144.98750 Public Channel [Day 63]

[amusicaladventure]

Hey, guys? Anyone -- I hope you still have your radios...

[Ash sounds worried to the point of frantic, barely keeping her alarm and panic covered under a veneer of anxiety.]

Listen, something's really wrong here. Have you guys actually talked with anyone else? It's scary as hell, guys, they're hollow, it's like their brains have just shut down -- they're running for kicks and thrills like they're the only thing that matters. I mean I know all the drugs and stuff here can have that effect, but it's not just the junkies. And some of you all are scaring the hell out of me too just from what I've seen...

This place isn't safe. We're not safe here. It's too much pleasure and it might even be more than that. Pull out, guys. Please, now.

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[amusicaladventure]

Nicer than anything or anyone else you ever cared about in your life, ever?

[Ash isn't letting him get away with that. Ugh, the fact that people could try to use such flimsy excuses and reasoning to justify staying here -- that they didn't register as shoddy and desperate even as they speak them... ]

[thevictoriandetective]

[No...no, that's not right. There was...something wrong, something he was supposed to do. Or didn't? Or did? Who did he care about? J-something or the other.]

Why do you care? Just leave us alone to our fun.

[amusicaladventure]

[Nice dodge. Eminently predictable. Enough so that Ash had taken his moment of thought to do her own thinking. Not that she has any answers, yet -- she isn't certain where the line is, when it comes to using an external influence to FIGHT an external influence.]

You didn't answer my question. What do you care about?

[thevictoriandetective]

[He looks utterly confused and bewildered for a moment, before a word tumbles out of his mouth.]

John.

[amusicaladventure]

And yet you couldn't even tell me that name till I practically forced it out of you. Doesn't that worry you? Doesn't that scare you?

[thevictoriandetective]

...yes.

[The horror was slowly dawning on him. But this small, hard-won rationality was being dragged back down in the ocean of swirling lights and colors in his mind.]

[amusicaladventure]

[Ash keeps pushing, shoving back against the brilliant darkness.] That's what this place does. It's like you're drowning and you don't even know it. You need to get out and get your breath back, before it's too late.

[thevictoriandetective]

What if it...is too late?

[amusicaladventure]

It's not too late if you can ask that question.