[log] Noisy Black Part Three - Mingle [closed]

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Characters: characters participating in the noisy black event
Location: An office building.
Date: Night 261 - Day 262
Summary: Conversion and exploration.
Warnings: body horror, body trauma, medical horror, psychological trauma, forced IVs/forced feeding, note specifics in subject lines please

Sinners
Converted
Exploration

Comments

[warriorscribe]

She saw the end of everything. The old world.

[He likes this one!]

It's good that you're asking questions. It's important to want to learn.

[holmesice]

I don't need to learn, I'm the smart one.

[He was adamant about that. And this new world-old world thing made no sense.]

[warriorscribe]

You're certainly smarter than certain others. But...clearly, you still do need to learn, so long as you fear conversion. It's all right. It's there to help you, and so are we. So is the Prophet.

[holmesice]

Fear...of course. [He frowned.]

Help? You can't have helped, you've hurt people, you all have hurt everyone here, haven't you?

[He knew that. Those outside, they did this. They were responsible.

Why was it so hard to think?!]

[warriorscribe]

It's to teach you humility and helplessness.

[This time it's repeated simply, as if learned by rote.]

It can be painful, but it doesn't last forever.

[holmesice]

It's ridiculous and pointless.

[That much he knew.]

You're all mad.

[warriorscribe]

It isn't pointless and you're the one who's unwell, friend. You'll see in time. I'm sorry to hear you still resent us. I hope the Prophet comes to take you in, too.

[It's almost as if the brainwashing only consists of a handful of new ideas!]

[holmesice]

[Unfortunately, with the state of his thoughts, he's slightly worried that he is unwell.]

Has a doctor come to see me?

[He can't remember if they had or not. There's other doctors here, right? But they're not...they were hurt, too, weren't they? It all seemed so fuzzy.]

[warriorscribe]

There are no doctors among us yet, but with the Prophet's guidance we're all just as good. I'm not the one assigned to you, however - the one who is will likely guide you better than I. I should still like to do my best to help.

It isn't right, after all, to refuse to aid anyone who needs it.

[holmesice]

[Just as good? No, this wasn't right at all.]

If you are insistent on aid, it would benefit me to be released.

[Even in his addled state, that still was a pressing need.]

[warriorscribe]

I'm afraid that's a sign you aren't ready yet.

[Because that makes a lot of sense. At least it matches what all the other converts say.]

[holmesice]

Then how would I know if I was 'ready'?

[He asks this pointedly, almost sarcastically.]

[warriorscribe]

You will know it. You will know what the Prophet wants of you.

[As if this is self-evident in the slightest.]

[holmesice]

[That just baffled him further.]

I think you're being an idiot. You must be confused.

[Because Mycroft wasn't confused, surely...]

[warriorscribe]

It won't seem so idiotic when it's complete, I assure you. This will all make sense in time.

[He's like Beckett, asking questions and probing, but...he's not sure he likes the approach. It's not the same "ready" approach, like he's asking towards a specific end rather than learning for learning's sake.

No, he definitely doesn't like it.]

At least I hope it will...I wouldn't like it if any of you weren't successfully converted.

[holmesice]

Stop talking to me like I'm a child! I'm smarter than you!

[Because that wasn't childish either, Mycroft...]

--wait, what happens if someone doesn't successfully convert? Let me guess, you just kill them? How obvious.

[warriorscribe]

I don't want anyone to die...it would be out of my hands if you did. I'm sure you won't. You're all such a promising group. ...Mostly. There are one or two of you I worry for, but...I'm sure we can all make it if we keep trying.

[Exactly what he might say if he wasn't brainwashed, except he wouldn't mean torture and breaking into compliance.]

CW: Suicide

[holmesice]

[As bewildered as Mycroft was, he still scoffed. He glared at the other.]

What if someone would rather die than be converted?

[warriorscribe]

That's... [He looks genuinely pained at that.] We still must make the attempt, you see. You may feel differently later, after all. And I certainly don't want to kill anyone.

[holmesice]

I don't think I will.

[A sigh.]

You're not being helpful at all.

[warriorscribe]

I'm sorry. Perhaps someone else will be able to better guide you. Is the one assigned to you to your liking? That is - it is the will of the Prophet and cannot be changed, but there's nothing preventing others from speaking to you as well, of course.

[holmesice]

The one assigned to me?

I never want to see that idiot again.

[warriorscribe]

...All right. That's...common, actually.

[He laces his hands together in nervous awkwardness.]

I'm sorry you feel as you do about the process. If there's anything we can do to make it easier - that...doesn't entail ending it early - I will be happy to help.