☽ III: video

[inabluemoon]

[The video turns on to show a view of the apartments of Level 2 from what seems to be a fairly high vantage point looking down, as if the device is on a roof. While the user isn't visible on camera those familiar with Vanitas will probably recognize the doctor's voice.]

So many of you are fine with accepting that there's no way out of this place. Are you that easily distracted and complacent about being used by the Prismals? Do you just not have anything to go back to? Or maybe you just don't have something that this damned place is keeping you from doing...

[He laughs bitterly before stopping just as abruptly, voice dipping to almost a whisper.]

... Tch. Why am I wasting my breath?

[The video abruptly ends.]

Comments

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[dereban]

Many people here might enjoy this world over their own home worlds, but hell no if I'm going to allow this one to keep me from figuring out how the cogs of this world works and haul my ass back home.

[inabluemoon]

So they're willing to tolerate being kidnapped? How idiotic.

[He snorts.]

You're certainly an exception.

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[offshoots]

I dunno. Why don't you tell us why you're wasting your breath?

[inabluemoon]

At first I thought it was a question worth asking, then I realized that most of the answers I would get would probably be useless.

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[mysophobe]

If I go back to my home, I will be dead.

[inabluemoon]

And you aren't concerned about somehow being brought back and subsequently stuck here without explanation?

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[painalty]

I'm not.

[This world offers a few good things, but they were not worth forsaking his own, especially Chaldea.]

I don't belong in this world, which is why I haven't stopped searching for a way home.

[inabluemoon]

Oh? That would make us a part of the minority as far as I can tell. But as long as I'm here I can't finish my work and lazing about here waiting for whatever they're planning is wasting precious time.

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[berryhappy]

[ this had been a curious post to see, it seemed like this person was very frustrated. something she could understand, but she herself was not very good at displaying in quite the same way. ]

It sounds like you have something very important to go back home too, how long have you been here?

[ it seemed safer to start off with something easy and light, right? getting the basics down ]

I've been talking to some of the residents here, and so far I haven't heard of anyone being able to go back home willingly, so Miwako wouldn't know where to start in trying to leave.

[inabluemoon]

Nearly ten months.

[That bitterness is still clear in his voice and he snorts, although the irritation isn't directed specifically at Miwako.]

I've been looking into it since arriving and if there's any information on leaving they're hiding it. But why would they tell us when we're supplying them with Chroma? They have no reason to let us go so easily.

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[badluckblues]

this is definitely a hot take i've never seen on the network before

[inabluemoon]

... "Hot take"?

[provenforce]

I sincerely doubt that so many of us are satisfied with being trapped here. There's just no communication about who has tried what, so as far as we know everyone is beating their heads against exactly the same wall over and over.

[inabluemoon]

That's a fair enough point.

But then clearly that needs to be remedied, doesn't it? From what I can tell monitoring the network not very much progress has been made aside from some people managing to get jobs within the lower levels of the government and a few other details here and there... If more than that has come to light no one is sharing.

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[anti_altruisms]

[ He could give a serious answer to this question or... ]

I agree. You shouldn't have wasted your breath.

[ Well. The asshole option, naturally. ]

[inabluemoon]

It's wonderful to find such agreeable people here.

[Two can play at the sarcastic asshole game.]

[resenting]

If you've got a way out under your hat I'll hear you out.

Otherwise, I'm pretty sure people are just trying to live.

[inabluemoon]

Do people just expect to things to change that way?

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[m19_lover]

And do you have any idea on how to escape this place to be this bold on assuming that we are all just "accepting it"?

[inabluemoon]

Well it isn't like many other people are talking about leaving, so can you understand why I jump to that conclusion? I've been trying to scrounge up information since I was brought here while most seem like they'd rather just make friends with the locals and canoodle.

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[amemoryorus]

That's a lot of assumptions to make about us when you're clearly no better off yourself.

[Her tone manages to stay light despite an underlying sharpness in her words. There's plenty in her world that she wants to get back to.]

If you have any ideas you should be sharing them instead of throwing accusations around.

[inabluemoon]

You're making assumptions yourself by supposing that I haven't been trying to investigate this since arriving.

[But she is right that he's not exactly the best at sharing. He's used to working alone unless he needs to rely on his informants, but they're obviously not here so he's reverted to his old ways.]

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[fractaljesus]

I am currently in the process of resolving the equations necessary to bring a boundary device into this universe. It is not the most ideal or efficient method of leaving this world, but it will be capable of performing that function once it has been called here.

[inabluemoon]

[Okay now you've got his interest.]

What's a "boundary device"?

[text, anonymous]

[bloodisthicker]

Honestly, I thought about getting out once, but now I'm not entirely sure if I want to. I messed up my life back home, and I've got a good life here now.

Maybe that's cowardly of me, but I don't want to give up the connections I've made here for a life I have no idea if I can even fix.

[inabluemoon]

It is cowardly. Staying here won't undo whatever you did back in your world.

[As someone who has done plenty of bad things in the name of his own resentment and revenge.]

Do you expect to redeem yourself or something, then?