voice;

[modore]

[There's no particular reason Satoru chose audio over video. Despite how young his voice is, the adult in him is coming through in how tired he sounds.]

I bet I'm not the only one that event was kind of hard for. Even thinking things might have turned out that way makes me want to...

[He trails off without actually saying what it makes him want to do.]

But I'm sure it could have been worse.

[He pauses.]

So...what's the worst event you've been through?

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[beatupgrass]

Okay. So back when I first got here, Regina had an event that made everyone forget everything about who they are and what they used to be, and I know- we have those events all the frickin' time, but generally those events don't change everything about us and make us do things that we would never ever do otherwise.

That one did.

[modore]

How do you mean, it made you do things you'd never do?

[beatupgrass]

[HE DOESN'T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT.]

I dunno, man... Like the whole point was to make you different and take something fundamental away from you or some crap like that, so if you weren't the type of person to, uh... Cheat on your significant other? You'd do that.

[modore]

[He thinks about that for a minute, trying to apply it to himself.]

That...sounds really awful.

[beatupgrass]

See? It's screwed up. Luckily we haven't had a repeat of that one.

[modore]

I didn't know events could repeat.

[beatupgrass]

It happens. Usually if someone ends up here twice or somebody from the same world had the same experience. As opposed to, y'know, all seventeen different people from different zombie worlds havin' their brains mined for events.

[modore]

I hadn't thought of that...

At least with the zombies, there was some variety? Sort of.

[No, that doesn't make it better.]

[beatupgrass]

That always made it worse. You get used to one type and how to kill 'em, and then you turn around and have to sing at them, instead of shooting 'em. That right there was a dick move.

[modore]

...That's a good point.

[He hadn't ever really thought about that before: whether or not different types of zombies were better or worse than the same type over and over.]

I guess...events are pretty much terrible in one way or another no matter what.

[beatupgrass]

True enough. And they'll just keep coming, so all you can do is hope it ain't completely bizarre.

Those fucking flesh-melting rats, man.

[modore]

[He shudders. Those rats were pretty much the absolute worst thing he has ever seen in his life.]

I'd rather not think about those.