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[need_to_rule_it]

[rustling, a groan, a yawn...Billy is waking up at his workdesk again]

Wait...huh?

[shuffling as he pushes papers around. His research notes were jumbled in with other jotted equations, which had some other guy's name on it.]

W-what is going on, here? Who's 'Fred'?

[looking around, there was stuff everywhere, completely covering his room. Pictures and

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[warcraftandcash]

It's a talking journal. You're in a castle. Kitchen's on the first floor. I have no idea who Fred is. I don't think anyone can tell you anything else.

We all seem to have some laser-guided amnesia here.

[need_to_rule_it]

Yeah yeah, I know all that...[huh, he really did. Weird.]

Wh-- ...amnesia? Like, at one point, all this stuff made sense?

[he tried so hard ignore all the things that his brain was telling him he should know but didn't]

[warcraftandcash]

I'm guessing. Unless we're all clones put here as an experiment to see what we do when surrounded by strangers and pictures with peoples' names on them. Amnesia's a better option, I think.

[need_to_rule_it]

I don't know. The other one doesn't sound half bad.

[staring in disbelief at a picture of himself posing in a labcoat and welding goggles]

[warcraftandcash]

You want to be a clone? Are you kidding me? People never make clones for good reasons! It's, like, license to torture us or something.

[You say that like there's something wrong with welding goggles.]

[need_to_rule_it]

Yeah, but...then the person in these pictures wouldn't be me.

[D:]

[warcraftandcash]

There's something wrong with the pictures? What, are you murdering people in your bathtub?

[D:]

[need_to_rule_it]

Uh. No. Just... [trails off as he turns an empty fro-yo cup around in his hands]

...Let me know if you find something labeled 'Billy,' will ya?

[warcraftandcash]

Uhm. Something like [cough] you getting a car thrown at your head?

[need_to_rule_it]

A what??

[warcraftandcash]

A car. At your head. Being thrown. You speak English, right?

[need_to_rule_it]

Yeah, I heard you.

How did a--...you know what. Can you just bring whatever you found here? I'm on the fourth floor.

I'd...really appreciate it.

[oh Billy, you're almost polite without your memories]

[warcraftandcash]

Sure, why the hell not? I'm in one of the towers, so give me a minute or two.

[And in a few minutes, sure enough Alec is knocking on Billy's door] Hey.

[need_to_rule_it]

[has to kick some junk out of the way to open the door, but]

Hey. [blink] ...Oh! Hey! [points at him]

I have a movie of you!

[warcraftandcash]

[Oh hey, he's got lots of mechanical junk too! Alec sidles into the room]

You do? What movie's that?

[need_to_rule_it]

[memories, high-tech junk, some that serves as both, it's all getting pushed out of the way as he opens the door wide enough to let Hardison in]

Well. Video. It's pretty funny actually.

[starts digging through the pile of videos next to the memory TV that the castle dumped in his room]

Uh...what's your name?