[CONTINUE] Week 1 || Act: mingle

[foundationmods]

Monday comes onto the snowy town once more, though it still looks as if it's 'night' as ever.

Then again, you are underground. That's just to be expected, considering no natural light can get down here in the first place. The Monsters around you are just as friendly as ever, despite this being your second 'time' trying this monday.

...Though....are there a few less Monsters here than there were before? ...Nah. You must be imagining it.

You still have a mission - and after the events of the last trial, you want to do your best to stop whatever is causing this.

But, hey. You really do have nothing but time now to figure it out.

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[dereban]

[Inaba just sees this.

Nope, not getting involved, just going to sip of a drink and watch this all unfold, it's going to take a lot more than just that to get her to help.]

[foundationmods]

[THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, INABA!!!]

[dereban]

[SSSSSSSSSIP.

Whatcha gonna do about it, hm?]

[foundationmods]

[Nothing right now, but someday she will have her revenge.]

[dereban]

[FIGHT HER 1V1 IN THE PIT 💪]

[cw_suicide]

[AND A SNOWBALL FOR YOU, GOOD LASS!]

[dereban]

Hey!

[frowns at him but does get hit to the point where it just...slides down her face.]

[cw_suicide]

[THE LAUGHTER IS COMING FROM A ROOFTOP]

[dereban]

[Gonna go find out which rooftop, then... how the hell did he even get up there??]

[cw_suicide]

[there's probably a lattice or something. come join him?]

[dereban]

[UP SHE GOES]

[it'll take her a bit since she's not built for this sort of thing]

Are snowballs your way of trying to get my attention now?

[Is this some secret meeting code.

Snowballs.]

[cw_suicide]

Hm. That would be an excellent idea, wouldn't it?

So how have you been this time around?

[dereban]

. . . that would be shitty if you really just wanted to do an actual snowball fight.

[She frowns a little bit, sighing.]

I've been fine, all things considered.

[cw_suicide]

Oh, trust me, it'd be obvious if I wanted a snowball fight.

[you'll see.]

Then, all things considered, it'd be wise to share a little, wouldn't it? I'm guessing you've talked with people about what you can recall of what happened? And if there's been any differences for you between the weeks aside from what the rest of us have experienced?

[dereban]

I'll hold you to that.

I brought up during the meeting the major things that happened. If there's any other differences... [She pauses, and then in Japanese-] I'll bring those up in the next meeting.

But I've been keeping track of everything in here.

[She takes out her notebook, keeping it closed as she taps at it.]

[cw_suicide]

[right, the meeting. thinks back on that for a moment, recalling what was or wasn't said...]

Was the item that was talked about before likely the thing he gave over during the trial? I know Hitoka's been going to the garbage dump--there's apparently a ghost in a dummy there she's been making friends with, but I'm not sure if that's related or not.

[dereban]

I think so.

But a ghost...? Actually, no, I'm not surprised that they can do that. I don't think it's related, though.

[cw_suicide]

[well, that's a relief. maybe.]

Likely not.

But one thing that's been bothering me this whole time... in the library, Gilgamesh found those books that said those things about human SOULS, right? Our SOULS are a bit different but they're still pretty human... and in that case, and probably for other reasons, very powerful?

So why then... did this thing possess that man and kill you but didn't take your SOUL?

[dereban]

[Maybe!]

...

[She can't entirely hide the frown that shows when Dazai talks about their SOULs, specifically.

Her gaze shifts away as she speaks up, low.]

I don't know.

There would have been plenty of time to take it, wouldn't there? I don't understand why. Maybe it has something to do with the color... which means only one of two things: they didn't need a blue SOUL to begin with, or -

[She closes her eyes, mulling it over in her mind.]

- no, I shouldn't say it without any proof. It isn't very likely, anyway.

[cw_suicide]

Are you thinking "my SOUL wasn't blue enough"?

Because the other option is that if it didn't have to do with colors at all. If it had to do with SOULS from this world, not SOULS belonging to SCP 6350s.

[dereban]

[She shakes her head.]

I was thinking that maybe they already had a blue SOUL. That's why I said it wasn't likely.

Besides, do you even think that the monsters in the Underground even know about 6350?

[cw_suicide]

It's not the monsters in the Underground who worry me...

[but he's quiet for a moment, thinking... and his hand twitches toward himself, his chest, before stopping and dropping to his lap again.]

... you're right in saying speculation without enough evidence isn't any good, then.

[dereban]

Honestly - for the most part, I agree.

Unless some sort of monster that we see in Hotland or anywhere past there changes that.

[Her voice is obviously quiet with a sigh.]

We'll just have to see where things go...

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[cw_suicide]

... no matter how they do go, I was certainly wrong about one thing in particular during the trial.

We can't afford to let Solomon be convicted, if he's ever possessed or made to kill.

[oceanicbutterfly]

[...mood, actually. This seems like the sort of thing Karen shouldn't ignore, but that doesn't mean intervening.]