28th sigh

[slave_of_suzumiya]

[Today, Kyon is going to rant at you all on the phone.]

Okay, that's it. I have absolutely had it with this bloody milk fiasco. And it disturbs me to think that that could potentially be entirely literal... Has anyone found any blood in their milk yet? Wait, no. On second thought, I don't want to know the answer to that.

How long is it going to last? I mean, Grady's gone and that crazed psychopath has taken over his job. Is this how it's going to be from now on? Because I really don't want to get to the point where I end up having to drink this shit myself.

(... And once again I wonder, is there any literal shitty milk? ... And then I regret even thinking of it. I think I should get back to the point here...)

At this point, I've damn near gotten myself killed a few times and some of my friends have actually dropped dead... I mean, Mayfield isn't exactly sunshine and puppies at the best of times... (And even if it were, I'm sure it'd be deadly sunlight that'd roast us to a crisp and puppies with a taste for human flesh...) ... but this is downright ridiculous, honestly.

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[notawhale.livejournal.com]

[Have some deadpan (and also kind of raspy) response]

My research has yet to come up with any bloody milk. So far, the eight kinds I've observed are three kinds of poison, spiders, razor blades, hallucinogenic, mood-altering and normal milk.

No shitty milk either.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Ah, I see. Well, that's good to know, I guess.

(As to whether or not I wanted to know however...)

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

Is it? Now you can't hope that the milk will simply be distasteful rather than outright harmful.

Though I guess e.coli is nothing to laugh about either.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Well, at least having some understanding of the risks involved in a given course of action is better than going in blind.

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

True enough.

At this point it's a bit of a moral game combined with roulette. Be the good guy, drink the milk - at best, you get some spiders or feel a bit sick or go funny in the head, at worst you keel over dead; but you've guaranteed saving your housemates the trouble and not hurting anyone else. Or, don't drink it, gambling that either someone else in your house will or you won't get punished - at worse, you go on a killing spree; but you've guaranteed you, yourself, won't get too badly hurt. Well, unless someone hurts you when you go on a killing spree. Or your housemate does.

Are you the kind to risk yourself or risk others?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

I try to avoid unnecessary risks as much as possible. Life has a tendency to throw enough risks in without actively seeking out more.

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

So does that mean someone else in your house is drinking the milk or do you just not want to answer?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

I've at least seen Crowley drinking some. Not my idea by the way, I just happened to come across him.

(I'm certainly not the self sacrificing type, but I wouldn't want to actively push anyone else into a situation like that either.)

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

So you basically don't really care if you don't have to, hm? Well, I suppose that's pretty normal. I guess you're just lucky the decision hasn't been forced on you.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Yeah, something like that.

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

So hypothetically, if you didn't have such a convenient housemate... what would you do?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

I'm sure I'd figure something out.

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

Descriptive.

[Well, he obviously doesn't want to answer, so she'll stop pestering him]

So have you met anyone you knew who went suddenly murderous for not drinking the milk? I've been told being "droned" doesn't usually include that part.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Yes, I have. It wasn't fun.

(And by "wasn't fun", I mean "Damn near got myself killed, while actually ending with two other deaths.")

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

Did you die?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Came damn close to it.

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

Did you manage to subdue them? Or did you escape?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Someone else stepped in. ... It didn't end well.

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

So you were saved by another's sacrifice. Feeling survivor's guilt?

Though I wonder if that term even means anything in a town where you come back to life the next day.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

What happened wasn't my fault. I'm not exactly happy about it either though.

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

A normal reaction. You remind me of a friend I have, or I suppose, used to have. She was exceedingly normal too.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Oh? What was she like then?

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

Well, more cheerful than you. But otherwise ordinary. She didn't exceed in anything, didn't take extraordinary risks or go out of her way to do one thing or the other.

Well, until she met me.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

... What happened when she met you then?

[notawhale.livejournal.com]

She asked me to do something crazy with her. I did.