Third Jump. [text from violet city.]

[surpassedjupiter]

[Normally it's the type of thing you see under an anonymous account, these short, to-the-point questions. Not being too acquainted with her 'gear outside of some texting she's done and some brief not-skype calls, Phi doesn't yet know to buy a second one when she wants to be the mystery woman she is. Oh well. It's probably a normal thing to be wondering...]

What's the last thing you remember before coming here?

It's okay to be vague -- something like "I saw a good friend" or "I was in a garden". I'll probably ask, but you're welcome to be shy about it, if that's what you'd prefer. Or tell me your life story. I don't have much to do, tonight.

Comments

[surpassedjupiter]

Sounds like those people need a reminder that someone can screw you over even while operating within the rules. I guess to me it depends on what the outcome is and what was at stake. Even if someone is unpredictable, if they are doing it for the sake of others' benefit, it can earn them some trust.

[doubleornothing]

Would you ever be able to trust a person so capricious? That is always the danger with wild cards; you can never tell when the odds are in your favour.

[surpassedjupiter]

I'd rather trust someone I wasn't positive on than be against someone I knew was trying to take me down. The latter is stuck in their ways, but perhaps I could earn the former's favor.

As I said, though, it all comes down to the motive behind their decision, not the decision itself.

[doubleornothing]

And working outside the rules of the game offers you more flexibility and variability. Or maybe you're playing a different sort of game altogether; one where the rules are your own.

In fact, you could say that we're all playing by our own rules.

[surpassedjupiter]

In that case, it's a bit hard to point someone out as the cheater then, isn't it?

[doubleornothing]

Exactly. Unless your game allows cheating, in which it'd hardly be cheating in the first place.

So simply put, a 'cheater' is merely a player who sets his own rules, antithetical to those around him. He is every individual who makes a choice set a different course, one that differs from the norm. He can be both good, or evil, or he could be neither.

In short, we're all 'cheaters' at this game called life.

Or rather, we're just 'human'. A 'somebody'.

[surpassedjupiter]

Your comrade, then... Hunted down for being a 'somebody'? That doesn't sound very fair.

[doubleornothing]

'Fair' or 'unfair' are concepts that, while romantic to the ears, do not always have much worth especially to those who choose to ignore them. What does are actions and consequences. The rules of the game were made clear to him, but yet he chose to break the rules in search of a prize that he felt was worth it.

I won't judge him for that although I do question his methods. Such a public display of cutting your ties would almost certainly guarantee elimination.