Kapitel 3, Mind Shattered [Accidental Video]

[verlorenscasket]

 [The PCD is laying on the ground next to Frau's leg. The angle cuts off most of his face and captures the bright green of the tree he is leaning against. There isn't much sound, only that of shaky labored breathing. Frau shifts, fumbling for a cigarette, but ends up dropping it. It lands on the PCD. He goes to grab it and notices that the red

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[supermistfrog]

[For a while, Fran just stares, stares with blank eyes towards the shaking man. Did he really do that by himself?]

[It made him feel strange: A mixture of frustration and pride. He had sunk to the level of the idiot prince or Master, but...]

[Well, this certainly proved he was powerful.]

...

I don't understand how smoking those gross things will help.

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[verlorenscasket]

[The sound of Fran's voice makes him freeze. He should have just put the guy down before he had the chance to mess with him, before he had the chance to look into his mind and root through everything he didn't want others to see. But instead of feeling the need to go out and stop Fran permanently something else rises within him. He picks up the PCD once more. Something about the guy's voice was different. Now he wanted to know what had happened.]

The nicotine helps calm the nerves. [Not that it really affected him much. It was more for the feeling of familiarity for him.]

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[supermistfrog]

[There's nothing but a flat mouth and a blank, hollow stare back at him, any twisted happiness that he may have had back then gone.]

But it'll kill you eventually.

[Video]

[verlorenscasket]

[The hollow stare is a welcome one after what he just went through with the guy.]

Everything'll kill you eventually. Might as well live while you can.

[Video]

[supermistfrog]

Isn't it a common desire to live for as long as possible?

[Though he's not sure he wants to live for a long time here himself.]

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[verlorenscasket]

Generally yeah. But when you can't get lung cancer dying from smoking isn't much of a concern. Don't you do things that put your life at risk?

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[supermistfrog]

Yes, actually. But it's not my fault that they happen; it's the idiots around me,

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[verlorenscasket]

Really? So nothing you ever want to do can potentially put your life at risk? Are you that concerned about not dying or is it something else?

[Video]

[supermistfrog]

I try to avoid it. But I've died before, so I'm not that scared of it anymore.

[He's not sure if he's happy about this fact.]

[Video]

[verlorenscasket]

You've died before? How?

[It was those stupid Animus screwing with the natural order, wasn't it? Not that he could talk. He'd died before too.]

[Video]

[supermistfrog]

I was bitten by a zombie, died, reanimated as another zombie, and then shot in the head so I could die again.

[He's saying it quite casually, but it's clear he doesn't like talking about it.]

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[verlorenscasket]

[...]

You okay?

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[supermistfrog]

I'm obviously not dead now.

...

Shouldn't I be the one asking that question in this situation? Even though I don't really want to.

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[verlorenscasket]

Well obviously. But sometimes a thing like that can have lasting effects on a person.

[He stares for a moment or two. This definitely was not the same person he had met with before.]
I'm alright. I'll be alright. Hey Fran, can I ask you a question?

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[supermistfrog]

I'm not that sensitive.

[Denying that it affected him to this level is easier for him. It's an easy escape.]

Ah, okay. What is it?

[Video]

[verlorenscasket]

Uh huh. If you ever decide you aren't, I'll listen. I think I'd be able to sympathize.

[Not gonna pull any punches here.]
Why did you play mind tricks on so many people?