[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

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[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.