l.odinson | Missive 001

[shiftedshape]

[Loki's having trouble sleeping. The turbulence has his heart racing and stomach dropping with every sudden motion, and while he knows the likely reason why, he's not about to admit it. And while the Navarch's offer of medication is kind, he's not so certain he wants to knock himself out entirely while he's paired with his current inmate.

So he's up. And tense. And looking for a distraction. Perhaps he's not alone.]

Is anyone else awake? I'm not one for pills, unfortunately, so I haven't managed a single wink. And now I am just terribly bored.

Who's up for a chat? We're all still fairly new here, after all. Can't hurt to share the basics with the group, yes?

For example: Why are you here? Or why do you *think* you're here, at any rate. That should get us through the rest of the night on its own, for some of you.

But I also have time to hear all about your tragic childhoods and major regrets, if you'd like. Might as well get started on graduations while we've got the extra time. And what better time for baring your soul during a bout of insomnia?

Comments

text | jvolkhov

[saklas]

u kidnapped me. none of you are my friends. i don't want to chat. build a tomb out of dicks. mummify yourself. die.

majorly regret being fucking kidnapped

l.odinson

[shiftedshape]

I can't imagine that tomb would be structurally sound. Unless the dicks were also mummified. But that might be less insulting, somehow.

Anyway, you weren't kidnapped. You died. If anything you were rescued from being dead.

text | jvolkhov

[saklas]

the penis tomb is a piece of architectural shit and isn't structurally sound

you talk to me like I don't know what disinformation is? like i don't know that if you just repeat something big and impossible to me enough times I'll get tired of arguing with you and act like I believe it, just because everyone else does and I want to keep up with them.

Fuck, now I'm awake. I need a smoke so bad that my chest hurts. I didn't even know that could happen. I hate this. I hate being here. Why me, why are you doing this to me?

[shiftedshape]

That is the question, isn't it? In fact, it's exactly the question I asked you.

But to put it in your terms: Why might someone kidnap you? What would they get out of it? Why is that something you so readily believe?

[saklas]

Because I fucking woke up some place I've never been, with strangers that say I can't leave!

[shiftedshape]

You could entertain the thought experiment for a moment, at least.
You're clearly intelligent enough to at least make the attempt.

[saklas]

I'm famous.

Joke's on anyone, because NO ONE will pay for me. I wouldn't kidnap me with your van.

[shiftedshape]

Then that doesn't sound like a good reason for anyone to go to the trouble of kidnapping you, does it?

[saklas]

Unless they know the first part and not the second part.

[shiftedshape]

How insulting to assume your kidnappers are too stupid to do any sort of research on you.
Especially given it takes very little time to see how combative you can be.
You'd think we would have thrown you out as soon as our calls for ransom went unanswered and you continued to put up a fuss.

[saklas]

Do you understand that the proof that someone would take me from my home and trap me is the fact that I'm trapped here and that I was at home earlier, and that the fact that I can't provide an airtight reason why they did this doesn't magically make it so it didn't happen and send me home?

[shiftedshape]

Unless everyone is telling the truth about your being dead and this is a form of afterlife. In which case you weren't taken so much as rescued from oblivion.
But that is understandably much harder to swallow.
I just hope you consider the fact that it makes little sense for anyone to kidnap you and therefore there's likely another explanation.

cw suicidal ideation

[saklas]

Is it a rescue if you lost everything you'd have lost by dying anyway and didn't even get to

just

rest for once?

If it just fucking keeps going and going and the prize for not collapsing under it is more weight?

[lessandmorethanhuman]

Pretty sure we're likelier to die of dehydration before we mummify unless we take very specific steps. I think I learned about some old, now forbidden, mummified Buddhist monks somewhere though.

[saklas]

do i have to micromanage every step of this cock crypt process?? if there are specific steps obviously he should take them. if you're invested you can be co-lead on the project. have fun

A. Mercer (I forgot to put this in my reply before)

[lessandmorethanhuman]

Don't really care, just providing commentary. It's better than reading your sorry bitching all the time.

[saklas]

Writing sorry bitching is better?

No, I shouldn't even ask. It usually is.

[lessandmorethanhuman]

It's entertaining, if nothing else. Just wondering why you bother.

[saklas]

Oh, why I bother? Why I'm not being a good prisoner that's grateful to be told that I'm evil and I deserve to be taken away from my home and family, by people who won't tell me why, and don't care whether or not I say I didn't do anything?

God, that's a hard one. I'm going to have to really think about that.

[lessandmorethanhuman]

No one says you have to be a 'good' prisoner, but there's gotta be something better you could do than just bitching.

[saklas]

OH, LITERALLY WHAT?

Eating? Crying? Crying while eating.

Oh, you're right. I could be learning to read Ancient Dwarven. Girls LOVE Ancient Dwarven. They'd be all over me.

Ty, I'm tired

[lessandmorethanhuman]

Sleep. Exercise. Go read from the damn library they supplied us with. Question the damn bird-robot. Instead you're choosing to bitch about it in the most juvenile way.

[saklas]

The library is doctored and so is the bird. You'd have found that out on day one if you were paying attention.

I've been sleeping like you wouldn't believe. I've slept so hard it'd make your hair curl. My pillow is a broken shell of its former self. His own mother wouldn't recognize him.

[lessandmorethanhuman]

Of course things are doctored and biased here. Doesn't mean you can't still learn from it.

[saklas]

Yeah, you're right, that is exactly what I said. It's crazy how you got that straw to look exactly like a man, you're really talented.