4th - Voice

[ceasetoexist]

So I'll make this short and sweet.

Is there anyone else here - anyone - who didn't just arrive and knows they've been here for less than a decade? I mean I'm not the only person in this heap that's still sane, right?

I know this is opening myself up to a bunch of jokers who are going to tell me how long they've been here. But not all of you have to have been tricked by this crap, right?

[Because he's scared. That maybe it isn't a trick, or the trick is on him.

Just. Someone. Give him validation of this. Please.]

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[eternallily]

It hasn't been a decade for me. It hasn't been a year, not yet - around seven months or so.

Re: video;

[ceasetoexist]

[Good. There is someone else. That has to be something, at least.]

Only two months for me. Guess people could have been here as long as a decade but when I start seeing people who were fourteen one day and in their forties the next?

Something stinks.

+10 years Rika ; video;

[badend_replay]

What are you talking about? Did you hit your head and forget the last ten years, Pokey?

[midgarhorizon]

Forget about trying to convince anybody, kid. I've kept a journal every day I've been here, and everyone I talked to swore it was five years or a thousand even with proof.

Riki's in charge this month. I guess he does more than just the spacial fuck up.

[Text]

[lightofhumanity]

We are still in the month of January. Only about a month has passed since we last spoke.

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[yougotthatwrong]

...Yeah, I've been here for 8 months, but...

[--this recent problem is definitely something]

Some of my friends said different things.

Re: +10 years Rika ; video;

[ceasetoexist]

[Oh come on. The people he knew from only here who are different versions, he can sorta deal with. But you, who he knew from Mayfield? It bothers him. And it bothers him on a level he isn't sure he can pinpoint.]

Oh yeah. Totally.

Just woke up and bam, ten years worth of memories gone. Can't you tell it's been ten years with how old I look?

[It's sarcasm. But it's sarcasm as a means of protecting himself. Of chasing away the possibility that it's Rika who is normal, and he's the one whose been experimented on some how and made to forget.]

[ceasetoexist]

Convince nothing. I just want to make sure there are some people on the same level as me and I'm not just surrounded by a bunch of time-skipping weirdos so the people in charge can get their yucks.

[And to try and deflate his paranoia. He's normal. He has to be the normal one here, and the others are the ones being screwed with.]

But you're right. There's no point. If this place has its hooks in 'em it's got it's hooks in 'em. I understand the rules.

So our hosts each have their own little specialties on how they play this, huh? Well that's cute.

[Text]

[ceasetoexist]

That's what I figured.

Too bad most the people here don't seem to get that.

Re: voice

[ceasetoexist]

Haven't been here that long. Two for me. But I get what the place is doing.

[Well. He's pretty sure it's everyone else that's being experimented on in some way to make them age up. Fairly certain. Okay. Not that sure.]

Like they each said they'd been here for different periods of time? Like are any of the differences massive?

[Text]

[lightofhumanity]

It may be because the Administrators are disturbing their sense of time.

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[ceasetoexist]

No kidding.

It's obviously what they're doing.

[midgarhorizon]

Yeah, they seem to.

[ceasetoexist]

So this one works with space and time apparently. Only other one I've heard about is Jason, who just sounds like a sadistic jerk.

What do the others do?

[midgarhorizon]

Dax seems to keep things in order, and he's the most reasonable. Zo and Ruana we don't know much about.

[ceasetoexist]

Got it.

This crap always run a whole month? Because after last month I'm not in the mood for it.

[midgarhorizon]

It's always something. All ya can do is hope you don't get caught up in it.

[ceasetoexist]

You can hope it, sure.

Place like this kind of forces you into it though. You can jump some of the pits it lays out for you some of the time, but it's going to trip you on your butt at least some of the time.

[Text]

[lightofhumanity]

It is. However, the hard part will be convincing the others of what has transpired here.

[Text]

[ceasetoexist]

No point in even trying. I'm pretty sure we can't.

We just have to wait until this crap blows over.

[Text]

[lightofhumanity]

Perhaps. But there is no harm in trying. We may be able to convince a few.

[Text]

[ceasetoexist]

Go ahead and try then.

I know better than that by now.

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[yougotthatwrong]

Yeah, some has been here for hundreds of years, and others just 10 years, but still; it's quite a large discrepancy from the usual length of stay.