R1 DEADLAND

[lockdownmods]

[it’s strange, for the people who were already dead, the shift in scenery is sudden and complete. For those who have just arrived? It’s like you’re back where you left?

How strange.

But if you ever need her, you can always reach out to the guardian of this place.]

LOCATIONS
Note: locations lag a week behind the living counterparts

Comments

[throwabookatit]

[ She can feel him. How...not funny, never funny, how horrible, that he'd expressed this to her, and she'd been distraught for him. For him, for Hank, all of it. And then, in the end, what she'd had to do--

And then, the whole time, what she'd forgotten she'd already done.

Almost...pitifully, painfully, something trips out of her mouth, weak and breathy. ]

I didn't want to die.

[preconstruction]

I know, but -- you're not dead. This isn't the end.

[ at least he can reassure her on that -- neither of them had wanted to die, not anymore. but they hadn't. they still had a chance. ]

[throwabookatit]

[ Something about that unsettles her, still. ]

We're- we're really- safe here? E-even if- if they could reach us, we're- we're not going to...we're still us, right?

[ She can't lose herself like that again. Not like at Fayflower, not like in the mansion. ]

[preconstruction]

Yes, we're still us. Even if something happened, Vivienne keeps backups of all her data. Just like she was able to come back, we would, too. Anything made up of data is effectively immortal, as long as there's someone around to load it back up.

[throwabookatit]

But... There's a hacker, isn't there, he- whoever it is, they can't hack us, right...?

[preconstruction]

Vivienne claims they can’t.

[ someone is salty. ]

[throwabookatit]

Oh, wonderful, that puts all my worries at ease.

[ distrust dies hard ]

[preconstruction]

But I believe in her ability to back things up, so even if it happened it would be a minor setback not a permanent one. Besides that...we can help, too.

[ but those are discussions for another time. he's glad the salt sustains her but she went through something traumatic. he'd rather be here for her on that. ]

[throwabookatit]

[ her salt sustains her so much but also yeah this is probably better ]

I just- crivvens, I don't-- I don't want something to...to rattle around in my h-head again, even if it's not...my actual head.

[preconstruction]

I know.

[ god, he knows so, so much. ]

We can work on it together, okay?

[throwabookatit]

...Okay. O-okay, that's...how it always is, isn't it?

[preconstruction]

That's right. It'll be just like always, the two of us supporting each other. Nothing that happened changed the way I feel about you, Rebecca.

[throwabookatit]

...I was so glad t-to know... that you weren't just gone, Connor.

[preconstruction]

I was really glad about that, too. It's made it so much easier to deal with all of that, knowing we can still affect change.

[throwabookatit]

It's so much easier to know all of you are still here, in some capacity. Still... Still yourselves.

[preconstruction]

I agree. It makes the future less uncertain.

[throwabookatit]

It gives us a future to begin with.

[ There's a very specific reason, just why she's glad for those but--

But...she doesn't even like thinking about the weird version of the mansion she was trapped in. And there's so much more to think about now. That...can be a later thing.

She can talk to him about all that later. ]

[preconstruction]

Yes. And that's important. For both of us.

[ twice dead but still able to do something. and its that agency that gives him so much hope. ]