WEEK 2

[akudamods]

Saturday passes uneventfully save a little rain. It's on Sunday that you get a little notification of probation for new areas: Neo-Nipponbashi and Chuo. It'd be possible to investigate, to check out some anime, or to worship the defunct Shinkansen. But maybe it's hard to get excited about any of that when Friday’s events suggest that you have simply been provided some additional photogenic places to commit murder. Are you going to bother either overseer after their participation in some mockery of justice? Troll the internet? Get a bat out of Hyper Zone and just take out your frustration on everything?

Those of you who entered the pods will experience fewer “painful bursts of color” as your body is unaffected below the knees, though the same amount of “slight teleportation” glitches. Those of you who abstained from the pods will continue to experience all of the above as well as electric shock sensations occasionally when touching metal objects.

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[conways_retribution]

Understood. Just one more thing... How long have you been around?

[osssuary]

The Zealot, then? That one prefers hiding, after all.

[Real hard to tell if this is a serious guess given how flat his voice is. But at least he's listening...?]

[aggelos]

I made a promise that I'd find a way to return everyone back to where they belong.

... But it seems you have already forgotten it since it was not that long ago when I said this to everyone here.

[aggelos]

Bzzzt.

Wrong again.

[woodeneye]

[ The appearance of the note makes Ragetti's heart skip for a moment. He knows Loremaster's dead, but she did say she'd try to get back in touch with him, and, well. He does know firsthand that coming back from the dead isn't the most impossible feat out there. It could happen... right?

But, no. Sure. Talking cat. Not any weirder than a talking flower, Ragetti supposes. ]

Nice kitty.

[ He reaches out a hand for scritches. ]

1/2

[metamere]

[ The longest, flattest stare. ]

[aggelos]

Since the beginning of your arrival here.

[your_best_friend]

Greeting the cat

Oh, golly!

[* Ebott's eyes are lit up, delighted to see a talking cat.]

I don't think I've ever seen you around. What monster are you?

Reviewing info

Have any of you seen the trial video Miraicle posted? I... wanted to go and review it to see if there were any codes or the like, but that simply wasn't feasable. I'd be sitting there for weeks going through it all. But it also still isn't raw footage. In fact, it's heavily edited to put us in the worst light possible. It's not much to go on, but perhaps we should look more into that account. I can even program a keylogger if need be.

Also about these rumors... Little old me had a talk with Physicist yesterday, and she made it seem like the rumors also happened when she was also an X-Class. I didn't ask when those rumors stared, but perhaps those rumors started even before the first X-Class came. You know, when people like Cutthroat were still alive.

[* Flowey brings out a phone and shows off a photo of a human when talking about Cutthroat.]

...Oh! One more little thing I almost forgot to mention. When I was in a shop menu with a robot, it mentioned having a SOUL.

[aggelos]

We met here in this city, upon your arrival to this place.

[inspiritus]

[ ...

...

Then he smirks, as if amused. ]

I see.

[osssuary]

Hmm.

[He keeps quiet after that; this is one loose-tongued cat, after all. Maybe he just wanted to drag Zealot for fun, you never know.]

[metamere]

Well that explains that, and one other thing, actually. I have no interest in believing your delusions any more than I did a few days ago. But fools will be fools and so on as the story goes.

[ Notably his tone lacks any of the whimsical notes it normally has. ]

[metamere]

[ Wizard laughs over here, though it's more like a chuckle. ]

info!

[woodeneye]

Robots ain't usually got souls?

[ Maybe this is a hotly debated theological issue in the future. He doesn't know. ]

[your_best_friend]

It could be a Ghost inhabiting a robot body. Mettaton does that back at home.

[osssuary]

[One eyebrow flicks up in response, though his expression doesn't change.]

[aggelos]

I'm afraid I haven't the slightest idea what you mean by that.

[But the cat does sound kind of amused by the suggestion being made here, though.]

[pr159]

[ The pawprint makes Rideaux much less inclined to want to show up to this meeting, because his immediate thoughts are that it's either an invitation from that "Wizard" clown or Julius's stupid cat finally managed to catch its fat ass up to the rest of them.

Apparently neither of those thoughts are right, though, so. There's that.

Still feels like a jackass talking to a cat though. ]

So, what, are you supposed to be another former X-Class or something? And why did you choose today to finally show up — or show up again, if what you've been saying about having already met us is true?

[pr159]

Not at all. I wouldn't be here if I disagreed.

[ He was already in the decor section here, after all! ]

Didn't take you as someone who'd gravitate to light neutral colors, though.

[akudamods]

[In the end, it is a choice to reflect on her memories, inspired by the atmospheric perception. (Just as "God watching her" does not bless her eyes themselves with an image a bearded old man, or a ray of commanding light.) As Zack's partner, she did demonstrate these skills. Slowly, the elevator forms in her mind's eye.

Ding.

...time's up. Maybe next week.]

[aggelos]

[The cat will allow head scritches! It feels like petting a normal cat as opposed to a hologram or a robot...]

[akudamods]

[So it continues to feel surreal and spooky, without taking any more specific form. He gets out.]

[aggelos]

To the first question, yes.

In regards to the second... what can I say, I've been busy. I didn't have the time to meet again until now.

[This is accompanied by a meow that sounds like a yawn at the same time.]

[woodeneye]

A ghost?

[ Ragetti stumbles back a step, a little more freaked out by this idea than you might expect from someone who used to be a part-time skeleton himself. ]

Now there's ghosts here too?!

[aggelos]

That depends. What kind of "monster" do I look like to you?