some other purpose. No use just trying to replicate the exact same thing.

[ since all it did was BLOW UP and CAUSE RANDOM DIMENSIONAL HOLES to silent hill which is killing them 10000 times a week ]

Parallel worlds is an idea... Or at least neighboring ones. I don't know if it'd be so easy to directly affect them. But we can at least see if we can expand our influence. Right now, it's just yelling at the other overseers.

[residentmerc]

Right. Didn't the first one blow up...?

[ do not remake machines that blow up. that's his knowledge of building tech. ]

Expanding our influence might get us somewhere. If we can connect on our end, maybe we can help them out somehow...? [ sighs ] Not that I've got any clue where to start with something like that.

[wolftonic]

[ he just nods because it did blow up and it did kill him so he has a general personal preference that they improve upon the design ]

It'd be hard to manage if we can't figure out how our own dimension works first.

[ can you guys wrangle s*lent h*ll ]

But it's an idea.

[residentmerc]

Right. We need to get things in order here before we try to do anything elsewhere.

[ no more... hospital fires... karma was later eaten by bees ]

[wolftonic]

[ and then everyone immediately ate shit ]

Maybe have a few fire safety lessons, yes.

[residentmerc]

There's instructions on fire extinguishers. How did they miss it.

[wolftonic]

People forget basic things under duress. Like how to read. [ boys be nice ]

[residentmerc]

Isn't adrenaline supposed to make people stronger?

[ not SMARTER though cloud!!! ]

[wolftonic]

[ not smarter though..... ]

More physically strong. But you can't exactly fight a fire with brawn.

[ but he'll add, with less wryness, ]

...Besides, they weren't going to be able to reach anybody in that blaze. I don't think they were thinking straight to begin with. [ just focused on trying to help somebody. ]

[residentmerc]

You could say the same thing for Aerith and I going in. Can't blame them for trying.

[ to at least go and ... look. he can blame them for not TRYING TO USE THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER but ]

[wolftonic]

[ he can blame them, but it's not a bad thing necessarily. he raises a brow slightly. ]

I'm not used to being around so many heroic types.

[residentmerc]

Don't know about heroic.

[ he has a sad sack relationship with the word hero he doesn't want to get into ]

But considering the way things are around here, it wasn't that far-fetched to think there'd be someone in there.

[ no spontaneous combustion of buildings. only drama ]

[wolftonic]

I think running into a burning building to help some is a textbook example of heroism, in most places.

[ literally. ]

[residentmerc]

... Okay, when you put it like that...

[ HIS WEIRD RELATIONSHIP WITH HEROISM... NEHAN.... ]

[wolftonic]

[ sorry about your issues cloud... ]

Yes, I'm right, hero. [ said wryly. ]

[residentmerc]

Let's move on.

[ don't call him that when he isn't even able to protect the people he cares about wah wah big angst ]