"Indeed, I'm insane. You are too. We wouldn't be here otherwise."\n\nHe takes your hand kindly. "We should get you back to the Asylum."\n\n[[Begin again?|Start Again]]
"I try to commit suicide every so often. Pills and things. But it happened enough that -- they put me in here."\n\n[[~ "Who's 'they?'" ~|They]]\n\n[[~ "I'm glad you've not succeeded at committing suicide." ~|Happy]]\n\n[[~ "You're a madman." ~|Insane]]
<<set $patient = true>>\n\n"I think you're a patient here, yes."\n\n[[~ You ask "Why am I a patient here?" ~|Reasons]]\n\n[[~ You ask "Why are you a patient here?" ~|Suicide]]\n\n[[~ You say "I'm not insane." ~|Reasons]]\n
<<set $name = true>>\n\n"Jean DeValle." The name sounds just as European as the softspoken Continental.\n\n<<if $ground neq true>>\n[[~ You try and discover your surroundings. ~|Ground]]\n<<endif>>\n\n<<if $asylum neq true>>\n[[~ You ask "Where are we?" ~|Asylum]]\n<<endif>>\n\n<<if $asylum eq true>>\n[[~ You ask "Am I a patient here?" ~|Patient]]\n<<endif>>\n\n
"I don't know why you're here. But you're very insane, just like me. You wouldn't have tried to climb the wall otherwise."\n\n[[~ You ask "Why are you a patient here?" ~|Suicide]]\n\n[[~ You say "You don't seem insane." ~|Suicide]]\n\n[[~ You say "But I'm not insane!" ~|Reasons2]]\n\n[[~ You say "You're wrong. I'm sane. You're insane." ~|Insane]]
"Distant. Very distant."\n\n[[~ "Why do you try to kill yourself?" ~|Telephone]]\n\n[[~ "I'm glad you've not succeeded at committing suicide." ~|Happy]]\n\n[[~ "You're a madman." ~|Insane]]
"People say it's a call for help -- to try to kill myself so many times and not succeed. It is, but it's not for my father. It's for the world. Do you understand? Sometimes I can't live anymore. The library of Alexandria burned down and we've tied up the sky with telephone wires. But then I kill myself and at the last moment I'll I think of -- octopodes. The invention of writing. Cathedrals. Then I live."\n\n[[~ "The invention of writing?" ~|Writing]]\n\n[[~ "I'm glad you've not succeeded at committing suicide." ~|Happy]]\n\n[[~ "You're a madman."~ |Insane]]\n\n
"The invention of writing. The first time someone decided that you could -- code -- entities in the world to symbols. Not just pictures but -- standardized symbols. That everyone could draw. That was brilliant. And then realizing that the symbols could be sounds -- you could reduce the symbols by making them sounds."\n\n[[~ "I'm glad you've not succeeded at committing suicide." ~|Happy]]\n\n[[~ "You're a madman." ~|Insane]]
<<silently>>\n\n<<set $name = false>>\n\n<<set $ground = false>>\n\n<<set $asylum = false>>\n\n<<set $patient = false>>\n\n<<set $suicide= false>>\n\n<<set $they= false>>\n\n<<set $father= false>>\n\n<<set $telephone = false>>\n\n<<set $writing = false>>\n\n<<endsilently>>\n\n\nYou are blind.\n\nTired, too, head throbbing like a heartbeat, a lactic acid ache in the skin around your skull. The back of your scalp is numb.\n\n"Can you speak?" A young man's voice, painfully cultured. European, you think.\n\n[[~ You try and discover your surroundings. ~|Ground]]\n\n[[~ You ask "Who are you?" ~|Name]]\n\n[[~ You ask "Where are we?" ~|Asylum]]\n
<<silently>>\n\n<<set $name = false>>\n\n<<set $ground = false>>\n\n<<set $asylum = false>>\n\n<<set $patient = false>>\n\n<<set $suicide= false>>\n\n<<set $they= false>>\n\n<<set $father= false>>\n\n<<set $telephone = false>>\n\n<<set $writing = false>>\n\n<<endsilently>>\n\n\nYou are blind.\n\nTired, too, head throbbing like a heartbeat, a lactic acid ache in the skin around your skull. The back of your scalp is numb.\n\n"Can you speak?" A young man's voice, painfully cultured. European, you think.\n\n[[~ You try and discover your surroundings. ~|Ground]]\n\n[[~ You ask "Who are you?" ~|Name]]\n\n[[~ You ask "Where are we?" ~|Asylum]]\n
\n"They are -- he is -- my father."\n\n[[~ "Why do you try to kill yourself?" ~|Telephone]]\n\n[[~ "What's your father like?"~ |Father]]\n\n[[~ "I'm glad you've not succeeded at committing suicide." ~|Happy]]\n\n[[~ "You're a madman."~ |Insane]]\n\n
"I don't know why you're here. But you're very insane, just like me. You wouldn't have tried to climb the wall otherwise."\n\n[[~ You ask "Why are you a patient here?" ~|Suicide]]\n\n[[~ You say "You don't seem insane." ~|Suicide]]\n\n[[~ You say "But I'm not insane!" ~|Reasons]]\n\n[[~ You say "You're wrong. I'm sane. You're insane." ~|Insane]]
"I'm glad I haven't killed myself too. I wouldn't have seen so much if it had worked. Conversations like this make me realize that, yes?"\n\nHe takes your hand. "We should get you back to the Asylum."\n\n[[Begin again?|Start Again]]
Wake
<<set $asylum = true>>\n\n"We're here -- at the Telamany Asylum. I imagine you fell off the wall that keeps us from polite society."\n\n<<if $ground neq true>>\n[[~ You try and discover your surroundings.~|Ground]]\n<<endif>>\n\n<<if $name neq true>>\n[[~ You ask "Who are you?" ~|Name]]\n<<endif>>\n\n[[~ You ask "Am I a patient here?" ~|Patient]]
E.C.I.
<<set $ground = true>>\n\nYou can't move, you realize. You have to synthesize what you're feeling. There's a rough stone wall behind your neck and grit under your fingers. You're on ground, scrubby, cold, frozen dirt -- grey, you think, though you can't see it.\n\n"I didn't know anyone else had tried to climb the walls." You're starting to recognize the accent -- French?\n\n<<if $asylum neq true>>\n[[~ You ask "Where are we?" ~|Asylum]]\n<<endif>>\n\n<<if $name neq true>>\n[[~ You ask "Who are you?" ~|Name]]\n<<endif>>\n\n<<if $asylum eq true>>\n[[~ You ask "Am I a patient here?" ~|Patient]]\n<<endif>>