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[spectacularluck]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 45, early afternoon
Where: Everywhere

[ You've had your time to exchange candy and spooky stories, and the game has come to an end! Everyone who took part received a bag of candy to take to their train, as a bonus reward for the entertainment. Shortly before the game setting can fade away, Finn's going to declare the winners:

Thyme, Senna, Jasmine, and Clover ]

Aaand that's a wrap. With any luck, you guys had some actual fun. Don't forget to brush your teeth and, huh ... enjoy the candy?

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[bluediligence]

[ Surely it's fine to take one more memory publicly. ]

[ Surely! It's fine! SURELY. ]




[ Except no, it isn't, because it turns out that this memory is Fucked Up: she and a group of others are hunting a mimic monster because they need some of its blood for Important Reasons that aren't made explicitly clear. After hours of nothing (that is conveniently montage'd through), things go to shit very extremely super quickly! There's blood, carnage, people getting chomped on and having their blood drunk, and fighting desperately. It's bad. It's b a d. ]

[ And as it plays out on the screen, Faito, sitting on the couch, just stares blankly. ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[On one hand, so THAT'S the deal with the pendant.]

[On the other hand, ALL THAT OTHER SHIT.]

[So she's knee deep in something that involves needing a Mimic's blood and also that's a whole hell of a lot of magic treated normally and Kaito is there and]

[Yeah, that is a lot, but most importantly]

[He is absolutely not gonna touch her, instead moving to sit down on the floor in front of her so he's obvious, Sunset in his lap and he's just gonna wait to see what kind of reaction she's gonna have to that because he knows it's gonna be bad.]

[bluediligence]

[ It takes a while. ]

[ The memory was long, intense, and — a lot. It was just a lot. Reliving it in all of that vivid detail, feeling every hit, every ache and pain, every ounce of fear as one of her friends or comrades was beaten down … ]

[ So of course. ]

[ Of course the first thing she does is strike out, aiming a hard kick at him if he's in range and then immediately catapulting herself over the back of the sofa. ]

[time5kip]

[ Well. He's staying in the lounge because unlike decent people he specifically hopes to gather information on them and doesn't give a shit about their privacy, so. Here he is, checking that memory out as soon as it's displayed.

There's a bit of a pause as he takes it in, but eventually he walks up to her to just kind of see how she's faring ]

I'd offer to get you a drink, but then again. Maybe I shouldn't encourage drinking as a coping mechanism. Heard that's not healthy.

[bluediligence]

[ SURE WAS WILD, HUH. ]

[ On the bright side, she's finally back with the programme — while she stiffens and looks quickly at him when he moves, she doesn't seem like she's about to bolt. Or, you know. Attack him with an entire couch. ]

Ah … Five. [ Five. That's right, yeah. ] I - actually … do you like hot chocolate?

[daydreamshimmer]

[Solar here to see another memory.]

[Welcome to more magical teen movie adventures. Apparently Solar Flare is why magic exists in this world! And her friends seemed to be involved! And one's gone so they had to go save her just to get attacked by a giant plant monster before Solar basically shoved all of them into quick sand.]

[malignstar]

Wow, your friend is just as much of a nerd in human form. Also, definitely wasn't expecting plant monsters.

[daydreamshimmer]

My friend? Which one?

[Listen, she didn't even recognize Twilight at first after following her to the Human World.]

[nhaamasblessing]

[Did someone say memories? It's a good ol' bedtime story about how the light of day is evil.

After the fact, you'll find the older version of the subject of the memory staring out the nearest window with a hesitant expression.]

[daydreamshimmer]

[Well, that is....quite the story.]

You know, I'm gonna start to wonder if it's always gonna be a thing, day and night fighting each other.

[nhaamasblessing]

Is that a problem where you're from, as well?

[firstworldproblem]

Starting off, are you? Collecting them again one by one. How much better it would be if you hadn't forgotten in the first place.

[nhaamasblessing]

[she's startled a bit from staring out the window, but she doesn't really show it as she turns around to look at him.]

Certainly so. It feels rather cruel to make me have to buy back my own memories piece by piece, but here we are.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Only three memories this time.]

[So the first one is just proof absolute will let horrible things happen for the greater good. And he knows terrifying doctors.]

[On the other hand, he bickers with Tucker like an old married couple and also it's weird no one's found them after a ship crash.]

[Finally, there's definitely a...stark contrast in Dusk and his memories. Some memories are pretty close, if with him being more goofy, but that could easily be due to age. But most of his later ones are him being more cold, more of an asshole, a lot more prone to seriousness. There is a reason for that and blowing up the dead body of an old friend is certainly part of it.]

[bluediligence]

[ godDAMN today is fired ]

[ She watches them all with him, withholding judgement despite her knee-jerk ugh, no reaction to the idea of torture. The bickering makes her smile a little. But the last memory ... ]

... Do you want some hot chocolate? The good stuff.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Y E A H. Emily sure is a thing. But he also knows there's something Weird going on, but not quite what.]

[But that last one. That last one.]

[His expression is utterly blani, staring at the screen. It takes a few moments to respond.]

What?

[time5kip]

[ Well that sure is something. This time he's actually paying attention to the memories shown on the screen, so he actually follows each of them. ]

You okay?

[schrodingerscockroach]

No.

[Because nothing of what happened on screen was okay.]

[His voice and face are lacking all emotion because that's the only way he's gonna even begin to process what just happened.]

Agent York and I were teammates. Friends. Delta and I were friends.

Why was I acting like a stranger?

[Because that's weird and doesn't make sense and also a lot easier to touch then the fact he blew up his friend's dead body because his friend is dead.]

[malignstar]

A little off brand for you.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....

[I mean, quasi legal, questionable stuff is kind of his brand.]

[Just blowing up friend thing less so.]

[malignstar]

[ Someone is finally taking memories. What is this madness?

(OOC Note: Viewers don't get the internal monologue, just the visuals. The monologue is just so I can get the write flow of the scene.)

Memory 1: Felix makes a new friend. Who he can't see. That's weird.

Memory 2: Some explanation behind Felix's fighting skills. Also a really fucking big wolf.

Memory 3: An embarrassing meet-cute. Also a name???

Being his first memory experience in ever, let's just say Felix is deeply confused as the strange discrepancies among the memories. ]

Tavores... ?

[bluediligence]

[ Watching memory three, and - ]

Oh! That was cute!

[malignstar]

That's one kind of a first impression, I guess...

[bowtiedbones]

[Eliza is Ms. Absent from the lounge and any memory-watching as usual

she’s outside with a SKELETON DEER, watching it go through its paces with a critical eye. both of her larger dragons are curled up next to her feet and watching the buck with the same alertness.]

So far, so good...

[schrodingerscockroach]

That our old buddy?

[He's kind of....blank today. Nothing to worry about.]