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

[12d3]

[2-D leans back a little in his chair when he's asked to recall what happened. It's clear by his expression that he can't quite remember.. unfortunately, simulations can fix blood pooled in the front of your eyes but horrid memory is just something he's going to have to deal with for the rest of his not!life.]

Er.. well. I remember we were in the middle of one of those group meetings, but I can't remember about what. Miss Vivienne was there, and she suddenly told us somethin' was happening in the uh.. the fake-reality room, so we went in there and saw all of you trying to talk to us with a Ouija board.

[lovedanime]

I see...

[Mitarai nods. He seems grateful if nothing else - that 2-D has clearly stretched the very limits of his memory.]

This is what I don't understand. Vivienne made it very clear this was supposed to be a secret. But can't the Administration see her going back and forth? So I just felt like...

[He looks down at his hands in his lap.]

Like the entire Administration was just giving us this "false hope" on purpose... To keep us from staying angry and fighting them...

[12d3]

I think, uhh...

[Oh that's a lot. This is a Lot. 2-D never really thought of the idea that Vivienne could be lying to them, pretending like she was their friend so she could stop them from fighting the administration. It seemed... wrong, somehow. She was just so nice and genuinely seems like she's trying for them but at the same time he remembers Connor getting mad at her -- telling her that she was putting them all in danger. She's done that.. twice now, hasn't she? Gosh...]

I.. think..... it isn't too much of a stretch to be a little suspicious of her, considerin' the situation she's helped uh.. put us in. But I also think she's being genuine with how she cares about us and stuff... or at least, I'd hope she was.

[lovedanime]

[Mitarai listens to this with great thought.]

So she really has... gone above and beyond for you, huh...?

[Being so wary Mitarai had not really approached her with an open heart, but he's thinking about just how many little things Vivienne has done like bake cakes. Far simpler pacification measures would be possible. The conditions themselves could also be harsher so her pacification would provide a better contrast. And yet she makes something like this.]

I can certainly see she wasn't the source of everything that happened...

[12d3]

[2-D gives Mitarai a nod.]

Yeah. I dunno why she'd make us this simulation thingy if she wanted to kill us.

[That'd just be silly, wouldn't it? And a lot of effort to pretend like she was their friend just to backstab them.]