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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-09 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Who wants to die?

[ Real, though. Even those who seek it, the fear will catch them at the end, he thinks. ]

Does that even matter at this point... Where is the damn exit.
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-09 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Right, sorry, it's just... Never mind.

[ she wants a justification or explanation but she is aware he doesn't owe her one, so instead, she starts heading for the exit for real and this will mean nothing to him at all because he has no concept of any of this technology but i think it's a funny memory to share ]
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-09 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ I am sorry, Gamaliel... He does think the big picture doesn't matter for the event, but it's hard for him to ignore when people want to say something. Sometimes, people should just shut up, but it's more annoying to deal with when they try to mask that... And do it very poorly. ]

It's just what—[ HAHAHAH I AM LAUGHING AT THIS MEMORY ] You...

[ TRIES TO WRAP HIS MIND AROUND IT. WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING... ]

I would not have allowed an audience for such a madman.

[ ASSIGNS CHANDA INSANE he jumps to conclusions because he has to latch onto SOMETHING here. ]
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-09 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
He was nuts. [ just immediately. agreeing to that. ] But my dad thought he could figured out his location from that call. It was the only way to try to prepare against him. Besides, I doubt he would have let us ignore him for too long.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-09 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ Whispers to himself what in the fuck was going on... ]

Your father was already on limited time, but then this...
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-09 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
... It killed him. Stopping Chanda. But he did stop him.

[ sooooooooooooo that's fiiine ]
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-09 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ shit fuck there's a dull emotion that he's sure is sadness and he's incredibly, incredibly bad at being good to people.

There's a long pause because he's hesitant. HE HAD BLOWN UP AT PEOPLE EARLIER.
]

... He taught you chess well.
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-09 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
... He did. [ she sounds fond but she also looks at jacopo and just kind of smiles wryly because she can tell how uncomfortable he is and it is kind of funny ] It was a long time ago.

[ so he doesn't have to like. comfort her or anything.

*she does not look that much older ]
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-09 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ girl me being like you don't look that much older

Stop thinking it's kind of funny. Her attempt to alleviate him of responsibility is so obvious that he should be ashamed and he does feel it a bit. He feels a lot of vague things... And wonders if his pitiful excuse for sympathy rings at all.

If only he could have been sound of mind enough to do this with his other encounters, but that'll be something to regret some more later.
]

I'm sorry that he was taken from you so early.

[ And so abruptly because what the fuck was that urgency ]
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-09 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well. It wasn't the last time something like that happened.

[ shaking her head again ]

But thanks.

[ for expressing sympathy even though he is soooo uncomfortable ]
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ him being uncomfortable is not your fault, it's his, but it's actually easier to focus on other people. ]

... This is a common occurrence?

[ He's flabbergasted? ]
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-10 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
... Honestly, my life was kind of a messed up nightmare for a while.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
... I understand a bit by what you mean before, that this project is less work than what you're used to.

[ NICE... HOWEVER, MAN. ]
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-10 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
You have no idea. [ shaking her head ] Not that I'm not taking it seriously anyway.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
I know.

[ You are all working hard and sometimes he doesn't appreciate some locations, but it's still working hard. ]

I don't want to say it has been relaxing here because it is still stressful, but no comparison. [ ... ] All is well when you left?
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-10 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. I'd settled things down as much as anyone could settle these things down. I was ready to move on, and this was... supposed to be a nice detour.

[ it is kind of a horrible one because of murder but whatever ]
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ He thinks it must be nice to leave something on a good note. Can't be him. ]

... When you're "uploaded" to a "server" you still go to an afterlife, right? That's how you are here?
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-10 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm not traditionally dead.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
... Traditionally...

[ why did you all do this to him ]
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-10 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Uploading still requires physical death. That matters to some people. But I never died after that.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-10 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
You never died after getting uploaded.

[ Is that what she means? He's like... DOES THIS MEAN SHE ISN'T? DATA DEAD? Also trying to figure out when should he give up on understanding shit here. ]
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-11 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Been around a long time after that.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-11 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
... But somehow you ended up here?

[ IS THIS JUST SAN JUNIPERO? ]
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[personal profile] configurer 2025-03-12 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Not really "somehow". God reached out to me.
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[personal profile] obdure 2025-03-12 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
... I had never considered god to be... Well, in tune with technology in that sense.

[ jacopo you would have no concept of this to begin with ]

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