PC: Tama 💀

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w4, saturday

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nico? are you with will?

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[ it takes a bit. ]

yes
are you with other people?

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good.


yeah, i'm with ryuki. i think he'll be waking up soon.

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good
...that's not going to be fun explaining the end results to him

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no.

it won't. but... well. if anyone can, i can.

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i know
i just wish you didn't have to
i'm sorry tama
about all of it

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what are you apologising for? my partner, my responsibility.
and it's not like any of you wanted this to happen.

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maybe so but it's not easy being the bearer of bad news or having to take care of someone when you're probably not in a good place either
but of course not
i'd give anything to fix all of this

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at this point, is there any outcome that won't hurt like this?

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[ at first, he types: "kill ourselves?" but decides that's a little too morbid and drastic. so he takes a few to think. ]

after tomorrow there's only like 21 of us left.
so no, i don't suppose there is.

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[ yeah no, probably not a good idea while she's trying to calm ryuki down. ]

ha.


i hate it here.

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i know
i can't think of anyone who's happy with the things that have happened
nobody's happy reigen and sigrun are gone
nobody's happy it was ace
nobody's happy we didn't find what happened to reigen
and nobody's happy we have more weeks of this where we're going to lose even morepeople

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which is exactly what whoever’s running this messed up place wants.
we’re miserable, we’re losing friends and we’re the ones who have to punish the killers.

and they get off on this, or whatever it is that they want.

there was something about the dead and energy, wasn’t there? … i don’t want that. i don’t want whoever’s doing this to get what they want.

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meanwhile all of oceanside gets to decide if we're viewed as heroes or villains even when we don't have a choice in the matter to begin with
it's a cycle we can't break out of and i'm getting sick of it
i don't want it either.
i want all of us to get out of here, but i'm still having trouble fully understanding what it is the moon or whoever wants so we can thwart the attempts.

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[ if we get the ocean next week, tama's going to mald. ]

i don't really care too much about what the city think of us anymore. we're the ones going through all this. not them.

waiting for thursday every week isn't getting us anywhere. i wonder if there's anything we can do to shake things up, try and get something before a thursday -- both the adventures and the nighttime.

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[ same hat tama. same hat. ]

you aren't wrong.
all the more reason to try and fix this faster
...you think like...maybe not actually planning for something dangerous but just pretending we are?

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[ i cannot FUCKING BELIEVE. ]

i'm tired of not knowing much. aren't you? i want to try and find out more about what's going on here.

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then what are we waiting for?

[ other than the depression to settle. ]

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figuring out where to start, and then we really need to share what we know. like, most of what's we've gathered and piece it together.

[ nah they're gonna have to hustle through the depression. up and attem. ]

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[ lol. ]

did you get a chance to see the newest letters and news from those adventures?

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i saw something from nimona about weird happenings at the newspaper building, and who the prinnies were connected to.

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yup
here's the other one
"while the written word has power enough to shape reality, there seem to be some limitations. something must be lost to attain something of equal value. if power is asked for, something must be sacrificed in turn. what luck. there are many heroes here to sacrifice, for plans they shall not understand. their deaths shall be my fuel and with that fuel i will become empowered. may their worlds fall to me and burn under moonlight."

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Oh, I did see that one.

[ she looks furious, which conveniently is what she looked like back when she saw it. not that he can see it. ]

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charming isn't it?
sounds like our actual villain's been practicing their evil speeches
i mean not very well but

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it’s kinda melodramatic, yeah.
makes me want to give them a punch.