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[DELUSIONAL + OPEN MINDED] "I suppose I can't blame you, though!" Benjamin chirps with the sing-song tone of a songbird. "Anomalies are super duper cool! I too would be SUPER WILLING to let it ROT ME FROM THE INSIDE OUT. ROT, ROT, ROT!!! FUCKING ROT!"
[GULLIBLE + DELUSIONAL] "ALL WHILE YOU'RE BEING HUNTED BY SPOOKS! Yes, I suppose that sounds about right! I should've expected such brilliance from a Foxtrot such as yourself."
"Do you know how damaged your body is?"
"I-"
"DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT'LL BE TO HEAL THAT?! DO YOU?!" Your group watches silently as Benjamin begins having a complete meltdown at the Researcher. You suppose you forgot how his mind is already not fully put together since it just resulted in funny misunderstandings.
"And I'm the one who has to do it since your injures are THAT bad! You did this intentionally, didn't you? You did this to fuck over Otto! I should've known this mission was too easy! Oh, Molly was such a GOOD GIRL, we lowered our guards!" Benjamin reels his fist back. "Fool us once, shame on ME!" He prepares to launch it but Max promptly grabs onto his arm.
"Stop! Please, please, just...calm down." Max's struggling to hold his arm back but...it appears her presence is enough to calm him down. "It's not worth it. Please."
He slowly lowers his hand and, as if the temper tantrum never happened, he looks around at your group with a confused smile.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Uh...we're just tired, that's all." Max lies to his face. "Don't mind it. We're going to be fine."
[GULLIBLE] "Oh! Okay!" He accepts what Max says without any resistance.
You have no fucking idea what caused this outburst aside from potential haze nonsense...at first. But it doesn't take a genius to realize he's probably projecting really hard on Seath due to their similar roles in their respective companies.
In his stressed, slightly off-kilter brain, he must've seen some part of himself in Seath that he did not like at all. You definitely have to talk to him and Max later about this.
"Well, that just happened!" Casey flashes her company approved winning smile at the group in an attempt to lighten the mood. The sheer whiplash of it is enough to get everyone to laugh, even if they don't really want to.
>CLOVER and KIARA heal 1 RESTRAINT! You heal two from a mix of NOLNOL regeneration and Casey's presence. CLOVER and KIARA now have full RESTRAINT while you have 9/11!
"I don't blame him." Seath gets back onto his feet. The punch didn't really do any damage to his body aside from a very minor bruise on Seath's forehead. "I will admit I was not in the right state of mind for the last 72 hours. The anomaly was simply the tipping point."
"Can't blame ya, partner. Feels like all of our minds are strainin' with all of this darkness hanging around. Shit, did something similar to him not even 30 minutes ago."
"You have to adapt to the crushing darkness." Seath solemnly nods his head at the group.