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So you did. The trick was convincing it, and me, that it would for long enough to get it written. ;)
+1, an excellent example of how things that you don't see can be creepier than things you do.
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I'm worried what happens when they fall asleep. It doesn't matter how much food they have, if they don't have good uppers they're in trouble :(
My initial thought was that they're sleeping in shifts. There's a third person sleeping in the bushes right now; when that person wakes up, either Jim or Madeline will be able to go to sleep while the other takes their side of the game of telephone tag. (Jim and Madeline don't remember that that person is there, for the same reason they don't remember modifying the guns: it was a plan against 055, so they forgot it as soon as they weren't working on it anymore. "There's nobody else in town" is either inaccurate (they can't remember seeing any sign of other people, and they've concluded that there are none), or it's accurate but it's been carried over verbatim from a status quo where "somebody else" is "somebody aside from the three of us" to one where "somebody else" is "somebody aside from the two of us." Either way, when teammate #3 wakes up, hopefully Jim or Madeline will see them and remember what to do next, in the same way that Jim knew how to reassemble his gun when he saw it in pieces.)
Alternatively: we know what precautions they're taking, in general terms, but we don't know what those precautions are for. Maybe some part of the precautions either prevents them from falling asleep, or prevents them from completely losing track of what's going on if one of them does fall asleep. There could be beneficial properties to the guns or accessories, or the act of maintaining them… Personally, my money is on either the plants, the crystals, or the bench being some sort of external storage medium.
Hell, maybe they took some kind of permanent treatment earlier, and now they're just never going to fall asleep. (And they're never going to notice that they don't get tired, either, unless something changes…)
Funniest alternative: combination of #1 and #2. If one of them falls asleep, the bench will wake up and join the conversation.
Still, you make a good point- it's another item on the list of things we don't know if they can survive.
Personally, I'd be useless within days of something like this- I have too many prescription medications keeping me going. Eventually I'd run out of pills… and "eventually" would arrive much sooner once I stopped being able to remember the last time I'd taken my pills. o____o
This is why 055 scares the bajeezus out of me. Excellent work.
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