i am a terrible terrible person for even considering this

[escarabajo]

What made you think that this would be a good idea?

No. Really.

I really want to know what your thought process was here, because shipping me off to California to basically become a serial killer is, like, THE worst idea you could ever have come up with!

Can't you just take me to one of those games where I become a wizard or go to some wacky high school or grow cat ears?! Anything but this, seriously!!

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[bratbeyond]

Do the people in your place permanently die when you kill them? Or is it a slap on the wrist?

[THIS IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION, OKAY?]

[escarabajo]

They don't die for good, they come back.

But it's still killing. It'll feel like they're dying, and I'll feel like I'm killing them.

And I'm not okay with that.

[bratbeyond]

I wouldn't be either... but if your typist is so gung-ho about the idea, there's not much you can do.

[escarabajo]

I'll find a way around it. Somehow.

[bratbeyond]

Good luck. It sounds like you'll need it.

[escarabajo]

Thanks. I mean, I've been through the mill with this one. [jerks a thumb behind the fourth wall at his mun.] The last place I was at had... zombies and cannibals and stuff.

I still don't actually know if this'll be better or worse, but I guess we'll see, right?

[bratbeyond]

I don't know, I'd rather take the zombies over killing other people. At least they're supposed to be dead.

[escarabajo]

...Good point.

I think I'd take the cannibal over this too.

[Which is saying a LOT, considering how bad Bell Pointe was on him.]

[bratbeyond]

Cannibals? Really?

... I don't think I should be surprised at this point.

[canthandleacape]

That bit about serial killing, that's an exaggeration, right?

[escarabajo]

It's an assassination contest.

I'm supposed to kill everybody above me to get to whoever's Number One, and then kill that guy. And then I go home.

Naturally? I am way not okay with this.

[escarabajo]

I've pretty much seen everything at this point. Nothing surprises me anymore.

[bratbeyond]

Not even the me who's supposedly dating your sister?

[canthandleacape]

Who the hell would be?!

OK, that's a stupid question, I can probably name half a dozen people off the top of my head who would, but who sane?

[escarabajo]

...

...

You're WHAT?

[Maybe "nothing" was hyperbole.]

[escarabajo]

Not many. But that's the thing: everyone who's in Santa Destroy--that's the town's real name, I'm not kidding--was taken there against their will. And apparently this Association who's pulling the strings is really tricky, so you end up fighting whether you want to or not.

There's kids there too.

It's so horrible, I don't think I actually have the vocabulary to say how horrible it is.

[bratbeyond]

[Apparently it was.] Not me, you zift!

Some other Damian around here's apparently dating your sister. So maybe you should think of him every time you enter that arena.

[escarabajo]

...How old is she? How old is he?!

[PROTECTIVE BIG BROTHER MODE, ACTIVATE.]

[bratbeyond]

They're both sixteen? I don't know, I'm not the one interested in this sort of thing!

[He regrets he ever said anything. PLEASE DON'T KILL HIM JAIME, HE DOESN'T LIKE MILAGRO LIKE THAT.]