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[skyagain]

Maybe I'm hoping if we make it out you'll pay me for my services.

[ he lets that hang for a bit ]

I don't really care about the gun. I would've fought off someone if they tried to tackle me to get my clothes off too. Pretty sure I told you everything following that move was the stupid part.

You want out same as everyone else. No point keeping you out of the loop because you didn't play nice and you want to make a living out of sounding like an asshole. Besides, I wouldn't have asked about the contract if you didn't mention it first. Call it tit for tat if you want.

[unrecked]

Now I've got two contracts? Shit, I'm getting ripped apart in this economy.

Thanks for being so damn frank. I can always count on you.

[skyagain]

Lucky mine's just a flat sum. You also signed that one but don't remember.

You're welcome.

[unrecked]

I hate you. [(affectionate?)] Stop messaging me already.






But like if there's anything else, I'm all ears. Eyes. I guess I owe you.

[skyagain]

You really want to pay me back, skip the drama next trial. I got a headache listening to everyone talk about it the past few days.

I'll keep you posted if I find out anything else. Do the same and we can call it quits.

[unrecked]

Nooo, my bad boy image. It's not my fault people won't shut up about it.

Oh yeah. I got my contract, by the way.

[skyagain]

Anything wildly different about yours, you think?

[unrecked]

[nooooOOOOOO this thread is from monday i forgot HELP ME it's fine because]

Not that I can tell. Nightman's signature is worse than a doctor's though.

[skyagain]

[ it's fine this is now a text thread that keeps going forever through the week ??? ]

Think it's some kind of stupid shadow language?

[unrecked]

[stop don't make them talk all week]

Seems like it. Hey.

You think we're asleep? I keep thinking about all the nighty-night starry bullshit and dream motifs around here. And Nightman? Nightmare? If he's some kind of shadowy Eldritch bastard.

[skyagain]

... I'd say "this is all a dream" seems too easy, but I spent months trapped in a computer simulation. Being trapped in a nightmare might not be too out there.

[unrecked]

Just a weird theme to have for no reason. But I guess anything in this fancy shithole is possible.

[skyagain]

It could be. But even if it is a dream, doubt we can just pinch each other and hope we wake up.

[unrecked]

Touch me and I’ll punch you.

Maybe the waking up isn’t pinching. Maybe it’s something else.

[skyagain]

Kind of what I was getting at.

What do you think waking up is?

[unrecked]

You remember the dream you had? Of falling. What happened when you hit the ground?

[skyagain]

So you think the only way to wake up is to die?

[unrecked]

Let's not put a whole lot of stock into that until we know for certain. It'd be pretty shitty to die, potentially break this weird ass vague contract, and forfeit a life.

But we should probably keep it in mind while we're looking around.

[skyagain]

Yeah. It'd make sense, but it might also just be what it wants us to think. Bit early to be this obvious about it.

[unrecked]

The weirdest thing for me in relation to it is what the contract says about termination. The one that sounded like a clue. Being able to come back from the lobby?

It's just weird.

[skyagain]

It also implies if you're alive and can't get to the lobby, you're still losing.

[unrecked]

If you "die" and wake up, you're not technically dead, right? Just awake. Maybe you can get back to the lobby from whatever side that is.

But I mean, I get you.

[skyagain]

Yeah. There's that part. Considering dead people have come back every time, that seems likely. I just think it's also possible there's a trick to it so the lobby won't be easy to access for the living, either. Call it a loophole in the contract. They didn't guarantee the lobby would be accessible in it.

[unrecked]

I don’t like all these damn loopholes. I don’t like all these damn vague and broad agreements either.

Where are you going to start? Should we start straight with the Nightman? Try to get them out? Do we WANT them out?

The staff keep acting like we can get more out of them later, but then they signed an NDA. So I don’t know how far that’ll get us. Do we just keep talking to them? I hate small talk and schmoozing, but if I dealt with Black Mask, I guess I could deal with it here.

[skyagain]

Until we know a weakness, might not be for the best to do anything with Nightman. We learn more first.

Back in the Realm, we could tell people more every week because we learned more. Might be this is just the NDA equivalent of that. They can share stuff depending on a strict timeline. So if they say we can get more out of them later, then we try.

I didn't even like it when people came to me for that stuff, so we're in the same boat there.