ACE

[ballies]

(pirate noises)

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[selfimmolation]

[ he is buying ......... all the pretzels. but he does offer one to tama after ]

It's fine, it's fine. I keep forgetting people get a little weirded out when I talk about stuff. [ "a little" ]

[ballies]

[ all of them...


she will accept a pretzel. and actually, hold on, i'm a*ntie a*n-ing it up in here and saying they have pots of cheese sauce, which she's going to nab. ]

It drives it home we're all from very, very different places.

[selfimmolation]

[ with his mouth full: ]

Yeah, no kidding.

[ballies]

[ by the power vested in me, i'm saying they're somewhere with clothing racks now. so tama can be rummaging through them. ]

How did they even find us all?

[selfimmolation]

That... is a great question.

[ eats pretzel and ignores clothes. this is her job ]

[ballies]

[ diligently does her task. there a lot of options here. ]

Yeah. It’s not like they just scanned one world and picked at random. This is multiple worlds, and people who knows each other too?

It’s strange.

[selfimmolation]

People who don't know each other, too. I'd never met Robin, but she's on my brother's crew.

[ so many factors wow... what could it mean... nom nom ]

[ballies]

[ i’m glad he’s having a good time with the entire pretzel store. ]

So that’s just a tenuous link, rather than me and Ryuki getting brought here, or Will and Nico…

[ ugggh. ] They couldn’t even keep it consistent? How am I meant to spot a pattern like this?

[selfimmolation]

Maybe there isn't a pattern? It could be they just grabbed people at random and you guys were nearby enough for it to grab you both.

[ maybe... rpers... are worse ]

[ballies]

[ maybe we just throw darts until we find a seasonable blorbo to torment… ]

… Maybe? Still hard not to wonder how they found that many places to grab people from though. As far as I was concerned there was my world and nothing else until a couple of weeks ago.

[ we don’t talk about naix’s moksha theory. ]

[selfimmolation]

Same here, but maybe some worlds just... know more about that stuff? No one in the city seems surprised about different worlds.

[ballies]

[ this is enough to give someone a headache, honestly. she just bumps her head on the clothes rack with a sigh ]

It’d be nice if someone could explain it. The how, I don’t need to know the who, why and when. They manage to take people from different times as well, which is… a lot to wrap your head around.

[selfimmolation]

... Right. [ munch munch as he looks over some clothes opposite Tama ] Apparently, Argalia said he was dead before coming here as well.

[ballies]

[ she looks up from where she's digging through a select of zip-up hoodies. ]

He what.

[selfimmolation]

... Yeah. I didn't talk to him directly [ he didn't care!!! ] but that's what he was saying.

[ballies]

[ she just hands him this zip up hoodie, almost absentmindedly. ]

...

But-- different worlds, different times... even death doesn't stop them??

[selfimmolation]

Oh, cool.

[ HE HAS NO TASTE HE'S GENUINELY LIKE WOW!! and actually tries it out. i mean, he doesn't zip it up, but. he tries it on. anyway; ]

... Yeah, that's what it sounds like.

[ballies]

[ yeah she chose zip up for a reason ]

…

……

This place really is weird. Isn’t there some saying about letting the dead rest in peace? This is exact opposite of that.

[selfimmolation]

I dunno. Maybe this is an equivalent to hell. [ something wry in his tone as he rolls up the sleevies on the hoodie up to his elbow ]

[ballies]

Neither Ryuki or I are dead though.

[ she’s digging out more hoodies ]

[selfimmolation]

That's true. [ how did ace put on the hoodie when he still has more pretzels. who knows, he's eating it ] Well, who knows how this place works.

[ballies]

[ if anyone could, it's ace. here's the next hoodie ]

Not worth the headache? Well, not until it turns out we need to know or something.

[selfimmolation]

[ he kind of snickers at that one ]

Skeletons...?

[ i mean. he'll try it on it was handed to him. ]

It probably doesn't matter. I mean... Jolyne said the team leads were pretty sure when you go back you'd go back right at the same time you left, so.

[ballies]

Isn't that a theme though? Fire... skulls... skulls on fire... [ you know the aesthetic. ]

Yeah, and that time's frozen at the point you left.

[selfimmolation]

It is. That's what my old jolly roger was...

[ hehes ]

So if someone's dead there, they'll still be dead when they come back. No point lingering on it.