[ he's been flickering back and forth between color and grayscale all day, so maybe that's something of an answer. ]
As well as can be expected, I guess.
[ i.e. not that great given what they just watched today and how he still kind of feels responsible for it after bringing up shouxue's dye in the last 15 minutes of trial.
he shrugs, deflecting. ]
...Anyway, that's a better question for you, isn't it? Whatever happened to you guys the other day looked pretty rough.
Sounds about right. [ he allows the deflection because they are really all just out here trying their best. sometimes you use an eight ball to narrow down a list. sometimes you point out a person's home item. you do things on chance, and then you're just...stuck.
normally he would deflect right back, but...things have changed and he thinks a lot about what happened on thursday and the way he should maybe be changing his approach on everything. ]
It wasn't great, no. I'm still not entirely over everything that happened, and there's a lot that I still don't really get. But we made it out and that was what mattered at the time. [ a pause. ] It wasn't a mission like the one you guys went on. We were just sort of pulled away from the ship after seeing this weird light and woke up on a bus.
Yeah, I'd heard from Adrastea that it was one of those random ones instead of a scheduled one. Weird how those seem to happen the same day as the — quote unquote — "normal" missions.
[ he'd never asked anyone from the other group last week what it had been like for them since he'd been kind of caught up in his own personal shit at the time, so he's definitely curious to hear about this one. ]
Oof. Waking up on a bus is already kind of a nightmare on its own.
Yeah. [ yeah. ] We weren't on it for that long, just enough to talk to two members of the Before Team to get an idea of where we were going to debrief for our mission. We were preparing for a casino heist.
[ he does not actually know much about this bus besides the fact that rodya spends a whole lot of time on it with her coworkers, but he'll pretend to understand the rest of that. also you and your casino heist cyoas ]
[ i know i was in tears. anyway it's fine shoma also did not really have much of a clue. ]
Yeah. And we also thought we were supposed to be there. It was like...we remembered the ship and our lives and everything, but it felt like this was supposed to be something we were doing and we signed up to go after this thing. I don't know if that makes sense, but that's how it seemed. I didn't think anything was weird about suddenly being on a bus with a new bracelet and five bombs.
[ just reminds him of how everyone here who's killed seems sure that they were in control of themselves when they did it and that the anger they were feeling was their own and not coming from some other source. maybe they're related. ]
Yeah. It didn't feel weird at first but, like, the longer we were there the more we all acknowledged a lot of things were happening that shouldn't have been happening. [ the illusion broke pretty early and it's because they're a bunch of assholes, really. but he shakes his head. ]
No. I just had them on me in case I needed them. Isabel had a gun and Charles had a sword. When we got to the pawnbroker's we bought a dagger for me, too.
[ lowe said "pick a weapon" and i went "bombs" because i think i'm funny. anyway, he does not seem that perturbed about that. ] I didn't even really need them until after we got out of the basement of the casino and met up with the other three anyway.
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As well as can be expected, I guess.
[ i.e. not that great given what they just watched today and how he still kind of feels responsible for it after bringing up shouxue's dye in the last 15 minutes of trial.
he shrugs, deflecting. ]
...Anyway, that's a better question for you, isn't it? Whatever happened to you guys the other day looked pretty rough.
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Sounds about right. [ he allows the deflection because they are really all just out here trying their best. sometimes you use an eight ball to narrow down a list. sometimes you point out a person's home item. you do things on chance, and then you're just...stuck.
normally he would deflect right back, but...things have changed and he thinks a lot about what happened on thursday and the way he should maybe be changing his approach on everything. ]
It wasn't great, no. I'm still not entirely over everything that happened, and there's a lot that I still don't really get. But we made it out and that was what mattered at the time. [ a pause. ] It wasn't a mission like the one you guys went on. We were just sort of pulled away from the ship after seeing this weird light and woke up on a bus.
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[ he'd never asked anyone from the other group last week what it had been like for them since he'd been kind of caught up in his own personal shit at the time, so he's definitely curious to hear about this one. ]
Oof. Waking up on a bus is already kind of a nightmare on its own.
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How much do you know about the world Yuri, Gregor and Rodya are from...?
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So they thought you were supposed to be there?
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Yeah. And we also thought we were supposed to be there. It was like...we remembered the ship and our lives and everything, but it felt like this was supposed to be something we were doing and we signed up to go after this thing. I don't know if that makes sense, but that's how it seemed. I didn't think anything was weird about suddenly being on a bus with a new bracelet and five bombs.
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[ just reminds him of how everyone here who's killed seems sure that they were in control of themselves when they did it and that the anger they were feeling was their own and not coming from some other source. maybe they're related. ]
Your heist used bombs??
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No. I just had them on me in case I needed them. Isabel had a gun and Charles had a sword. When we got to the pawnbroker's we bought a dagger for me, too.
[ lowe said "pick a weapon" and i went "bombs" because i think i'm funny. anyway, he does not seem that perturbed about that. ] I didn't even really need them until after we got out of the basement of the casino and met up with the other three anyway.
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I, um, guess he wasn't a sheep while he had the sword?
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