e i g h t. ( anon text ) . like playing with fire, i'll get hurt

[dedikated]

( This message comes to the network at 3am, the sign of someone not sleeping, probably having spent one too many nights at Delight's bar to be at all healthy for their liver.

Whether they're drunk this night is a question that's hard to answer, since they've had the sense to turn on anonymous posting and type correctly. But three words can't be that hard to type, right? )

Are you coping?

( If you have to send this? You're probably not. )

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[skelebro]

[lol why even bother with anon when you gotta make a conscious effort to make your font look like anything other than what it is? No point in it.]

just fine, thanks.
how're you?

[Which is a dirty lie, but he's pretty sure 95% of the people here expect that.]

just anon texting forever.

[dedikated]

Peachy.

( Just. Fucking. Peachy. Because everyone who's peachy stays up on the clinic's rooftop, sort of tipsy and asks stupid cryptic questions to the network at large. Absolutely. )

[anonymous text]

[circumitus]

why do you care?

[skelebro]

in general, someone who's coping don't feel the need to post something like this.

[But yeah, sure. Super peachy.]

[anonymous text]

[dedikated]

Probably shouldn't.
But we're all stuck here going through this shit.

Just wondering.

[dedikated]

Fair.
Might just wonder how everyone else is doing.

[skelebro]

should we be worried about what sparked this wave of concern for your fellow cave-dwellers?

[dedikated]

Tends to happen after everyone grows an evil twin.

( Tends to like this happens often. Ok Kitkat. )

[skelebro]

sure.
i mean, that last wringer the gods put us through?
pretty stressful.



why now?
not like we haven't seen worse.

[Speak for yourself, Sans. This is the first event in which you died.]

[dedikated]

Boiling point, isn't it?
Seems like this was the last thing a lot of us needed.

( You needed, Katherine. You. )

[anon text]

[somuchlove]

[Chara's not one to share their feelings. On the other hand, this event had left them with less than a full deck, so to speak.]

As well as to be expected.

Yourself?

[They kind of have the feeling they already have the answer.]

[skelebro]

hey, don't blame me.
i said voting confusion wouldn't go over well.

[He hates being right.]

i'll give our evil twins one thing to their credit:
a lotta that stuff seems like it needed to get out there in some way or another.
no more secrets.

it was bound to happen at some point.
even if the way it did really sucked.

[anon text]

[dedikated]

Same.

( She's just sober enough, sat in the cold of the open cave, up on the clinic's rooftop, to sort of regret the impulse to ask this.

Not quite sober enough to stop talking to people though. So, understatements it is, then. )

Just tired.

[anon text]

[somuchlove]

[Chara can share the regrets of random impulses, if it comes up.]

I sincerely doubt the Gods plan on letting us rest long enough to recover.

[Just to kick them all while they're down.]

[dedikated]

She were gonna come back eventually. Would have dealt with her now or in a few months.

This some fucked up version of therapy, then?

[skelebro]

one way of lookin' at it.
there's advantages to it.
even if it don't seem like it.

[anon text]

[dedikated]

Even if they do, there'll be new monsters soon enough.

( She doubts it entirely, but the monsters are all but guaranteed. And who knows what or who will come through the Door this month?

It'd be just Kate's luck that after all this, Rosenberg would claw her way out of hell for real. )

[dedikated]

Not sending them a thank you card for this shit.

[skelebro]

hey, neither am i.
wasn't fun watchin' a guy with my face be a prick to just about everyone.

just sayin' it ain't a total loss.

[anon text]

[somuchlove]

And with them comes more people.

[It could be anyone that arrives here. Faces that Chara didn't want to see because they didn't deserve it, for what they did.]

Sometimes I have to wonder if this is a hell of some sort.

[dedikated]

Why wouldn't it?

[dedikated]

Dunno. No one has yet.

[anon text]

[dedikated]

Close enough to my idea of one.

( All it's missing are some of the people to make it worse, whether that's through hatred or caring too damn much. )

[dedikated]

Guess if things got said.

( Some of us just watched the temples burn. )

[dedikated]

People surprise you.