http://no-dont-go.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] no-dont-go.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] damned_bulletin2010-11-28 10:39 am
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[Two notes; posted at the beginning of second shift]

[Posted in her usual handwriting. Strikeouts a single line, legible.]

Last night, I dreamed I had become mechanical again and I fired upon my fellow patients in an upper floor corridor. Three sustained injuries and several others were witness to the attack.

Now please allow me to offer a hypothetical: If you were one of those fired upon, would you try to find it within yourselves to forgive such an act? Were you to know the one attacking you had offered no resistance to the orders they received, would your answer be the same? As for myself, I wonder. It was only a dream and yet I feel forgiveness is not an option. I am was not human in my dream, therefore all apologies and forgiveness benefit no one. A machine can have no real feelings after all. Even if the machine were to find itself turned human the next day.

This is all hypothetical of course. It was just a dream.

-Aigis





[This note has been posted in another area of the bulletin. It is left unsigned, but the handwriting is her typical style.]

Is there anyone with skills in boxing? I find myself quite eager to begin learning the sport. For recreational purposes, of course.

Where the point is missed.

[identity profile] stlg13bomber.livejournal.com 2010-11-28 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww, I'd forgive you. I mean, you're a robot, you gotta do what you're programmed to, right? So it's not really your fault.

[identity profile] stlg13bomber.livejournal.com 2010-11-28 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
You can't not do what your programming makes you do. That's like a [small pause for pondering] a car not running when you turn the key.

At least I think that's how robots work.

[identity profile] stlg13bomber.livejournal.com 2010-11-28 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You're still a real nice girl for a robot. I hope you feel better soon!

There is no emo. There is only Carter.

[identity profile] stlg13bomber.livejournal.com 2010-11-29 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You're a boy robot? But you look so much like a girl!

Re: And Carter wins a spot in my heart again~

[identity profile] stlg13bomber.livejournal.com 2010-11-29 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! You mean you're not a nice girl.

If you're feeling bad about what you did, that means you can't be a completely bad girl. And you're so pretty, too.

[identity profile] stlg13bomber.livejournal.com 2010-11-30 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
If you couldn't do anything about it, it's not your fault. Sometimes even humans get forced to do things that are bad, but that doesn't make them bad people.

I'm not good with this philosophy stuff, you should ask someone more educated. But you're sorry about it and I know plenty of humans who wouldn't be.

[identity profile] whichwayagain.livejournal.com 2010-11-28 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That's how it always works, in those sorts of dreams. No one ever thinks there's anything wrong or unnatural with what they're doing, until they wake up and realize how twisted everything was.

[identity profile] foolishmessiah.livejournal.com 2010-11-29 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[The strikeouts are almost entirely unreadable.]

Are you What hap

You feel forgiveness isn't an option. That's a real feeling.

[identity profile] foolishmessiah.livejournal.com 2010-11-29 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Unlike the last note, the one that goes up is neatly printed without any hint of strikeouts.]

Do you really believe that?

[identity profile] foolishmessiah.livejournal.com 2010-11-29 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
No. Do you believe I'd make that mistake?

[identity profile] foolishmessiah.livejournal.com 2010-11-29 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Then we need to talk. Soon.

he can almost tell she's crying

[identity profile] foolishmessiah.livejournal.com 2010-11-29 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
I dreamt a dream like yours. But I was never a machine in it.

he's not usually being shut out

[identity profile] foolishmessiah.livejournal.com 2010-11-29 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[The strikeouts are almost unreadable again.]

I'm not pretending I will

Okay.

so very anon

[identity profile] scalyfishman.livejournal.com 2010-11-29 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Think of it like a virus.

[identity profile] scalyfishman.livejournal.com 2010-11-30 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a virus to me. Knew a guy once who got hit with one so bad he went from tree-hugging scientist to slag-spewing maniac and back again in one day.

[identity profile] scalyfishman.livejournal.com 2010-12-02 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
This wasn't here. It was back where they took me from.
ninelivesonce: (standing in the hallway)

[to the second note, undisguised but unsigned]

[personal profile] ninelivesonce 2010-12-01 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Do you mind a more...freeform style? I haven't won any boxing competitions, but I've won a lot of fights.
ninelivesonce: (nail polish is important)

[personal profile] ninelivesonce 2010-12-02 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't have replied if I weren't. I already promised the rest of today to the History Club, but maybe tomorrow?

Taura
ninelivesonce: (aow: intersecting highways)

[personal profile] ninelivesonce 2010-12-05 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Outside might be best. The ground is softer. Meet me on the recreational field then? If it's occupied, stay close to the doors.

[pentaps] Would you mind if I invited others to join us?

Taura