ACE

[ballies]

(pirate noises)

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[ help that icon ]

I… I guess it was smoking, then. Like a bomb?

[selfimmolation]

[ i don't get to use my funny icons enough ]

Where did you even get a bomb?

[ballies]

I have no clue! I didn’t have any before just then.

[ help ]

Bombs aren’t even part of what my power can do.

[selfimmolation]

Right, you can... hack or something? [ he remembers terms ] Did Albedo slip you a bomb by accident?

[ballies]

Yeah. Kind of like… unscrewing a door from its hinges without anyone knowing or seeing. Then nothing’s stopping you from going in and snooping around.

… Or from making the door smack people in the face, if you wanted to.

[ hacking 101. ]

And, no? I think I would’ve remembered if he did.

[selfimmolation]

I don't know how you'd have gotten an explosive...

[ also he nodded along to the hacking explanation but didn't quite get how tf there's doors in a phone but ok ]

[ballies]

[ you try and dumb it down for a guy… he’s doing his best, maybe. ]

I didn’t even know it was going to appear, it just… did.

[ she’s opening the door again to squint at the damage— and then she wrinkles her nose and shuts the door again. anyway. ]

[selfimmolation]

Maybe it... teleported from somewhere?

[ but when she makes a face at the smell he starts to laugh ]

That bad?

[ballies]

Teleported? Like… someone just threw one out there wildly and I caught it directly in my hands?

[ squints. could someone do that?? (no they couldn’t) ]

Well, it’s not— [ tarkea is on fire level ]— caused structural damage? But there’s a big scorch mark on the ground.

[selfimmolation]

[ makes an iunno sound. maybe!!!! ]

A scorch mark? [ grinning and immediately going to go see ] Property damage now, Tama? Terrible.

[ballies]

[ great hustle, guys. thank you albedo for being the one to just ask the network and carry the braincell. ]

… [ aaaaaaaaa. pushes his arm. ] No! Imagine if it’d gone off in here, we’d have choked on the smells.

[ she SAVED them. ]

[selfimmolation]

Maybe burning everything at once would've smelled better, you can't know that for sure.

[ he's snickering like it's not obvious what it would be. also team goat is 1/3 on having thoughts ]

[ballies]

[ “the responsible team” ]

I’m gonna set one off in here to prove a point in a minute. [ she doesn’t even know where she got the first one from?? ]

[selfimmolation]

Did you figure out where you got the first one from?

[ballies]

…..



[ pushes his arm again. ]

[selfimmolation]

[ nyehehehehe ]

So that's definitely a no.

[ballies]

[ grumble ]

It’s got to have come from somewhere….

[selfimmolation]

The ceiling?

[ no ]

[ballies]

[ the worst part is she does actually look up at this ]

…

No.

[ no. ]

[selfimmolation]

Well, it's not like you could've made it, it's gotta come from somewhere.

[ballies]

So now we have to worry about cute bombs just appearing out of nowhere? On top of everything else?

[ … ]

D’ya think I can put in a petition for a vacation? Like, a forced vacation. I don’t want to deal with small bombs.

[selfimmolation]

If we could get a break from this place, I'd have taken one a long time ago.

[ like week 0. actually. let him out ]

[ballies]

I wonder if we can just walk to the outskirts, and then keep walking. Or are we just… trapped in the areas we know about?

Because I definitely left the city last week, but — that was a unique circumstance.

[ maybe there’s a beach out there. ]

[selfimmolation]

... Did you guys really leave the city? You said you were gone for a month, but that part wasn't real.

[ pocket dimension where there's NO BEACHES!!! ]

[ballies]

It… felt like we did? We just walked out of here and ended up somewhere else.

[ yeah this game is anti-ocean, sorry ace. ]

But— if it was a simulation, we wouldn’t know any different. It would feel like we were somewhere else, even if we weren’t.