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( channel 0 + message board ) dr. rousseau ; open dialogue

( the following message from dr. charlotte rousseau is on the phone network + transcribed via text on the message board. )

Hello again, Wayward Pines. You've had a couple of days now to work through the things we explained to you on Thursday. Now, we're opening the floor to you — for your questions, and hopefully to begin the dialogue that will help all of us figure out how to peacefully coexist.

MOD NOTES

This is the interaction portion of the public address posted last week! While all approaches are welcomed, the post is ICly intended to address questions/concerns and to reach an agreement (or realize that an agreement can't be reached).

This post is currently available both on the audio network & on the message boards, so characters can choose which they'd prefer to respond to.

This is the final piece of our Arc I metaplot. Congrats — we made it!

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So, how did you guys come up with the memories? Have an English major back there who couldn't find any other work?

[ Down, boy. His real, actually pertinent questions may come later but he's a bit sour about having all these people he's attached to without his permission. No takebacksies, though, don't even dare. ]

What the hell gave you the right for any of this?!

Did you honestly think filling our heads with lies would make it easier to "fit in"?

Edited 2017-06-26 00:36 (UTC)

[ blunt, to the point. ]

The creatures are not so formidable that we [ read: me ] need cower from them. Open the wall!

[ IBARAKI YOU FUCKING ATE THEM ]

If the rest of our families aren't in town, does that mean they're dead or can they still be in cryogenic stasis?

What the fuck is wrong with you people? How about we start with that one, then--oh, and: how the fuck did I get here? I've never been anywhere near...wherever in hell we are.

You keep sayin' "we" but I feel like all I'm hearin' on this is from you. Who else knew this was goin' on?

Edited (wording) 2017-06-26 00:06 (UTC)

[he's not really in the mood for a clever username right now]

Just making sure I got it right: you put us all on ice for a thousand years. You didn't just leave a few people to wander around all that time.

[he may be hoping to blame them for the Romero he had to put down]

How dare you?

[ That's it, that's the question.

...No, just kidding. He'd like to stay mad and let that be it but he's got legitimate questions too. ]

Okay. Talk to me about vaccination against MVX2022. Did it ever work? Did you ever get a chance to test it?

[ He's still got that vial Aranea brought him to investigate. He knows... what he knows. Will he learn anything else? ]

What if I don't buy it?

What happened to the people who disappeared after getting taken off the ice? The ones who were here in town.

[ You know what's fun? Already having a vocabulary for this bullshit. ]

[ -- sorry, he's literally eating while calling in. #stayclassysteel. ]

This can't be the only "ark". How many others are there? Are you in communication with them?

So, all these fake memories: is that gonna stop, or is that just how we are now?

[ Yeah, there are probably more pressing issues than this, but it's alarming to realize you have memories of entire relationships and parts of your life that never happened. ]

Why was there no mention of the removal of trackers with the rest of your security measures?

Will people who wake up still have those false memories implanted in them?

Did you people kidnap children to bring them here?

Edited 2017-06-26 00:37 (UTC)

and here i thought i'd met all of the galaxy's biggest assholes. congrats!, you guys have definitely taken the cake... now how's about doing us all a favor and choking on it. [ spoiler alert, he ain't happy. ]

You knocked us out remotely. How?

[It's safe to say Makie only understands maybe half of the terms being used on the network right now, but she listens to other explanations (like what's cryogenesis before posing a question of her own.

To be honest, she doesn't really care what this place is, though she prefers her initial impression. So much for that.

One question to begin with, then:]

Am I one of your accidental collections? I don't know anything about 1980s but I don't believe any of what you're discussing is even remotely possible in my... time.

What does 'haptic tests' mean?

Did you even think, for a second, these memories would end up meanin' somethin'?

( so. maybe. there is a reason he's asking this, but that's neither here nor there. he's. upset and confused and. more upset. )

What gives you the right!?

[He sounds tired, but firm. Don't take his overall acceptance as a lack of anger and frustration. There're just more important things to do than indulge in wasted emotion.]

I've only got two for now: How did you bring people back from the dead? And where do I sign up to go out there?

[ everybody had jumped at the chance to get a word in edgewise. a lot of questions she had surrounding the situation had been asked and answered, which left her with room to ask something personal. ]

I was in the hospital over a month ago and I was wondering if you could shed some light on what happened… [ she had been out of commission for a few weeks and following her discharge she was still feeling poorly. only now did it seem like she was back to her old self. ]

[ Pietro hadn't been sure what to feel, after the initial broadcast. There are trackers in their legs and cameras in their homes and a fence-- that's apparently meant to keep those creatures out, not keep all of them in. They aren't being experimented on or exterminated. If he trusts what the doctor said (and he doesn't, but hypothetically), they're being "protected" from a world gone to hell.

He can't remember the last time anyone except his siblings gave a shit if he lived or died. The last time he wasn't sure, if he stopped hiding, he would die.That if he had children, if his siblings had children, they'd they'd be in danger every minute of every day, because no one wanted to see them survive but them. And here is this Dr. Rousseau professing how much they value his life.

But just his life. Not his bodily autonomy. Not his mind. Not his free will. Not the parts that make him a person. It makes him feel a little sick in whole new ways, and he doesn't even know the full extent of it. As the details begin to trickle in, though, and the whole of what was done begins to take shape in his mind, that's when anger starts to curdle in his veins, caustic in his voice. ]

How do you propose we differentiate now, between our real memories and the lies you've been feeding us?

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