week 1 || act: investigate

[foundationmods]

[Everything is still, silent, and dark - just like it should be.

There's been no indication of trouble, nothing like the last times, when all of you were trapped in games.

If anything, the town is gentle, the people kind....and nothing seems wrong. There's no danger.

Then, why...

Is there a feeling of foreboding?]

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[accessorytomurder]

...that's true. Even when we didn't like the answer we found, we always found the right one, eventually.

[Even when it wasn't fair.

Especially then.]

[cw_suicide]

[Yuri's trial still haunts...]

And if we don't like or understand the answer here, we'll have more chances to look into the "why" of it.

[accessorytomurder]

Yes.

[She takes a deep breath.]

And... and we have her SOUL. Not anything else.

[cw_suicide]

Small blessings there's no ghosts?

[accessorytomurder]

There are. They're a type of Monster here, like the skeletons. ...I met one in the Dump, possessing a dummy.

[And, of course, there's the Foundation agents themselves.]

[cw_suicide]

Miasma'd ghosts.

... but a dummy in the dumps? Sounds like my kinda place.

[accessorytomurder]

He's got a bit of a hair-trigger temper, but he was very nice once he realized he and I were the same.

[cw_suicide]

... ghosts in a dummy?

[accessorytomurder]

Yeah. Apparently another ghost has an artificial body down here and wants to be a star.

[cw_suicide]

Ambitious.

[accessorytomurder]

Nothing wrong with having a dream.

[cw_suicide]

Foreign concepts for me, but then what's yours?

[accessorytomurder]

...I've had a couple. Do you mean, the current one?

[cw_suicide]

Current makes more sense, doesn't it?

[accessorytomurder]

You.

[cw_suicide]

[im die.]

... isn't that less of a dream and more reality?

[accessorytomurder]

We have a future ahead of us, so I can dream about that.

[cw_suicide]

Ehhh, and not clue me in on specifics?

[accessorytomurder]

No.

[She kisses his cheek.]

Osamu should have his own dreams.

[cw_suicide]

I'm not very good at that.

[but not... objecting. necessarily.

reaching over to tap her nose as she draws back.]

Didn't you say once that you wanted to try to go in for that job you had before, though?

[accessorytomurder]

...um, well, a-another me already accomplished that. Or, she will in a year or two.

[She peeked at a certain manga.]

[cw_suicide]

So that's why you decided to stay with the Foundation?

It wasn't just because I decided to, right?

[accessorytomurder]

I want to be with you all. I can't... I can't just sit in an office and design posters and websites and things like that, when I know what else is out there. When I know that an invulnerable object can take a person's life and save lives.

[She hadn't been sure, before going to Japan.]

[cw_suicide]

Mm, that makes sense enough.

... maybe you could talk to the Foundation about some of their designing at some point, though. They're absolutely terrible at marketing and also branding.

[it's half a joke but fer srs tho]