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sipp if it turns out that you're tutorialing and this is our only pc i will follow you into the graveyard somehow for more cr

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week zero, thursday

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[a carnival that isn't creepy as fuck anymore...

here's jiuqing, standing in front of the ferris wheel and looking up at it with wide eyes. wow...]

It's so big... is it stable? ...it must be, or else it wouldn't be operating now, would it?

[assogi]

[ i still refuse to google when ferris wheels were invented. ]

I believe it's called a ferris wheel. We should be able to ride it, if I'm remembering correctly.

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...the view from up there must be amazing...

[she is



going to try to board it]

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Ha ha ha ha!

[ he's coming too!!! ferris wheel shenanigans. ]

Now you've got me curious.

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[i was about to be like they can share their sad backstories when they get to the top but this is the wrong week for that... i got this mixed up with the onsen pc]

It seems sturdy enough inside here. [she takes a seat near one of the gondola's windows!] Although I wonder if it will feel as sturdy once it's moving...

week zero, sunday

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[assuming this is at some point after damien's been seen to - ]

Sir Asogi. Thank you for your assistance, before.

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It was nothing. Thank you for acting so promptly, Doctor Su.

[ all he did was bully damien. ]

Did you get a chance to recuperate, yourself?

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[bullying damien was apparently necessary]

I was thinking I might go for a walk in the garden by the meeting hall to unwind. Would you care to join me?

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[ apparently yes ]

That sounds like a very good idea. I'll gladly accompany you.

[ he wants to clear his head anyway and now that serious shit is happening i need to stop shitposting sighs deeply ]

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Thank you.

[onward they go! it's a very pretty garden. wish i had one.]

...are you holding up alright, despite everything?

[assogi]

Nothing in particular happened to me. This is just a setback, nothing more.

[ sometimes weird shit just happens ]

But I am left with more questions than anything else. And yourself?

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About the same... I'm glad that I was able to do something to help, but I can't stop wondering why it was even necessary.

So much of it makes so little sense.

[assogi]

Nothing here makes sense to me. But this is... disturbing. I thought the murder mystery party was harmless, but now...

[ yikes. ]

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[just wait for next week, bud]

...it seems there was some sort of harm after all.

[assogi]

[ lol ]

Well, we are very lucky to have you.

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As we are to have you.

[she smiles]

I'll be relying on you in the future, Sir Asogi, if anyone gets hurt again, just as I relied on you today.

week one, monday

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[i'm picking the hot springs solely because i think it's funny for them to just be on opposite sides of the privacy fence thing talking through it.

anyway! jiuqing is here and soaking on the ladies' side. when she hears footsteps and the sound of someone getting into the water, she calls out - ]

Oh! Hello there.

[assogi]

[ i approve ]

[ kazuma is definitely going for a soak this is the obligatory hot springs episode ]

Doctor Su? Is that you?

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Yes, it is.

[she smiles, recognizing his voice.]

It seems we had the same idea, Sir Asogi.

[assogi]

It seems so.

[ reclines a bit..... ]

How are you finding the water?

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It's just the right temperature.

[ah, the halcyon days of before the cyoa return]

I haven't had the chance to relax like this in quite a while.

week one, friday

[assogi]

[ kazuma's in the medbay... he took off his headband and it's now around karuma like this, suffer as i have. ]

[ he's kneeling around where ryunosuke's body was reported to have been found, eyes a bit red. ]

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[and she's here because... well... there are other patients for her to see to... and also she's stealing more medical supplies.

but when she spots him, her brow furrows with concerns.]

...I'm deeply sorry for your loss, Sir Asogi.

[assogi]

[ that's fair and she's valid. ]

... Thank you. And thank you for trying to save him.

[ it means more to him than he can express in words, though his voice is a little hoarse and very taut. ]

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I just wish I had succeeded.

[what! the heck! happened! to ryunosuke!! she really didn't think he was in such bad shape as to die overnight when she left him...]

[assogi]

[ yeah what the fuck happened indeed ]

... Can you tell me what you saw?

