voidtreckernet | Nebula 5

Heard we're supposed to be having another mission soon... seems a bit like every time we get beat down, we have a nice break, then have to get beat down even harder, huh?

[Rich is starting to get tired of this, honestly. He's trying not to let it show on his face, but the bags under his eyes probably still make it obvious. At least he seems to be back to his talkative self, though he has to admit... it's just because he can't take the silence anymore.]

Anyways, I've been thinkin' a lot about the stuff I miss back home. Video games and cheesy movies, and fast food courts in malls that seem like a great vibe until two hours later when you've barricaded yourself in a bathroom stall. All the stuff we don't have a lot of here. And I think there's one thing we're sorely missing, which is memes.

[He smirks a little.] I mean, I could do an acoustic riff on Astley if anyone wanted it, but I wonder if we have better than that.

Maybe we could use that laptop to make new ones? Yknow, all that bottom text goodness? Though I guess we couldn't really use them as reaction images on these terminals...

Anyways, I guess, what's the one thing you wish you had here, that the train just can't replace for you? So whatever you can't buy from the store. I'm in a nostalgic kinda mood.

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Ew. So you were one of those rich assholes, not the down on your luck type.

[Rich makes a bit of a face, but it's hard to expect sympathy from an anarchist. Though to be fair, he looks a little more thoughtful when the vaccine is explained.]

So were they like... just using you to cure people without really giving you a say in the matter? Considering they caused the whole mess, it seems kinda shitty to use you to fix their mess.

Yeah, but I didn't get to the 'good' sort of rich. I got to the 'pay off my debts' rich. The real rich fuckers abandoned the rest of us on the mainland during the zombie apocalypse. Didn't work out for them. It's one of those, 'I wouldn't have minded the benefits but didn't cry to see them go' situations.

[Bastards. Okay, he shmoozed them for a while to survive, but he was happy to leave them to eat each other to death when their vaccine attempts fucked them over.]

Yeah, they used all of us. The more I think back to us yelling that we were still human beings as they carted us in? The more I'm reminded human means nothing.

[Murphy's not a sympathizing type but sometimes he does feel bursts of compassion for his own.]

Ah, I guess I get that. Capitalism makes bastards of us all, even if we might've wanted to do the right thing.

[He isn't sure how genuine this guy really is, but he can at least sympathize with just needing a way to pay the bills. God knows if he doesn't have friends back home, he could end up in the same situation paying his medical bills.

Either way, it's hard to ignore how chilling that comment is. Human beings... shouldn't be an empty phrase.]

It almost sounds like they were more trying to take the blame off themselves. Say you're still human, even if they're doing this shit to you.

[He looks down for a moment.]

Being human... is something pretty important to me. I'd hate having that taken away.

You'd think? Right? I hated it at first.

But then it kicked in. Just looking at the dead and feeling where they came from.

[His little inhuman girl really convinced him that the standard idea of humanity had no place in his worldview. Being inhuman had made him a better person. ...Not a great person, but a better one.]

They say this thing before they shoot a zombie that meant something to you, even the smallest bit, in my world. 'I give you mercy.' Never felt much like mercy, feeling them blink out each time.

...I mean, me and you probably have different experiences with that kind of thing. But I guess I get it.

[No one wants to be inhuman, really. No one wants to be changed into something different. Holding onto humanity through that is a good thing... and it'd be easy to see where humans would lose some.]

I think the people killing zombies must've thought there was no other way... I mean, every zombie movie I've seen says zombies are braindead, just moved around without any soul behind it. It felt like mercy, to... to let the human finally die. They didn't know the soul was still in there.

That would be fine if that was all it is. But there have been some people that get off on it. Love the power trip of mowing down people that they used to know.

[Which is funny, considering how bad his PTSD was before he started to be able to communicate with them.]

Ah well. I'm not as militant about it as I used to be. [Which was once very, very militant.] There are enough talkers and blends now that some z's can speak up for themselves.

Yeah... I mean, it's an apocalypse. Usually that fucks people up. Makes them do really fucked up things.

[He can totally see why it'd be upsetting to deal with, though. Not that he's very militant about it... but hell, maybe if he was in that position, he'd be forced to change.]

My world never got that far, 's far as I know. I think there was just the one near apocalypse. [Though he still does worry about how many other kids at other schools tried what Jeremy pulled...]

If you keep your memories and go home? Make a bug out bag. That's my advice. But other than that...

Yeah, there's no preparing for that kind of thing. [All jokes and flippant remarks aside.]

Honestly, if there's going to be an apocalypse in my world, it's probably going to be a robot uprising, and considering I was nearly Patient Zero for the first one... yeah, I don't think I'll be getting out of it.

Nebula 5

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