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[gotgreenmagic]

[She sets her communicator down and returns to what she's doing, i.e. painting her nails with black polish.]

Well, that easily made my top five 'dumbest floods ever' and I've been here nearly two years.

If you're new, woo hoo. Either you're dead and you're stuck here, or you're alive and you've just made a really stupid decision. Welcome to the

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[darknessb4me]

Animals was dumber.

[gotgreenmagic]

Agreed. This still easily makes top five. Maybe top three.

[darknessb4me]

What's your number one? You've been here longer than I have.

[gotgreenmagic]

Yeah, but I don't remember any really lame ones before you. If the metric we're using is 'stupid, irritating and pointless', my top three are this one, the animals one and the musical one. In no specific order. I refuse to invest any more mental energy on working out how something is more ridiculous than something else.

[darknessb4me]

The singing. Hated the singing.

[This place has the weirdest ways of wearing you right the fuck down.]

[gotgreenmagic]

Agreed. You know, some months? I could actually be tricked into thinking the Admiral has a plan and the floods actually mean something. But then he pulls some crap like that and I remember, no, he's just a sadist with godlike powers.

[darknessb4me]

Sometimes I thought something at home was steering events too, even when it wasn't possible. Seeing meaning where there wasn't any.

[For awhile there, he thought he had a destiny. The events around him made a story, and he was the hero at the center that was going to make everything alright again if he just followed what his gut told him to do and was brave and didn't hesitate.

...He was basically dumb as a rock when he was younger, and he's so glad he's gotten over it.]

You can't think of floods as sentient. Or whatever's behind them. That way lies.... madness. Or at least a lot of impotent frustration.

[gotgreenmagic]

Obviously we have very different coping strategies, because I find the idea that all this is completely random even more depressing.

[darknessb4me]

I've seen plain bad luck do a lot worse.