010 - Blackberry

[deadly_ned]

[Filtered to First Floor - Red Team, affected and unaffected alike]


Come with me if you don't want paint on your clothes.


[Filtered to Thomas MacLaine]

Stay right there. I'm coming to rescue you. Don't. Panic.

We're going to go kick some ass.

Comments

[deadly_ned]

He does.

I have my room.

[darknessb4me]

No one gives a damn about your room, it has no strategic value.

Take one or two more people and take the infirmary. Shoot the patients and hold the doctors hostage. No one gets in or out that isn't on our team.

[deadly_ned]

It has...sentimental value.


What.

No.

No, we're not taking the infirmary.

[darknessb4me]

Why? It's the obvious step after securing the only source of food.

[deadly_ned]

It's also cruel and unnecessary and we're better than that.

[darknessb4me]

It's advantageous and effective. That's the measure of whether or not we're "better."

[deadly_ned]

I think we can win without taking people hostage.

[darknessb4me]

It's not as if we're actually going to hurt anyone. It's paint.

[deadly_ned]

It's fear.

[darknessb4me]

What's wrong with fear?

[deadly_ned]

It isn't how I like to win.

[darknessb4me]

I enjoy fear.

[deadly_ned]

You wouldn't enjoy it if it happened to you.

[darknessb4me]

I'm not afraid of paint.

[deadly_ned]

Would you be afraid of being a hostage?

[darknessb4me]

I'd like to see someone try to take me hostage.

[deadly_ned]

If they could.

Would you be afraid?

[darknessb4me]

Of course not. I would be angry.

[deadly_ned]

Can't you empathize with people who are scared? Being scared is one of the worst feelings imaginable. You're so...out of your own control, you're not in charge and nothing seems right..

1/2

[darknessb4me]

I... stop that.

2/2

[darknessb4me]

If I don't scare people, something else will. The world isn't a very empathetic place.

[deadly_ned]

So you scare people to....make them stronger?

[darknessb4me]

No, I scare people because it's fun. The point is, it doesn't matter whether I do or not.

[deadly_ned]

If you knew what it was like to be scared, I don't think you'd find it as fun.

[darknessb4me]

I know what it's like.