Opinions without 3.1415 are just Onions (Week1 post trial)

[ghostricked]

After everything, the house seems almost too still and too mundane. At least as long as the doors to that room remain closed. One by one those covered in what was once their teammate are lead to the showers or change in silence. There is no warm meal waiting for them. No words of encouragement.

Life goes on, regardless.

Comments

[foxetious]

[They must have vastly different definitions of "everybody"]

You're speaking beyond your realm, you fool of a "king". The place someone dies has more power over a spirit than than any claims you make of logic.

[foxetious]

You say that, yet you're more than willing to play at having the high ground--as though my actions didn't save every single person [barring maybe Subete and his lemmings] in this house. Including you.

[sageking]

[ Probably!!

The tea seemed all but a sour taste now, and for the insult he'll have no more of it. ]

Tread lightly, mongrel. Your insolence and impudent nature speaks volumes of your idiotic presumptions, knowledge of the realm beyond or no. Do not anticipate that things will be entirely the same as you know them in such a place where expectations and preconceptions are defied in our every waking moment we've spent here.

[ Indeed such a place 'beyond the realm' would be more Ereshkigal's domain...Kur. Which he so happened to be well familiar with. And even if the other was well acquainted of such things, he would not let the insult stand. ]

[oxidegreen]

...

I'll take your word for it... for now.

[And then Dazai proves just how much of an idiot he is but ah well.]

[oxidegreen]

[...Blink blink.]

Why?

[oxidegreen]

...Have you eaten?

[oxidegreen]

It's something that people mentioned every so often. SCPs that can be used to contain others. I wonder if they'd consider using one on this.

[soupervillain]

...Okay.

[ Giovanni definitely isn't completely sure it's okay, but if Saphir doesn't have a problem, he's not gonna press the issue. Maybe he really is just reading too much into it. ]

If you're happy, then I'm happy. And if you ever do want to talk about anything, hey, you know where I live.

[soupervillain]

Whoa, whoa, I'm not gonna murder anyone! And theft isn't hurting anyone except The Man... and maybe the girls we were gonna throw our stolen cursed swords at.

[reanimania]

[ Even if he'd just said that, of course he isn't actually happy when Jade isn't even here.

...That absence also means that he doesn't have to assume that any offers of kindness are just veiled attempts to steal Jade away from him like he usually does, though. He's never really had anything bordering on a positive relationship before with someone who hadn't already been Jade's acquaintance first, so... he's not sure how to process this.

He takes a sip of his coffee, and finds there's a lump in his throat that makes it difficult to swallow. ]

I shall keep that in mind, thank you.

[kaliedoscopes]

Which is far from efficient. [ He'll never stop being logical even when it comes to a miasma house. Which unfortunately includes eating his MRE's which he picked on rather than eat properly, but he's almost done at least. ]

Thanks for the company, even if I forced it on you.

[eyeforai]

[The huff warrants a bit of a glance over at Hikage before he returns back to phone searching.

Huh. And were all these sent as separate texts at separate times or are we going to be dealing with more of that incomprehensible gibberish? Is there any way to get more information about this unknown texter, like what number they were calling from?]

Some people find them fun, apparently. [Hmm...] 'The weapon is in your hands'... don't tell me you were expected to bash someone over the head with this.

[kaliedoscopes]

[ Yup, we're dealing with more incomprehensible date gibberish. Time is fake, especially in quarantines and psychadelic mansions apparently. The number of the UNKNOWN sender is less nonsense but not all that helpful as it's just a series of 0's.

Apparently is a mood with the stickers, though that's brushed aside at the mental image of hitting someone over the head with his cellphone. If only it was a Nokia brick there might be actual merit in it, but it does elicit a smile that's on the border between a full grin and laughter. ]

No, no...but we never actually tried it. If that was the key all along, then the master of the mansion really had a terrible sense of humor. [ He almost looks like he's going to laugh again. ]

The actual meaning of that text was to inform us of our ability to create firearms with the power of thought, actually. I'm not capable of it anymore, but if we pictured a gun in our hands: the texture, the weight and so on, it would materialize into reality. That's where my personal firearm came from, but I'm unable to summon and desummon it like I was in Psychadelica.

