Day 3

[kentucky_mcgiygas]

[ A bright new day has dawned, maybe. It's not like you can see the outside world. But the tablets keep diligent track of time, and promptly at 6am they provide something for you: A new immunity challenge. ]

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[proficient_in_photoshop]

[this again]

Look. It's just to let kids go first if they want to.

[clocked_out]

Oh it's you.

Sorry look I'm not trying to beat on a dead horse or anything I guess I'm actually just curious about the reasoning. Whether it's because you think being legally unable to bone someone or get drunk just makes someone inherently more valuable or innocent or tragic. Like, why age and not basically any other arbitrary trait like family or degree of completion of life dreams or if someone is a dickbag or liklihood that their siblings will rip apart space time and cause the McDrumstick Apocalypse, killing millions of people who may or may not already be dead.

It just seems like a pretty flaccid reason "Definitely don't kill me because I am like 13." Okay cool I'm thirty two I have like TWICE the amount of investment in living and emotional fallout if I die.

[proficient_in_photoshop]

[Reigen rubs his neck, looking a lot more tired than their last conversation.]

... Well, it's possible it's just a permanent value society has etched into most humans. Protect and value children. Even if an adult hasn't amounted to anything, you've had more time to take a shot at it. Inherently, maybe it's time that older people value the most, because the more that you experience and underperform, the more you realize how valuable it is. So kids have more time, so you're saving something of more value than yourself if you protect someone younger than you. Something with a lot more potential, if it's given the chance.

That's just black and white though, I'm not saying you're wrong that there are some kids who are less innocent than some adults, or that an adult's life and dreams are inherently worth less than a child's. Plus it's not like all adults grow up. Or maybe a doctor who's seventy but capable of saving a million lives wants to save his own life, fine.

Just for this situation though, we don't even have to have that conversation. We don't have to pick "only five." This is just a way to pick order. I guess everyone who wants to get voted out could draw a number out of a hat, but I still wouldn't personally want to save myself before, for example, you.

[clocked_out]

[Dave fidgets with a red marker in his hand.]

I feel you. I'm honestly not trying to be "Devil's Advocate" or some horseshit like that which would be stupid. I'm just trying to figure out what to do. I think because I was the 'time guy', and maybe also because I haven't clocked a whole lot of linear time compared to most adults, I see time more as a more subjective element. It ain't really a surprise that I might be out of it given how much I fucked around with it.

[proficient_in_photoshop]

It's not like anybody should be forced to figure out this situation. I'm not even saying I'm absolutely doing something right. But more importantly than anything else, this needs to get organized, because the worst case scenario is going in with no organization. At least thirty people are willing to go with the crowd, that's important information and can last us a lot of rounds before we're out of options.

So, you're a literal time traveler? Or something more involved than just that, if time is completely subjective?

[clocked_out]

[Dave snorts, make a face like an offended hipster]

Time traveler is literally the corniest way you could put it. Makes it sound like I popped back to have high tea with George Washington and get my ass oogled by Socrates. Fuck no.

[proficient_in_photoshop]

[laughs?!]

Okay, so what's the situation? Now I'm curious.

[clocked_out]

The situation was stupid and not worth getting into. I don't mess with time anymore it's a bad fuckin' idea and pretty much nothing good ever came of it.

[proficient_in_photoshop]

Okay, fine. But look. There isn't a perfect answer for what is right to do, right now. Searching for one is just going to fragment us even more than we already are. There's nothing okay about what's going on.

[clocked_out]

Nah you're right, it's a good idea as far as organizational principles go. Specially after that cluster fuck that just occurred.

[He glances at the board again, almost seems like he's going to write his name and then just goes back to awkwardly getting red chalk all over his hands because I remembered this is a blackboard.]

Not saying I don't want to fucking bounce but you can hold off on me, I'll be okay. Not my first murder clown rodeo. You're a pretty good dude for sticking your neck out.

[proficient_in_photoshop]

Not your first... that's too many murder clown rodeos. One is too many.

[clocked_out]

Must be something about clowns. Big shoes, big nose, huge hankering for chaos and murder. Not sure what the connection there is yet.

[proficient_in_photoshop]

I really could have lived without any clown incidents at all.