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PETER AND THE LAMB
[Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo OST - The Storyteller]
Peter
2024-12-29 09:56:02
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When Peter left the church, he found that getting a job was hard.
There was no place in the universe for a clockwork scientist. No matter how much he believed it to be what the universe needed.
He tried his best to avoid Zoocorp, but he was never one for fighting the tides very long. He gave in. He became....A normal person. With a normal job.
"Peter, someone's been knockin' at the door for a solid minute. You goin' to get that or what?"
Peter
2024-12-29 09:56:46
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And a very annoying and abnormal roommate.

"If you find it so detestable, answer it yourself."
"How many times do I need to tell you? I can't be seen in public like this!"
Peter
2024-12-29 09:57:09
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Peter was beyond fighting with his most holy of roommates. He flashes a fake smile, and opens the door to quiet him.

"I'm sorry, I do not know what you are selling bu-"
Peter's voice slows to a mumble as he sees who is at his door.
D'arc
2024-12-29 09:57:38
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"Oh, Peter," D'arc comments. "You took so long that I almost thought those were the pearly gates."
D'arc
2024-12-29 09:57:53
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"Not going to invite this poor soul in for tea?"
Peter steps forward and closes the door behind him. "No, actually. You mind telling me what you're here for?"
D'arc
2024-12-29 09:58:21
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"It's been twenty years. I could be in town because I missed that charming smile of yours, you know?"
"I don't smile. You should know that."
D'arc
2024-12-29 09:58:26
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"I do." D'arc flatly muses.
"So, if you could just cut to the point. Tell me what you want. Or have you come to rub my face in my failures?" Peter "smiles" to stress his point.
D'arc
2024-12-29 09:59:08
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"You know, Peter. You sell yourself as quite the rational soul, but I know your type."
D'arc
2024-12-29 09:59:20
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"You put up that cold front, but you wouldn't have worked in that project if you weren't compassionate. You love your friends, and you cherish thy neighbours."
D'arc
2024-12-29 09:59:29
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"That's why I know you feel guilt. And I feel what Jesus did to you was wrong."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:00:44
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"You did wrong, but it has been twenty years. You'd be the type to swallow it all down and go to bed with that feeling of burning in the back of your neck if nobody intervened, so I thought of just... Bringing you to see Jesus, you know?"

