text.

[camouflage]

Let's talk hypotheticals.

You're crossing a suspension bridge. You have to reach the other side at any cost. The bridge is wide enough only for one person to pass at a time.

A man approaches from the other side with a gun. How do you cross?

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[prorenataa]

At that point it would be a waste of time and energy.

( ghosting. )

[alterplex]

[ Venom isn't here to answer— of course he isn't— but he tracks the replies to the post, because vigilance is a virtue.

(he wonders if anyone will pry deep enough into the question to come to the conclusion of grief-sparing; if Ishmael would even want to hear it, for that matter.)

He'll have to remember to send Ishmael a cigar, later. ]


Obtained 'Cassette Tape' [ SUSPENSION BRIDGE ].

[camouflage]

Alright. Point made.

[he should know this intimately; he HAD died last time he was here but had woken up just fine.]

Let's make it more relevant to the situation. On the other side of the bridge is an Ingress. It's been fixed to send you back to your IDEAL home.

The only thing standing in your way is someone you care about. If you don't kill them or get past them quickly, the Ingress will close forever.

[camouflage]

That's not for me to decide.

[he's gonna make you struggle with this one.]

[camouflage]

Noted. Thanks for answering.

['arbuckal - non-hesitating, focused, violent action']

[private]

[camouflage]

[bb goes the brutal simplification route almost every time. HES FINE]

Maybe.

[prorenataa]

[ Reading the text, he marked the UN on the send and otherwise tossed the device to the side.

Test. Failed. ]

[private]

[warandpeace]

[BB is only a good liar when other people help him with his brutal simplification.]

What's your answer to the question now?

[shashka]

[ well, you asked... ]

It depends on the friend, I guess. In most cases, I'd shoot him in the head. Make it quick and painless.

[ for the second part... he's switching it over to private. notably he doesn't answer what he'd do if it was the friend who really mattered.]

Is there any reason why you're using The Sorrow's death as a scenario for the whole network to reply to?

[ one of them was expendable. ]

[lavelly]

[Somebody needs a distraction. BB is the unlucky winner.]

why is it so imperative to cross the bridge

[otiosity]

i do a spectacular flip over his shoulders and we continue on our merry way. maybe he just has the gun for aesthetics.

[ruffboi]

I brandish my weapon to intimidate him so he makes mistakes. Then I charge the bridge, using my shield and evasive maneuvers to avoid being hit by bullets. I break his wrist to disarm him, and then bash him with my shield and push him off the bridge into the water below.

[nishizono]

problem with this scenario: my ideal home wouldn't even have me in the first place.
ideal would be if the people responsible for me are either dead or never born.
if they were never around, i wouldn't be around.
i wouldn't wanna go there, there's no point.

besides, i don't i already killed her once. i can do it again, because i have to.

if the ingress closes and i knew someone was still around that made my life full of shit, i'd go back. miwa can stay here.

[ some guy named miller asked if he had any plans in life. if tetora had to make one, it'd be that one - finding a life where miwa doesn't have to die. ]

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[inconsequence]

He shoots me in the head.

Everyone rejoices.

[brokeassgoing]

go back home the opposite way, take a shit and go to bed

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Overload. Loot. Continue.

[nyx_it]

Shoot the ground
When he flinches, rush him

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[notyourrookie]

Knock him out and step over him.

[private]

[camouflage]

[painfully true]

I would shoot them on the spot

who would leave someone to suffer like this

I would shoot myself if it came down to it

Still not sure.

[private]

[warandpeace]

It's a terrifying situation. Words don't do it justice. Being trapped in a bottleneck with no way out.

I don't think anyone will have a better answer.

[saveyourserpent]

Oh, now that it instantly kills people if they take too long and all. What a shocker that must be.

[Liquid Snake, forever a little shit.]

[morethan084]

Is the gun aimed at anyone? Or is it in a holster?

[chaoticlootral]

Are we writing screenplays for action movies of our lives? I'm into it, I'm into it.

Transmutate the gun in his hand into a rubber chicken, so he feels like a doofus! Oh, could just, you know, destroy the bridge and send him plummeting to oblivion with my amazingly powerful wizard spells that mean I don't have to use dumb shit like bridges? You can never go wrong with a few Magic Missiles either.

If we're not talking cool scenes in a movie then I'd let Magnus deal with it, because this sounds like a boring fight.

[camouflage]

[is this what you put zero through all the time?





good job.]

Let's just cut to the chase. He's killed you. You didn't cross the bridge. Mission failed.

[camouflage]

[the text goes unanswered for the next hour







and then, privately:]

Am I like her?