AUDIO MEMORY 01

[notamelonfucker]

[First there's the sound of a controller clicking and video game background music.]

Nathan: Hey, watch me run over this fat bloke. Run fat boy run! Awww he's fucked up my car!

[A pause. There are gunshots and the sound of a woman screaming from the video game system, all very obviously fake.]Barry: We need to play the game for real. If we

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[ghost_of_00]

Strange.

[notamelonfucker]

[He sounds a little dumbfounded.]

...which part of it?

[ghost_of_00]

All of it.

[...]

Why would you steal?

[notamelonfucker]

It sounded like we needed to to keep someone safe. [He feels the need to defend himself.] I'm not a thief.

[Just an arsonist.]

[ghost_of_00]

Oh.

[She's not judging--she really is not familiar with the concept. But she does take note of his defending himself.]

Do you know anything else?

[notamelonfucker]

Anything else?

[ghost_of_00]

The person you needed to protect.

[notamelonfucker]

Oh. No. I just arrived here a week ago. All I know about myself is that my name isn't Barry.

[ghost_of_00]

But you chose the name.

[notamelonfucker]

Yes, I...

[...]

The greeter. She kept on telling me that I had to choose a name, and it was all I could think of. Maybe it was a nickname.

[ghost_of_00]

A reasonable guess.

[notamelonfucker]

What did you call yourself?

[ghost_of_00]

00.

[She pronounces it "zero."]

[notamelonfucker]

[Oh. That's a cool name. He wishes he thought of something as cool as that. Instead he's Barry. And Barry's kind of a stupid name.]

Can I ask why you named yourself that?

[ghost_of_00]

You did.

I saw it in my dream.

...I am going to end up doing brackets for every tag I AM SORRY

[notamelonfucker]

[He kind of wants to point out that he didn't actually ask, he asked if he could ask. Big difference.

...but he still feels too shy so he just shuts his mouth instead. He sort of wishes that if he's to be reborn in this place he could have been reborn as someone a little different.]

The numbers?