Not Again! with 45

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We might as well eliminate all the possibilities we can before going 'it's random', at least.

[It's the most likely case, and it's one Chuuya understands- he picked Four specifically because he didn't know her and wasn't attached to her. Someone else could have thought the same way.]

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Sounds about right. There's no need to be hasty just yet, even ... knowing what we know.

[ or at least what they think they know, considering that the trend seems to be that they don't really get proper info until later, transparency in hosts or not. ]

FRIDAY, w2 post-inves/breakins/snzzzzzzz

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[ hey chuuya

so about those breakins huh

wow, are't they exhausting.

yeah that's it, that's the start. they probably just run into each other somewhere and squint at each other's respective states of disarray spiderman style, because he looks like a glitterbomb exploded on him with extra blood, and she looks like she's been shot at quite a lot. and you know, covered in bloodsplatter. ]

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...that's not yours, right?

[All the blood, he means. Because if she lost that much blood, she would be hella deda.

This spiderman squinting is perfect too because they're both covered in blood and looking like criminals. How do you do fellow sneak?]

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... Not mine. At most, maybe some conversion fluid. Maybe a little bit of Tonbokiri's.

Mostly not ours.

[ they both look great. but she's got the shutter shades, so who's really looking better here? ]

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'Mostly not ours' was us too. We had to, er, cut up some dead bodies. It was a mess.

[He did not get awesome shades, he just got to make art afterwards. So yeah she looks better.]

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Did you now. How did that go for you?

[ the funny thing is that the shades were almost completely incidental. he'll note that she's smiling, like usual, but right now it's a lot more notably wan than usual. ]

... What happened, anyway?

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[Of course, she did just go through quite a thing. It's understandable.]

We had to investigate the mansion. But as we did, it was like our memories were rewritten. In the new memories, we failed to find any monsters and kept voting out innocent people.

...you were one of the ones voted out.

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... I see.

[ well. somehow, that's not surprising. she's not a very personable ... person, after all. ]

I suppose that wouldn't have been unexpected, all things considered. Though, I'm impressed. ♪ It seems you stumbled across something at least slightly more important than we did.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a "this is the bad future your friends are stuck in, save them from it" kind of thing.

What did you guys find?

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[ wtf i know i sent this tag, did my internet eat it ]

Hm. So I suppose that's what we're being threatened with if we don't 'win' here too, isn't it? Good to know that I have 'dying by being voted out' to look forward to.

[ but at his question, her eyes lid a little, leaving her smile very flat, and very blank. ]

... Unfortunately, nothing so important. Not like yours. It was the storage area, but... influenced, I suppose. By remnants. Residuals. Whatever we're calling them.

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Yeah, and it's a future I'd rather avoid.

[Or. Past. Whatever. He died and it sucked.]

You mean the stuff that came with us from our games, yeah? What did the remnants do?

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... I'm not sure that it came from our games, necessarily. We fell from the moon. Fought our way through a hundred floors of- shadows and monsters. Ran from death, apparently, and deterred it from chasing us too far...

[ they had to leg their way through a 100 floor dungeon ON FOOT, no one can give them shit for getting locked in. ]

Dealt with a rather ... personal, I suppose, corpse. Destroyed many, many hostile copies of myself and my twin, in a poor facsimile of a factory that should have been abandoned.

[ her tone just gets blander and blander as she lists things out, but these don't sound anything like the mansion, ship, or island, do they? ]

Not all necessarily in order.

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Holy shit, 100 floors? And here I was complaining about having to go up and down five sets of stairs a couple times.

[The rest is. Hm.]

I didn't know you had a twin.

[That's probably the least-yeesh part of all of that.]

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The ... elevator wasn't working. So our only option was the stairs, and going through each maze of a floor on foot.

[ elevator doesn't seem like the word she was initially going to use, but it's fine, probably. the closest equivalent, maybe. ]

But... Haha.

Have I really never mentioned her to you? I could've sworn at least a few people have heard about her in passing... You'd probably like her. She's earnest and outgoing. Much friendlier than I am.

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What's her name, 46?

[He's teasing.]

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9, actually. UMP9.

[ 9 is a good girl. and she knows that chuuya's joking, but still, unfortunately her tone is still kind of flat, like it's been for most of this conversation ]

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I'm surprised she's an earlier number if she's your little sister.

[He is raising an eyebrow at her tone, though.]

You okay?

Week 2, post-trial

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[HEY 45

HEY

Chuuya is looking for you.]

Oi! Come talk to me, I need your help with something.

[He has a notebook in his hands too, and a pen.]

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The number doesn't matter. It's just the type of ammo our namesakes are chambered with, after all. Unless you really want to call me Doll Model SSD-D, Unit Number 04673 SF; DSB1-3873 Dual-Track DSI-8 Model SY instead?

[ wryly. her full serial code and unit number is a hell of a mouthful, as it turns out. enough humor leaks back into her tone so it's not completely jarring to hear, at least, but... ]

... Hmm. I'm fine. It was just a long night.

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I think I'll just stick to calling you Aki, thanks.

[YOU'RE A PERSON NOT A NUMBER, 45!]

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[ well??? she's around???

throws dart

she's around the cabins, cool. ]

I'm here, I'm here. What do you need?

[ congrats on acquiring uno pen, chuuya. ]

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Much less hassle to say, isn't it?

[ lmao ]

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[He can write poetry now, it's fine. And they can meet in seekrit behind a cabin!]

At the trial Phoenix mentioned that if you do a task with a teammate, you get double-rewards. I was wondering if that happened to you at all yet or not.

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... If it's double rewards, then I'm afraid I don't have anything to tell you. I've received only one voucher per task completed, as far as I know. Phoenix mentioning that was the first I've heard of it.

[ which, hm. there goes phoenix again, digging into things. ]

Do we know for a fact that it's double rewards, or simply double point value when tallying up however much any team earns for a given week?