[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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[romancekiller]

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

[dereban]

Yeah.

A lot of people in this side of the world tend to debate on whether a visual novel should be considered a 'game' or not, but I personally think that it is. It's basically another form of storytelling.

Written dialogue, along with 'character choices' that the player makes. There are some visual novels that even dive into the meta and call the player out and utilize things outside the game in order to finish it, like the game files, checking the backlog, having special dialogue when you close the game out at a certain location, etcetera.

[improbablenotimpossible]

Some would turn the "Player" into a character onto themselves, some games are more successful at this than others.

Good ones can make you think hard about yourselves, bad ones are pretentious garbage that relies on pulling a gotcha or outright lying to look smart instead of using those meta tricks to properly prove a point.

[romancekiller]

This is all pretty much outside of anything I'm familiar with back home— [video games, visual novels... they don't exist in the apocalypse] But from what you're describing it does sound like something we potentially be dealing with here as far as that entity is concerned.

[dereban]

Yeah... which kind of complicates things even further, to be honest.

[romancekiller]

Yeah, it does— especially with trying to determine how to deal with it considering how things went the previous times. [you know like how staying together as a group didn't prevent anything]

[dereban]

... yeah.

It just means that we have to keep that in mind while doing things. Which - sucks.

[romancekiller]

Yeah, I just hope we can outsmart it for whatever happens next.

[dereban]

Outsmart it... before it outsmarts us at least.

Which means it's time to pull my proverbial sleeves and get to planning.

[romancekiller]

Yeah, exactly— there has to be something we can do that'd trip it up and give us an advantage against it.