"He too happens to be in town. You two might have fought, but forgiving is everything we're about. Have a chat."
Peter
2024-12-29 10:01:00
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"I don't care about being kicked out of of the church, or what Jesus thinks about me! It was all a lie! A ploy to create a perfect clockwork, D'arc! You think I actually care about if Jesus, or God, forgives me?"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:01:08
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"Yes."
Peter
2024-12-29 10:01:26
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"That's the sort of person you are, D'arc. Twenty years and I still know this. You cannot bait me into seeing this "God" with a "Yes.""
Peter
2024-12-29 10:01:36
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"I have nothing to gain. And consider that this "God" is with the Notail Union, last I heard. I see no reason to risk my life for...what? What could I possibly gain?"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:01:47
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"You'd gain nothing. You're not Jonah, and I'm not the whale. I'm just offering a hand. If you don't want to see Him, then you don't."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:01:58
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"This little fiction of mine can't refute the safety of your house, nor the warmth of your food, or the little joys you experience through the day. I'm happy to see you're doing well regardless, though. You're still my friend."
"It's starting to sound like all you want is a meal and a room. Tell me, what are you doing nowadays?"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:02:23
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"Asking a little about me? So you care, kukuku.~"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:02:40
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"Well, Peter. I'm a freelancer, been wandering the universe and doing work when I needed a bowl of porridge or a nice comfortable bed as I spent time thinking. For a robot, I'm not half bad at that art thing, you know?"
"So you're homeless....."
"How many people did you check before coming to me? Be truthful."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:03:12
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"One."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:03:22
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"Not a christian, though. Just an old friend. May God have his soul."
"You people really need to accept that times have changed and get a job." Peter opens his door to D'arc.
"You may stay for a few days, but I assure you I am FULL on charity cases right now and cannot host you for much longer than that. I recommend applying for a job and joining the masses."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:04:03
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D'arc enters without ceremony, much like a cat entering a house to avoid the rain. "A single day'll be enough. Then I'll leave. I was being genuine when I said I wanted to see your face."
"Woah, ain't that one of those Christian guys? You just lettin' him in to the buildin' like that?"
Peter just ignores the Sleeper. "It sounded like you had some big plans for me. Did I disappoint?"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:04:25
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"Peter. I understand why you said no. It's ok."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:04:33
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"I'd much rather be cherishing my friends than feeling disappointed in them. We only have each other in a world like this."
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"I must admit. If God is here maybe the Notail Union has the same hunch I do about things...."
"Oh boy, you and your damn conspiracy shit."
"I've been investigating the movements of the machine in our area and I believe it might be some sort of-"
"Clockwork." The Sleeper says in a mocking tone.
"A guy who studies clockworks for a livin' thinks everythin' is a clockwork. Big surprise!"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:05:56
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D'arc merely goes to the kitchen and puts the water to boil, fairly comfortable. "Let's discuss this over coffee or tea. Go on. Why do you believe it to be a clockwork?"
"Have you seen those pillars of cekekis?"
2024-12-29 10:06:29
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D'arc
2024-12-29 10:07:35
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"I'm far too homeless to live under a rock, Peter of mine. They're everywhere nowadays. Kukuku."
"Everyone's gotten used to them, but frankly I can't. Not since I saw them. To me, it's an obvious clockwork formation. Flesh with metal. And it's been spreading from what I could see from the top of the apartment."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:08:03
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D'arc looks at the cabinets and starts preparing a bit of whatever there's to drink. "That so, huh?"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:08:12
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"Peter, may I share what I've been thinking for a while, then? Just brief hypotheticals, that's all. Fiction."
"Please do. I feel like I'm going insane keeping this to myself."
Peter
2024-12-29 10:08:32
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"Just think how far down the root of the system goes...." Peter mumbles, as he looks over his notes. His book is slathered in messy handwriting, all obsessing over the workings of the machine.
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:10:34
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""Do you see all these great buildings?" replied Jesus. "Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down." - Mark 13:2"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:10:54
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"It's but a personal thought, but you know how the machine grinds? Everything that goes in, is spat out, and so on, so on. There's a internal process within it that converts everything that fed to it into either ink, metal or such - all in a second or two."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:11:02
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"That's why, if it eats a clockwork, it'll merely convert the matter and spit it out before it is even infected!"
Peter places his book on the table. "But what if it always was a clockwor-"
"It never was, never gonna be! It's just a machine runnin' off the power of greed and wants!"
Peter slams his hands onto the table in anger. "Shut up! I don't care if you started this problem. It has become clear to me over the years that you know NOTHING of your own MONSTER! You were as under the control of it as much as any other cekeki consumer!"
The Sleeper blows a short huff of smoke. "Yeah. Fine. Maybe I was. Ain't nothin' to do now about it. Don't gotta yell at a man. It's game set and match. Like chess or somethin' stupid like that."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:12:33
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"Hmhm, just a game, and I think I know how to flip it in our favour. Just a hypothetical, that is, of course, kuku."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:12:45
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"Be it machine or clockwork, it converts before it is converted, right? But what if it couldn't? What if it took far too long, and it was too late? The gears halted by quantity or something, let's say."

D'arc takes something out of his inventory.

