PC: Tama 💀

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[ yeah, knife her accidentally, do something really funny.


she'll just sit herself down a little way away from the tree and let him vent. ]

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[ STOP NOT OUR TAMA.

eventually he does...get the sense he is being watched. which means his ears prick up and his shoulders are tense as he looks behind himself and spots her sitting there. ]

...hey, Tama. [ evenly, like he's reigning himself in. ]

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[ it'd be soooo funny. ]

Hey.

[ she raises a hand and waves it. he can pop off, that tree probably earned it. ]

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[ stabs you instead. he's not sure if he, like, wants to continue? but she waves a hand and he knows he's still bubbling over in his frustrations with zero impulse control so. yeah. back to beating the shit out of this tree. he seems to know what he's doing and keeps this up for a few minutes longer to try and wear himself out.

but eventually...he puts the knife back in his pocket. ]

...everything okay? [ because...of your dead goat. ]

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Probably not. But, hopefully we'll get him back sooner rather than later.

[ that tree had it coming. ]

Was it Lillium? Who killed him?

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[ ...there's a harsh sigh to that. ]

I know you're not stupid, so there's no sense in lying to you about it. When'd you figure it out?

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Too much crossover. I thought it was kind of obvious by the end when the locations were overlapping, and blades that could’ve killed Albedo were found in the same place Lillium died.

[ and the flower, but. y’know. ]

Guess we’ll see if that one person left theory holds up. [ not that she’s particularly scared by the thought it might not or anything. ]

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Fair enough. ...I imagine Kogitsunemaru sound Lillium on his way back to the rest of us and that's when the fight broke out. I doubt he'd care so much about being found out if the signs added up.

[ ... ]

You're too well-liked for people to go after you, first of all. And secondly nobody's stupid enough for a team wipe now. Not when we're so close, and only one team has to move.

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[ looks longingly at the gy doors again. ]

Probably not. Still, from a logical stand point, it's not like I can be killed. Goat has a harddrive of my day by day account of everything here, in case something did happen. Ryuki could just reupload my memories when he got home.

[ the irony is, she really would've been a ideal choice for this. ]

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...wait seriously? I didn't know you were doing a back-up since you got here. Not that I don't think that's smart, but even with the hard drive that's still not really a great reason to pick you. Logical standpoint or not, people still need you.

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Once people started dying and the tech shop opened up, yes. It's not fool proof, but it lets me know what happened every day so I wouldn't be completely lost to what had happened.

[ ... ] A lot of people were still needed though.

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It's a better solution than nothing at all. I'm glad you were able to figure something out.

[ ...he frowns softly because. well. i know. ]

...nobody's happy with these results. Except for maybe the moon. [ fuck that guy. ]

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[ go to bed. ]

I’d normally upload my data periodically back home. The Wadjet System is pretty robust when it comes to keeping our data safe.

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Yeah, well. I don’t care what the moon thinks or wants. I kinda want to see it gone. [ fuck the moon. ]

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[ i was going to say "I WAS ASLEEP" but no i wasn't i just remembered i didn't reply bc you'd yell at me. ]

Never heard of it. [ unsurprising. ] But it doesn't hurt to have back-ups. I sort of wish I could do similar for my own brain sometimes, but that never works out.

[ but he snorts. ] We're all ready to fight the moon, and I don't care if it hears me say that or not. I'm waiting for it to come back down and actually face us. [ ... ] ...I keep thinking about the phone Reigen sent me, too. And what we might be able to say to them and learn from them if that's true.

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[ YEAH YOU WERE IN CHAT ]

You wouldn't have. [ blunt, buuut-- ] Don't worry about it though. Brains are fleshy and complicated. Mine's complicated, but tied to a system that's logical to work with.

They must know we want to kick their ass. It's not like we're keeping it a secret, and I don't think we really want to.

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[ shhhhh shhh.... ]

I would love if my brain were less fleshy though, I'm just saying. And you're not wrong about that either. [ that aside... ] I'm sure you saw whatever paper Ryuki brought back, but did you see the note from the other team yet?

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More of those papers, huh?

[ at this point i remember nothing, ever. ]

I don’t think I have, no.

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Always. [ but he will pull out his phone then to show her something:

Heroes are not all powerful. Even they have only so much energy to go around, and the more it is used, the less they may hold in reserve. With only twelve heroes, even if each calls upon reinforcements, they cannot share their power with too many others, lest they be stretched too thin. As this battle grows longer and they continue to give those parts of themselves away, their power will wane as the moon’s waxes. ]

That's it.

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[ squints at it. ]

So... the heroes are weaker when the moon is at its strongest?



That... isn't good.

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...you saw how our leaders were in trial today. You don't think that's a little concerning as it is?

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That they can't control their powers? Yeah.

So, it's connected to the moon then. It make sense in a way -- the moon's the thing we're being told to destroy, so it becoming stronger while the leaders become weaker or lose control of what they can do seems annoyingly logical.

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Yeah, like, out of everything why is that the logical part that actually works? And better question, how do we reverse it?

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I wonder if it just affects them as the source? If this is saying we’re borrowing their powers, it might be that they’re running weaker than usual…?

I wonder if this will change how we can use our abilities, or whether we’ll be fine and we’ll just have to focus on making sure the others aren’t in danger.

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...so what, we need to stop using their powers then? Would that help to put the power back?

[ much to think about... ]

I can only guess it's going to change somehow if the source is tapping out, so to speak.

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It might not be that we need to -- is the note saying the source of our powers is the leaders themselves?