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[selfimmolation]

Yep. Except this one was just killing on command.

[ her ???!?!?!? angery is. also his. ]

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How come there was something as messed up as that, and some were just "have an extra vote", "set a rule for the week!"??

[ what a damn mess. ]

[selfimmolation]

Don't know. And at this point, I don't care. I mean, it's pretty obvious where all those special skills must've come from.

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[ ... she just drops her forehead into her knees with a grumble. ]

Right. Who else would benefit from inciting more chaos and murder?

[selfimmolation]

Yep.

[ that's all he's got. just. yep. ]

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[ y u p ]

... Just. How. How does a rock in the sky [ that's sometimes a man i guess ] cause this much trouble?

[selfimmolation]

It helps when the people left in charge just sort of accept everything.

[ sorry he is just. so unimpressed.]

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That things been messing with memories for a while now though, right? [ thinking. ] You don't think it might've done something to the leaders as well?

[selfimmolation]

It's messed with memories?

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[ me trying to remember this information. ]

There was something about people who've lost previous rounds of this stupid competion being ... like... assimilated into the world or something? I remember seeing it way before we got confirmation you guys could come back, and wondering how they managed to give dead people a place here.

Maybe 'messed with memories' isn't exactly it, but didn't you think it was weird people here didn't question the competition or the executions for so long?

[selfimmolation]

Oh, right, that. I remember.

Yeah, people who lost here got brainwashed, but I don't think that applied to the leads...?

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Not to the same extent, yeah, but I wonder if something got messed with. [ … ] Or if they were told this was the only way to stop this cycle from repeating.

Doesn’t make things better for us, but I think I’d like to understand the ‘why’ a bit better.

[selfimmolation]

You're free to ask, but it's not like they'd know if they were messed with, right?

[ballies]

That’s why I never really asked. I wouldn’t get accurate data out of it.

[selfimmolation]

Maybe once it's over, you can ask. They'll know by then.

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Provided the moon doesn't pull the same crap with us first.

[ positivity! ]

[selfimmolation]

If it could've, it would've by now. Right?

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If it hasn't, I'm sure there's probably something stopping it. Especially now the competition is considered over and done with, but... I don't know if I can say confidently it won't try somehow, before this is all over?

It's been a looming threat for a while now.

[selfimmolation]

We'll see. I'll worry about it if it happens, but there's no point lingering on it until then. It's not like we've got a counter right now.

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On the bright side? I guess?

We probably wouldn't know if it happened.

[selfimmolation]

Tama, that's not a bright side.

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I am reaching.

[selfimmolation]

Reach higher.

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[ mean. ]

Well, if we don't know we don't know. I'd rather than didn't happen though?? Obviously!

[selfimmolation]

Just stop while you're ahead. You're gonna jinx it.

[ he says while laughing ]