[handwriting sloppy, but strikeouts legible; posted at the end of breakfast]

[dividedby]

To the people who were out in the foggy field last night : [...the occasional lines through letters here was thanks to a botched attempt at underlining. Hey, it's kind of hard drawing straight lines when you can't even walk in one.]

I was the replo robot that shot people out there.

Landel changed me and then changed me back I don't know how he did it. all I know is that he made me do it but I didn't want to. I tried to fight them but they stuck me with something and now everything feels funny and the room spins. feel like I'm dead

but maybe we're all dead always been dead

[something else was written here, but it's been scratched out entirely.]

sorry. I'm sorry. Didn't want to hurt anyone



[somewhere further down...]

X, Harpuia: Was that realy you ?

If it was does that mean Ciel is real too?

Am I real? what's real

I dont know anymore



[and even further down...]

LEANNe

why did you say you were okay but you lied yesterday. Are you really okay?

Comments

[survives]

It's nothing you need to worry about. I'll be okay!

Are you going to be okay? [Still somewhat legible, but oops, stupid question.] What did they do to you?

- Leanne

[handwriting forever sloppy]

[dividedby]

how do I know? What happened to you?

Dont know what it was. nurse stabbed me with it Can't think straight because of it.

[survives]

I'm just feeling kind of sick, that's all.

A nurse stabbed you? Was it a needle?

[sloppy]

[dividedby]

You arent infected are you?

Yeah, I guess it was that

[survives]

I am. [She began writing something else after that, but it's all been scratched out.]

What happened before that? You said you fought the nurse?

[dividedby]

So your in danger! Why didn't you tell me this before?

Yeah there were many of them.

[survives]

You don't have to worry! I'll be okay. We're all looking for ways to get better, right?

But what were they doing?

[dividedby]

but we dont know what that is yet! And what if someone targets you this is serious!

Fighting me?

[pen taps] I yelled and scared the nurse so they came in and held me down to st needle me. stupid idea

[survives]

Why would I get targeted?

[have some pen taps right back.] I don't know much about hospitals, but do you think they sedated you?

[dividedby]

people arent always kind or smart just be careful.

Sedated?

[survives]

Don't worry. I really do know that.

To make you calm down. I didn't think anyone still used that.

[dividedby]

do you be careful

Did its job then but I hate it. Can't feel anything.

[survives]

I promise I will.

I'm not sure, but I think it should wear off soon. Can you go rest in the Sun Room?

[dividedby]

Hope so. Been doing that.

[survives]

Good.

Don't get into any more fights with the nurses, okay?

[dividedby]

I'll try

[damned_nurses]

[All replies in this thread up to this point ("but we dont know what that is yet!") have been removed. The rest remain up.]

[neat, but very heavy handwriting]

[lovesthepain]

What is wrong with you?

[still forever sloppy]

[dividedby]

WHAT [some scratched out stuff here...] I don't I said it was Landel did it! It was his program I didn't have any control!



who is this?

[not quite so heavy]

[lovesthepain]

The Zero I knew would still hold his enemies accountable for their misdeeds, no matter who they passed the blame onto. Do you expect me to forgive you?


This is Harpuia.

[sloppity slop slop + reaction]

[dividedby]

[....There may or may not have been a drugged-up blond-haired man just staring and staring at the board because of that response.

But there definitely was a lot of scribbling going on as he tried to figure out how to respond. And I mean a lot of scribbling.

For all that messy work, there is only one short sentence that remains legible:]

So you really are here?

[lovesthepain]

I'm going to overlook how stupid that question was.

You mentioned Ciel. Is she here as well?

[just sloppy from here on out, yep]

[dividedby]

Stupid? just wait until youve been here a week no two days you wont think stupid then!!

I saw her yesterday but she thought I was someone else. but they let her leave though, I don't know why.

[lovesthepain]

No, Zero, I'm quite confident that I will continue to find this stupid.