[dreamdispersal]

[ Far be it from Zabuza to judge Saphir for disclosing this information. Taking what you need from corpses is reasonable to him and the people who oppose it are not good or kind, they're just not utilitarian enough.

If anything, Zabuza is pleasantly surprised at how many views Saphir seems to at least somewhat share with him. ]

We're going to be seeing more and more of these. It's not the first battle royal I've seen, but it's certainly even more senseless than the others. If I weren't so keen on surviving, I'd consider the idea of killing us all in one go just to spoil that thing's fun.

[ He's... joking. ]

[oxidegreen]

...No, thank you for talking with me. It was... probably better than being alone.

[Probably.]

[eyeforai]

[...Okay that actually seems like a cool ability. He wouldn't ever need to worry about being disarmed or having it stolen or anything, it would be great??]

Sounds convenient. Did it also come reloaded every time it appeared?

[But wow this sender got the easiest number to remember?? Too bad they don't have reception, otherwise he would've tried calling it. Maybe it's a detail that will come in handy later. Anyways, time to check the camera and photos!! Please have blackmail-worthy material...]

[kaliedoscopes]

[ Right, it sure would be handy around here too and totally not for any murder opportunities because limes would never do that. ]

It was once you got the hang of it, it took some of the others a while to master summoning theirs and even longer to summon it fast enough to defend themselves. But yeah, it came loaded.

[ The camera is your standard cellphone camera, though the quality isn't great but at least isn't total pixelville here. The photos though are maybe interesting, but definitely cute. Okay maybe the third one isn't even if the girl in it is. ]

[impyroverished]

I should have known. You have the personality of an older sibling.

[Not that he has many references to compare to, that's just his impression of how older siblings are supposed to be like]

Why are you getting shot? What kind of things do you usually do?

[kaliedoscopes]

...I do? [ He sounds really thrown off by this for some reason, and it lingers on his expression until he shakes his head. ]

It's not like what you're thinking, it was friendly fire. Good aim is a learned skill. [ Oh so dryly. ]

[impyroverished]

You haven't noticed? You barely lose your calm, except when someone around you does something that's inconvenient for you.

[Like, you know, accidentally dropping makeup near your fancy cape]

...sorry to hear that. I know how that one feels.

[eyeforai]

[Limes are totally innocent and the meta sees nothing wrong with that statement.

But yeah, let's put the camera aside and stare at these kid pics (and that one weird pic of some other guy feeding a girl? okay dude you have interesting tastes). He recognizes Hikage at least, which is all well and good, but in a way that brings up its own set of questions. So, putting the matter of magical, infinite ammo guns aside with nothing more than a 'huh' in response, he'll flip the phone so the screen and the group picture are on full display to Hikage.]

Did you ever recall anything about this picture?

[dreamshielder]

A careful demon!

[AS YOU SHOULD BE.]

But very well, I look forward to it.

[noneforall]

[Sometimes (maybe all the time) it is truly the video games that teach us of life and life lessons!! And dead philosophers. And other such dead cultural concepts that are definitely not about death.]

At the very least, I'd imagine Olympia can be recovered without corruption.

We aren't machines, so we have all the disadvantages and few of the advantages there: it's debatable if we'll even approach burial given the corruption the SCP gets up to.

[No, he's definitely rolling it into the same problem. The big picture, and all. Is this reassuring yet, or is it just turning everything into the same Infinite Scream?]

[kaliedoscopes]

I would call a lot of things inconvenient for me, but thanks I guess. [ Mulling that over for a second or two. ]

Oh? Did you have over excitable teammates too?

[kaliedoscopes]

No. [ Biting his lip, he pauses but then figures he might as well give Date the full story despite what he said earlier. ] At least until recently. Earlier this week I talked with Sakaguchi about his ability, as I was curious if it could help with my amnesia. We decided to try it, despite the risk of him contacting me and...he was able to see a glimpse of my past.

Since then, I've been seeing bits and pieces in my sleep. That I have a twin—how could I forget that? Even if we don't really look alike, even if I can't remember my name, to forget someone that's my other half...

I didn't mention it sooner because I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to think, sorry.