[CONTINUE + 3] 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 fourth 'time' trying this monday.

There doesn't seem to be many Monsters here...or at least, you think there was more before? Huh.

Well, whatever.

You still have a mission - And with three trials under your belt, you're now a little closer to figuring things out.

...How much longer will this repeat?

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[improbablenotimpossible]

Well, some games are more fun to peek under the hood than to play. Also, consider this possilbity: Our opponent is playing the game, but they're also cheating.

Some games have exploitable glitches that make it markedly easier on the player but results in the game being unstable and more prone to crashing.

[le_mat]

Right right. If you look at it from the perspective of the characters it's like a childish god fiddling with the works and not caring that everything is destroyed.

If we can do the same though, maybe we can use it to fight back... but this is all theory, you know? I don't want to blow through my one use items on theories... not unless I have a good reason to think I'll get results. So, experiments.

[improbablenotimpossible]

Good idea, we may need to save those things for when it counts - of course, logic like that is why I never use full heals....

[le_mat]

[He snorts]

You know I was fighting a literal god back home and I was still thinking 'Hm, I might need this item later though' and didn't realize what I had done 'till I learned my life is a jrpg. It's really surreal.

[improbablenotimpossible]

...Yes, like how we tend to tell Miss Ritsuka to be prudent with her command seals...

My "game" is a Gacha.

[le_mat]

....oh no.

.....

Wait you're a Servant. It's... is it the same one Red plays and literally cheated to get Archer in???

[HOW IS THIS CONVERSATION FROM ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO COMING UP NOW]

[improbablenotimpossible]

Yes. That would be the same one. I'm apparently considered a 'limited' Servant. I did know of an Archer in Chaldea, but the one Miss Red is dating is not the same one.

[le_mat]

Huh... yeah, I think my brain is starting to bleed now.

[improbablenotimpossible]

If it helps at all... where I am from - the multiple-worlds theory is a confirmed phenomenon among those in the know - with infinite worlds branching out into separate timelines. So the Archer you know is from a different branch than I am.

[He holds back on how some of those worlds get pruned away or collapse under their instability]

[le_mat]

[he nods, slowly]

Not so different from the Sea of Fragments stuff, right? Explains why each Joker I've meet have been different too, even though our experiences are mostly the same.

[improbablenotimpossible]

A bit like the idea that the flapping of a butterfly's wing could cause a hurricane, or the lack of a horseshoe nail leads to the fall of a kingdom.

[He gestures, hands curling as if holding a pipe]

even the smallest bit of discrepancies can result in wildly differing outcomes.

[le_mat]

[He notices how Sherlock's hand curls like he's giving a lecture, and he smiles seeing it]

One small change or choice... makes me glad there's a certain Joker I haven't met yet.