menial | 10 ~ comparing those worlds to this boring, normal life [audio/picture]

['Well. It sure got cold pretty fast, huh? Which means that I'm rapidly approaching the one-year mark, so I should really be proud. Or something. After burrowing myself away to avoid complications from refugees, my antisociality has reached a certain limit.

Unfortunately, I also have nothing to contribute beyond the observation about the weather which I already blithely used up there! Not that people can read my thoughts, but if they could, they'd find out. Well, they'd find out a lot of things. But who would want to anyway? It would just go on and on without any point.

Anyway, I guess I'll poorly disguise my attempt to see who's up for a random conversation with some kind of opener. Hey, if I were at home, this would be a mind-scarring Omegle session or something. At least I'm pretty sure I won't run into the usual problems stranger-chatting over the journal.'

...and so:]

So I found this in a book the other day.

Maybe this doesn't work as well over the journal, but I thought it was cool, anyway. Or at least different from discussions about fire and eternal suffering, continued kidnapping, disappearance, reappearance, cross-dressing, and so on.

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... Huh. Striking a nerve, are we?

.............no!

[More like yes.]

Hey, it's okay. We can talk about it. This is a safe zone.

['Winning is so sweet, especially for a "some lanky teenage boy."']

[She is oh-so unamused. So much so that some of her real personality is actually starting to show through.]

Just. Shut up! You sound like a creepy guidance counselor. Or something.

['...Too bad you have to touch nerves in order to get some people to stop teasing you.']

Well, a lot of them are just hard-working underpaid people, trying to help young people out. But okay, maybe they're all creepy.

Well. All the ones I ever talked to were creepy!

[...]

Not. That I ever talked to guidance counselors. I mean.

...

So all the ones you talked to were also not creepy.

No, I said they were creepy! Not that I would know. Since I've never talked to--

[Wait, wait, she's got this:]

All the ones I never talked to are creepy!

[....]

Why am I even talking about this.

Because you found it too painful to talk about someone you'd risk everything for.

Wouldn't you?

[POUTING.]

Not necessarily. Some people even like thinking about people they care about. Hard to believe, I know.

Not when they're not here...

[MORE POUTING. But clearly she's getting a little too informal with this guy so she pulls back a bit.]

Meanwhile your girlfriend is here and you don't even seem to appreciate it! How's that for justice?

Ah, yes. Well, it might tell you that she's not my girlfriend.

Or maybe you're just heartless. You know, like those guys from that game where kids fight with giant keys! They can't feel emotion or anything!

...

No, I don't think I do know.

Really? It was a big hit in Japan when my mom was a kid!

[Topic: diverted.]

I don't know. I don't think I played anything like that.

Then go look it up or something! Maybe you can find an old backwards compatible Playstation in the junk shop.

I mean, all anyone has here is free time, right?

...

Do you really think there are video games in the junk shop?

['If so, I really have been wasting a lot of time.']

Well, I haven't exactly checked myself, but why wouldn't there be? I mean, given how technologically advanced these Malnossies must be to keep us locked up in here, it'd be kind of weird to think something like a Playstation 12 would be too far out for them.

Of course, if all else fails, I guess you could try and set up the battledome like a video game. Though it might be a little harder without a controller.

The question is more if they would bother with a Playstation. Still, can't hurt to give it a shot.

I'm sure if you dig around long enough, you'll be able to find something.

Or maybe it'll be some weird Malnossie-brand rip-off where all the games are intricate forms of propaganda.

You do know how to make things sound fun.

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