[OPEN TO DISCUSSION]
[old friends united,
the jouse brought them together.
their own heart-to-heart.]
MEMY82 - 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 the 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.
[The forums, no- I'm glad you're asking, Rogue- I mean, Fiend.]
',:l
[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,
CLUTCHING A STRANGE KEY]
[You can't just... leave me like that.]
[A DOOR SHUT BEHIND HIM]