catchall rupert

[skyagain]

Comments

[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.

[agleam]

...That's horrible.

[murder computer sim is also bad actually]

[skyagain]

Pretty sure the more we learn, the more we'll find out all of these were horrible.

[ because they were murder games ]

[agleam]

Yeah. That doesn't mean we shouldn't say it.

[he will never shut up about things that make him angry unfortunately]

[skyagain]

Didn't say you should. [ it's fine, saying things suck is also a thing cloud does. but because he is blunt instead. ] Just that you shouldn't be surprised by any of it.

[agleam]

...Yeah.

[he frowns.]

I doubt any of us are going to be surprised if this starts to turn out the same way, either.

[skyagain]

... With what we know, I think we're all expecting it.

[agleam]

I don't normally say this, but it would be really nice if everyone is wrong.

[skyagain]

... It would be. But considering what they took...

[ hm. pets porridge some more ]

Not gonna bet on it.

[agleam]

What they took?

[skyagain]

... Hostages.

[agleam]

[he hesitates, but]

Can I ask who yours is...?