[ she really needs to dial 0800-find-a-parental-figure or something because lord knows he needs some guidance that isn’t boss or kaname “mizuki why did you delete my perfectly legitimate animal husbandry videos from my computer” date. ]
You just make it sound like you think I’m wasting my time, or you don’t deserve it. Which you do. [ ass. she’s trying to smoosh his chin now. ] There are extremes, sure. [ like buying a criminal lunch ] But not here, in this exact situation. You know I’d yell at you if I needed to.
[ god knows he needs people to be kind to him! and also to boss him around. and tie him up, i guess. and— ]
[ No. Ryuki can't be normal about approval and attention. He's like a starving puppy for it. He'll make it weird eventually. Also let's be real Boss has not been very good for his mental health either. ]
Can you stop messing with my face, please? I heard it's not good for the skin...
[ his skin is flawless and he looks 18, he’s fine.
but fine, she will stop smooshing his face. he will miss this when it’s gone (no he won’t). he gets a little apology peck where she was gripping his face though because impulse week is my excuse for tama to give everyone hugs and physical affection. ]
I’m making a point. [ but fine. his face is free now. he is no longer a pony, but he does have his horse emotions.
oh. uh. i had thought like on the jawline but now i need to debate if i’m a coward or not give me a moment. and the moment ended up being like two hours help.
schrodinger’s smooch, it’s probably like. at the corner of his mouth or something. torments the mods and anyone reading this post-game. ]
In that case he does look just a little surprised that this happens, tensing up a little. Like, not as in he got tense but I'm tired and words, just stiffening up a bit in surprise but -- it's Tama. He writes it off as something she'd... probably just do. ]
...Um, right.
[ Beat pause silence, then. ]
Oh, I should -- the newspaper from Thursday, if you haven't seen it yet.
[ he would’ve um okay’d that as well. tiny tragedy. ]
Whaaat exactly are we looking at from the Thursday edition? The horoscopes? The slightly insane article about building a boat who I think I can guess the author of?
What? No! I mean the clippings we always get on Thursday. Here, let go so I can go get it --
[ He'll worm out and go to his room, bringing back a newspaper clipping. ]
Shaping and changing the world around us is but child's play with a stroke of the pen. An event in the city that made the news can be changed or written out of existence, and the truth shall bend with it. The masses will believe that it was always like that. Wonder what else can the pages of this book do? The light of the moon shall shine and uncover the depths of its abilities.
[ there’s still two weeks and a thread. i believe in …. someone. probably. ]
… [ well, she is looking at it. like. huh. ] That… explains a few things. Especially about the attitudes of the people around the city when this first started.
One of them, Sampo, just kept saying about how villains were always subjected to this kind of punishment. Like it was normal. He didn’t even know what had happened to put Mika in that arena in the first place.
I figured we already kind of established that with the whole, thing about... previous people drawn into this being turned into citizens who always believed they lived in Oceanside. The whole brainwashing thing. So this just double down on something we already knew.
This just kind of expands a little bit on how that's happening, I think...
[ she’s not so into letting the moon man run free either, honestly. they write in the book that he loses his job and has to do charity work forever. ]
It was presumably lost when Silver Horse died, or… that’s what I assumed. If no one found it though, there is a possibility where it could be.
[ le man on the moon went back to his home planet, after all. it’s not like they can just hop on a bus and go ask him if he took the book with him — which is maybe a clue in and of itself. ]
[ Honestly yeah. 1000 years of community service would be a funny punishment. ]
If it isn't in the moon guy's hands yet, then we still have a chance. But if Silver Horse still has it, and they're working at the newspaper building, you'd think they'd hint that to us by now.
[ charity shop. charity shop work for 1000 years. ]
They might not want to say anything — there was some mention of the pages coming from the book, wasn’t there? It could be that’s how we’re getting them, but admitting where the book is would be like putting a target on your back.
