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hey so i have a question
it's kind of a stupid question
but i guess that's sort of the point of this network right
i've got a song stuck in my head and it won't go away
so how do i get rid of it?

also on a related note
i thought we were supposed to be remembering events
not songs
i have no idea if there's a point to it or not
but it's stuck in my head now and i can't get it out

if you don't have an answer at least tell me the weirdest thing you've remembered
it doesn't have to be anything pointless like a song

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Absolutely.

that sounds like such a mess
so did you turn into anything like that or were you just fighting those people?

From what I understand, they were voluntary transformations. I theoretically could have done it, but if I ever did, I don't remember it. I did fight a few of them, though.

that's probably a good thing
who knows what you would have turned into
you're probably better off not knowing

did you fight bondage man?

His name was Sergei Vladimir. Of course I fought him.

with a name like that i can see why you'd call him the most soviet individual
did you win?

He also called me "comrade" and was generally very overfamiliar in speech, with an extremely heavy accent.

I did win, however.

i'm absolutely not surprised to hear that

and good it'd be kind of a shame to lose to something like that
did you fight these kinds of people often?

Often enough. Sometimes others would fight them as well; I observed those sometimes.

did you get to watch anything particularly fun?

A pair of people with handguns and a woman with napalm blood fighting a sixty-foot plantlike abomination, for one.

that sounds really cool honestly
did they win?
i'm not sure how they'd win with handguns but the napalm blood lady probably was useful

The napalm blood lady was definitely useful. They did win eventually, though it took them a while. Understandably.

understandably
so was the giant plant thing also a person at one point?

He was. He was arguably still a person while he was the plant thing; they're still intelligent while they're like that, it isn't as though they lose themselves any.

But he was fully human before, yes.

huh
so did he decide to become a plant thing or did that just sort of happen
also could he go back to being a person afterwards?
or would he just be stuck as a giant plant thing
because that would really suck

I'm actually not certain; he wasn't like me, or like Sergei for that matter. We could choose to do it whenever we wanted, and from what I understand we could go back to how we were before, assuming we didn't take too much damage and die while we were like that.

(Sergei just dissolved into the floor after he died. It was repulsive.)

But that man was like that because he allowed himself to be consumed by a highly modified carnivorous plant of some sort. I won't even claim to understand how any of the rest resulted from that, but because of the way it happened I can't say for sure whether he could have undone that or not.

that's so gross
the dissolving part i mean
the rest of it is kind of fascinating?
though i have no idea why he'd want to let himself be consumed by a plant
did he know for sure that was going to happen or did he just assume he'd be fine?
sounds like your memories were full of crazy people

Clearly, his massive ego would protect him.

clearly
but it didn't
he lost to handguns and napalm blood
what a way to go

There are worse ways, I'm sure, though I'm hard-pressed to think of too many.

"I made my last stand as a giant slug" and "just dissolving into the floor, for some reason" are fairly high up there, however.

yeah i think those two win out
so why'd your friend turn into a slug anyway?

That's the question of the hour, more or less. Unless something truly idiotic happened, he shouldn't have had the ability to do that at all, and even if he did I'm not altogether certain why it would have looked like that - it would have been largely useless to him, I'd think, when usually the transformations offer more power.

Unless the goal he was after involved "somehow still being physically intact, albeit dead, after the train he was on exploded." In which case...well, congratulations to him on the completely pointless achievement, I suppose, he managed.

your memories sound fun
completely crazy but fun

as for your friend
wow
that sure is a hell of a way to go isn't it
i'm not sure if that's better or worse than liquefying

They were, surprisingly, when they were that sort of thing. Although fighting was something I enjoyed in general back then.

I've had to tell someone once that I wasn't the most reckless person in my memories; they didn't believe me until I told them stories like this.