[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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[le_mat]

Okay so… woof, so I have a few things to drop this week.

1- Solomon and I confirmed that Papyrus is aware of the timeloops. He claims Sans isn’t, though we weren’t able to really confirm it. He also knows now that we’re here to try and stop it, but not that we’re not monsters. He said he has something for us too, so folks should visit him… but keep it on the d-l… if that Thing realizes we’re getting close to someone I wouldn’t put it past it to snatch them up next.

And speaking of that Thing. 2- I was doing some experimenting with the UI with Chuuta and… it broke through and talked to us. Chuuta can explain how things looked on his end but for me it… mocked me for dying. Talked about how easy it was breaking my bones.

[He shivers and crosses his arms, but shakes his head, discarding the memory]

But more important when I told it I wasn’t afraid of it, it… called me a liar and said ‘Your Narration betrays you.’ before booting us out of the FIGHT. I have… no idea what that was supposed to mean. Or at least, anything I can think of scares the shit outta me.

[moonlightalter]

'Your Narration betrays you'...do you think that means your inner thoughts? Could this thing be able to read minds?

[Atsushi, trying to make sense of something meta when he's from a canon that does not run on meta.]

1/3

[le_mat]

Maybe...? If that's the case though we're extra fucked. But if it has that power that means it's letting us 'save' people at the trials, which is... bad.

If it IS our thoughts though maybe we can hide them some how?

[le_mat]

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done

[le_mat]

[trying just makes him look a little constipated]

[moonlightalter]

We're better off looking for someone who can actually read thoughts to test that theory.

[That face though. He's trying not to chuckle at it.]

[finalring]

'Your narration betrays you...'

[ he cups his chin, thinking. ]

I have a thought, but I also have no way to prove it. And thinking about it is neither pleasant nor do I think it helps us reach a culprit.

[le_mat]

Honestly, there's no explanation that ISN'T bad, Boss.

I keep thinking about that library the Witches had. The one that had people's lives in it.

[finalring]

Mhm...

[ well, it's worth a shot, isn't it? ]

Well... your existences are, to us in this world, fictional. To me and other "natives" of this world, this is the real world. But that doesn't mean that there's no possibility of us--of this world--being fictional to someone else.

[cw_suicide]

... I hope this library didn't have a certain book in it...

[improbablenotimpossible]

[Sherlock visibly winces at the mention of breaking bones]

As others say, it seem to read your thoughts... and least from my understanding... it seems like it's viewing this like a game.

[le_mat]

Yeah, everything we talked about on Monday seems to be panning out.

It even calls us puppets outright.

[improbablenotimpossible]

Disgusting. Toying with lives like that - humans, monsters are not meant to be simply things to be tossed about.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Puppets...

[Thinking.]

"Puppets..."

[homeecspacecop]

[A moment, as Drew repeats the conversation so Chuuta has the details.]

After Ren ACTed, the FIGHT glitched out. It called us "puppets", laughed at us, and asked if we knew what we were doing.

It... could be playing a game. Like, an actual video game and it's going back to the last save when it gets a bad end at the trial.

[justonezero]

So maybe the narration is like your status window?

Like when we use "CHECK" on Monsters.

[homeecspacecop]

I don't think it has to check.

It could be watching us right now but it's watching a cutscene, and it's just waiting for its chance to take control of a character.

[oceanicbutterfly]

...did you know what you were doing?

[sageking]

It's doubtless it does appear to view it's involvement in all of this as a game, even if that's not exactly the case.

[dereban]

[...]

[Pretending that Himeko isn't like - 84 years late with no starbucks:]

'Narration'...?

It makes that feel like that sort of visual novel than an RPG...

[soupervillain]

...the sexy kind?

[le_mat]

Ah, the kind where everyone dies. And probably graphicly tortured in detail.

[romancekiller]

A visual novel? Is that a type of game too?

[cw_suicide]

"Inaba said in a ponderous fashion as she distantly recalled all the examples of other people's lives she witnessed via this format..."

[ugly_split_ends]

...

Well, if you were a character in a story, hypothetically... I'd take it to mean other cues.

It could be your body trembling, or references to the environment being cold.