[Mayfield 2] - Complacency [open to all]

[vertulpen]

[Phone]

Has anyone ever quit their job?

[A: At work]
[For the past several days, he's been rather dutiful at the pharmacy.  Even though he didn't remember having worked here before, the other people there, particularly the drones, acted like he'd been there for years.  Needless to say, it wasn't exactly the job he'd choose for himself.  Still, it

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[taegeuk]

You're behind the counter, too?

[vertulpen]

'fraid so.

. . . didn't expect to see you here too.

[But it was nice to see another nation.]

[taegeuk]

Oh, yeah? Well a lot of us here! Not here here--y'know, behind the counter. But around and stuff!

[vertulpen]

Like who?

[taegeuk]

Well there's me, and Hong, and Wan, and Noona, and Aniki, and then France, and England, and America-ssi! And Germany, Austria, Prussia, Hungary, the little guy--Sealand, Australia, and New Zealand, Russia, Cuba... ( he is just going to keep rambling )

[vertulpen]

[He's just going to jot those down. It's nice to keep track of your . . . whatever they were. Friends and enemies, all at once. Korea here though; he hadn't had any real issues with the outgoing nation.]

. . . all of those? Really.

. . . Huh.

[taegeuk]

Yupp! And probably a lot more I'm forgetting.

[vertulpen]

So how long've you been here?

[taegeuk]

Since last year! So...almost six months. It's kinda scary sometimes but other than that it's just a bit weird.

[vertulpen]

Hnngh, that long?

Doesn't anybody get out?

[taegeuk]

Oh...well, they get droned sometimes. Apparently it happened to me awhile ago, and to Aniki, and Dong-saeng...basically your body's still here but your mind isn't. It's really creepy! Don't do anything to make it happen to you, ok?

[vertulpen]

. . . too late for that, but thanks.

Do you live with drones too?

[taegeuk]

Yeah, my wife and daughter! They both used to be real people but now they're not. My son's real, though! He's Aniki's citizen but he's super cool, like me!

[vertulpen]

Wait.

How do you know they were real people?

[So many questions all of the time.]

[taegeuk]

( korea does not mind at all. )

'Cause I met them when they were still people! Then they...left, y'know? Started acting like all the other drone-people.

[vertulpen]

[Oh; like he was. And now for some reason, he's not a drone anymore. Now Netherlands is vaguely wondering what kind of person his drone wife is or ever was. Had she ever been a person? Maybe there were even different kinds of drones.

Korea, you've been kind of useful. Still, he shakes his head.]

This place sometimes. . .