catchall rupert

[skyagain]

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[skyagain]

Compared to everything else here? About a five.

[agleam]

Can I ask who it was...?

[skyagain]

[ no one because i FUCKING DREAMED THE TOP LEVEL, I GUESS? anyway cloud looks pensive ]

... Might've been a shirt she was setting on fire, actually?

[agleam]

Oh. Well... I'm gonna lower that to a two, then.

[skyagain]

Fair. [ scritchies the dragon more ] If they're breaking anything in there, it's not sticking around, so they might not be that mad about it.

[agleam]

Well, hopefully they're not breaking anything in the first place... Although I guess nobody has to live there anymore.

[skyagain]

I've been on the other side of dealing with messes. So long as no one breaks anything important, I don't see how it's a big deal.

[agleam]

Oh, right... Someone mentioned that one of the statues in the garden is you, right?

[skyagain]

Unfortunately.

[ :| ]

[agleam]

...Was it harder, being on the other side of things?

[skyagain]

... There's a lot we couldn't influence. I guess that part was frustrating. You might know more [ or Think you know more. ] but in the end, you don't really get a say in how things play out.

[agleam]

Yeah... I don't know about yours, but in ours, even if we did know more than others - not everyone could necessarily tell people. Was that the case with you?

[skyagain]

... There was some of that, I guess? Mostly there was a lot of talk about... being careful what you shared.

[agleam]

Yeah? Why's that?

[skyagain]

Between not having the full information and too much sharing unbalancing the place, it was... safer, I guess?

[agleam]

Wait - unbalancing the place how?

[skyagain]

It'd start... glitching out. [ hm. pensive. ] Kind of hard to explain if you don't know computers that well. But it made the environment unstable and dangerous, as well as made people's memories drain faster. So we had to warn them against it.

[agleam]

Mm... I kind of get it. Back at the school, telling people too much in certain situations would put them in danger, too. The really serious kind.

[rip adora]

[skyagain]

[ stop catradora forever ]

Sounds like yours might have had worse consequences than mine. ... Realm was always trying to make people believe everything happening was for a reason. Maybe that's why.

[agleam]

There should be some kind of rule against the world itself trying to influence people to do or think anything.

[skyagain]

That a thing in your school, too?

[agleam]

Yeah. It would, like... brainwash people into making think they were supposed to be there and there was nothing weird about it, basically. To try and get them to stay.

[skyagain]

Guessing it never heard of graduation. [ or did it. ] So... They'd be essentially brainwashed into thinking all that junk was normal?

[agleam]

Not until the very end, at least.

[he nods.]

Yeah. Like, three people a week. Two of them would be fine eventually, but one of them...

[he can probably guess, since this was a murder school for murder.]

[skyagain]

... One of them wasn't so lucky.

[ murder school is bad, actually. ]

Makes sense. Someone got affected like that about once a week in the Realm, too. Just... glitching, losing memories. Junk like that.

They didn't last.