SHOWMASTER HEART GAME (FRIDAY)

[showmaster]

A familiar voice can be heard above you, you're not sure if they're talking to you or not but it does feel like you're part of this conversation:

"What a Wonderful Story that you have. I've read it many times when I was feeling sad. You know, I wanted to keep it in my personal collection, but it doesn't seem that's going to be possible. To grant my wish, I'd have to sacrifice what it means to be a reader ... to become the story. That's The End that I'm looking for.

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Comments

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[showmaster]

. . . if it was that easy to achieve my goal, I would have done it by now, I'm sure. But every attempt fails.

My goal isn't just to tell stories.

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[endsjustified]

Your brother’s rescue, isn’t it? Or something more…?

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[showmaster]

That is only part of it.

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[endsjustified]

If you would have a hope of my choosing you, I would hear it.

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[showmaster]

...you want me to say it out loud on my own?

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[endsjustified]

You have said you are bad at revealing yourself. At asking for help.

But you also said you would try.

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[showmaster]

Truly insufferable.

[how could he do this to good showmasters.]

...I do not wish others to stop me.

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[endsjustified]

I am sorry. If I thought it would truly be worthwhile to let you continue the loop, I would.

But it only brutalizes all involved, including you. Are you not weary? Is it not time for a change?

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[showmaster]

...I am weary.

And I keep forgetting more and more. Every so often, I can regain what memories I've lost but...

I don't even remember his face these days.

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[endsjustified]

But he’s still alive. He could come back, given the means You could see him again.

You don’t need the stage, for that.

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[showmaster]

The stage is one way to be remembered. If I can create enough stories, good or bad...

Re: GOAL (LEGENDS)

[endsjustified]

That is what we call the sunk cost fallacy.

Have pity. You know that stories are not just stories. Your work is the interruption of lives and lifetimes. I am not even asking you to lay down your cause—-just to let us help you look for other roads.