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Fniff

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Danger [SG]
« on: September 22, 2015, 04:36:33 pm »

I'm in a room. There's a calendar on the wall. It says "June 3rd 1946". I forget what date it is, even what year, so I do not judge it's accuracy.

When I look at the room, a word keeps leaping to the top of my brain: sepulcher. There are no windows and only a lamp.

There's a man sitting opposite me. He has a journal.

"Can you tell me your name?" he says.

"I do not know it," I say.

He smiles. I wrinkle my nose. "Then what do you think your name is?" he asks.

...

It's so quiet when you all disappear.

...

What's my name?
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« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2015, 04:40:06 pm »

Danger
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« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2015, 04:45:46 pm »

Thats our middle name.

How about Danger D. Danger.

Yeah, that D stands for Danger....
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« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2015, 04:59:31 pm »

You forgot some danger. Its Danger D. D. Danger.
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« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2015, 05:01:14 pm »

"Yeah... You can call me Danger double D Danger for short."
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« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2015, 05:04:35 pm »

"Danger double-D Danger," I say. "The Ds are for Danger." He nods and starts writing in a folder. When I lean forward I recognize a photo (my photo?) poking out of the top, but he pushes it in and smiles.

"What a start," he says. "Danger. A... name, I suppose, and that's what counts. I'm very happy with you."

"So what is my actual name?" I say to him. He shakes his head.

"You don't need to worry about it," he says. "You were once a troubled individual, but now you are tabula rasa, a new day. All is washed away like a baptism. Who needs to know about old times?"

"Troubled," I say. "Is that a new word for crazy?"

He squirms. "We do not use that term in Pleasant Rest," he says. "It implies that you are unchangeable human trash, unable to rise above your unhappy existence of pain and confusion. No, you are not crazy. You are a human being and we respect that."

Troubled. Don't you hate that? I do. It's just... It smells wrong.

He takes out a hand-mirror. I start looking for exits. "Now, I understand that this may be going very fast for you, but I think we're making strides. We have a name for you, right Danger?" he says. "That proves you're firing on all cylinders. We cannot waste that. I'm sure this will hurt but you will forgive that when you see the results. Are you ready?"

What's the point in resisting? I nod. He points the mirror at my face.

... I'm taking it slow. I'm shaved bald... I can't tell if I'm a man or woman. My new name doesn't help me in that regard. I'm wearing... Grey...

I need you to look through my eyes, this is too much. What do I look like?
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« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2015, 05:19:40 pm »

You a man, 6'2 with a heavy build of dence musacle with dark briwn hair and nasty scar over your left eye.
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« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2015, 05:27:32 pm »

You a man, 6'2 with a heavy build of dense muscle with dark brown hair and nasty scar over your left eye.
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« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2015, 05:33:18 pm »

Post to watch.
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« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2015, 06:18:42 pm »

I understand. I'm a man, densely... manacled? No, muscled. Dark brown hair and a scar. I recognize the last one, not the rest. Kitchen accident, right? I wave my hand and he lowers the mirror.

"What did you see?' he says.

"I saw me," I say. My eyes ache. Are they meant to do that?

"I understand this is painful for you," he says. "Your physical self and your mental self are conflicting with each other. You have been rendered a blank slate but your illness remains, overriding the treatment..."

His waffling keeps going on. Metal in sawing against metal in my head. Medicine. He keeps the medicine in the cabinet. Can I get to it? Stop thinking that!

"... And so, you must keep track of yourself," he says. "The vocalizations are a crutch. They will help you for the moment but you must be prepared to abandon them when you need to."

I'm holding my head in my hands. I'm moaning.

I hear him open the cabinet. He presses two little black pills into my hand. He tells me I was very good and says I can go now. I leave the room.

I'm in the Pleasant Rest Sanitarium, For Rest and Convalescence. There's drawings all over the walls. The medicine makes my head ache a little less, but... I feel like I shouldn't be asking this.

Oh hell, you were always good at getting in trouble. And my new name is Danger. Should I get more pills? Where could I get them? I think you said something about Jessica and pills... What was that? My head feels like a deflating balloon; if I don't get this solved I'm going to burst.

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« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2015, 06:20:56 pm »

Don't take any pills. That is what is making us loose our memories.
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« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2015, 06:36:27 pm »

Find a window. Escape to freedom!
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« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2015, 06:48:09 pm »

Find a window. Escape to freedom!
We have to be less conspicuous. Be nice, friendly, cooperative. Then we must escape when they least expect it.
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« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2015, 06:52:05 pm »

Fine...

Find a nurse and ask her where the nearest emergency exit is.

Then find some material to start a fire....
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« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2015, 06:52:52 pm »

Fine...

Find a nurse and ask her where the nearest emergency exit is.

Then find some material to start a fire....
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