anyway yeah he is also very just. what the fuck. how come everybody else was fine and they went through that shitshow of an adventure? he would also like to know. but she asks the question and there's a sage nod. ]
I made sure to be extremely annoying about making sure the two of them were healed first. [ do not make this sound like a good thing, nico. ] I'm sure there are a few people who disagree with how things were handled but...I don't know if I care that much either.
[ he has his reasons and nobody actually asked why the two of them were bickering about who would heal first, so he sort of figured people could feel however they wanted about it. ]
...considering you experienced something, too. [ and now begins his favorite game: avoiding his issues to check on someone else. ] What actually happened? Where did you go?
It's kind of important if this is going to keep happening to people on Thursdays. I told Temenos that there would probably be a second group after us if it was like last week, and I was right.
I'm more worried about what's going to happen if more of these little excursions [ i never know what to call a cyoa when talking about it icly. journey? trip? shenanigan? ] turn out in the way yours did.
Ours wasn't without risk, but it wasn't actively trying to hurt us physically or mentally. [ ... ] Well, sort of. But we stopped it.
Stopping them was kind of our thing. We were pretty good at it!
[ MORE DEATH. ]
Both of us could see the future in specific circumstances. And a lot of it was bad -- normally ending in death. So, we tried to stop those deaths from happening.
That is the way of the future usually, yes. People die. [ but he frowns. ] So it was like you had future sight and could predict what would happen, and when you returned out of those visions you could meddle with circumstances to prevent the deaths. Like that? Or even more limited?
That sounds...kind of useful, actually. Being able to see everything and plan better. Usually when we receive our prophecies we have to guess what they might mean. And we never get to control when either. It's whenever the Oracle has something to say. Kind of puts a damper on stuff.
Oh never mind that actually sounds terrible. So okay. You had visions and vague ideas, so you had to figure out where to go from there. Were you able to stop the bomb at least...?
Kinda? I thought we had and then it came flying back into the mall. But we’d pulled the fire alarm, so the place was pretty quiet… [ minimal injuries rather than maximum ones. ]
That might not be a bad way of putting it. Nothing was making us take on these cases, we just felt the urge to do that. Like, we knew if we didn't the future we saw would happen.
It's kind of like what happened to us last week. We felt like we had to go through with a heist that'd we'd been planning for, and we really wanted the treasure that was waiting for us. No amount of thinking changed the motivation. We were stuck thinking like that until we were successful.
That’s what really worries me, really. The fact that whatever is happening out there, you don’t have control over your own base thoughts. They’re manipulated in some way to keep you there.
[ he's trying to think of how to concisely explain... ]
...we woke up as animals in a house. Reigen was a fox. Will was a lion. And I was a wolf. We all still felt like ourselves though and we had our memories and everything. We didn't have a goal implanted in us or any sort of guide of where to go, so we started to explore. We found out we were in someone's house, but that the village we were in was holding a pretty big, terrible secret.
A raccoon came by and gave us a list of tasks though. I think we ignored most of them because we found another list. Someone was keeping track of a debt owed, and...they wanted to go fiend Chiemi's house before "he" destroyed it. When we left the house we found a whole little village outside. There was a neighborhood with a lot of houses, and there was a main street with shops. Reigen saw a news article about someone he knew from home getting a job as the post office, so he went to check. Will and I went to main street, and...we found a lot of the neighbors. Animals like us, but...they were friends from here. Hung was a dog...Datz was an alligator...Rita was a mouse...just different friends.
[ he...skips some things, because tama said abbreviated and he can go back. ]
Um. The abbreviated version is Norma had been murdered, and Chiemi was supposedly driven out of town for it. But before that, they and a lot of our other friends had been working together to uncover the secrets of a director that had started to change everything in the village. The director wanted all of the people in town to pay her money so she could get rid of a monster problem, but the monster...was under her control. She was hurting it and forcing it to hurt others so she could keep the town under control. So we had to do something to help it and stop the director.
Yes. To the point where Norma had been killed with a shotgun, and the gun was found in Chiemi's house. We found all of their notes and the weapon and everything before the house was bombed and collapsed on us. [ so that was. fun. ]
...the director used to be the mayor, but she changed her title. And the notes said that if people didn't pay her 65,000 bells to help deal with the monster problem, she'd bring them to the museum and take care of them herself. They would come out with their mouths sewn shut, and they'd be isolated from everyone they knew. They would have to pretend to be the perfect, friendly neighbor, but even then some of them were isolated from each other. [ ... ] Ace was there. He was a goat, but we knew it was him and he was chained to his house and he couldn't leave. We tried to help him, but it just hurt him even more. Something went terribly wrong there, because when we started cutting the chains we saw the true nature of things. He was half goat and half himself, but everything settled when we stopped trying to rescue him. He...told us to leave him behind. So we had to keep going.
