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[measureslunacy]

[hey have a 'casual' (read: not wearing a suit or lab coat) Jeremiah Arkham, since he decided to take the advice of some staff and take a day off and go into the city. The only problem is he was just in a shop and now...]

This is why I don't take time off. Things like this are bound to happen.

[looks around analytically, measuring the place up]

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[grasswavemaster]

Mm, not a hallucination.

[grasswavemaster]

That, and I'm not sure if the one that trapped me there is still looking for me.

[measureslunacy]

The one that trapped you. Who might that be?

[grasswavemaster]

I don't know her name. But she's pretty much everywhere in the game, invisible. She tried to make me think that she was my mother.

I think she might be a program of some kind.

[measureslunacy]

Your mother?

Are you very close to your mother?

[grasswavemaster]

... She died a long while ago.

[measureslunacy]

I'm sorry for your loss.

Were you close to her before her passing?

[grasswavemaster]

... Yes. She was... very important to me.

[measureslunacy]

That does make it all the more trying. It is always difficult when we lose those close to us.

Have you allowed yourself to properly grieve the loss of your mother?

[grasswavemaster]

... What do you mean by 'properly grieve'?

[measureslunacy]

Just that. Have you allowed yourself to mourn her loss without pushing the impulse aside or distracting yourself with other pursuits.

[grasswavemaster]

[That's just... fft. He's laughing a bit, but it's not a happy laugh. It's more of a 'shit my life sucks' laugh.]

No. My father didn't give me time, I guess. I was always either cleaning, or doing homework or, when I could get time to myself, reading or drawing or playing video games.

[measureslunacy]

That must've made it very difficult for you. Do you think that video games became an escape for you in a way?

[grasswavemaster]

... Probably. I could do things there that I couldn't do in the real world.

[measureslunacy]

And then you found yourself part of the game itself, the ultimate escape perhaps?

[grasswavemaster]

... I guess?

[Looks very uncomfortable.]