[49] hasn't it been a wonderful year?

[buildstherobots]

[filtered from drones, etc, backdated a few hours]

So I have a gift for all of you. I've finally completed my gorgeously constructed letter to our unfortunate new prisoners; I have a stack of copies here, replicated by yours truly, and will generously give one out to anyone who asks. 1767 Beaver Street.

[filtered to Percy Jackson]I have also

Comments

[Action]

[time_shattered]

[As Dimitri is still new here, he can't pass up the chance to get more information about this place.]

Are you the one passing out letters to the new arrivals?

[Action]

[buildstherobots]

[Dist nods, picking one up and holding it out.]

I'm sure you'll find everything you need inside. I'm very thorough.

[Action]

[time_shattered]

Thank you.

[Accepts it and gives it a quick read.]

Hm, not quite what I expected.

[Action]

[buildstherobots]

[Dist frowns.]

Well what were you expecting?

[Action]

[time_shattered]

This is still hard to believe, that's all. But this information is welcomed.

[Action]

[buildstherobots]

[Okay, that gets him to relax. Dist is a defensive creature.]

It was hard for me to believe too when I first got here ten months ago. I interviewed many people so that the list of events would be as relevant as possible.

[Action]

[time_shattered]

You've been here that long?

[Action]

[buildstherobots]

Sadly, yes. There were others from my world, but they're gone now. Others have been here over a year; almost two, really.

[Action]

[time_shattered]

How do people leave? I assume it's involuntary.

[Action]

[buildstherobots]

Indeed. For the most part we don't leave; when there's a permanent droning, we believe that the person's mind returns home while the empty body stays here.

[Action]

[time_shattered]

Then what about their body back home? Or would the empty body left here simply be a copy of their original one?

[Action]

[buildstherobots]

The body here is kept as a copy, presumably. Sometimes people come back from being gone for who knows how long, right back into the leftover shell.

[Action]

[time_shattered]

It seems pointless to let someone leave and then bring them back.

[Action]

[buildstherobots]

This whole place is pointless; everything they do to us seems to have no thought behind it at all. I hate to say it, but you do get used to it after a while.

[Action]

[time_shattered]

I suppose that's a little bit reassuring.