[OPEN; VOICE]

[boygodofneuro]

[The sound pops a few times, the microphone getting jostled all over because the guy holding this communicator? Yeah, he's flipping out something fierce.]

No, no, no, this is so-- Oh man. Oh man. Every kind of not good, it's--

[Awkward, nervous chuckle.]

Help destroy the mainframe, get sucked into it. It's like living The Matrix except I'm not Neo and I--

This is one hell of a mental sock, I mean, wacky space ship, big fancy dome that screams perfect, idealized society free of worry and then all the little people trapped on the outside. Sounds like the premise to a summer blockbuster! Or a B movie on SyFy. But it's not. It's gotta be part of the illusion my brain cooked up to constantly keep the adrenaline running.

So, if I'm gonna believe Echo, Priya and Anthony about their reports on what this whole Attic thing is like, where's the constant conflict, the puzzle I keep looping through, never able to solve no matter which way I think about it...?

Oh, oh! Can I take a guess? Because it's a pretty good guess. I'm gonna keep walking down this quaint little path and I'm gonna find Boyd and his little buddy Clyde in Saunders holding Bennett hostage or something. Save the girl, they get on with the thoughtpocalypse. Let them kill Bennett again and bam! Loop stars all over again and never get to know if it saved the world because I just get to agonize over the choice again! And again! Oh man, that sounds like so much fun! Bundles-o-fun like none other! I just can't wait to feel--

I, ah, Yeah. Gonna shut up now, I think.

Comments

[boygodofneuro]

So I'm not the only one that woke up from a freaky little stasis pod thingy?

I'm not sure if that's comforting or more disturbing.

[how_i_tease]

Names on the side and everything.

[boygodofneuro]

Joy.

Yeah. Definitely more with the disturbing. Very much more with the disturbing.

[how_i_tease]

Look on the bright side. You're not alone?

[boygodofneuro]

Yeah, but I don't really think there can be a bright side to this!

Aside from the whole...literal bright side when it's light out.

[how_i_tease]

Of course there's a bright side. You're just panicking too much to see it right now.

[boygodofneuro]

Oh yes, the moment my heart rate drops to a normal level I'll magically start seeing it.

[how_i_tease]

Or you'll attract the wrong sort of attention and get shot before then.

Or you might not. Which would always be a tally in the 'bright side' category. You see? Count your blessings before you run out of them.

[boygodofneuro]

Wow, your unfailing optimism isn't annoying at all.

[how_i_tease]

Eh. Doomsaying and cowering in a corner isn't nearly as practical as you might think.

[boygodofneuro]

I rather enjoy my corner of doomsaying and cowering, thank you very much.

[how_i_tease]

You do seem kind of attached.

[boygodofneuro]

I'm acutely agoraphobic, of course I'm attached.

[how_i_tease]

You're what now?

[boygodofneuro]

I...don't like wide open spaces. Crowds are kinda squicky and so is anything outside my comfort zone.

Which this most certainly is.

[how_i_tease]

I think 'kidnapping' defies everyone's comfort zone.

[boygodofneuro]

This is true. Though look at you! With your optimism! Must not have phased you all that much.

[how_i_tease]

Hey, it's not like I have a home to head back to anyway.

[boygodofneuro]

Oh. Well, that sucks. But I'm not sure if I've got a home anymore either. Thoughtpocalypses are totes tricky business.

[how_i_tease]

Well then. As good a place to start off fresh as any, right?

[boygodofneuro]

As long as I can find a nice hidey hole to hunker down in, I'll be good.