Event: Consolidation Theory, Part One and Two

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Characters: red-marked characters
Location: ???
Date: Morning & Day 353
Summary: You wake up in a cell.
Warnings: general horror warnings; please note in subject lines for anything specific that comes up

Consolidation Theory OOC Post
Part Two OOC Post

Comments

[fiftheclipse]

[Well, actually...]

What counts as your "world" is subjective, isn't it?

People are going to keep living. In general. But I don't know about the ones with me right then and there. I thought I knew what I was doing, but the longer I'm here, and can't find out what happened, the more I'm starting to doubt it all.

[heroproceeding]

Doubt what?

[ What does he mean by the world being subjective, he doesn't know. But one thing at at time as he studies the guy on the other side of the hall. ]

What you were doing?

[fiftheclipse]

... Trying to survive. This town pulled me out of some sick bastard's "game" where the only way out was for everyone else to die.

[Well, not everyone, but, he doesn't feel like oversharing with so many people around.]

I thought I found a way to keep more people alive. Never got a chance to find out if it worked, though. If it doesn't, then what I'd be putting others through if I brought them...

That's too much.

[heroproceeding]

[ A game... Funny how it makes his blood run in an eerie familiar cold. It's really not much different from when Miller had them do those repairs, isn't it? That had sure felt like some twisted death game.

No, Fair. Don't make assumptions. Zack sucks in a breath. Lets it out slowly. Thinks a little more on that, looking uneasy. ]

Then... why not go somewhere else then with them? There's other places out there. I know for a fact Al's always telling people to come back with him.

[ Back to his world which he's so fond of. A world in which he seems so sure people could live peacefully in if he keeps offering it up like that. ]

[fiftheclipse]

[... And it's back to why he needs that ring.]

Because I don't want to. They should go with him, but I need to get back.

Even if it came down to dying there or living somewhere else, I know what I'd choose.

[heroproceeding]

[ There's something in that reasoning. Just something in it that gets Zack's eyes to narrow a bit more. He almost looks like he's going to snap out for a minute and then he closes his eyes and breathes again. If it came down to dying there. Doesn't mean he's going to. There's no permanence to that statement and if he has something he feels he needs to see through...

Well.

Zack could understand why at least. ] Whatever it is, whatever theory you came up with to make sure everyone makes it out alive back there... I really hope you're right.