If the moon guy doesn’t know where it is, he’s stuck looking like the rest of us.
Yeah, but that kind of puts us both at square one.
If we can manage that, I guess I'll call it a ritual -- the ritual to bring everyone back from... uh, prinny forms? Back to their original selves, and bring the book along with them before the moon guy finds out...
Well, if the trick is getting them in the moonlight I still think the "giant wave of prinnies" will do it fast enough that moon man might not know what's going on. If they're all in one place, then whoever has the book would be too and we can grab them and run.
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You just make it sound like you think I’m wasting my time, or you don’t deserve it. Which you do. [ ass. she’s trying to smoosh his chin now. ] There are extremes, sure. [ like buying a criminal lunch ] But not here, in this exact situation. You know I’d yell at you if I needed to.
[ god knows he needs people to be kind to him! and also to boss him around. and tie him up, i guess. and— ]
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Can you stop messing with my face, please? I heard it's not good for the skin...
[ Finally protests some about his face abuse. ]
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I feel like you’re trying to change the subject.
[ his skin is flawless and he looks 18, he’s fine.
but fine, she will stop smooshing his face. he will miss this when it’s gone (no he won’t). he gets a little apology peck where she was gripping his face though because impulse week is my excuse for tama to give everyone hugs and physical affection. ]
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[ His horse emotions. They're real.
Like, on the lips or. ]
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oh. uh. i had thought like on the jawline but now i need to debate if i’m a coward or not give me a moment. and the moment ended up being like two hours help.
schrodinger’s smooch, it’s probably like. at the corner of his mouth or something. torments the mods and anyone reading this post-game. ]
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In that case he does look just a little surprised that this happens, tensing up a little. Like, not as in he got tense but I'm tired and words, just stiffening up a bit in surprise but -- it's Tama. He writes it off as something she'd... probably just do. ]
...Um, right.
[ Beat pause silence, then. ]
Oh, I should -- the newspaper from Thursday, if you haven't seen it yet.
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…
[ but y’know, sometimes you keep getting um okay’d. ]
From Thursday? What about it?
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Don't you want to see it? Just to know. I left it in my room in case trial got hectic.
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Whaaat exactly are we looking at from the Thursday edition? The horoscopes? The slightly insane article about building a boat who I think I can guess the author of?
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What? No! I mean the clippings we always get on Thursday. Here, let go so I can go get it --
[ He'll worm out and go to his room, bringing back a newspaper clipping. ]
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… [ well, she is looking at it. like. huh. ] That… explains a few things. Especially about the attitudes of the people around the city when this first started.
One of them, Sampo, just kept saying about how villains were always subjected to this kind of punishment. Like it was normal. He didn’t even know what had happened to put Mika in that arena in the first place.
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This just kind of expands a little bit on how that's happening, I think...
Namely, the stuff about the pen and the book.
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[ As extreme as it is, if the alternative is letting some weird moon megalomaniac continue on doing cycles of weird murder competitions? ]
Have we got any idea about where the book might be and how we can get it?
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It was presumably lost when Silver Horse died, or… that’s what I assumed. If no one found it though, there is a possibility where it could be.
[ le man on the moon went back to his home planet, after all. it’s not like they can just hop on a bus and go ask him if he took the book with him — which is maybe a clue in and of itself. ]
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If it isn't in the moon guy's hands yet, then we still have a chance. But if Silver Horse still has it, and they're working at the newspaper building, you'd think they'd hint that to us by now.
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They might not want to say anything — there was some mention of the pages coming from the book, wasn’t there? It could be that’s how we’re getting them, but admitting where the book is would be like putting a target on your back.
If the moon guy doesn’t know where it is, he’s stuck looking like the rest of us.
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If we can manage that, I guess I'll call it a ritual -- the ritual to bring everyone back from... uh, prinny forms? Back to their original selves, and bring the book along with them before the moon guy finds out...
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[ 10/10, flawless planning. ]