(text) a completely hypothetical question

[blacksong]

[The only reason Rose is posting this is because she thinks it's going up anonymously, but what's one more effort blowing up in her face when that's all she's gotten for the past. Forever, right! Besides, she didn't actually bother to put back her name in when prompted, so everyone gets to see this post from just another asshole instead.]

okay so hear me out

let's say there was some crazy alien parasite infesting you that wanted to
idk destroy the entire world or something
end all of humanity at the very least
now you could live and let all that bullshit happen
i mean god knows how long you'll even be okay with something like that living in you
but anyways
you could do that or you could... you know, die

what would you pick

also before anyone asks: yeah i should probably get therapy but who doesn't need that on this app

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[blacksong]

well shit
if only i got this desperate earlier

not really
i've had this... parasite thing for like a year now
no idea how long that means in the grand scheme of things

[usurpers]

Do you die if it dies or is this just the other way around? Is there a way to bring it out to fight it or would that just be fighting you?

Just because you don’t think you can remove it doesn’t mean we can’t try.

[blacksong]

if i die permanently it should die
idk what killing it first and alone (if that's possible) would do to me
fighting it... might just be fighting me??
god idk i only know a few of the bullshit rules for it
i think there's a bunch more i haven't remembered

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[usurpers]

We’ll find someone and something.

Retrospec’s whole mission is to save the world(s) and keep us from dying. They wouldn’t be so unprepared they’d bring in a parasite that wants to destroy it without tying any loops, even more one that’ll kill you in the process.

As for what you’d do, that’s something only you have the position to decide.

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[usurpers]

But I get that it’s a shitty one.
It’s either you or them, and it’s not like you willingly put yourself in that situation.

[blacksong]

i think you're the only person i've ever talked to who has any amount of faith in retrospec
but fair, i guess
i really didn't but now that i'm in it i have to figure out how to deal with it
one way or the other

[usurpers]

I had faith in Zee. Have.
They’ll find something for you. Maybe they already have something of that thing has been around long enough.

[blacksong]

it's been like a year since they dumped this thing on me
that's plenty of time for them to figure shit out i'd say