☞ 020. (memory theater)

[wouldnotkindly]

[The above plays out on the network in its entirety minus the thirty-second intro, health bars, weapon indicators and other in-game displays. Though he doesn't speak throughout it, those who know him might recognize the chain-link tattoos and familiar sweater cuffs as belonging to Jack...]

( ooc: for those who can't/would prefer not to watch the video, a basic summary: Jack encounters a man who tells him that not only was everything he thought he knew about himself a total lie, but also that he's been under mind control for pretty much his entire life, then forces Jack to murder him with a golf club; he is then further mind controlled into giving over control of Rapture to the man responsible for it all, who reveals his entire villainous plot and leaves Jack to be horribly killed by robots. but it's okay, because little girls show up to save him! ... Bioshock is a complicated game. )

Comments

[archivy]

You don't. There is nothing that you can do about it. [ A brief pause and then a little less monotonous: ] I'm sorry.

[wouldnotkindly]

How do you know that? [But that sounds a little petulant.] There has to be some way— I can't let people see that.

[archivy]

Everyone tries and no one has managed. [ She knows. ]

[wouldnotkindly]

But... [He doesn't know how to deal with this.] What the hell am I supposed to do, then?

[archivy]

Deal with it to the best of your abilities.

[wouldnotkindly]

To the best of my—

[None of his abilities can help him with something like this, can they? How does he even begin to deal with it?]

I... I'm sorry, I have to go. [He's too rattled to talk right now.]

[archivy]

[ Good luck, Jack. ]