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ANONYMOUS TEXT ♙ OO4

Dear interested parties, Are you suspicious? Do you feel lied to? Paranoid? Do you have questions? Do you demand answers? Worry not. For a price, you may be the lucky receiver of a vial of purest Honesty. This singular liquid guarantees the intended recipient tell nothing but the very naked truth. With this glorious solution in hand, you may rest easy knowing that all of your questions will soon be answered - for better or for worse. One fl oz per vial. One drop is equal to one hour of Honesty. Mixable with other drinks. Use wisely. This transaction will be treated as an auction; the bidding will end in five days' time. Paper payment won't be accepted. Favours won't be accepted. I'll decide the highest bidder. Your purchase and payment will both be delivered to a place of my choosing. Bidding begins now.

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At least we know that's the point.

I'm not trying to stir up trouble, but if it's a side-effect, then so be it. Thought people might enjoy some good old-fashioned honesty for a chance.

People are allowed to have secrets. Sometimes it's better not to know the truth.

[Yeah, so that's a different answer than what he might've given six months ago.]

[ trust him, hatter's in the same boat. ]

Sometimes the truth deserves to be known.

So you take it upon yourself to sell something that could potentially do irreparable harm to a person or people on this ship because, what? The truth told *might* be beneficial?

Yep, that's pretty much it.

[ this is not his first rodeo show. he might not be proud of it, but he's been messing up people's lives for a long time; this is just par for the course. ]

Chaos isn't fun. And it doesn't help anyone.

You're saying there's no possible way anyone could benefit from this.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

You're not the least bit curious as to what the command team's been hiding from us?

If you mean Ward and Resnik, in case you haven't noticed no one has access to them. If a truth serum is out somewhere in the general population, the only thing it will do is create even more suspicion and mistrust than what already exists. That doesn't help anyone.

Right. So you'd much rather settle for being spoonfed your information. Where I come from, you either swallow the lies or you go looking for the truth. I'm just the messenger, but I'm giving people options. You'd think those might matter in a place like this.

I'm not saying anything about information. What you're doing is throwing gasoline on a fire, and it's not going to do anyone any good. Do you really think whichever random person gets your little serum is actually going to use it to find out something useful about this place? Because that's an incredibly naive view to have.

No, I don't. But that's the thing - I never denied it was a double-edged sword. They can use it for whatever they'd like. Once it's in their hands, it's out of mine.

[ tried and true philosophy. ]

So you admit you refuse to take any responsibility, and you're just doing it to cause problems.

Or solutions. If I'd wanted to take responsibility, I wouldn't be anonymous, would I? If it were me, I'd be focusing on the people actually offering up their belongings in order to get their hands on this drink. It's like you said: who knows what they might do. Besides, you could always attempt to buy this off me. Just so it doesn't go into circulation. Fall into the wrong hands. Since you seem to be so preachy about it. Just an idea.

I don't buy products I don't know what they even are, or where they come from, from cowardly anonymous sources. You're the one who has it, it's your job to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

I think you're confusing me for someone who cares. [ spoiler: he does. sometimes. ] Fine. Tell me. Let's play a little game of pretend: if you had it, how would you use it?

Yeah, that's become very obvious.

If I had it, I wouldn't use it. I'd dump it down a sink.

You wouldn't even be tempted to try it yourself.

No. For all I know, it's just poison anyway.

You've got to be joking. Nobody's that saintly.

Not wanting to kill someone is saint-like now?

Not being tempted is.

I never said anything about not being tempted. But I'm also not stupid. It wouldn't be worth the risk.

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