For whatever reason, pep!pep! arrived over a month after all the other units. Before we arrived, there hadn't been any out-of-game deaths before.
On our second day here, there was game where someone killed someone else in a bad way, and the victim was furious. They publicly vowed to murder the aggressor out-of-game if he tried it again, and everyone got really wound up. And right away, entire units were picking sides and threatening to revenge-murder each other. Words like "blood feud" started getting thrown around and things were super tense.
And this was pretty stressful for us because we were... the revival unit. We knew as soon as people started killing each other, everyone was going to look at us to fix it, because suddenly here is an entire unit full of people who could revive the dead, freshly arrived.
But the thing was that the people in our unit were like... generally pretty young, gentle, caring people with no experience with, or tolerance for, violence. So everyone else's murders looked like they were going to turn into our trauma real fast.
We were super stressed out. We were worried that people would start to have a cavalier attitude about killing, since our presence meant it was something that could be undone. We were worried people would use us as an excuse to hurt people. We didn't think that was going to be great for us, or for sensitIV, or for the community at large.
SensitIV charges points for healing specifically for this kind of reason -- they hope that by attaching even a small penalty, it can help discourage people from exploiting them. So we were kinda feeling out that idea but not really making much headway.
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For whatever reason, pep!pep! arrived over a month after all the other units. Before we arrived, there hadn't been any out-of-game deaths before.
On our second day here, there was game where someone killed someone else in a bad way, and the victim was furious. They publicly vowed to murder the aggressor out-of-game if he tried it again, and everyone got really wound up. And right away, entire units were picking sides and threatening to revenge-murder each other. Words like "blood feud" started getting thrown around and things were super tense.
And this was pretty stressful for us because we were... the revival unit. We knew as soon as people started killing each other, everyone was going to look at us to fix it, because suddenly here is an entire unit full of people who could revive the dead, freshly arrived.
But the thing was that the people in our unit were like... generally pretty young, gentle, caring people with no experience with, or tolerance for, violence. So everyone else's murders looked like they were going to turn into our trauma real fast.
We were super stressed out. We were worried that people would start to have a cavalier attitude about killing, since our presence meant it was something that could be undone. We were worried people would use us as an excuse to hurt people. We didn't think that was going to be great for us, or for sensitIV, or for the community at large.
SensitIV charges points for healing specifically for this kind of reason -- they hope that by attaching even a small penalty, it can help discourage people from exploiting them. So we were kinda feeling out that idea but not really making much headway.
Two weeks after our arrival, Aries killed Moreau.