Phoenix Catch-All

[ruffboi]

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week 1; post-trial

[ruffboi]

[Magnus is heading back in the direction of Memorial Hall after trial. Approach.]

[slobjection]

[ he approacheth......... he was heading there too, funnily enough. ]

Didn't think you'd want to head back here so soon.

[ruffboi]

I didn't get a good look in there. I mean - after we got kicked out. If it changed at all.

[slobjection]

.... Maybe it has, since yesterday. [ because of yu. woof. ]

I'm sure it's foreshadowing of some sort.

[ruffboi]

Like foreshadowing that death is all fake and this is all stupid? Yeah, I know.

[slobjection]

Is that a common thread, in your experiences?

[ruffboi]

Death being fake? Oooh, boy.

[He says that pretty cavalier, but then Phoenix was there, so - ]

Well, it's two separate things, right? There's death, when someone dies and they're gone, forever, and there's nothing you can do about it unless you use time travel to destroy everyone else you care about. And then there's "death," but it's reversible, which pretty much defeats the entire purpose. I've had a lot of, uh, both, I'd say?

[slobjection]

[ he was there and he got his head bashed it. but he's less pissy about it now because he's well-healed. ]

So I gathered.

[ with both julia and also murder shenanigans... both here and shibuya ]

Do you think any death here is real?

[ruffboi]

Nope.

[Just. Instantly.]

But I think anybody who dies here is in pretty serious danger.

[slobjection]

[ well honestly......... phoenix can't argue with that. ]

Fair enough. Do you buy into what they said about only one team winning?

[ now hes just curious ]

[ruffboi]

I buy that they buy it. But it doesn't really work for me, so I figure I'll hold out for a late game rule change.

[Huffing.]

I definitely don't want to get cocky - I know things ended bad for the ship's crew, and the atmosphere I get in this place is much nastier than where I came from. I don't think the dead are dead, but I do think they may be somewhere where we won't be able to protect them from what happens next, which might be just as bad.

But I'm not playing for my team to win, because the "good" outcome is just as bad as a bad one.

[slobjection]

[ tmw you're vibing with your murderer ]

[ but no seriously it's kind of hard to reconcile these sides of magnus, when he goes from this to cheerfully bashing in head with rocks. ]

Don't think any of these outcomes will sit well with the majority of the people here.

[ considering.... the shounens..... ]

They are around in some capacity, I suppose.

[ruffboi]

Yeah. Some capacity, and clearly they can bring them back whenever they want, based on us. But whether we can get them to is another story.

[Who us 'they'? Even he doesn't know.]

Do you believe that they're able to affect the other people from where we came from?

[slobjection]

Have to wonder what the difference between our deaths and theirs were... aside from timing.

[ who is they indeed. ]

The dead? They probably have some influence, based on previous experiences.

[ruffboi]

No, I mean - the other people from your mansion, or my city. Who aren't here.

[slobjection]

Hm...... that's a question, isn't it.

[ maybe try fucking answering it, phoenix ]

Logically, no. But this place seems to throw any sense of logic out the window... moreso than the mansion, at times.

[ruffboi]

Of everything they've told us, that's the one I'm most sure is bullshit.

Then again, if I'm wrong, a bunch of kids die, so. Great!

[slobjection]

These games really tend to favor kids.

[ for whatever reason. ]

I find it hard to believe, too... but it's too big of a risk to take. So.

[ruffboi]

Yeah. If somehow everybody there's lives are all on my shoulders. . . I wouldn't know what to do.

[slobjection]

.... Can't say there's an easy answer to any this. Suppose we'll just have to keep digging.

[ ... ]

And maybe pause to reflect the next time you run into any murder puzzles.

[ruffboi]

[Oof!]

Are you mad about that? Beau was mad. Man, how come? I saved you from having to figure out how to die!

[slobjection]

[ let him answer that question with another question!! ]

What would you have done if that wasn't the answer to the puzzle, and you'd just bashed a man's head in with a rock?

[ multiple times.... ]

[ruffboi]

Hmm. I guess I would've had to hide your body and take it to my grave!

[. . .]

It obviously was, though. I killed my best friend right after you! I wouldn't fuck around like that if I didn't know you'd both be safe!

[slobjection]

Do you often engage in those kind of puzzles...?

[ magnus out here like my best friend was also a corpse!! ]

[ruffboi]

A lot, yeah. Once, we had to figure out how to disarm a bomb, but every time it exploded, we just reset. And the puzzle was boring, so we just reset until we picked the right thing.