02 Byte://written

[sooochangeable]

[There is no explanation for the scribbling. No signature, no definitive writing style or indication to who it could be. The screen has been blocked by something, the name - no where to be seen.

It's obvious someone is disguising their handwriting. But who? And why?

One thing's for sure. They're not in their right mind.]

bored


boredboredboredboredboredboredBOREDB O R E D


DEROB

already there's nothing to do. nothing to see nothing to plan nothing to doooooooo


bored

you lot are no help either

Sheep. All of you. No one dares question, fight or kick and scream. Like Schrödinger's cat. Dead and alive people. Dead and alive.

Just laying down and dying. Nobody clawing their way out of the box.

Bad kittens.

Don't worry. I'll help.

Someone has to teach you to live again. All of you, grown so comfortable in limbo. Disgusting.

Time to wake up.


Any cats that will claw and bite?

Any that already have?

Or are there any other Schrödingers here? The ones with all the questions and all the answers?

tick tock tick tock tick tock

[The journal was blocked, and would remain so.]

Comments

[voice]

[bloodwaif]

Your watch is running down, duckie. Best to wind it up again!

[written]

[sooochangeable]

Hickory Dickory Dock.

voice

[redjacketthief]

You think we're like this because we want to be?

Pffft. Try reading through the journal you're writing in sometime.

written

[sooochangeable]

You think that is fighting?

Weak.

Useless Comment is Useless

[theoniongirl]

[the anonymity is the worst part.

Names were power. Name a problem and it gave you more control. So this unnerves her more than the more upfront strangeness of most of Luceti.

She doesn't say anything. The last thing she wants is to draw this kind of attention down on herself. But she'll be showing Buffy, on the off-chance the slayer misses it during her rounds for the day.]

[written]

[selphie_t]

[The following message appears in a lazy scrawl.]

Read a book if you're that bored.

[written]

[sooochangeable]

I like games though. :(

voice;

[alloys]

[He's not a sheep. But he doesn't quite like the idea of fighting someone he can't identity. What's the fun in that?]

...I take it you're bored.

written

[sooochangeable]

You find this place amusing?

[Voice]

[rollypolyclover]

[So she might be getting the impression that whoever this is is bored.]

Ohhh you're bored? Do you want to play? We can draw stuff!

[Voice]

[notquiteheartless]

No.

[It's a single, harsh word... directed either at her or the "mystery" writer but a voice they both will know well by now.]

[Nothing]

[lostinmyway]

[...If that is not a clear indication of a situation waiting to explode, nothing is.

As much as she dislikes it, there is nothing to do but wait until this clearly unbalanced individual makes a mistake and reveals themself.

Something else to monitor when she has the unsealed mind to do so, it seems.]

[selfinteresting]

You think this is a catbox? Perhaps the cat is trapped, but it has no lid, anyone could look inside.

But, what if these cats will die upon climbing out? If they can't exist outside the box? For those, there is no reason to seek escape, and in doing so, death.

written

[sooochangeable]

Don't try to be clever. It's not working.

[written]

[fourteen]

You know, what if we don't want to claw our way out? Is that so bad?

[written]

[sooochangeable]

You don't want to live?

I'll oblige you.

written

[deadlyjuliet]

[Without a name, there's no way to make this channel private, but she can respond and let this mystery person know s/he's made her day. Blocking her own camera and leaving only one thing:

A slow drawl of patterns made of red paint drawn with the tip of her finger that eventually lead up to a stylized version of a heart with a skull's face inside.]

written

[sooochangeable]

Pretty. ♥

written

[relictusdeus]

[The Forgemaster is reminded of the female vampire prowling Luceti and smiles thinly while penning his message with an elegance that is perhaps surprising.]

Bravo. A most inspiring speech. And yet... t'would seem that you, who decries the idleness of others, have yet to escape. Or... to claw your way out of the box, if you prefer. ...What a pity.

written

[sooochangeable]

I take it you find this place enjoyable as well?

[voice]

[notquiteheartless]

You would know something about being alive and dead at the same time.

[video] - OPEN TO ANYONE

[sooochangeable]

[After the initial message is written, James makes a reply as his persona. As Milverton.

James Milverton is simply horrified of this message, and it shows in his face and his voice. How was it possible for someone to be like that?]

