[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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[mrcreamsicles]

maybe we should just hang up here
im still curious how vampires work but im not going to make you go into it if you keep spilling stuff you dont mean to
i dont want to drop all my deep insecurities to some dude i barely know either

[bookofnope]

Damnit, no. I refuse to let this manipulation get the better of me. It's a cheap bloody trick and I've overcome its like hundreds of times before. I have that much strength left.

[mrcreamsicles]

ok cool but i still dont trust it
ive seen norfinbury make other people do some things they absolutely wouldnt normally
and ive already told other people a bunch more than i want to

[bookofnope]

We can't retreat from each other every time there's this risk. Or it becomes one more way to control us. The best way, since we enforce that control ourselves. Would you agree to that? Are any of your secrets really so terrible that revealing them is worse than being at the mercies of this place?

[He's asking himself the same question as they speak. And it's a lucky thing he's a born contrarian, or the answer would be yes.]

[mrcreamsicles]

considering the kinds of things that can be part and parcel of this places mercies im going to say no
but that still doesnt mean i want to go disgorging my issues like fresh verbal vomit without my own discretion
just talk to me later beckett
blame this one on me because i literally am the one backing out

[bookofnope]

Will you speak with me again when the effect blows over, then? Assuming it does. They ordinarily do. I suppose I'm tempting fate as we speak.

[mrcreamsicles]

yes
youre frustrating to talk to sometimes but not enough that id avoid you
plus i am actually curious about the vampire stuff

[It's more than he meant to say, his loss forcing the honesty out, but it's nothing enough to make him cringe or try to cover.]