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[she nods]

When I woke up, I was intending to return to my apartment for a change of clothes. I was sure I'd gone through the archway that would take me back there. But I found myself in the medical bay instead... at first I thought perhaps I'd wandered there by accident, because I was planning to drop by and see if anyone needed their bandages changed today once I'd gotten changed.

Miss Vanille stumbled in after me. And it was... strange. The colors were off, and everything felt out of focus but the pods. We went to go and take a look... one was ajar, but when we opened it, it was empty. The other... that was where we found Sir Naruhodo. I felt for a pulse and felt nothing, and... he vanished shortly after we laid eyes on him.

week one, saturday

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[well.

here she is! she had to go bandage her hand first, but at some point when he doesn't have another visitor, she wanders through the archway to find him.]

...Sir Asogi?

[assogi]

[ his handsie has been bandaged, and he's just kneeling in an emo fashion. ]

[ he looks up when she enters ]

... Doctor Su. Are you alright?

[ he saw her got bit... ]

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I'm fine. It's nothing to worry about.

[it could have been much worse! marie could have had rabies. or maybe she does! imagine if the mods dm me next week like "soooo your bite's infected and you're dying"]

...I wanted to see how you were faring.

[assogi]

[ i could see this mod team doing that tbh ]

... No need to concern yourself for someone like me. I'm sure I will meet a fitting end very soon. I'm glad that you're alright, though.

[ fuckin manpain ]

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[yeah i could too]

Sir Asogi... [...] Were our situations reversed, I feel you would have been concerned about me. So why shouldn't I be concerned for you?

[assogi]

I don't believe you're capable of such monstrosity, Dr. Su.

[ .... ]

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People are capable of any sort of monstrosity, when they're driven into a corner.

[assogi]

... I suppose that's true.

[ still, despite her sketch profile and being played by britt, he has his doubts. ]

This isn't the first time I've lost control of myself. The demon inside of me... that reared its ugly head.

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[god i love being canon familiar to him]

...what do you mean by that?

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... My father was sent to his death, unjustly. When I came face to face with one of the men responsible.... I.... I wanted to kill him.

[ he's so fucking dramatic ]

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Did you?

[...did you kill him, she means. she's not asking him to confirm again that he wanted to.]

[assogi]

[ i know right he's so baby ]

... I was pulled away and brought here before I could make the decision.

[ he just stabs his luggage instead what a fuckin weenie ]

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...you know, Sir Asogi... if we were all judged as harshly as you seem to be judging yourself for simply wanting to kill someone, I don't think there's a single person in any world who could be considered innocent.

[assogi]

I think I would have killed him if I had been there a second longer.

[ no he's just fucking dramatique ]

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You might have. But you also might not have.

[...]

I'm sorry. I don't know quite where I'm going with this. But I've met reprehensible people and unrepentant murderers before, and you don't have many similarities with them at all.

[assogi]

[ ... ]

Thank you, Doctor Su.

[ it's hard for him to believe any of this after mcstabbing his best friend, but he can at least appreciate her kindness. ]

I don't know what happened to Ryunosuke, for him to act out like that. I think that.... you have much more difficult battles ahead of you, if this is going to continue.

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...

[hm.]

We've been worried that this place was going to affect people in ways that would make them dangerous since last week... [...] Now we've seen firsthand what sorts of things any of us might be made to do.

We identified you as the killer this time, but... that doesn't do anything to resolve the change in behavior.

[assogi]

I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help.

[ .... ]

Last Sunday..... they used the power of their colors to stop the fighting. Surely, there must be a way for you all to use those powers in such a fashion yourselves.

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That's not your fault.

[it's the prism, or - if it turns out that it's not the prism affecting people - it's whatever is causing those effects. it's not kazuma himself. it wasn't ryunosuke himself, either.

the two of them were both victims of this, in their own way.]

I would hope so. ...but, I worry that if this place really does learn from us as the residents have said it does... that it will know to prepare against that possibility.