[Pokey sighs a little, rubbing his temple as he tries to think.]
Yeah, they're....let's say programmed to repeat that crap. They believe it.
They'll be gone eventually. Actual people will replace them.
[Pokey thinks for a moment on how to answer that. Really, how is the town not dangerous? He's been here so long that it's kind of hard describing it to someone who hasn't been. An outsider.
And it's so weird thinking of you as an outsider, Picky.]
...Two things.
About every month or every other month, and especially on holidays, something will....happen. The people running the town will cause something to happen, and it's always bad and almost always dangerous. People can get killed Picky.
[No. He won't tell you people come back when they die yet. Because even though he thinks that's enough to hopefully keep you practical in what you might try to do...he doesn't want to reveal that information that dying just ends with waking up the next morning.]
And then there's the town. Most of the people are....good. [It feels so weird saying that.] But there's a lot who are real jackholes, and some of them are powerful.
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Yeah, they're....let's say programmed to repeat that crap. They believe it.
They'll be gone eventually. Actual people will replace them.
[Pokey thinks for a moment on how to answer that. Really, how is the town not dangerous? He's been here so long that it's kind of hard describing it to someone who hasn't been. An outsider.
And it's so weird thinking of you as an outsider, Picky.]
...Two things.
About every month or every other month, and especially on holidays, something will....happen. The people running the town will cause something to happen, and it's always bad and almost always dangerous. People can get killed Picky.
[No. He won't tell you people come back when they die yet. Because even though he thinks that's enough to hopefully keep you practical in what you might try to do...he doesn't want to reveal that information that dying just ends with waking up the next morning.]
And then there's the town. Most of the people are....good. [It feels so weird saying that.] But there's a lot who are real jackholes, and some of them are powerful.
And some of them don't like me.
Get it?