R1 DEADLAND PT2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

[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

[donotlick]

Sometimes the people you care about make shitty decisions, so you get angry in their place.

[ Mmmhmm. ]

Can't say I don't sympathize with the kid.

[preconstruction]

Have you spoken with him?

[donotlick]

Sure haven't. What's his deal, anyway?

[preconstruction]

Well, he did ask me to participate in a threeway so that I would be open minded enough to sleep with him next.

[donotlick]

[ Hank splutters -- if he'd been holding a drink, he would have done a spittake. ]

Wh-what? Seriously? With who?

[preconstruction]

[ himitsu desu~ ]

I think you can figure it out.

[donotlick]

[ HE SURE CAN......... Okay, he laughs though. Because. Seriously. ]

Jesus fuck. She sure didn't program him to feel shame, did she?

[preconstruction]

I don't know how much she really programmed. His code is self-writing.

[donotlick]

Huh. So he just evolves on his own?

Surprised he hasn't tried ditching the place yet.

[preconstruction]

[ connor's expression changes a little. it's subtle, but hank knows him well -- this is clearly something connor has thought about, too. ]

He and Vivienne are friends.

[donotlick]

[ mmhmmm, yeah Hank knows that look. ]

In other words, it's hard to know if that's his own choice, or something she wrote into him, right?

[preconstruction]

Even if it wasn't strictly written into him, just having his entire existence revolve around her is enough to make it complicated, don't you think?

[donotlick]

Yeah, it sure doesn't sound as cut and dry as she'd probably want you to think.

[ Knowing Vivienne, he means. ]

And lemme guess -- if you ask him, he'd tell you it was totally his choice, so it's all fucking complicated.

[preconstruction]

That's right. It's complicated.

[donotlick]

God, I never thought I'd say this, but why can't people just make artificial life and then fuck off to a creepy house in the middle of nowhere?

[ #KamskiWasBetter ]

[preconstruction]

[ connor laughs at that. i mean its laugh or cry so guess which one he picks. ]

As difficult as our experience with Kamski was, I do feel like I was lucky.

[ wait actually -- ]

In your timeline, I didn't shoot her, right?

[donotlick]

[ That's a mood, Connor. ]

Yeah. Course you didn't.

[ Hank nods, reassuring. ]

You made the right choice. Even if Kamski was an asshole.

[preconstruction]

Oh. Good.

[ he mightve been worrying about this... ]

[donotlick]

[ Aw, Connor.... ]

Far as I know, you spared every android you could.

[preconstruction]

I hope that was the case.

[donotlick]

You did your best with what you had.

[ Hank sets a hand on his shoulder. ]

You freed thousands of androids. They have a chance at a life thanks to you.

[preconstruction]

Now look where we are.

[donotlick]

Hey, showing up here had nothing to do with back home.

And the stuff with Markus dying wasn't anything you could've helped.

[preconstruction]

[ that's not what he means, though: ]

I almost killed all of them.

[donotlick]

[ Ah. That. ]

You didn't know. Vivienne coulda told you -- she didn't.