Conversation 169: THOUGHT / SOBRIETY DAY ONE

Endurance -- about staying clean. Not an initiation dialogue, but UPON FIXING thought?

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ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
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2 Endurance Do you know what today is?
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3 You Huh?
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4 You (Lie.) Yes.
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5 You My birthday?
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6 Endurance No. Well, it might be, but you don't have your badge, so how would you know? Try again.
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7 You My wedding anniversary? (IsTHCPresent("caustic_echo") or Variable["inventory.ledger_caustic_echo"]) or IsTHCPresent("white_mourning") or Variable["inventory.ledger_white_mourning"]
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8 You The day I'll solve this case?
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9 You I give up.
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10 Endurance No, you don't. It's been too long since this has happened for you to recognize the feeling.
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11 Endurance Of course. It's been too long since this has happened for you to recognize the feeling.
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12 Endurance No, believe it or not, this isn't about *her*. Well, not exactly...
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13 Endurance Let's hope so. It's beginning to seem possible that you *will* solve it.
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14 Endurance It's your first day sober.
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15 None
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16 You What?! I've been sober for *over two days* already!
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17 You How did I let it come to this? I need to get my buzz on *immediately*.
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18 Endurance It takes a while for that shit to get out of your system, and for reality to come back into focus.
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19 Endurance No, you don't. You're well into detoxing now. *Reality* is beginning to come into focus -- just look around.
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20 Endurance Yes, you're beginning to see the world for what it is, even through the mental fog. And yourself, too -- what you've made yourself into.
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21 You Reality... (Look around.)
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22 You Oh, how I've missed this clarity!
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23 You Everything is terrible. I want off the sobriety train.
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24 You I don't know how I feel about this yet...
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25 Endurance You've shown you can get through two days of detox. You can certainly endure a little more...
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26 Endurance Don't get too excited. Clarity is still many months away for you -- difficult, confusing, very emotional months. Shall we keep going?
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27 Endurance You're going to feel all kinds of contradictory, confusing things for months to come. But don't get discouraged -- you just have to keep going, right foot in front of left, left foot in front of right...
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28 None
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29 You I'm done with my old life. One foot after the other, I will go on...
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30 You No, I can't handle this, I'm done. I'm going to find a drink *right now*. [Discard thought.]
31 None
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32 Endurance ...and together we will walk the waste land of reality. Because even if you haven't had your last drink or your last line, you will never really, truly enjoy either again.
33 You Reality... (Study your surroundings with your newly sober eyes.)
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