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[thebetterbat]

[greetings, Siren's Port. Have a surly albino in a laboratory, fiddling with something at his work desk. He doesn't bother to look up as he speaks.]

...One would think a building meant to house scientific minds would be safe from the nonsense of this holiday, but no. It's inescapable. If I have to listen to one more nasal attempt at humor

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[topslug]

You can't really blame them, can you? [ She's smiling, though. ]

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[thebetterbat]

Why not?

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[topslug]

Well... [ She puts a hand to her chin. ] People like things that distract them from their problems and cheer them up, even if it's only for a little while.

Living in a city that turns into a nightmare half the time is something most people would want to forget, I think. Forgetting about it won't make it go away, of course, but maybe that's why the city always seems to be celebrating something.

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[thebetterbat]

They always seem to be mourning as well. I wonder that the funeral parlors here are not more aggressive in their advertisements.

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[topslug]

Maybe because they aren't sure if their new clients will suddenly wake up or not? [ Wait, that sounds kind of tasteless... ]

I mean... I've heard people die and come back in this city. Or sometimes, they don't.

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[thebetterbat]

...Come back. [really now.]

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[topslug]

I don't know if it's true, and I haven't spoken to anyone who claimed to have come back from the dead, myself. But that seems to be the case: sometimes the dead are revived in this city.

I wouldn't want to test that theory first-hand, though, if you know what I mean.

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[thebetterbat]

I'm surprised more residents haven't spoken of it.

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[topslug]

I don't think anyone would like talking about their own deaths...

Or maybe there's a cost for being revived.

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[thebetterbat]

The Core is rather selfish with its secrets, isn't it?

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[topslug]

It seems like it! Aren't the companies researching it, though?

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[thebetterbat]

If they are, it isn't in my division.