text; un: firecracker

[cactusy]

[Shaw is not a social media user, and when it comes to intel-gathering, she'd much rather do it in person; someone else (hint: this means you, Root) can keep tabs on the simulation's weird-ass internet. Not her circus, not her monkeys.

Except right now, she's holed up in the apartment Root's stashed her in, physically and emotionally exhausted but with her brain still moving a mile a minute. So, okay, she'll pull out her tablet. She'll play a few (or ten) rounds of Snake. And then she'll take a peek at the network.

Two of the most recent posts are lengthy musings on philosophy. Goddammit.]

you're all excruciating

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[cactusy]

you guys keep thinking that's going to be a surprise to hear

I know myself

[laserguy]

okay. i kind of respect the honesty.

new, right? don't recognize the name.

[cactusy]

I've been here for 3 hours

[laserguy]

and it took you three hours to form that opinion.

[Not that she's entirely wrong... depends on who she met.]

[cactusy]

hell no

it took me 3 minutes

[laserguy]

[wow.]

damn who did you come across?

[was it quentin? it was probably him--]

[cactusy]

someone from home, but those 3 minutes didn't happen immediately

I was going to keep an open mind and hold off on making any snap judgments, but that all went out the window as soon as I looked at this forum here

[laserguy]

good or bad thing that you know this person?

talking about the messages we send to each other? my general rule is if it's longer than a paragraph or mentions philosophy immediately, i'm not reading or listening.

[cactusy]

couldn't have asked for a better simulation acclimation buddy. she doesn't cut the existential dread, but at least she makes it fun

your philosophy's sound, I like it.

[laserguy]

high praise coming from someone that called everyone 'excruciating.'

i'm not voluntarily listening to someone's boring lecture about despair or the meaning of life. hard pass.

[cactusy]

don't get me wrong, she's still excruciating sometimes

nobody's perfect

[laserguy]

so, am i getting a name of who this person is?

because being 'sometimes excruciating' doesn't narrow down the list all that much.

[cactusy]

Root. know her?

[laserguy]

yeah, i do.

we met while trying save the world and all that.

[cactusy]

what do you know, same here

[laserguy]

so, she's a hero type huh? i'm not surprised.

[cactusy]

you should tell her that to her face. and film it for me.

[laserguy]

saying it like that, i'm honestly tempted to.

how much will you pay me? :p

[cactusy]

I'll give you a credit card, how's that

[One with a fake identity's name on it, but it's the thought that counts, right?]