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First off, let me just tell the wonderful people who brought me to this dump. No, really. Thanks a bunch. God knows there's nothing I'd want less than to be killed in some poorly defined cataclysm that you give just the barest evidence of! Because you know the whole screening room sure couldn't be faked! Still, think you could have found a better place to put the letter you gave me detailing all this, like up your butts.

Secondly, lay it on me. Just how bad is this place. I just got brought here from someplace like this - whole schtick that it was a better place to live than the alternative and I should be grateful and blah blah blah - so I kinda get the idea. I mean I guess I could be wrong and this could turn out to be some fantastic land of lollipops and fairies and lovey magical crap that just happens to have floors full of monsters, but I'm not getting my hopes up. So should I expect to have, like, my head chopped off and sewn onto some kind of guerrilla alien body once every week, or month, or what? What's the schedule for bullcrap around here like? Also don't bother to tell me about how you're working to get free, or how things are bad right now but we'll get over them or any crap like that. You don't win situations like this, you just survive them. So don't waste my time with any hope crap.

Finally, since we got crap from "home" to bring with us, did someone here manage to get a video game system and TV or something? I mean even a Game Boy. It feels like forever since I've even played Tetris or something and as great as pointlessly wandering monster filled floors are - I mean some of them are cool - I can only see the same horrific creature so many times before it gets passe.

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'Big grouper jerks' doesn't even begin to describe them, but it's a start. And at least they don't try to hide behind anonymity. We know who we're up against, even if trying to fight them doesn't do much except get people krilled.

I don't recommend it. You come back, but sleep paralysis sucks. It reely, reely sucks.

I'm sorry. It sounds like you got stuck somewhere reely bad before, and while I can't say you went from bad to worse, it sounds like you went from bad to a different kind of bad. But inbetween planning creepy experiments and events where they try to krill us in other ways, they at least let us get some decent rest. It's somefin.

I guess that's a little bit ahead of where I was then. We had names for them, but not real names.

...Sleep paralysis, huh?

[That might take some getting used to. For the first few years Mayfield hadn't had any "penalties" for death. The last year as the town had begun to crumble? Yeah. It throw penalty after penalty out there like it was going out of style.]

...Yeah. The way you keep saying it, it isn't too different. And at least this place seems a lot more high tech. The last place was pretty much ancient.

We have names for them, and I think someone's got a rough schedule worked out for who's in charge of the experiments when. I haven't been here long enough to get a good handle on it, but ask around - I'm shore someone does.

...either way, you want to avoid Jason. I wasn't kidding about the creepy body horror carp. It was codawful and it didn't kelp in the slightest that if I screamed, I'd krill anyone around me. I didn't know if it'd be a mercy or whether they'd just come back even worse. I don't mean to scare you, but he's a basshole and he deserves every single punch in the face he gets. And worse.

Yeah. The more times you die, the longer it sticks around. The longer it sticks, the more it sucks. According to someone else I know, eventually things get worse than just sleep paralysis if you die enough times. I don't plan on testing it if I can kelp it at all.

[She manages a smile.]

Anemoneway, now that I've probubbly scared the carp out of you...I'm Feferi. If I can kelp out with anyfin, let me know, okay?

That's something at least. They got the schedule posted anywhere or am I going to have to ask around or something?

[Pokey laughs a bit, bitterly. He smiles too, though it's not a nice one.]

I don't think there's that much that can really scare me anymore, so I wouldn't bother. He sounds like a piece of work, but...I guess it's better that he's only one of four around here, instead of pretty much being everyone who has control over us.

Pokey. And yeah. Thanks. But I'm sure I'll get used to this place without help.

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