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[dorkypantsuit]

Hey, I know this is a kind of weird thing to say, but to all you newbies without common sense out there: Do not warn visitors about getting indebted to the carnival. I don't want to see anyone getting in trouble their first week, especially not anyone on my team. Got it?

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[sweatysometimes]

I don't particularly care what the relevant details are.

There's right and there's wrong, and it's wrong to let people be tricked into slavery. End of story. I might have to work for you jerks, but I'm not gonna be an accomplice.

I don't care about your frank discussion and I don't care about your stupid carnival, I just want to go home. I have more important stuff to do there.

[dorkypantsuit]

[God damn it.]

Things aren't that simple! And if you think they are, you must have lived a sheltered life on a very privileged planet.

If you don't value your life, fine, but I'm sure someone does. Try to think about them when you throw everything away.

[And then he hangs up on her. :c]

[dorkypantsuit]

You don't have to apologize to me, if anything, I'm sorry, I haven't worked hard enough to change this system. I want to do what's right, but I also want to protect the people who get tricked into working here. It's hard to do both at the same time.

I hope you don't think I'm a bad person for working more on the later, but I understand how upsetting this could be.

[waitingforplayer2]

N-no...

[ The Carnival is-- it must be like a family for him. ]

I understand. [ She lowers her gaze. ] You have to protect everyone you can, especially if you care about them. Right?

[dorkypantsuit]

[He nods, the way she words it really making him think.]

When I was younger, there were things about myself I really didn't like because of the way it made others treat me. But as I got older, I realized what I thought was holding me back also gave me the power to help others.

I guess I feel like even if those things were nothing, but trouble for me, if I can help someone else it somehow makes it worth it.

[He's talking too much, being vague and boring and he knows it. Just the way she said it, made him feel like she'd get it.]

Sorry. I have a tendency to ramble if left unchecked.

[dorkypantsuit]

What was that?

[fragileandsoft]

Why not.

[waitingforplayer2]

No, it's okay...!

[ She's stopped what she's doing, quietly listening. He's just opening up to her. How much faith must he have in people?

More than her, probably. ]

I... thought I could do something like that, I guess.

I'm not very good at anything but games... but I thought that I could use games to help me make friends. Someone I...

[ She swallows. ] Someone told me that, once.

But it didn't really work out.

But I kind of wish that it had.

[dorkypantsuit]

Because if you break the rules you get punished. And I don't like it when that happens to people.

[fragileandsoft]

There are rules against letting people know the rules?

[dorkypantsuit]

...It didn't work out for me either.

That's why I still haven't gone home.

[He doesn't want to face the chance of failure, as cowardly as he feels admitting it.]

[dorkypantsuit]

There's really only one rule here, and that's don't piss off the Ringmaster. Everything else is sort of ambivalent.

[fragileandsoft]

She can't get mad at telling people not to steal.

[waitingforplayer2]

What happened?

[toogoodtoopure]

[Small sigh.]

I kind of figured. I mean...I don't like it, but there's no helping it, is there?

[dorkypantsuit]

[He smiles weakly at her.]

That's sort of a long story.

The long and short of it is the people on charge didn't like what we were doing.

[dorkypantsuit]

No, that's probably fine... Depending. I mean again you have to use common sense.

[dorkypantsuit]

[Finally, someone who gets it.]

Not really. As unfortunate as that is.

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[lordofthering]

Oh darlin', since when has telling people not to steal ever stopped them when that's what they've set out to do?

It doesn't, for the record. I know from experience.

[waitingforplayer2]

... That sounds like a rebellion.

[ Plenty of those in games. ] But you don't want to do that here, huh?...

[dorkypantsuit]

I like it here. I get to meet new people and do things I never would have been able to without it. Plus, a year really isn't that much in the grand scheme of things. I wish things didn't have to be done this way, but I'm sure the ringmaster has a reason for it. Even if it's one I can't really understand.

She's not some horrible monster you know.

[waitingforplayer2]

She seems okay... just a bit strange.

[ She goes back to fiddling with the machine, still thinking. ]

[action]

[waitingforplayer2]

[ Chiaki, working on a machine nearby, pauses to listen. ]

... Hey. What if we made some of the games easier?

[dorkypantsuit]

[The Psiioniic laughs, just a bit.]

Well you know humans seemed pretty strange to me when I first got here too.

[puddingemote]

What if they ask?