pc: sleep to frog communication..... 2

[squirt]

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[dendroculi]

[she nods]

That's right. I still have it on my phone if you would like to see it. Kaveh should have it as well.

[frogzoned]

I think so. Here-

[ he'll pull out his phone and show her (and the rest of Go to Sleep) the message:

Bring them from different worlds. Erase worlds of those who fail to win. This will be a better system for the future. ]

... For what it's worth, I asked Aika about it. She seems to think it could either be true or false, which I know is all of the options it could be, but the fact they don't know if it's true outright is something, anyway?

[honkinbigteeth]

[she hides even further in her hood when he shows this.]

Yeah it - we weren't sure what to do about this. Because if people believe it's true, it'll be bad, but... also, everybody who went with Gerard has this, so most of the teams saw it anyway.

[frogzoned]

Monika had already shown her team by the time I brought it up with her, and I didn't hide that I had told Froggystyle, of course. But we wanted to share with you as well. Even field and all.

[dendroculi]

...thank you, both of you. I really appreciate it.

[honkinbigteeth]

...Well, we did break our alliance a little bit, Nahida. We told another team before we told you guys. Sorry.

[squirt]

[ quietly, ]

...We told BDSM, too.

It didn't seem fair not to.

[squirt]

...Yeah.

[ sips his water, looking a little uncomfortable. ]

Ruby said she'd ask if it applied to our game. She hadn't heard about it until we talked. Bosses aren't very communicative.

[frogzoned]

Aika seemed to think more than likely it applied to us.

But she also said that - clearly these messages aren't intended for us. There's no sender. So why would we get them at all? It sounds like pretty good motivation to go out and start ... erasing and all, so why wouldn't they tell us at the start if they wanted us to do that.

So they might have given it to us intentionally, for the drama. It doesn't mean that it's real.

[dendroculi]

When I asked they said it was probably some kind of technological glitch that was responsible for our receiving them. But if it's happened again, specifically just for people who had an experience like you and I did... I agree it feels very intentional.

[squirt]

...Ruby was probably just trying to be nice. It sounds like it'd apply to us. They're trying something new, like that other game.

And even if it's not real, the risk is.

[ohthehumanities]

[hey wow he doesn't like this at all]

[honkinbigteeth]

Kaveh...

[she's frowning a lot, hunching a bit.]

It might not be real, okay? It might just be a trick to try to get us to kill each other more, like you were saying. I really...don't want anyone else to get hurt by this.

[squirt]

[ it's not great. he looks off at nothing in particular for a second. ]

...Ruby said that if it applies to our game, there's nothing we can do about it alone. They won't change their minds.

But I think she was holding something back. That maybe... there's still someone, or somebodies, that can help us.

[ so it's not entirely hopeless, sort of. ]

[dendroculi]

..."erase worlds of those who fail to win"? But they've brought some of us from the same worlds.

[and not every castmate is on the same team...]

But it is telling that they don't know if this is applicable to the Game we're playing now. The problem is going to be if this convinces people to choose erasure in an attempt to win the game.

[frogzoned]

I would think that - would make you safer, right? If you've got people from the same world? If they're saying they won't erase the world of the winners, then ...

[dendroculi]

...maybe, but it worries me that they don't say "Leave the worlds of the winners alone".

[it could go the other way - even if you, as a winner, are not erased, your world might still be. where would that leave you then?]

[roseoftexas]

[ oh he deeeply doesn't like the phrasing there. ]

[ohthehumanities]

I do, yes.

[He'll show his message:

ATTN: ████████

Prepping for new Game. You will each need to volunteer one of your best Reapers temporarily for it. Up to you to decide who fits criteria of 'best.' Cannot give much info on setup, but it is based on that one Game from a few years back. You know the one. Comply with instructions ASAP.

Signed,
████ ██████]

I asked Kiichi about it, but he didn't seem to think it was anything significant. Ruby mentioned that the previous Game they're talking about was the first one that brought people from other worlds together.

[squirt]

...Right. She mentioned this game is inspired by that one.

I wonder if we can learn more about it.

[dendroculi]

That might help. If this one is inspired by it...

Well, taking inspiration from something doesn't necessarily mean every aspect of it will be identical. But if we can find things that worked well for the players of that game, and if we can learn about how it ended... we can try the things that worked for them and attempt to avoid the things that didn't.

[frogzoned]

[ okay well first you're gonna need a lot of rancid big mac sauce, a small toy water gun, and a mailing envelope address to Anthy ]

[frogzoned]

What did Kiichi say exactly? Just that he didn't think it was important?

[ohthehumanities]

Essentially. He said it was likely something passed around by the higher-ups in preparation for this game, and that it came to us through some kind of technological error. Supposedly, such things aren't uncommon. But if your group got one as well, that seems doubtful.

...I can't figure out if the reapers really are as uninvolved as they say. They make it sound like they have barely any contact with those in power.

[dendroculi]

...some organizations don't make their highest leadership all that accessible to the people at the lower levels. So it's not impossible, but... it also seems strange to me that their higher-ups would give them such detailed instructions, but then be so hands-off once the Game actually began.