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Lucas ([personal profile] a_gentle_boy) wrote2011-01-28 05:19 pm

Twenty-Ninth PSI

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[The days of January have passed relatively uneventfully for Lucas.  He's had a lot to think about, and a lot to consider.  For now, though, each time passes much like the rest, and he will take happiness in whatever peace he can get.  His routine is fairly straightforward.

1: Every morning, early morning, Lucas gets on his tea table and delivers his paper. He's still getting used to the hang of it, though. Maybe he'll accidentally smash it into your door, at which point, he'll hurriedly get off to check to see if he damaged anything. Most of the time, he hasn't.
2: After school, he practices piano alone in the music room. By this point, he can be eavesdropped upon without anyone wanting to forbid him from ever touching an instrument again. The songs he plays are strangely melancholy.
3:
In his free time, he sits in the park or in his house and practices his sketching.  Most of the time, he's drawing his friends, so perhaps you'll run across him drawing you.]

[voice]
[A phone call is broadcast to everyone later that night.]

Hello?  A-Ah.  This is Lucas.

I've been thinking a lot lately, and there's something that's been on my mind.  I guess I want to ask . . . How long has this town been here?  How long have people come in and out?  Does anyone really know?  But what's more important is . . . does anyone really remember everyone who's been here? 

When people get droned, we think they've gone home, right?  It's the hope we have, and a lot of the times it's true, but can we really be sure that it's everyone? Sergei -- the Russian man.  He, um.  Didn't he say that they were in a lot of pain?  That some people who were droned . . . that they were still inside.  If that's so, then . . . then we can't just forget about them, right?  Even if one person is still here as a drone, we can't forget about them.  And either way, it's terrible to forget the people you've become friends with at all.  To forget about the people who've come to Mayfield and who've gone.

............. I know I've already started to.

Does anyone think we should maybe start keeping track?  Just . . . something so that the people who come here won't ever be forgotten.  Maybe even signatures.  So if you do start to forget, then you can look back and see everyone's name and remember.  Small things like . . . Miss Margot, and how she was always caring for her sister.  Fuuko and how much she loved starfish.  Mr. Zero, and how fun his gym classes were.

It might be a bad idea.  Or too much work.  But . . . Well.  I guess if you don't want to talk about that, maybe we can just share stories of people who've been here and how important they were to us.  I'd love to hear that kind of thing.

[Please specify 1, 2, 3, or voice.  Although the actions are really just default Lucas interactions if your character has no interest in this topic.]

Phone

[identity profile] iinchoucat.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
...I went home once. I don't know how long I was gone, but I came back around Thanksgiving time.
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Voice

[personal profile] yamaxanadu 2011-01-28 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
That is a lovely sentiment, and I'm sure some kind of record would be appreciated.
Edited 2011-01-28 22:25 (UTC)

Voice; Slow, cause I'm at work

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[He really, really doesn't want to talk to you, Lucas. Especially since he remembers some of your conversation with little him. So that'll explain why his voice is actually cooler then usual. But this is the first he's heard of them still being in there when they're perma-droned. Not like he cares about the people who've been droned.

Alright. Maybe he does care about some of them. Just a little.]


Really?

He's sure they don't just get sent back home? Or are dead?

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[identity profile] snackaholictank.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey look it's Lucas and he's doing something. Time to investigate!]

What's that?

voice jfc I am a failure

[identity profile] numanstan.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The longest time I've heard was about two years... Almost a year for me, personally... Lots of people came and went in that time.

[And he feels like absolute shit for only being able to remember about three or four.]
Edited 2011-01-28 22:38 (UTC)

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[identity profile] perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
That's why I started taking photos of everyone I can. I want to have a record of all the people here that I can. Not just for myself, for everyone. This way, the people who know each other from their homes here... if one of them is sent back, I'll still have a photo of them being themselves. I-If that makes any sense.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good. Well. It's not good that you came back, but . . . that you weren't stuck here, at least.

There's at least one person who's stuck, anyway . . .

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
The people I met when I first came here -- A lot of them are gone now. I guess even if they've gone home, it's important to me to still remember.

No problem

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't say. But we know it's happened to at least one person, so . . . It can happen to us, too, can't it?

[Lucas isn't particularly keen on talking to you, either. His tone is cautiously civil.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[What how did she pop up just now exactly what. The sketchbook flies into the air for a second or two before Lucas snatches it and discreetly flips to a different page.]

It's, um. A house, see?

[It is indeed a house.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Next month, it'll be a year for me, too. I came just before the thing with the candy hearts last Valentine's Day.

I bet a lot of people have already been forgotten. Maybe some of the drones we see around town used to be them.

[identity profile] crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
.....That sounds like a real sweet idea kid.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a good idea. To be able to get people's images like that . . . That's a lot better than signatures.

How many do you have, do you think?

[identity profile] iinchoucat.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
At least one? Who?
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[personal profile] yamaxanadu 2011-01-28 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Every person that is met becomes a part of you, so it's important to continue to remember them, even if they may go home or not, they still left an impact.

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[identity profile] someday-a-queen.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Elizabeth walks into the room but stops to listen to the music.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
T-Thanks. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought about it. Everyone has people they want to keep in their hearts.

[identity profile] numanstan.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
So did I!... Just about every person I met that month's gone now. 'cept you, of course.

... A whole year. I've never spent a whole year in one place my entire life!

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Jane. . . . Did you know?

Her name is Samantha Achewood. She was a musician and she had a family and now . . . she's stuck like that.

[identity profile] crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah...that's true. I still miss Robo and Vorpal.

[Sighs]

[identity profile] iinchoucat.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Are we positive she's stuck like that. ...I'm remembering that phone call Lucy made that got broadcasted on the television. She seemed to have a moment of clarity.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
. . .

That's exactly what I think, too. It doesn't even matter if we forget when we're sent home. The things that happened here still . . . happened. Does that make sense?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucas is suitably surprised off-topic.]

You've moved around that much? . . . I didn't go anywhere until I was thirteen. Don't you miss the people you've come to know when you move, though?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I think they must've gone before I got here. If you don't mind, can I hear about them?

[identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com 2011-01-28 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I'm just wishing we had more evidence then the statement of just one guy.

[A pause. A long one. And then-]

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This memory thing or whatever...its anonymous if we actually write down the names of the people we still remember, right?

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