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[burlap]

Those other doctors certainly picked a very festive time to take me out of my "fictional reality", as they put it. Luckily, I didn't have any plans to disturb. I got a 'Merry Christmas' right before my I'd imagine standard 'Hello, you're fictional' speech yesterday.

Help a poor new arrival out, will you?
On a scale of one to ten: How upset should I be that I'm here? It's so hard to make a clear judgement a place when it's decorated for the holidays.

Comments

[animator]

That depends. How much did you like home?

Let's call it a five and we'll adjust the scale accordingly as we learn more about you.

[kantstoppfantstopp]

If your life was shitty before getting here, it might be a good thing. Otherwise, hope you've got a cure for homesickness.

[burlap]

I liked it well enough.

That's reasonable. Was it a five for you?

[burlap]

What's your definition of 'shitty'?

[badnewsboy]

When people mention being "fictional" it flags them as a new arrival. You are a "new arrival," aren't you?

[animator]

I'd say it started out as an eight or so, but we're down to about four now.

Life was complicated back home. I'm kind of enjoying the vacation.

[burlap]

Obviously.

[kantstoppfantstopp]

Being completely miserable and hating your life. Or just generally not awesome.

[burlap]

A four doesn't sound bad at all.
Some people deserve vacations away. Good for you.

[badnewsboy]

The "fictional" part loses its novelty.

[burlap]

I suppose I'd lean towards mediocre.
Did moving make your life more awesome?

[animator]

Of course, it can slide back up to a six or a seven when things like widespread memory loss come into play, but I'm told that's not that common. Fine by me. Once was more than enough.

All things considered, there are worse places to be.

[eggplantier]

Well, how do you feel about surprise kissing?

[burlap]

I'd imagine so. People can get desensitized.

[badnewsboy]

Or in the end it doesn't matter at all.

[burlap]

[ what. ]

I'm not particularly fond of it.

[pelagically]

That depends, how well do you take to being trapped?

[kantstoppfantstopp]

Then maybe now's your chance to make extraordinary.
My life is awesome simply because I'm the one living it.

[burlap]

Oh dear. That's a scary thought. What sort of memory loss?

There always is.

[eggplantier]

Good news is, that seems to be the general consensus on the island, too!

Not so good: we just had a couple days where we had to run around kissing people we didn't know. So if the surprise mistletoe comes back, you're kinda screwed.

[burlap]

That too. A useless bit of information that only matters if you want it to.

[animator]

General knowledge didn't seem to be effected, but all personal memories? Gone. It was temporary, but still.

[burlap]

I can't imagine anyone enjoys being trapped.

[badnewsboy]

That's a good thing to remember.

[burlap]

You must be thrilling to know.