a simple question; (cw: death/dying discussion)

[icanhearscreams]

[An unsigned note appears on the bulletin board, written in extremely neat handwriting. There's a few smudges on it from erased lines, as if the author wrote it over and over again.]

Is anyone else here dead?

[Just five words. No signature. He'll see how this turns out.]

Comments

[unsheathedfromreality]

So it might not serve but it would be just.

I can understand that.

Anything you're worried would happen again here?

[icanhearscreams]

I don't know if this counts as a version of Earth, so it might not have to participate in the 'game' that I did. But if you see giant robots around... I don't know. I just hope we don't.

[unsheathedfromreality]

A version of Earth? If it were some other place it wouldn't count?

[icanhearscreams]

As far as I know it was only versions of Earth that were fighting each other. But as far as I know there's only life on Earth in my universe.

[unsheathedfromreality]

[That ... is a very interesting notion. An interesting potential parallel.]

Why were they fighting?

[icanhearscreams]

Because if they didn't, they would be destroyed.

Why the 'game' was there in the first place, no idea.

[unsheathedfromreality]

I assume the losers were destroyed anyway regardless of participation.

[icanhearscreams]

Yes. Running away counts as losing.