Ciel failed to recognize you, and you failed to recognize us... This would be confusing to me even if you were reasonably literate, but I believe I'm beginning to understand the circumstances.

[dividedby]

Don't believe me, see what happens.

what circumstances. What are you talking about?

[lovesthepain]

It's disturbingly easy to rewrite a reploid's free will. You must have noticed that yourself when Weil came into power. I would not have imagined that a human could be "reprogrammed" as easily as a reploid, but if they bent you to their will so completely, it's entirely possible that they have altered Ciel to suit their own purposes as well.

[Pen taps. Just one or two of them.] As for you... whether or not you were reprogrammed, you turned your weapon on Master X. Even if you didn't believe he was X, then from that point of view, you attacked a human that was already injured. Whatever changes were made to your programming may lie dormant within you still. That's not something I can take lightly.

[strikeouts barely legible]

[dividedby]

[....This is all too much for Zero's drugged up brain to handle right now. Oh no, he understands what Harpuia's saying, even under sedatives, but what it all means is... ...

...Harpuia's most recent reply has been removed from the board and stashed in one of Zero's pockets; his own reply has been left in its place, though most of it is furious scribbles.]

I didnt mean to I dont know if Ci its not Landel won

I won't let th I would never I X will b

[illegible scratch outs here, then very heavy writing:]

I wont let them use me like that again

[lovesthepain]

I wonder if that's a promise you can really keep.

I still feel that we reploids cannot oppose humanity's will, but... I wouldn't mind being proven wrong, in this case. Being anyone's puppet doesn't suit you.

Re: [still forever sloppy]

[damned_nurses]

[This reply has been removed.]

[ryuuzaki]

[L takes note of this but doesn't reply. He suspects it will wind up heavily censored.]

[Shaky writing, but still quite legible]

[maverickhunterx]

I should be asking you the same question: Is it really you?

[forever sloppy]

[dividedby]

Me as in Zero yes



this is X?

[maverickhunterx]

[There are quite a few scribbles here, as though X wasn't sure exactly what to say to him.

Only one word at the bottom seemed legible.]

Yeah.

[dividedby]

[Don't worry, X, you get to have some uncertain scribbling in return.]

Look--

what happend last night wasn't me. I mean it was me but my mind was not me. I didn't want to hurt you guys I really didn't Just I

This place is dangerous, dont trust anything they tell you. Landel can do anything.

[some illegible scribbles here]

Are you ok?

[maverickhunterx]

[Have some scribbles back, Zero. Until X finally just says 'screw it' and goes with his gut.]

I'm fine, Zero. Don't worry about me. I'm more worried about you.

What do you mean 'not as it seems'? Landel? What's going on?

[dividedby]

[There was a somewhat lengthy paragraph here to answer X's question, but it's been scribbled out completely. (Let's just say Zero grew a little wise after writing it.)]

tell you in person.

Where are you

[maverickhunterx]

I'll wait here.

[By 'here', he of course means the bulletin board.]

[damned_nurses]

[This reply has been removed.]

[knightspirit]

You were a patient?

[There's a stray mark where the pen has been left on the paper for a long time.]

... Forget it.

[dividedby]

Yes?

who is this?

[knightspirit]

I was there. A boy. I knocked you over.

[dividedby]

[...so many scribbles here from false starts.]

Sorry

[a few more scribbles, then:] how did you kick like that?

[knightspirit]

It doesn't matter.

Soccer, mostly. That wasn't anything to be impressed about.

[dividedby]

but Humans don't kick like that

What do you mean soccer?

[knightspirit]

Plenty can, if they work hard enough.

[a few pen marks]

... What's there to ask? Soccer is soccer.

[dividedby]

None that I know just reploids.

Your assuming I know what you know but that's probably not true.

[knightspirit]

...

... I don't know what you're talking about.

[dividedby]

I don't know what you are talking about.

[damned_nurses]

[Zero's original apology post has been taken down. Most of the replies remain up unless otherwise noted.]