badgernet_multiversal | [video] Welcome to the Party From Hell (cw: general violence)

[The video opens with a scene of Nina standing against a background of tables covered with snack spreads of the sort you might see at a party. There's also some party decor, such as dangling letters spelling out "RECALLERS SOCIAL". Milling around and occasionally eating are a bunch of varied people, some of them looking like normal humans and some having various weird features.]

So, yeah, this is a party for a bunch of us Recallers. I got one of the techheads to lend me his hover-camera thing which I linked to my phone so it'll broadcast to BadgerNet while recording.

Now let's show you around. There're a few of my friends, I'll introdu--

[She is cut off by the sudden appearance of monstrous looking hump-backed shadows with sharp teeth and claws, which after the initial disorientation begin attacking people.

At first, Nina looks surprised, lost, and a little frightened. But then she kinda zones out a little... and suddenly she looks *much* more comfortable, like she's at home in a familiar environment, even among the screams and strife.]

Oh huh. Just remembered my past life's combat skills.

[She knows what to do. She grabs a pair of folks and sticks them into quite painfully fatal positions on the two nearest monsters. And with that, she becomes practically a whirlwind of pain and death, grabbing anything that will serve as a weapon and putting them to good use. Those with suitable combat or medical knowledge will notice she's apparently specifically aiming to cause painful deaths with much suffering.

And she's quite carried away, beginning to giggle. The camera bobs chaotically as it tries to keep up to the joyously laughing figure. It's clear that the people're in general getting things under control, though some look hurt or worse. And Nina just keeps slaughtering and slaughtering shadow monsters, until she is brought up short as someone gets to a monster before her. Looking around, she looks... crestfallen?]

No more prey...

[Blinking, she seems to come more fully to herself. With a very mollified expression, she reaches to turn off the camera.

A while later, Nina appears in a follow-up video, looking a little tired and a little disgruntled. Also still covered in monster blood.]

So, yeah. I got... carried away. At least I know now it's possible for me to get carried away like that. It won't happen again.

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Uhhhhhhhh.

So, yeah, I get this weirdly visceral pleasure out of hurting stuff. I'm aware that's pretty antisocial so I don't act on it much. Usually I rein it in and just do stuff like pissing people off in multiplayer games by doing better than them. But with so many monsters to stab, I got carried away. At least I now know I can get really into it like that, so I'm gonna tone it down if monsters show up again.

I was gonna ask, are you possessed?

So basically I have this past life who was an evil fucker. Led an hellhound army to terrorize everyone and everything. Loved torturing people, even. Apparently some of that spilled over to my current life. I had to figure out how to to not be an evil fucker. Because morals and stuff? That doesn't come naturally to me. Sometimes I have to stop and think about if I'm doing the right thing. Like, even more so than most people.

That stuff you saw just now?
A crisis situation where I didn't have the time to think that stuff over, only time to follow my instincts. And my instincts just really loves causing pain and suffering. Really, it took restraint not to just hurt everyone within reach.

At least I can figure out what to do for next time so I don't get carried away again.

Whoa. That's... definitely pretty bad as curses-that-aren't-actually-curses-but-might-as-well-be go. At least you were fighting evil monsters, huh?

No idea if they were evil or not but their attacking us without any provocation probably says something about them. Well, honestly it was fun killing them. As long as I limit the killing to aggressive monsters, it should be fine.

It still sounds kinda creepy. But I guess at least having an outlet is better than nothing. I don't think they make medication for reincarnation.

Before this, my main outlet was making other people rage and cry in video games, so if anything killing monsters is more productive. But yeah, people get hilariously salty when you keep beating them over and over again.

I mean, I don't blame 'em, I would too. Then again, I suck at games.

Judging by the kinds of names they call me and how many are slurs of one type or another, a lot of them are probably assholes anyways.

Some sure are. Usually the type who end up here.

Also a lot of gamers get really weird in a gross way when they learn you're a girl. And that situation you guys've got going on over there sucks.

Yeah. At least you don't have them physically with you. And they don't warp people's minds. Uh, I mean, usually. I guess cults and stuff still exist.

Seriously, if I had to deal with that shit, I'd make an exception to my new rule of only killing monsters. Though in a way those assholes qualify as monsters anyways.

Yeah. There's people all over the country, if not the world, whose lives got ruined by those guys. I still wish they'd let me fight. I know I'm a kid, but Azra-nee started even younger than me. I mean... [She stops herself.] Either way, no fair.

Okay yeah you're still a kid and Azra starting at an early age wasn't the best thing to happen.

I still wanna help and not get left behind all the time. I hate the Invaders as much as anyone.

uh. Do. You know what those shadow things are?

... on second thought I don't think I actually want to know.

No idea.

[Her ears suddenly perk, turning.]

Though huh I hear one of the Recallers saying he recognizes them. Something from his past life apparently.

On the one hand that doesn't sound great, on the other hand it seems like you have a starting point???

Considering after a few months we still have no idea why we keep regaining memories, powers, looks, items, all kinds of stuff from past lives... Yeah, it's not really much of a lead. But if monsters are going to keep showing up, this is gonna be a big problem..

Well if you need the kind of information a college student might have, I'm here.

Thanks, even if there're plenty of Recallers who are, like, really smart. Some Ph.Ds among the lot, the whole works. We're from all walks of life, see.

If I had a nickel for everyone I know who took Berzerker, I'd have two nickels, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Huh. It really is something like that. Yeah so I have murderous instincts from my past life.

[video] Welcome to the Party From Hell (cw: general violence)

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