AUDIENCE: TAMA

[becomemod]

Comments

[ballies]

no, not especially. i don't think you need to have been close to either of them to feel horrible about what happened?

[becomemod]

[They will not ask why they feel nothing about all of this then. It's probably the depression speaking again.]

I suppose not.
Though with how small this group is, everyone might feel close to any case involving one of us.

[ballies]

[ i've become soooo nummmmb, i can't feeeel you thereeee... ]<

trust me, i am fully aware someone's going to be hurt every week by this. just because i wasn't close to the people involved this week, doesn't mean the same will happen next week

[becomemod]

We'll have to see what happens on Friday then.

Is there anything I can help you with today?

[ballies]

i really wish we didn't have to.

not specifically.
have you been to any of the recently fixed areas yet?

[becomemod]

Not yet, no.

Were you interested in going?

[ballies]

arrre you offering to escort me?

[becomemod]

If you would like. I don't mind showing you around.

[ballies]

then name a place, and I'll meet you there!

[becomemod]

Meet me at Try Violince then.

[They will be waiting outside the store in their usual attire when Tama arrives.]

[ballies]

[ nyoom. ]

... Try Violinece. I just got that pun.

[ ....


giggle. ]

[becomemod]

[They smile a little.]

It's a pretty good pun, isn't it?

[ballies]

It sure is. I’m not going to question why someone wanted to call a music shop “violence”, basically though. Did they see someone fight someone with a violin bow?

[becomemod]

Now that would be an interesting choice for a weapon.

[Also be careful Tama, those memshare disturbances are around. Tiger is artfully dodging around them, nobody is going to know their past.]

[ballies]

[ imagine if she tripped them into one lmao. ]

I didn't even think you could dodge those things. [ she will try and dodge one, see how it goes. ]

[becomemod]

I don't know if it will be successful, but I'm trying my best.

[ballies]

Yeah, well... given my track record, I don't have a lot of faith.

[ speaking of!

oof. ]

[becomemod]

[I'm sorry, Tiger won't be responding right away because they just got massively triggered by this memory whoops.]

That's...

[ballies]

[ help i really rng'd and hit a trigger. ]

Naixatloz. It's some kind of cult that's running itself in plain sight. I can't say I'm against coping mechanisms, if they work for you -- but only if they're not hurting you and everyone else around you.

[becomemod]

...did they figure out how to change the world?

[ballies]

No, because it's not real. They tried to infect people with a virus that made them act irratically and dangerously, which was their idea of "forcing people to act outside of their code."

[ she doesn't sound impressed by it. ]

Like I said -- having a coping mechanism is one thing. Using that as an excuse to hurt people is where it goes from harmless believe to something dangerous that needs to be stopped.

[becomemod]

[They seem a bit relieved to hear that, actually. Specifically the first sentence, the rest sounds very yikes.]

It sounds awful. Did you and Ryuki stop them in the end?

[ballies]

[ it sure is yikes. ]

We're working on it. Like... seriously working on it. [ literally running out of time but it's fiiiine. ]

[becomemod]

It must have been difficult then, being pulled in here while in the middle of another crisis.

[ballies]

Yeah, no kidding.