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[feathery]

Who: A bird and you
Broadcast: Y
Action: Wonderduck, if you wanna
When: At ass o'clock in the AM

guess im just wondering
because its kind of hard to tell between abrupt disappearances and people lapsing into comas for days
or sometimes weeks
but how long has it been since you went back where you came from
or remembered something that you didnt before
and how long would it take before you get the feeling youre not gonna go back again

[Naval gazing at three in the morning in the Wonderduck kitchen is a go.]

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[frigidaire]

are you crying
should i bring you a box of kleenex or something

[ Isaac is awake at three in the morning which is a miracle in and of itself, but it's likely Davesprite's fault anyway. Who needs a regular sleeping schedule. He might also not be taking his friend seriously, whoops. ]

[feathery]

why are you awake
all you do is complain about how you never get to sleep but here you are
awake in the dead of night
pretending that actually means something in space
im never respecting the hours you keep ever again

[frigidaire]

like you ever respected them before dude
but i cant sleep anyway newtons in here
he wants to play

[feathery]

and thats exactly the kind of suffering you deserve
so are you just here to nag me about shit ill probably regret all on my own come morning or what

[bluediligence]

[ Sleep? What's that? Aoko's been playing around with robot parts in her room for the past few hours, and she's got no intention of crashing anytime soon. ]

Remembered something you didn't before, huh. Does that happen a lot here?

[feathery]

depends i guess
happened to a friend of mine all the time
she hit her head once and her brain got double stuffed by a concussion and all the horseshittery youd expect from dealing with like three sets of memories that happened simultaneously

[bluediligence]

ohhhhhh (-﹏-。) was she ok??

[ A very slight delay, followed by: ]

I mean, relatively speaking.

[ladybro]

Why? Do you feel like you're not gonna go back again?

[feathery]

i dunno
its a dumb thing to discount maybe
honestly with the way my life has gone id probably disappear off yonder into the interdimensional stew or something equally contrary if i thought i wouldnt

[ladybro]

Not dumb. Just a little pessimistic. I still hold out hope we'll get back to where we ought to be.</big?

[robitussin]

tip

to avoid existential crisis, go to sleep

[feathery]

its too late
ive wandered too far down this road to turn back now
ive become the very horror i always stared at in fascination from afar
aka that dude who asks suspiciously specific questions online

[robitussin]

you can still fix this

just get someone to knock you out

[nowyouseeit]

[who wouldn't respond to text posts at ass o'clock in the am??]

oh geez. honestly? i've lost track of how long it's been since i've been home.
it's probably been at least a year?
but i'm pretty determined that i'm gonna make it back there some day.
so i'm not too worried.

[feathery]

that was optimistic in the most protagonisty way possible
well maybe not the most protagonisty i think its missing a moral lesson
still sounds like something a couple of my friends would say though so the comparison holds

[nowyouseeit]

[. . . SNORTS]

i don't think i'm the kinda guy you want to come to for "moral lessons," if i'm gonna be honest

[onlyanapple]

Six years, if you combine here and the last place. Think I gave up on going home at about the four year mark? Not that it bothers me that much, honestly.

Now go the fuck to sleep.

[feathery]

do i get a bedtime story

[onlyanapple]

Once upon a time there was a pain in the arse who asked pointless questions in the middle of the night. One night, he realised his life was meaningless.

The end.

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[experiencepoints]

Home?
Over two years now.
My last interdimension shithole, I got memories back for a couple months ago.
I got that feeling a long time ago.

[feathery]

would you go back if you could

[experiencepoints]

Yes.
I want to go home.

[forsometimenow]

Aside from the brief sojourn when I was asleep at the beginning of this month, I've been on the Fleet for a year and a half now. I still haven't given up hope that I'm going to go back, but if I do, I'm doubting it'll be because I "win" the game here.

[feathery]

does anyone take the idea of "winning" this show seriously
youd have better luck winning the game and by virtue of me bringing it up we both lost that memetic clusterfuck

[forsometimenow]

Maybe some do at first, but you and I have been here long enough to know better. And even then, plenty of people shrug it off and decide to just do their own thing when they find out what's up and how infuriatingly distant and vague our hosts are.

I think that reference is past my time, sadly. Sailed right over my head.