28/05/2013

Fucking psycho runners

As you may have gathered from the title, I've had some trouble with a runner. But in my defence, he tried to kill me first.
I was coming back from a grocery run, cutting through an alleyway, when this guy comes up behind me. I walk quicker, maybe he just hasn't got that firm a grasp on personal space, you know? Then he pulls a knife. He must've been watching for a while, known this was a proxy safehouse, because I was in mufty (you know how hard it is to buy groceries in a mask with a hoodie?). I would've had a knife myself, but we don't carry them in our civvies- too much risk of getting pulled up by the police, which can be awkward. Not such a problem in the full uniform, though. Guess the police know that we aren't a threat to Joe Public. So I was unarmed, with a crazy guy trying to stab me. Lucky I have the reaction times to deal with this stuff now- if I hadn't taken a sharp step back I reckon I'd be dead, or at least in no state to blog. He overextended himself, and I dumped the groceries and grabbed his arm, twisted. Not quite a throw, but enough to put him off balance, make him drop the knife. It clattered to the floor, and I gave it a kick, making suer it's out of reach. Then it's just about keeping him off balance, making sure he can't get his bearings. Lucky this is such a small town, or I reckon there'd have been quite a crowd, even though this was in an alley. As it was, we were alone, and I could continue uninterrupted, beating his head against a wall, making sure he wouldn't threaten me or mine again. I blacked out, the azoth taking complete control, and when I regained my senses, it was done. He was dead. I returned the groceries, before fetching the body, and a spade. Buried him in a wood somewhere, and now we're on alert, in case there are more. What''s worse is that there was no warning- normally there's at least one proxy keeping tabs on each runner, reporting to any large groups that the runner gets close to. His minder was probably in a ditch somewhere, poor sod.

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  1. Separate the body parts with the azoth, and bury them in separate areas. Smash his teeth out and take his fingers off if you don't want the body to be identified.

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    1. Thanks for the advice, but to be honest, his body being identified may be a good thing. Give closure to the family, if he had any. Besides, I don't think he had any azoth in him. If he had, I doubt it would've been this easy.

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    2. By the way, how do you get away with a mask in public? I personally swear by a hijab, covers my appearance but still looks normal, but you're a boy so I don't know.

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    3. Mostly alleyways and nighttime. Also, wearing a hoodie means there are only a couple angles where people can see the mask, and if they aren't in the know they don't tend to question it. People are weird like that. Also, we don't always wear masks. Only when we're on a job.

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    4. HIS influence can change the way people see things and it is simple for the Dark One to make people disregard something as simple as a mask. Though you'd be surprised how many people notice the mask let alone give it a second look anyway.

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    1. He tried to kill me. No different to you screwing up Black's mind, when you really think about it.

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    2. Well, I didn't kill him, except in a sense that could keep philosophers arguing for weeks. I see your point, though.

      Damn, it's sad that there's a war.

      I'm also worried about the fact that you black out when you kill. That's often a sign of unresolved issues to do with killing.

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    3. Are you a proxy, pHIL, or is Craft the proxy?

      Also she's trying to fix Black's mind, it's a bit different.

      I don't know about the black out when killing thing, but I trust Med's judgment.

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    4. I rather take issue with the form the fixing is taking though. I mean, I'd rather die than have my mind be even more screwed up. As for the proxy issue, I'm sorry if I caused confusion. I, pHIL, am a proxy, because otherwise I'd be Craft. Sorry about that.

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    5. With the fixing... I've stopped giving him books to read until I can do this properly. He isn't going to heal wrong if I can help it.

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    6. I meant the fact that you're basically rewriting his personality, by writing the book of who he is. To be honest, I think that's worse than killing; at least after you kill someone they can be remembered as they were.

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    7. I don't like it much either. But the alternative is leaving him a hollow shell for the rest of his life. Whoever he was deserves better than that.

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    8. Depends on if you think death occurs when there's physical death or when the mind is gone. In my opinion, he died when you stuck him into that MRI, and you can't bring him back. You can make a new person from the corpse, but that's about it. Like a literal philosophical zombie (sorry if I'm misusing that, I skimmed the book today but I was more focused on the job at hand)

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    9. Yeah. I didn't know what would happen when I stuck him in the MRI, but I certainly wasn't expecting this. Still, amnesia and new personalities isn't unheard of.

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