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[selfconcept]

Welcome back. Hope you had a nice break.

And no. Tell them to leave you alone regarding this matter.

[conjecturecycle]

I didn't. Like I said, I had to rescue my roommate from guy that looked like vampires but I think were probably the mob.

And I'm not asking just to have something to tell them! I'm asking because they aughts know whatever cccorp has figured out about what happened! They're freaking out, Hien. And even if you don't care about that, someone's gonna tell the press eventually. Pr nightmare hurts the bottom line.

[selfconcept]

Everyone signed NDAs. Consequences are severe if broken. I'm aware of how much they're freaking out—I have been at the location for days.

[ He needs a nap... ]

PR isn't my concern. You couldn't even pay me to care about it right now.

[conjecturecycle]

What the hell do you care about then?? Jeez. Can you at least confirm whether Mithrun is alive or dead in real life? Cause if the game is really causing real life problems that severe I think we all have a right to know.

[selfconcept]

[ Food, dogs... yeah. ]

I can't.

[ The hell is "the right to know"—sounds entitled in Hien's opinion. ]

[conjecturecycle]

And is that because you don't know or because someone higher up the food chain told you to keep us in the dark?

Like, are the other players in danger? I know we're here to playtest but if there's some bug in the code causing people to get fatally injured in real life that feels like a reason to shut things down to me.

[selfconcept]

No one is being forced to play at gunpoint. They can choose to quit and they will be removed from the project with the NDA still in effect. If they hate it so much and value their safety because they never once thought for themselves that they're using experimental technology until now, they can leave.

[conjecturecycle]

Yeah yeah, sure. I don't think anyone signed that contract thinking the agreed upon risk included potentially some sorta "you die in the game you die in real life" sorta science fiction scenario, Hien!

[selfconcept]

If it bothers them that much and they still haven't quit, then that's on them. That's not my problem.

[conjecturecycle]

Listen I know as the admin you have to cya but could you try having like a milligram of compassion for like five seconds, paly?

Some of these people are kids, they're freaked out.

[selfconcept]

Then you can comfort them by lying about what I told you.

[conjecturecycle]

What the hell do you want me to say? I don't want them to get mad at me when it ends up not being true.

[selfconcept]

That is the point. If I have to be truthful to comfort them, there's nothing I can say. Tell them to stop playing. It's really all we can do. If they still don't want to, that's not our problem.

[conjecturecycle]

If you think that's the right course of action right now, why don't you make an official announcement? It'd mean more coming from you than me.

[selfconcept]

I can't.

[ Make of that what you will, Pete. ]

[conjecturecycle]

Like they're holding you at gunpoint can't or NDA can't because I can give you my private number if you want.

[selfconcept]

You can't get around NDA with a simple outside call, much less planning it on the very game's server.

[conjecturecycle]

So they're not holding you at gunpoint then? Coward.

[selfconcept]

Yeah, I'm a big coward only doing this to save my own skin.

[conjecturecycle]

I mean you are saying "I'm not going to lie to the players to make them feel better, you do it"

[selfconcept]

You don't have to either.

[conjecturecycle]

I know that, I just feel kinda bad for them not having any fucking idea what's going on?

Like obviously I don't either but I'm also too old to agonize over it.

[selfconcept]

Just tell them that I don't know either. That way, they can stop coming to both of us with ridiculous questions that we can't answer.

[conjecturecycle]

Fine I guess. Even if the reason we can't clearly ain't the same.

[Pete can't because he doesn't know. Hien can't because???? NDA reasons.]

[selfconcept]

Yeah. I'll give you a bonus tomorrow. Thanks.