ACE

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(pirate noises)

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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 ]

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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!!! ]

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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.

[selfimmolation]

Right. You guys got injured, but that place messed with your minds in the first place, so...

[ how does it work. ]

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True. What happens in a simulation should be mental only, any injury or damage wouldn't stick. But that still doesn't explain how we got out of the city, unless something let us leave...?

[ that doesn't explain the werewolf x animal crossing promotional collab the other group had to deal with though? ]

[selfimmolation]

... Do you think you guys are going to other worlds?

[ballies]

[ …………………. give her a moment here, even knowing this has happened at least once seeing as she’s here, this is giving her a headache. ]







I’m. Maybe? … … Did someone get info that suggests we are?

[selfimmolation]

Not exactly? But there's a note that implied all the citizens here were originally from... elsewhere.

[ballies]

You think their worlds might be connected to here somehow…?

[selfimmolation]

Maybe? I don't know anything about world travel or anything like that.

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I would've said it was impossible, but-- here we are?

I don't know how much I want to think about being in a simulation either. That hits uncomfortably close to some crap that was going on back home.

[selfimmolation]

A simulation is like an illusion, right...?

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[ she nods. ]

It can look, feel, sound and smell real, but it's not.

[selfimmolation]

Right. I don't think this place itself is that, but... maybe it can bring in stuff like that?

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Like... overlap reality with simulation? So both are existing in the same space at the same time?

[selfimmolation]

You're losing me.

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[ pats his arm. ]

It’s tech talk.

[selfimmolation]

Okay...

[ he's mentally immediately checking out ]

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Just— they might have an overlap of both. The fake world and the real world. It’s just a thought, but not one I have evidence for.

[ there there……. let the brain cell be free… ]

Other than that, I know nothing. Which is great.

[selfimmolation]

That's kind of all of us right now. [ grimacing ] Did you see the newspaper Nico's group got last week...?

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From the place they ended up last Thursday?

[ looks at where ty has promised me this info in her next tag and looks back again. ]

Nico showed me, yeah. Have you seen the one that Axel, Saya, Sigrun and I got?

[selfimmolation]

Saya showed me. [ we will discuss the nico stuff when ty gives it to you ] I think I've seen all the papers so far, but... I don't know about making sense of it all.

[ballies]

[ she nods. ]

Everything about the competition being changed, to what happens if a team loses… I don’t know what the point is? Other than someone really wants a villain for the people to hate, regardless of who that “villain” actually is.