happy halloween

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[You wake up in a bedroom. You don't remember it. That's strange. At least the dressers have your clothes in them. There is a hospital ID bracelet on your wrist with your room number, just in case you forget.

Why don't you go outside, wander around? Explore your floor, go down the stairs, check out the other rooms?

You could introduce yourself!

Oh, wait. Introduce yourself? You can't. Because you don't remember your name. You don't remember anything.

Sorry about that.]

[ooc: OCTOBER PLOT, SUCKERS. The hotsprings resort is described here in full]

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[inhumanity]

Hm... [He seems to be reflecting on this.] I guess... I'm not.

[There is a doll-like simplicity to the way he thinks of it.]

[not_a_lamb_nor_ram]

[ In other instances, 808 would probably ask the stranger how he does that but -- ] Really? You're not at all bothered that you don't remember why or how you've come here?

[inhumanity]

No. I'm not. [It's almost dull, as if he wasn't aware of it until 808 asked him to reflect on it--but as if, on realizing it, he isn't surprised.]

I don't need to know.

[not_a_lamb_nor_ram]

So that's it? [ That doesn't sit well with 808 very well. ] You forget who are and that's just fine?

[inhumanity]

[He can tell 808 is not happy with his answer, but he doesn't know what else he can do.]

I'm sorry.

[He doesn't want to make this person upset with him. But he can't conceive wondering why. He tries to explain.]

Wondering the meaning behind this, why someone has done it... I don't expect an answer from anyone.

that was supposed to be "forget who *you* are..." OTL

[not_a_lamb_nor_ram]

You don't have to be.

[ 808 takes a deep breath, briefly clenching his hands on the stone edge of the bath he is sitting on, and moves his feet in the water enough to make muffled splashing sounds. ] It doesn't have to be from anyone. You look -- around you, anywhere. I just-- I just want to know.

[ Another breath and -- ] But if there's someone out there who knows then they'd better have a good explanation to give.

I READ IT IN, IT'S OKAY

[inhumanity]

There must be someone. [He lifts up his wrist. The frills fall away, showing the wrist band.] This was organized by someone. But no one came to explain. It's someone's will that we're here. It's also their will that we be told nothing.

<3

[not_a_lamb_nor_ram]

[ 808 looks at his own wrist band, and just barely biting down the bitterness in his voice -- ]

Why?

[inhumanity]

We don't need to know what they're thinking. [That came out automatically, as if he is used to saying (thinking) it.]

[not_a_lamb_nor_ram]

[ The non-answers, on top of the heat, makes 808 irritable, such as he spins and gets up from his sitting position in a blink of an eye so as to face the other man. It almost feels that he had been getting non-answers all his life and he has just had enough of it. His voice raises -- ]

Why--? This is clearly not normal! If you have brain problems like memory loss you're in a facility where people take care of you and not leave you like-- like this!

[ He knows he shouldn't take it out of this man, but 808 just doesn't like what comes out of his mouth. ]

And you talk as if you know what's happening even if we're in the same boat.

[inhumanity]

[1008 only blinks back at him, not rising in offense or in emotion.] I don't know if it's normal... That isn't a word I think I have anything to do with. To me, this is familiar. If I had to answer on instinct, this is an experiment.

[He doesn't remember, but Kiran is right: he knows. He knows what this feels like. Unaware and used: he knows it very well.]