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

[squirt]

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[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.

[dendroculi]

Our alliance wasn't that you would only share information with us. The important thing is that you did end up sharing it with us in the end.

[squirt]

[ quietly, ]

...We told BDSM, too.

It didn't seem fair not to.

[dendroculi]

[she nods]

You're right. They deserved to know.

[squirt]

[ he is just tearing the label off his water bottle, uncomfortable. ]

It didn't help. [ ... ] Sorry. If you all didn't want to know, either.

[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.

[frogzoned]

Ours is ... much more ominous than the last weeks. So I have to admit I'm nervous about what this week's is going to be.

[dendroculi]

The way they're written... they're instructions for setup of the game. So, it's possible that something might have changed between when these messages were originally sent and when it actually began. But we won't know that for sure until we have the whole picture.

I'm nervous, too. ...hopefully whoever receives it will be willing to share. I did tell the others in your group that I had received something and that they may want to keep an eye out for it, but...

[sweats in in progress threads i don't know if any of them are going to reciprocate with the information once the threads get to that point]

[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.

[frogzoned]

I think this is the problem, isn't it. You have to treat it like it's real, on the chance that it is.

[squirt]

...Yeah.

Monika wasn't sure how much to spread it, either. Because of how people might start acting. But that's at least six teams that know.

[ BDSM (RIP), froggystyle, mmm, sweet theory, justice, and now go to sleep ]

It's only TBD, A Peace Sign, Yuneyuze, and Hot Mess that might not. ...Should we tell them, too?

[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?]

[frogzoned]

You could ask. I don't know. I don't get the feeling that's the case.

[roseoftexas]

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