Event Log - Malnosso World

[lucetimods]

Who: Everybody!
What: A field trip for the entirety of Luceti!
When: October 27th, until the end of November 2nd
Where: The Happiest Place on the Moon, Malnosso World!
Summary: So you remember all those times Luceti was transformed into Luceti Land? Welcome to Malnosso World, Luceti Land's bigger, cooler brother. Be sure to keep all hands inside the rides at all times, and refer to your map if you get lost. Trust me, you'll get lost.
Rating: F for Fun!

Comments

[markofthebrave]

Katara wasn't entirely sure she believed his discription about it being an intern... that just sounded ridiculous. But it was increasingly evidant that this wasn't done in order to entrap them or hurt them any worse than what was done in their own enclosures.

She looked where he nodded and quietly observed the family before turning back to Davis, "The end of what? What are you celebrating?"

[specializing]

"I'm not celebrating. They're celebrating the end of being in Tyrus." When he looked back at the family, his expression hardened. Envy them? Hardly. He pitied them.

"Not that there's much to celebrate there."

[markofthebrave]

Katara raised one eyebrow at the difference. He'd said the organization was celebrating -- what, was he telling her he wasn't part of it anymore? Her gaze flickered to the shiny row of buttons on his chest. That seemed... unlikely.

"So they're being integrated into the Malnosso. Is that the goal for all the enclosures?" It sure seemed like it, first with the missions and then with Carol and now Alice... if that was the case, no wonder the Organization seemed like such a mess. How could you work side-by-side against the same people who had treated you as inhuman for so long? Not well, was her guess. Not well at all.

[specializing]

"The goal is for there to be no one left in the enclosure to be integrated. Doesn't always work that way."

[markofthebrave]

"Because of something the scientists do, or because the people in the enclosures are here for such a 'short time?'"

[specializing]

Davis seemed to be unsure how much he wanted to say. But after a moment of staring at her, he rolled back his shoulders and started talking.

"Both. Your first year? That's your best chance of getting out of here. And then it dips after that. More and more and more. Eventually you reach a point where there ain't no going back. People like me end up at that point. Or Carol. Or anyone you see working here that isn't packing a pair of giant wings. Once you reach that point, there's no reason for you to be in an enclosure. You're deemed no longer viable for testing and your cast into the open world and you have to adapt and deal with it. That's what happened to Tyrus. It's a celebration, sure. But the only reason the scientists are happy is because they'll be able to reset the enclosure and start over again and hope for a winner this time."

[markofthebrave]

Katara looked back over to the family. No longer viable for testing meant that they were probably stuck here. Their hope for going home became the same hope as anyone else's -- a randomly applied shift on the people that had occupied the same testing ground as they once had. Maybe it wouldn't be so different to work side-by-side along the people who had once tortured them after all. They'd be doing the same thing.

At any cost.

"How many people are being integrated from Tyrus?" Katara asked in a quiet voice.

[specializing]

"Tyrus was one of the bigger ones. Over eight thousand, last I heard. A third of them are already in the MSF. More are going to sign up after this."

[markofthebrave]

"Eight thousand..." She looked back at Davis, sober. "Out of how many?"

She had been here for almost four years. If what he said was true, than her window of opportunity for going home was closing rapidly. She did not want to be here anymore; Katara desperately wanted to go home.

But if she remained, if Luceti ever 'graduated,' could she join with the MSF? Work with them? She wouldn't join the Cultists -- never. But she could not see herself working with the Malnosso either. She would have to find another way.

[specializing]

He shrugged. "Out of how many that had ever been there? A lot of people came and went through that place. At least ten times that amount were sent packing beforehand. I don't have the numbers, myself. That's more Carol's field."

[markofthebrave]

Katara nodded quietly. So they didn't even have a percentage of how many people got to leave. "I see."

"...how long has this been here? This park?"