"You gotta be stupid to think you can feed enough shit in-"
"No."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:13:50
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"Yes."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:13:56
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"Please."
"You're gonna fucking turn it into a clockwork?!?!"
"This idea has merit if it is already a clockwork."
"And if it ain't. You're fuckin' the universe over! Do you see how damn stupid you two fools sound?"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:14:40
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"I remember you. You helped Beeatrix have fun, with that fancy trick of yours, didn't you?"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:14:49
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"For that, I thank you. The joy of that little ol' bee is quite valuable to me!"
"Flattering me ain't goin' to change my thoughts."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:15:22
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"My point is the opposite. I don't think you'd be here if everything was like back then. Don't you want to take your chances? Try this little ol' harmless prank?"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:15:34
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"Other people are at the peak, and they're looking down on us. As a Christian, one must turn the other cheek, of course."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:15:51
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"But." D'arc puts the angel fruit in the table in front of the sheep, showing that possibility to him. "You know what comes after that old quote, let me see... "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."?"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:15:57
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"Let me tell you, my good friend, kuku..."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:16:04
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"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:16:11
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"Just a hypothetical, of course."
"You're goin' to get my damn rent payment killed."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:16:30
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"I'm just humoring my friend Peter. I do not condone acts of what could be called terrorism."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:16:45
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"Zoocorp stepped upon us all. I'm surprised you don't want to see some imaginary mud in the face of those that have the boot on our back. I respect that of you."
"I've given up. What am I goin' to do?"
"Zoocorp took everythin' from me. Gave it to some idiot with a fuckin' box on his head."
"Can't a man just want to do his hobbies without worryin' about rent?"
"You don't have any hobbies."
"I'm workin' on it ok!"
"I got a procrastination issue, give me a break! My fuckin' Zookeeper only left me with the Greed part of my soul!"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:17:49
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"And doesn't that greedy part of yours want a payback? If Zoocorp took all, why don't we repay them seven-fold?"
"Look. I know how spreadin' clockwork shit works. I've done it before."
"You absolutely did..."
"And I'm sorry about that. I was feelin' a little pissed off."
"THOUSANDS WERE KILLED BECAUSE OF YOU!"
"And how many times do I gotta say, my bad!"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:18:45
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D'arc puts his hand on Peter's shoulder as he looks directly to The Sleeper. "I forgive you, if it matters."
"Look all I'm sayin' is. Peter. That man right there, he's a clockwork."
"It's the goal of every clockwork to spread itself, and you know that holy fruit is way more powerful than any typical clockwork strain. You helped make it."
Sleeper
2024-12-29 10:19:18
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"You wanna get yourself killed? Go ahead. But that D'arc guy's mind is fucked up by his strain. Course the guy wants to spread the shit."
"D'arc. You do not do this just to spread. Speak truthfully to me."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:19:47
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"He's right in the sense that my mind might be affected by the strain. Maybe the disease is truly what is making me want all of this: This is why I trust your decision no matter what. But I'll say why I'm doing this."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:19:53
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"Spite."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:20:11
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"I hate this universe, and I hate this machine. You know what I wanted? To be left be, to be pampered, to relax, to live in my own little fantasy with my friends, and if Jesus ascended, still have that sense of camaraderie!"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:20:29
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"This machine gives you food, this machine gives you a home, this machine gives all the comforts you could have asked until you throw yourself into that machine! It plants, it sows, and it harvests! I hate seeing more of the same from every day, wandering alone through those urban wastes!"
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:20:44
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"So I say, I won't make poems of it, I won't make art of it, I won't make a post or tweep about it. I want to see it broken. If there's another way, I'd gladly take it."
"Fine! Whatever!"
"Come on Peter, lets go get ourselves killed."
"If you die, I'm goin' to get thrown out on the streets and fucked sideways by Zoocorp anyway."
"Might as well try to get a bit of revenge on my way out."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:21:27
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"..." D'arc tries to regain his composure, taking deep metallic breaths.
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:21:41
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And then he glances at Peter. "...Sorry I showed this side of myself to you."
D'arc
2024-12-29 10:21:47
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"Hope I didn't disappoint."
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