damned_bulletin | (no subject)

Why are you going LOOKING for monsters? That's just asking to be eaten.

You're not him. Don't respond and waste my time.

You're wasting your own time by replying to me, you know.

Fine. Get eaten. See if I care.

If I got eaten, I wouldn't expect anyone to.

[inkblot] That's really sad.

It isn't. It's better that way, believe me.

You must have a lonely life then.

I don't get lonely the way other people do. I'm happiest by myself.

[inkblot] Okay, I'll pretend I believe that. Take care and don't get eaten. Someone might actually care.

Someone like you?

Maybe someone like me.

Alright, I'll do my best to stay alive.

I would hope you'd do that anyways, but thanks.

What's your name?

I'm Sheena Fujibayashi. What's your name? INTRUDER sounds like a code name to me.

[inkblot] I suppose that means you don't want your name known on this board.

I don't really want my name known anywhere.

But it's good to meet you, Sheena. I hope I see you in person sometime.

Good to know.

I'm sure you will at some point. This place really isn't that big.

But it has a high turnover, huh?

It seems that way, but I'm not going to be disappearing anytime soon. I refuse to think that I might fade away like so many others.

My #1 fan told me that the people who fade away are the ones who end up believing what the place tells them. If you fade away, you're probably going to a better place, with a home and a family.

He also told me that two people I know from back home were brought here and started believing the story. They're not the kind of people who'd believe just anything. I keep wondering if one morning I'll wake up and be Justin Halley.

Better place or not, I have people to save back in my real home. Yeah, it's not the greatest place, but it is my responsibility and where I belong. I'd rather live in suffering knowing who I really am, than to live in bliss believing a lie.

The truth is, we don't know what happens to the people that disappear. Your #1 fan's explanation is just one theory, backed up by the staff telling us that the ones that have disappeared have been 'discharged'. They'd probably say that about the ones that have died at night here.

But he told me that they came back to see him, as friends and family members.

I've heard that before. I've also heard people leave and then come back with no knowledge of ever having been here before, from different points in time aka remembering things that happened back home that others from the same place have not yet experienced.

It's all very confusing. The people running this ranch are quite devious.

So why did they take me now? Why didn't they take me in the past or in the future?

I wish I knew the answer. I've asked myself that question many times as I was on my way to do something tremendously important when I woke up here.

It's not just a theory, and it isn't just the staff that backs it up. This is from the man in charge himself.

To lose yourself, to forget what you fought for, or that you fought at all. It's worse than death. I think he realizes this.

-#1 fan

And why are you going to believe anything that the man who holds us captive will say when it is clearly said to rob us of our will to fight, to infuse us with despair so that we just give up?

That is a fate worse than death, I admit. All the same, I won't become one of them. I hope all of us would fight to the very end to not be just another 'discharged'.

Wait!! How did you get that information?

Infiltrate the largest hall on the western side of the building. I'll be visible from there.

-Your #1 fan

Got it. I'll be on my way.

- the INTRUDER