[network] Event: Long & Lost [NIGHT 217]

[snowblindmods]

it's been so long between the words we spoke
will you be there up on the shore, I hope

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[warriorscribe]

[...Unfortunately for Davesprite, a stupid, reckless idea, the kind he always tends to get in desperation, is coming on.]

I wonder what would happen if a revived person stayed in their bag for the day. Would the creature attack someone still in one?

I don't want to deliberately test this, mind. I've died more than enough times by now.

[At least he's provided a decent deterrent to stupidity? For now... It's never long before Enoch decides his well-being is worth less than whatever greater cause or person other than himself he's got in mind.]

[mrcreamsicles]

jesus dude dont drop ideas like that around
someone might see it and decide to try it
and theres too many people who die here already
house practically throws himself at deadly experiments

[warriorscribe]

I doubt House is reading this. The man wants nothing to do with me, and surely he knows I know nothing of value, because I would share anything I find.

If anyone else would like to try this, I would implore them to only take advantage of opportunity rather than deliberately die. If they must do it at all. The only one I would consider for the task is myself. I would not ask anyone else to do so for me.

[Because of course it is. Because his life is never worth as much as everyone else's. He's just exhausted enough to say it outright now.]

[mrcreamsicles]

damnit enoch no
no dying
no anyone dying
nobody fucking die again i dont want to risk anyone else not coming back
you dont need to die for anything no testing this or anything else that requires mortality got it

[warriorscribe]

You do have my word, it will only be tested should I happen to die and return again. I'm not going to throw myself at death so easily - but neither can I sit idly by when I might have a chance to help.

[But he can't promise he won't try if he gets the opportunity. Because he's not leaving something like this to someone else and has an unhealthy lack of concern for his own well-being as compared to others.]

[mrcreamsicles]

i dont count avoiding death as sitting idly by
like i said theres enough people dying around here
and theres other ways to help
but im going to guess that agreement there is the best i can get

[warriorscribe]

It is an idea to keep. As I said, I won't run headlong into death without cause.

Forgive me for the turn this conversation has taken. It is late, and it feels as if everyone's thoughts are unsettling at the moment.

[mrcreamsicles]

id say its less that our thoughts are unsettling than norfinbury is making us talk about this in the first place
and im pretty sure whatever thing it is ive lost is making it worse for me personally
so how about we hang up here for the night and talk to you after this is over

[warriorscribe]

Of course. hopefully we'll be of sounder mind soon.

[It's a chilling sentence to type, like an admission of losing sanity, even if it's not what it means at all. He's terrified of going mad. He wants to share it with everyone, see if anyone else feels the same, but...Davesprite is right, it seems to be affecting everyone. It's not just a feeling in the air or encouraged by the atmosphere.]

[mrcreamsicles]

thanks enoch
later

[He almost stopped to comment that almost no one's of sound mind just from being in this place, but Enoch did say sounder. So instead, he hangs up with just that.]