( 01 ) video.

[oversleeps]

[ when the feed clicks on, marduk is in what appears to be a ruined building near the edge of town. there's snow on the floor and holes in the walls, but he's not wearing a single scrap of winter clothing. more importantly, he doesn't look especially pleased to be doing this. ]

Recently, one of the locals here went missing. Don't ask me what his name was, I'm not the one who gives a shit. I'm just here to solve the mystery.

He's missing because he's dead, and he's dead because I killed him.

[ he pauses here. it looks like it's for dramatic effect, but really he's just trying to figure out how to end the announcement. ]

Most of you would call that murder, wouldn't you? Can't remember if you all figured out what to do about that, but-- if you want retribution, you can come and get it.

[ good enough. the video ends there. ]

Comments

[alittlesweptup]

Obviously

[God he is so done with this shit. --Only that is literally the opposite of what he's likely to go run off and try to do.]

[oversleeps]

If you're going to complain
Do something about it.

[alittlesweptup]

How? By putting a bullet through your brain? Yeah that's going to go well for everyone

[oversleeps]

That's a bit of a
Hasty conclusion, isn't it
No need to resort to violence or anything
I'm pretty sure that's how we got here in the first place.

[alittlesweptup]

But it's what you're after, isn't it? Reeling someone in who'd be willing to do it?

[oversleeps]

If I was interested in dying
I'd take care of things myself.

[alittlesweptup]

I didn't say you were interested in dying I said you were interested in finding someone who'd try to make it happen

[Paranoia and entrapment, thy name is Charlie Cutter.]

[oversleeps]

[ this pause is totally not suspicious, alright. he's just trying to figure out if charlie is serious or not. ]

You really think that.

[ he can't actually tell. ]

[alittlesweptup]

Why else would you bother making this post?

[oversleeps]

Seriously?
There are plenty of better places to go flirt with death
Than a network largely populated by people
Who don't even believe in it as an option

[alittlesweptup]

Oh that's right. We're all peace and holding hands here. I'd nearly forgotten. Suppose all those threats of airlocking were a fever dream then

[oversleeps]

You mean
Empty threats.
I don't recall anyone getting executed proper here
Personal grudges notwithstanding
Could be that I'm forgetting something, but
A few people bullshitting on the moon hardly supports that idea

[alittlesweptup]

If you think there aren't people here more than capable of killing someone and happy to do as much then you're a bigger idiot than this nonsense would suggest

[oversleeps]

[ :| ]

That isn't what I said.

[alittlesweptup]

Just because no one got to the people they wanted to on the moon doesn't mean they won't do a better job of it here where there's even less oversight or accountability

Clearly

[oversleeps]

[ :| ... ]

You're just
Going off here
Where no one else is going to read this
Aren't you.

[alittlesweptup]

And that's different from what you've done here how

[Oh my god just tell him why you bothered doing this he is so not good at this psychoanalyzing thing and desperately wants to know.]

[oversleeps]

[ sorry friend, your answer is in another castle. ]

Mine wasn't senseless rambling.

--> disconnect

[alittlesweptup]

It might as well have been

[Hiss stamp throws a fit]