Tourist October Mingle

[candothat]

Who: Tourists and anyone who can think of a reason to be there
Broadcast: Possibly? Eventually?
Action: On the S.S. Tourist
When: October! All of it!

[How's it going now that we're getting over the disasters and dying? Y'good?]

Comments

[takingkarabusiness]

Thank you. I'm a lot better now, actually. It was... a more difficult few months there.

[wolfuncaged]

I'm glad to hear it, that you're feeling better. It has been...a lot, recently. More than they usually seem to pile on us.

[He can't shake the feeling there will be MORE, but he'll keep that opion to himself. No one needs him to go about being a Debbie Downer. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Yeah. I'm not a fan.

Do you think any of it is actually real?

[wolfuncaged]

You mean the destruction of the planet? Or something else?

[takingkarabusiness]

I don't know. All of it?

[wolfuncaged]

[He lets out a short, tired laugh. ]

As easy as it would be to explain it all as part of our imaginations, I doubt even Atroma have such power over so many people.

[takingkarabusiness]

I don't know. Something like that happened to me at home before.

[wolfuncaged]

Truly? That is... deeply concerning. What happened? If you do not mind me asking.

[takingkarabusiness]

There was an alien—a Black Mercy that my aunt's husband unleashed on my. It's a psychic parasite, basically. It latches onto your body and projects what you want most in the world... so you'll happily stay there and it can feed off of you. It took a lot of intervention to get it off of me.

I'm just saying, it wouldn't be entirely foreign to me if something like that was happening here.

[wolfuncaged]

[Well. That sure is a thing. ]

That's...awful. Essentially trapping a person in their own happiness. [Not even the United Earth pulled bullshit like that, and they were The Worst. ]

I see where you're coming from. If Atroma managed that...well, there would be little anyone could do, if we were all under its thrall.