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[piggy-king.livejournal.com]

ATTENTION!!

Have a problem you can't solve on your own? Feel like you don't have a purpose in life? Don't know what you can do to help your fellow patients get out of this institute? You're in luck!

The newest club in the institute, the Pigmask club, is now accepting members! You don't have to be strong, you don't have to be smart, and you don't have to be fast. As long as you're still alive and have all your limbs intact, you'll definitely be a valued member! With our concentrated effort, we'll be able to accomplish things that are impossible alone! There's strength in numbers!

Anyone who is interested in joining, please make a note in the space below.

Any alchemists or other people with special skills are especially encouraged to join.

Comments

[kagurazuki.livejournal.com]

I feel a lot like that actually. I'm not sure how I can help though, I really don't have any special powers or anything like that.

What kind of things will you be doing? If you need some help, I'll try as long as it isn't too dangerous.

Also... why is it called the Pigmask club?

[himetsuru.livejournal.com]

You be careful with this.

(the last sentence is written hastily)

[piggy-king.livejournal.com]

Hey, hey! No need to be so suspicious!

Anyway, the Pigmask club is an all-purpose club. Our main goal is to get out of here, but we also value our members' needs. Like I said, there's strength in numbers, so if you need to do something that you can't do alone, that's what the rest of the club is for! If you just let me know, I'll make sure your needs are met, whatever they are.

As for not having any special powers, don't worry about it! Anyone that wants to join can join!

And it's called the Pigmasks because pigs are my favorite animals.

[himetsuru.livejournal.com]

I run my own fucking kingdom and have dealt with royalty far more often than I ever wanted to. I know a setup when I see it.

But I'll let her make her own decisions. Just a warning - you fuck with her and you're fucking with me. That's a very stupid thing to do. I ain't nice.

[piggy-king.livejournal.com]

You seem to think I'm something I'm not. You seem to think I'm stupid.

You think this is a setup for a trap or something? Why would I possibly want to set someone else up to get hurt? If anyone I'm allied with gets hurt, I get hurt. It's not like I'd be all "Yay! She got killed and I didn't!" You probably don't know this, but even if everyone else in the club got killed off, I wouldn't be any better off. I'd be killed, too.

I say "strength in numbers" for a reason. I'm worthless on my own, but if ten worthless people unite their efforts, they can do things that would have been impossible alone. For me, survival is impossible alone. I need all the help I can get, and I'm always sure to help those who help me.

I'm not saying your suspicion is unwarranted. I'm sure that your experience with royalty is extensive, and it shows. You saw that this could have been a trap, and you spoke out. But this isn't a trap. I will seriously do everything in my power to help everyone that joins.

[himetsuru.livejournal.com]

I said 'fuck with' not 'kill' because any moron would know that was stupid. But alright - I'll give you one chance. Just remember my warning.

-The Hunter

Re: (the last sentence is written hastily)

[kagurazuki.livejournal.com]

You like pigs? Me too. ♥

It sounds like you're really serious about this. I'll talk to my friends and see if we can help you.

Re: (the last sentence is written hastily)

[piggy-king.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone agrees with me! Aren't the just the cutest with their little snouts and curly tails?

[kagurazuki.livejournal.com]

I never really thought of them as cute, but I'm glad other people like them so much. Bridget said they were cute too.

[byname-bynature.livejournal.com]

...It sounds as though you are soliciting the patient populace for cannon-fodder.

--A.F. II

[piggy-king.livejournal.com]

Everyone seems to think that I'm some sort of idiot. I don't want cannon fodder. Cannon fodder is useless. I don't want anything that's useless.

I phrased it the way I did because I didn't want to sound desperate. I need help. Without it, I'm as good as dead.

[byname-bynature.livejournal.com]

Well, I might suggest then that you join one of the pre-established clubs if you require help. Seeing as I've never heard of you before or seen your handwriting, no doubt you are one of the new patients, correct?

Simply calling for support without knowing what exactly you are up against is, in my opinion, a very, very poor idea. Second only to calling for alchemists or other people with special skills to possibly leave their pre-established groups for yours. I haven't heard of any free-lance alchemists in the area--most belong to the Cooking division, but I believe the History division has contracted one as well.

Next, uniting people under the pretense of their feeling 'no purpose in life' seems to be a rather lackluster call to arms under a leader with little experience of the situation. I think perhaps it would be best if you fell in under one of the other, more experienced leaders and then perhaps stuck out on your own once you have an adequate support base. Others have done so.

One thing I can agree with you on, though, is that you are as good as dead without help.

--A.F. II

[piggy-king.livejournal.com]

Your induction is correct, sir! I am in fact new here, so thank you for being so helpful!

You seem rather intelligent. I hope that we can be friends in the future, or, barring that, not enemies, at least.

[byname-bynature.livejournal.com]

Your induction is correct, in this case. Thus, I would say that you are very intelligent as well. It's a shame other people aren't as smart as you seem to be.

Here's to friendship, then.

--A.F. II

[scarletspeedstr.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I'm kinda weirded out by all this talk of people being worthless.

No one's really worthless. It can sometimes just take people longer to see that.

[piggy-king.livejournal.com]

You're right. I'm sorry I phrased it like that.

I just meant people who think they're worthless. I want to show them that they're not.

I thought that I was worthless once, and I don't want other people to go through what I went through.

[scarletspeedstr.livejournal.com]

I can get that. I hope that your group goes well, its seems like you've got good intentions at heart, even if others are too suspicious to see it.

[scribbled out liek woah]

[mitase.livejournal.com]

Some of us are

[HE HAS HIS SUSPICIONS]

[byname-bynature.livejournal.com]

...perhaps instead of scribbling out your message, you should just remove the entire page, yes?

--A.F. II

[mitase.livejournal.com]

[the scribbled-out part and Artemis' reply have been very carefully torn away]