Good Lord.

[Written]

[most_unwanted]

[The kind of person who would write like this, and the effort taken to disguise its origins... Hm.]

Oh? Just how do you plan to teach us how to live?

[Written]

[sooochangeable]

No peeking. You don't want to spoil the surprise.

[Written]

[mikanphones]

[Out of all the things he expected to see upon looking into the journals today, this wasn't one of them. It's almost, almost like something Hao would say, the general idea at least, but the words definitively aren't his. Just as they aren't completely Yoh's own words even if they reflect in glimpses his own thoughts, specially thoughts he once had and threw away. Maybe that's why he doesn't need to wonder what this person is talking about or what he means. He doesn't need to wonder about how to reason with this person, he knows already that it's not an easy feat, the change has to come from the inside, not the outside. He can try, of course, but he knows the result already, just as he is starting to suspect which will be the end of the Shaman Fight.

Without names this can't be made private, but it doesn't matter. Yoh blocks his own camera before he starts to write. His handwriting is disguised easily, even without having a spirit possessing him, his own body still remembers certain things, like a different handwriting for example.]

Humans are creatures that go against nature laws. They hate change, unless they are the ones to produce it and control it. When faced with the unknown they just care about destroying it rather than about discover something new. Everyone watches the same things, get moved by the same things, think the same things, and they like it that way because it means there's no need to think, to make any effort, they just like to be herded. It's in the core of their nature.

They don't mean harm or bad, but they can't act against their nature. It's not fair to blame them for it. I don't think your game is one anyone will like, but I'm sure everyone here won't be bored playing it with you.

[Where "playing with you" means "going against you" for many reasons. First, because the way he talks doesn't inspire anything good in the future. Second, because he aims for change and just by their very nature, most of the people here, humans, will go against it. Even if Yoh's wrong and is just reading too much or letting his own thoughts guide him to what this person means and they just mean good, he doubts the people here will like it. One thing is clear, Lupin said that things didn't seem to change much here, but it seems that Yoh has arrived at a time in which that pattern will end.]

[Written]

[sooochangeable]

Humans are ordinary and stupid. I hate both. Give me puzzles, give me work, give me something interesting.

[The next comes much later....and slower. But the glee in it isn't lost.]

You're a mite more clever than most. I think I'll let you play my game too!

[ written ]

[repudiate]

I'm getting pretty tired of that stupid metaphor. There's only so many times you can talk about Schrödinger's cat box before it just gets old, you know.

[ written ]

[sooochangeable]

Forgive me for offending your delicate sense of literary speech, princess.

If you don't like it, come up with a better one!

[Voice]

[unseenspy]

Oh? Are you going to play, or are you going to find a way out of here?

[written]

[sooochangeable]

Neither.

[written]

[corrinesbell]

It's pretty obvious you don't even get it.

[written]

[sooochangeable]

What gripping insight. Please, tell me more.

[ voice ]

[touchofrogue]

[There is the sound of muffled, sarcastic applause, as though the one applauding was wearing gloves.

And without saying a word, Rogue flips on her Mp3 player to have the journal record this song.

These people who thought they were so superior to others were all the same. This is just a different branch of crazy. Not what she wants to see, not what she likes to see at all - she has no doubt that this particular person could be very dangerous. It was better not to give them any form of power. It was better not to give them fear, or respect. Not when this was the game they were playing.

Bring it.]

voice;

[trashed]

Not everyone's 'comfortable' here, you idiot.

How about you stop whining about being bored and do something?

[written]

[sooochangeable]

Be careful what you ask for.

[savedtheworld]

I'm pretty bored right now too. ...I don't really get the rest of what you're saying.

written

[sooochangeable]

[It's still anonymous but he responds...it's a lengthy time in which it's written. How do explain quantum physics in fairytale setting? ]

I'll tell you a story then...

Once upon a time. There was a very smart and clever man named Schrödinger. And he was so clever and so smart, that he wondered: 'What happens when we can't see?'

So he put a cat in a box. And there was a vial of poison in the box that would be released at a random time. But the only way you could know for sure whether the cat was alive or dead would be to open the box.

So Schrödinger thought that the cat had to be alive and dead while the box was still closed, do you see?