PC: Tama 💀

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I hope you're right. Other people besides us are bound to be talking about the possibility, so they'll probably hear about it and get new ideas. If it's something meant to help us, they'll find a way.

[ there's a sigh. ]

Completely right answer in a wrong direction? I'll take what I can get.

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It’s not like people are plugging up their ears or anything. They’re bound to hear something.

[ hmm. ]

Well, we did figure out what happened to Chiemi. But we’re assuming what happened to Norma — it adds up, but we’re not going to know for sure.

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For now we're going to have to assume that's what happened. If something comes up later that says otherwise...well, we'll have to ask Chiemi for forgiveness later. I think it's easier for people to draw that conclusion though instead of thinking we let a different culprit walk away.

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[ she had used bullets and jan would give francy surprise freedom. ]

Yeah… there’s always a chance more will come out later. But we shouldn’t let it distract us going forward.

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Right. Getting too caught up in the small details is just going to trip us up further. [ he shakes his head. ] So what is forward today? Just regrouping?

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Regrouping. Giving ourselves a moment to just— not get overwhelmed? Not get too lost in the whole mess?

[ ✨ depression? ✨ ]

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[ a sigh. ]

...it's hard when we all want to fix things right away, but that's probably the right answer for now. We just have to remember to be kind of patient.

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Especially not when you have … well. A deadline, I guess. Twice isn’t a coincidence.

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The rules aren't either. They really want to emphasize that this is our new normal here. At least for the duration of the competition.

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[ she pulls a face. ]

I wonder if we can hijack it and rewrite the rules.

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We'd have to find out who's updating the rules in the first place, wouldn't we? I don't even remember how it happened, just that the phone updated.

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It’s gotta be coming from somewhere. Rules don’t just manifest from nowhere.

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The most we can do right now is track the changes and see if there's any sort of...common factor or something as to when they change and what they are. See if they match the other rules, stuff like that.

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Maybe that’s some of the abnormalities we need to be tracking. Things that are out of place — like rules popping up out of nowhere. After the game’s already started.

It’s not subtle, but then maybe we need to ask more about the who, where and why these things changed.

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Think it's something the leaders might actually have an answer to? Or should we be doing our asking amongst ourselves? [ this is always a valid question. ]

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Is it going to hurt if we ask them and feed back to the others?

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I doubt it. Unless we have a reason not to trust them with this kind of information and questioning.

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Might as well see if we can get a jumping point then.

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Then let's ask around and we can touch base on it again later. Deal?

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Deal.