Main street wasn't much better. We went into a few shops, and....we found that the director was controlling certain people. Like puppets. Reigen's student was at the post office and we didn't see it, but he told us he tried to attack him. And we followed Norma's ghost into another shop. Except the shop was...also bad? [ this is an understatement apparently since he also stops again here. ]
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anyway yeah he is also very just. what the fuck. how come everybody else was fine and they went through that shitshow of an adventure? he would also like to know. but she asks the question and there's a sage nod. ]
I made sure to be extremely annoying about making sure the two of them were healed first. [ do not make this sound like a good thing, nico. ] I'm sure there are a few people who disagree with how things were handled but...I don't know if I care that much either.
[ he has his reasons and nobody actually asked why the two of them were bickering about who would heal first, so he sort of figured people could feel however they wanted about it. ]
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I’ll be honest, I don’t really have it in me to get mad about when you got healed so long as you GOT healed.
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...considering you experienced something, too. [ and now begins his favorite game: avoiding his issues to check on someone else. ] What actually happened? Where did you go?
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Nico.
[ denied. ]
Look at me, I didn't really even get hurt. Where I went isn't really that important.
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It's kind of important if this is going to keep happening to people on Thursdays. I told Temenos that there would probably be a second group after us if it was like last week, and I was right.
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Ours wasn't without risk, but it wasn't actively trying to hurt us physically or mentally. [ ... ] Well, sort of. But we stopped it.
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...what do you mean sort of? What were you trying to stop?
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Well, the last death we had to stop was Axel's. So that was kind of a clear case of someone trying to harm one of us.
We succeeded though.
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The last death? How many deaths were you dealing with? And also, why? [ DON'T WE HAVE ENOUGH MURDER ALREADY. :tails: ]
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[ MORE DEATH. ]
Both of us could see the future in specific circumstances. And a lot of it was bad -- normally ending in death. So, we tried to stop those deaths from happening.
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That is the way of the future usually, yes. People die. [ but he frowns. ] So it was like you had future sight and could predict what would happen, and when you returned out of those visions you could meddle with circumstances to prevent the deaths. Like that? Or even more limited?
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We didn’t really control when they happened, they just did.
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So it wasn't perfect.
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Oh never mind that actually sounds terrible. So okay. You had visions and vague ideas, so you had to figure out where to go from there. Were you able to stop the bomb at least...?
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[ ... ]
...sort of sounds like you were going through a story that rewrote you a little.
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That’s what really worries me, really. The fact that whatever is happening out there, you don’t have control over your own base thoughts. They’re manipulated in some way to keep you there.
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...we had control over ours for almost the entire time today. [ which. depending on how you look on it, that could be good or bad. ]
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… And yours was the most intense one we’ve seen so far. [ oh boy. ] What… happened? Abbreviated version is fine too.
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...we woke up as animals in a house. Reigen was a fox. Will was a lion. And I was a wolf. We all still felt like ourselves though and we had our memories and everything. We didn't have a goal implanted in us or any sort of guide of where to go, so we started to explore. We found out we were in someone's house, but that the village we were in was holding a pretty big, terrible secret.
A raccoon came by and gave us a list of tasks though. I think we ignored most of them because we found another list. Someone was keeping track of a debt owed, and...they wanted to go fiend Chiemi's house before "he" destroyed it. When we left the house we found a whole little village outside. There was a neighborhood with a lot of houses, and there was a main street with shops. Reigen saw a news article about someone he knew from home getting a job as the post office, so he went to check. Will and I went to main street, and...we found a lot of the neighbors. Animals like us, but...they were friends from here. Hung was a dog...Datz was an alligator...Rita was a mouse...just different friends.
[ he...skips some things, because tama said abbreviated and he can go back. ]
Um. The abbreviated version is Norma had been murdered, and Chiemi was supposedly driven out of town for it. But before that, they and a lot of our other friends had been working together to uncover the secrets of a director that had started to change everything in the village. The director wanted all of the people in town to pay her money so she could get rid of a monster problem, but the monster...was under her control. She was hurting it and forcing it to hurt others so she could keep the town under control. So we had to do something to help it and stop the director.
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That… wait it was reflecting things that happened here? With what we suspect happened the previous week?
[ that’s… concerning. ]
A director that had started to change things in the village….
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...the director used to be the mayor, but she changed her title. And the notes said that if people didn't pay her 65,000 bells to help deal with the monster problem, she'd bring them to the museum and take care of them herself. They would come out with their mouths sewn shut, and they'd be isolated from everyone they knew. They would have to pretend to be the perfect, friendly neighbor, but even then some of them were isolated from each other. [ ... ] Ace was there. He was a goat, but we knew it was him and he was chained to his house and he couldn't leave. We tried to help him, but it just hurt him even more. Something went terribly wrong there, because when we started cutting the chains we saw the true nature of things. He was half goat and half himself, but everything settled when we stopped trying to rescue him. He...told us to leave him behind. So we had to keep going.
Main street wasn't much better. We went into a few shops, and....we found that the director was controlling certain people. Like puppets. Reigen's student was at the post office and we didn't see it, but he told us he tried to attack him. And we followed Norma's ghost into another shop. Except the shop was...also bad? [ this is an understatement apparently since he also stops again here. ]
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