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[unrecked]

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[unrecked]

[REALLY THINKING ABOUT PUNCHING THIS GUY. He sighs.]

I already had to get Rupert to refill me because someone decided to go ahead and die. But you still owe me a drink.

[Cloud just has to order it TCH]

How're you feeling?

[skyagain]

Sorry?

[ JEEZ!!! he didn't MEAN TO and he GOT BETTER ]

A lot better now that I don't have a hole in my head. Memory's back, too. Guess I was... evidence.

[ he looks so tired. ]

[unrecked]

[He frowns kinda thinly.]

Yeah. You made Lup dig in that. [STOP] What happened?

[skyagain]

[ he makes a face because everyone needs to not mention lup fingering his eye hole, thanks, but... ]

No clue how I came back to life. But Thursday... I woke up death night and went downstairs. I had the sword out already. ...Clem showed up in the lobby and shot at me the second she saw me. I blocked it and she ran, so I followed. The rest you guys pretty much guessed.

[ read: spent 15 tickets to watch ]

[unrecked]

[Jason did not offer any tickets because he is selfish and no one asked, so he does not feel too bad about this.]

Do you know if either of you might've been possessed? Or did the big man upstairs just decide to wake two people up and see what happened? You know, knowing Clementine probably would've been nervous.

[skyagain]

[ no one took cloud's so it's very funny ]

...She was. I tried to reason with her, a bit. In the bar.

[ not like, a lot, it was hard with getting bottles thrown at him constantly, but. ]

[unrecked]

[He does not look surprised exactly, but he does look quickly exhausted.]

So Nightman is still possessing people to get some fun. If it is them.

[skyagain]

Him, or shadows under him. It's the same difference in the end.

[ it means he got his one adopted kid to murder him!! it was rude!! he's never adopting again!!! ]

[unrecked]

[looks at advent children and looks away]

It is. How was she when you went to talk to her?

[skyagain]

[ what two years later ]

... She looked like she felt guilty. But it was the same thing as Sieghart. Shadows went to see her on Monday. [ he shakes his head ] ... Wish I'd been able to tell.

[unrecked]

[He shrugs in that agreeing sort of way.]

I talked to her a few times. Friday, too, no less. And she didn't seem off even to me. So you're not the only one.

[skyagain]

I know. I just... [ he sighs and shakes his head because it is sentiment jason. gets it. ] She was worried about her kid.

[unrecked]

She was. But she's also worried about others, too. We played the trolley "game" in the experiment room before. She was really ready to sacrifice my pal in favor of the five people on the other track. She was just possessed. Don't tell me you're going to try to take the blame just because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time?

[Cloud.]

Look. It's not so bad this way so long as the contract and that weird fuck hold their side of the deal. Do I trust it? No. But for now, AJ seems to be a guarantee. We just have to make sure she goes back.

[skyagain]

... Does it even count if I came back?

[ like. that's what he is worried about. but he shakes his head ]

... Yeah. I know you're right. We've got six more weeks to get this right and get everyone out of here.

[unrecked]

I mean--beats me technically. But I assume Nightman isn't looking to have us dead forever. There's little fun in that. Probably just satisfied someone is dying in general.

Then again, I don't think we ever quite figured out the musical chair clue.

[LET'S NOT THINK ABOUT THAT]

You die again tomorrow, and I'm putting my foot up your corpse's ass.

[skyagain]

Might've been because I kicked a chair at her.

[ sometimes. it's not that deep, jason. but either way, a little offended; ]

Stop putting that shit on me. It's not like I wanted to die. The whole impaled experience was a one time deal in my book.

[ sometimes you are just... so unlucky ... with gravity ]

[unrecked]

That's the stupidest hint I've heard heard in my entire life then. Get better hints.

[Not to him, though. NIGHTMAN, YOU LISTENING? GET BETTER HINTS. WHY DON'T THEY MAKE A LICK OF DAMN SENSE? HOW WOULD THAT HELP THEM? As I come unhinged in my brackets.]

And the bullet through your eye wasn't? Jesus.

[He will CONTINUE to rag the shit out of Cloud because he's mad.]

[skyagain]

They're not gonna give good hints for free.

[ dryly. he is so used to jason bitching that he just starts moving towards the restaurant bar (actual bar is banned for trauma rn) and fully expects jason to follow ]

I meant I didn't expect it to happen twice. The bullet through the eye was new. That's a memory I could do without.

[unrecked]

[Yes, he just goes along and follows like a puppy (don't read into this zia).]

I think the whole thing is one someone could probably do without. Maybe stop wearing so much hair gel, and you won't be top heavy enough to fall over and not be able to get back up.

[skyagain]

[ THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS and cloud if making an offended noise ]

I don't wear hair gel. [ why's he offended by this. ] Curtain rod pinned me. Who even makes them like that.

[ he's grumbling because it fucking hurt to have the world's sharpest curtain rod stab him :/ ]

[unrecked]

[NO STOP

it's so funny he is offended by this but also funny the hair stands that way on his own, and i simply have to let jason accept it]

Nightman. He has very specific interior designers for his very lavish and out-dated aesthetic murder hotel. What better way to incapacitate you for a sixteen year old girl who he has possessed. Since people killing each other normally is no fun.

[skyagain]

Do I get first dibs' on kicking Nightman's ass now that I died and came back?

[ he is just saying he would enjoy it. anyway, now they are at the bar so jason just has to accept jrpg hair, and cloud grabs a drink. and then another and slides that one over to jason. illegal underage drinking!! ]

You find out anything else while I was dead? I can't say I got much from our excursion on Thursday besides-- well, everything ended when the sun rose up.

[ the dream theory... ]

[unrecked]

No way. Get in line.

[This feels incredibly socially debilitating to him, but he is going to have to suck it up. Luckily, he is not a drinker really.

Though this place feels like it might start turning him into one. Roy would laugh.]

Thanks. [Quickly moving on:] Nah, not really. Still think things might be a dream, yeah. The hallway of fucked up doors? Feels kinda like nightmares.

You tried to do, uh, room service yet? Or cut a deal? Like—talked to them about it.

[skyagain]

[ cloud has actually not drank as much as he pretends to, but like, he died and came back to life. he deserves this. ]

Not yet. I was supposed to talk to them again on Thursday, so I thought I'd check then, but... Stuff happened.

[ STUFF. his arm is still fucked up please. ]

[unrecked]

Yeah, like you almost died twice.

[Fucking Cloud. Jason’s expression looks exactly like that sentiment. Fucking CLOUD.]

I’m going to try later maybe. See what the conditions are even if I don’t take it. Not a big fan of devil deals, but whatever.

[He sips the drink but nursing it makes him feel better actually.]

Kind of want to see if they’ll tell me anything about why I had to pull Claude out of the ground like a potato.