[OPEN TO DISCUSSION]
[old friends united, the jouse brought them together.]
[their own heart-to-heart.]
MEME82 - pointless-machines
[...you're here.]
what?
who are you?
[Oh, come on Rogue, don't be like that.]
no, seriously who are y-
[Don't you remember?]
[It's me, dude... Interloper?]
...not ringing any bells
[No, man, cut the joke... this one isn't funny.]
[Honestly, this is probably a worse time to joke around than when you were straight up killing people.]
killing people???
i don't know who you think i am, but i am not this "rogue" person. do we look similar or something? i'm fiend.
[No, no no no... you ARE The Rogue.]
[There's no way you just... wouldn't remember anything that happened, right?]
[You could not have possibly forgotten what we were trying to do, with Chained and Dreamer and-]
are you... okay?
[...]
[You're... you're not- no, you're right, I must've confused you for it.]
[Let's... let's start over here, shall we?]
okay...
[Hello Fiend, I am known formally as "Spacebot," but you may call me The Interloper.]
what's up with the name?
[It's a long story, and I was really hoping your... lookalike, would have run into me by now, but...]
...but?
[Don't- just don't worry about it right now, okay?]
[That is what he and the others referred to me as, and you will do the same.]
okay.
though i've gotta say, there's something Very familiar about you... where exactly did you come from? i don't recognize you from the forums at all
[I'm not necessarily of this world, nor do I believe you are either.]
why are you roping me into this?
...and why do you keep calling me rogue
[Again, long story, I don't think you'd-he'd want me to go into all of it in some place like this.]
what's this
[That's my sattelite, don't touch that.]
...okay, well this "rogue" person clearly isn't here so what's the harm of going into a little bit of detail for some creature you keep mistaking for another?
[...er,]
interloper.
[OKAY, okay, fine.]
[I'll say what you need to know.]
...that took no pressure?
alright then.
why do you keep calling me rogue?
i'm not this person, yet you keep referring to me with their name.
you're not telling me something.
[You've, uh, become quite the interrogator.]
picked it up from a friend.
[Ahem, anyways, you are just... very similar to Rogue.]
...do robots need to clear their throats?
[You two shared a name initially, before an event necessitated a change in their role, which extended to his name.]
a change in role...? was he a performer of sorts?
[No, it's... way more complicated than that.]
[I won't get into it, that would be way too much exposition for you to reasonably handle.]
[Plus, I don't really like thinking about it... seeing the state he is in now means that we failed, and our promise to Chained was broken.]
okay
where are you from?
you claim to not be from this world... what was yours like?
[It was a living hell.]
[...but I said I wouldn't get into it, so I'll leave it at that.]
damn.
i can't say i'm unfamiliar with the feeling of living in hell, so even if my vague comparison to what could be worst-case scenario a real hell is lost on you just know that we both have had our struggles
[I'd know that for sure.]
[Anything else?]
tell me about the rogue.
[Oh, I was dreading this one... fine.]
[Rogue was a very close ally and good friend of mine, as well as others.]
[I mentioned an event earlier, and how it... changed him.]
yes, and i understand that you don't want to get into it. i need to know though
[You're still the same deep down, huh?]
[It was after one of his closest friends, The Dreamer, had to seal himself away to escape from a looming being that constantly watched us.]
why would he do that? that's so.. selfish
[I can't deny that it was, but given what we were dealing with, I also can't exactly blame him for doing it.]
[It impacted Rogue so much that he became much more irritable, lashing out at almost anyone who would get in his path... I don't even think he had a motive, it was most likely purely fueled by grief.]
sucks
how do i tie into all of this though
[You wouldn't believe me if I told you that you are The Rogue.]
and you'd be right
[...our plan didn't work, then.]
[I'm leaving it there.]
okay, that's all for now
a lot of exposition, huh?
[HE STARED AT MY BLANK EXPRESSION, JUST FOR A MOMENT]
...right. i'll be going now-
[Wait, wait, no, you can't just leave like that-]
i said i'm going.
[You can't be that cruel.]
i can, it's just on whether or not i want to change
[...do I even want to know?]
i have leads to follow.
[HE PROCEEDED FURTHER INTO THE STRUCTURE'S DEPTHS, HOLDING A STRANGE KEY]