II／Murder Study (Revision) - Backdated to Monday
[Phone ; Public]
So the chaos has finally settled down, and this is the type of game this town is in habit of pulling? Rather crudely done, and I've seen some tasteless things back home. At any rate, while I'd also rather let bygones be bygones, this can still be a good time to revise a few things. Namely, I'll review a study in homicide, the killing of a human.
What is murder?
It's when the emotion you feel towards someone goes over your capacity. Once it overloads, it has to be cleaned up in some way. Taken to the extreme, that becomes murder. Murder is when people put their dignity and their past on a scale and eliminate one. Then you bear the significance and the sin of killing someone.
In other words, killing someone is the same as killing yourself.
What happened isn't murder. Well, I guess that some people could have gotten especially unlucky and were assigned to kill someone they genuinely had feelings for, but if that was the case, there's no need to wait for such an occasion. The revival delay has been extended to a week, but the end result doesn't change. It'll vary with the individual, but generally, it can be said that there have been few murder cases last week, if not none. Rater, someone who kills now for revenge would be more fitting of the title "murderer". As long as you can retrace your killer, at any rate. I wouldn't be surprised if this town put everyone's names out on display somewhere, but I haven't tried looking myself just yet.
So what happened? It'd be more accurate to call it as slaughter. Going by the norms of standard society, people who commit slaughter would be considered as homicidal maniacs, right? "Satsujinki"... To have it come back like this. Heh. The term is just as it sounds:, the ones who were killed were human, but the one who killed lacks the dignity of a human and is no longer human. That maniac simply kills without needing any form of reason, so it's comparable to a natural disaster. Those involved with it are just unlucky. That's what the last event was more like, but with one major difference: there's an established trigger. The letters were crafted to suit each individual, including psychological intimidation and enticement made to obtain cooperation even against the unwilling. To those who were not affected by threats or offers, they could have treated this as an experience to the sort of stunt that this town can pull. Doing it for an educational purpose is still a cause, no matter how impossible to comprehend and twisted that may look to someone else. That's why in the end, it'd also be hard to cleanly label someone as a "homicidal maniac". The line between murder and slaughter have been blurred so much to the point that it's become warped beyond recognition. ...Heh. Nothing can be taken as seriously as they were before, let it be slaughter or murder. So what does that leave us with, both participants and victims?
I can't answer that, but knowing this place now, it may well pull something like this again. Anyway, this is getting long, so I'll summarize:
No matter what you thought of life before, it has been cheapened in Mayfield. In turn, that means murder isn't as severe as it should be, so people would do well to adapt accordingly. It can still carry a mental impact, but if you want to survive here, either loosen up, or hold onto them but know that these values will be repeatedly tested. There are no physical consequences: die in any way imaginable the day before, and your body will be perfectly restored the day after. In a way, we're all invincible, but the flesh is where it stops. The mind is much more fragile, so any damage there won't be as easy to heal. It can be regulated, however: the mental consequences are generated and felt only by you, no one else. Get bitter and hold a grudge, and then you're really letting the town get to you.
[Phone ; 725 Anderson Lane]
Hi! May I speak to Anders, please?
So the chaos has finally settled down, and this is the type of game this town is in habit of pulling? Rather crudely done, and I've seen some tasteless things back home. At any rate, while I'd also rather let bygones be bygones, this can still be a good time to revise a few things. Namely, I'll review a study in homicide, the killing of a human.
What is murder?
It's when the emotion you feel towards someone goes over your capacity. Once it overloads, it has to be cleaned up in some way. Taken to the extreme, that becomes murder. Murder is when people put their dignity and their past on a scale and eliminate one. Then you bear the significance and the sin of killing someone.
In other words, killing someone is the same as killing yourself.
What happened isn't murder. Well, I guess that some people could have gotten especially unlucky and were assigned to kill someone they genuinely had feelings for, but if that was the case, there's no need to wait for such an occasion. The revival delay has been extended to a week, but the end result doesn't change. It'll vary with the individual, but generally, it can be said that there have been few murder cases last week, if not none. Rater, someone who kills now for revenge would be more fitting of the title "murderer". As long as you can retrace your killer, at any rate. I wouldn't be surprised if this town put everyone's names out on display somewhere, but I haven't tried looking myself just yet.
So what happened? It'd be more accurate to call it as slaughter. Going by the norms of standard society, people who commit slaughter would be considered as homicidal maniacs, right? "Satsujinki"... To have it come back like this. Heh. The term is just as it sounds:, the ones who were killed were human, but the one who killed lacks the dignity of a human and is no longer human. That maniac simply kills without needing any form of reason, so it's comparable to a natural disaster. Those involved with it are just unlucky. That's what the last event was more like, but with one major difference: there's an established trigger. The letters were crafted to suit each individual, including psychological intimidation and enticement made to obtain cooperation even against the unwilling. To those who were not affected by threats or offers, they could have treated this as an experience to the sort of stunt that this town can pull. Doing it for an educational purpose is still a cause, no matter how impossible to comprehend and twisted that may look to someone else. That's why in the end, it'd also be hard to cleanly label someone as a "homicidal maniac". The line between murder and slaughter have been blurred so much to the point that it's become warped beyond recognition. ...Heh. Nothing can be taken as seriously as they were before, let it be slaughter or murder. So what does that leave us with, both participants and victims?
I can't answer that, but knowing this place now, it may well pull something like this again. Anyway, this is getting long, so I'll summarize:
No matter what you thought of life before, it has been cheapened in Mayfield. In turn, that means murder isn't as severe as it should be, so people would do well to adapt accordingly. It can still carry a mental impact, but if you want to survive here, either loosen up, or hold onto them but know that these values will be repeatedly tested. There are no physical consequences: die in any way imaginable the day before, and your body will be perfectly restored the day after. In a way, we're all invincible, but the flesh is where it stops. The mind is much more fragile, so any damage there won't be as easy to heal. It can be regulated, however: the mental consequences are generated and felt only by you, no one else. Get bitter and hold a grudge, and then you're really letting the town get to you.
[Phone ; 725 Anderson Lane]
Hi! May I speak to Anders, please?