[YOU REALLY JUST GET RAKED ACROSS THE COALS IMMEDIATELY we really do all just love packing off our blorbos to the torment train though.]
A small speck of good. Some of you are rather unlucky even among us, though. I haven't even really been on one.
[AND YET POOR SWEET HARU HAS 3. His shoulders lift a little at that.]
Who's to say? I do find it odd that they're a similarity between every single "game", seemingly, even when there are many other differences between seemingly standard things like the trials themselves.
[ what is this karma where scara doesn't go on multiple ]
A common coincidence.
[ his turn to shrug ]
It's weird, but... I guess nothing here is original. The Reaper's Game had lots of rounds before ours too. Kind of a standardized experience by now.
[ though i'll just memshare now which is the benefit of memshare week cyoa, because speaking of loops—scara can be hit by memories of growing up with sqq and jonas (amongst many others, like ace and jacopo) on some far-flung planet, surviving the elements there and then not, dying to illness, dying to alien monsters. repeating the process. a continuous loop, reliving the same timeline but tweaking it with each pass. ]
I guess they do? I've never had this happen before. [ NEW FRESH TRAUMAS though he is doing his best to seem chill. he is not. ] Maybe now I'm closer to being as old as you are.
[STOP COUGHING WHY IS ONE OF YOUR INJURIES OR EFFECTS JUST TUBERCULOSIS.]
It's not the first time I've heard of it, at least. Haven't seen it myself, though. [UNTIL NOW HE GUESSES. Well, it's fine. Haru your fucking not chill day of many many loops.
Unfortunately he finds this amusing, too.]
Five hundred years of living the same thing over and over but with slight differences here and there would be enough to drive anyone mad, I think.
[ no! he coughs again, those kind of dry, strained things where someone is trying to get air. it passes though and he catches his breath with a frown. ]
...Has anyone ever told you you have a twisted sense of humor?
[ HE IS NOT BLIND HE CAN SEE YOU'RE AMUSED YOU LIL PUNK he should've been even more annoying at the relay, anyway, ]
But yeah, it wasn't even fifty years and it was too much. [ and he doesn't remember it all like, wow i have fifty free years of life experience now, it's a bit nebulous. like knowing it happened, but not fully feeling it's real. ] Time feels so long when you're young.
[The answer is always to aggro Scara more and be more annoying at him.]
I've been told. [He's been told a lot of things... NOT HIS 50 YEARS OF NEBULOUS MEMORY THAT HE DOES AND DOESN'T REALLY REMEMBER THOUGH.
There's a little huff of a laugh at the statement though because it's TRUE.]
It does pass by faster as you grow older. Before you know it, you'll be seeing old acquaintances every seventy or so years and it won't feel like much time has passed. [Still amused... But then:] Has something happened to your throat or lungs?
[ okay loads you up with his cyoa effects the next day ]
Seventy years... [ he genuinely can't imagine. haru who is largely codependent on the people around him. but maybe that too will fade with age. anyway, his thoughts are interrupted by the question. ] Ah. Yeah—looks like I'm still sick.
[ his SPACE TUBERCULOSIS that he still has ]
...It shouldn't be contagious, if you're worried about that.
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Still alive.
[ he'll sit up gingerly, complaining. ]
This is my third one of these. It's starting to get old.
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Third one? Did you end up on two before?
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—Yes. [ because i'm usually w1 cyoa for some reason ] At least they don't come as a surprise anymore.
...But I don't see the point. Besides to give us a hard time. [ cyoa is truly just like here you go kittens into the torture chamber you go ]
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A small speck of good. Some of you are rather unlucky even among us, though. I haven't even really been on one.
[AND YET POOR SWEET HARU HAS 3. His shoulders lift a little at that.]
Who's to say? I do find it odd that they're a similarity between every single "game", seemingly, even when there are many other differences between seemingly standard things like the trials themselves.
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A common coincidence.
[ his turn to shrug ]
It's weird, but... I guess nothing here is original. The Reaper's Game had lots of rounds before ours too. Kind of a standardized experience by now.
[ though i'll just memshare now which is the benefit of memshare week cyoa, because speaking of loops—scara can be hit by memories of growing up with sqq and jonas (amongst many others, like ace and jacopo) on some far-flung planet, surviving the elements there and then not, dying to illness, dying to alien monsters. repeating the process. a continuous loop, reliving the same timeline but tweaking it with each pass. ]
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Frowning deeply.]
Don't just drag me into your experiences. I have a track record to maintain.
[LIKE HARU DID IT ON PURPOSE...]
They do love their loops, though.
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[ coughs instead of rolling his eyes ]
I guess they do? I've never had this happen before. [ NEW FRESH TRAUMAS though he is doing his best to seem chill. he is not. ] Maybe now I'm closer to being as old as you are.
[ if you count all the loops... ]
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It's not the first time I've heard of it, at least. Haven't seen it myself, though. [UNTIL NOW HE GUESSES. Well, it's fine. Haru your fucking not chill day of many many loops.
Unfortunately he finds this amusing, too.]
Five hundred years of living the same thing over and over but with slight differences here and there would be enough to drive anyone mad, I think.
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...Has anyone ever told you you have a twisted sense of humor?
[ HE IS NOT BLIND HE CAN SEE YOU'RE AMUSED YOU LIL PUNK he should've been even more annoying at the relay, anyway, ]
But yeah, it wasn't even fifty years and it was too much. [ and he doesn't remember it all like, wow i have fifty free years of life experience now, it's a bit nebulous. like knowing it happened, but not fully feeling it's real. ] Time feels so long when you're young.
[ he says at the ripe old age of 18. ]
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I've been told. [He's been told a lot of things... NOT HIS 50 YEARS OF NEBULOUS MEMORY THAT HE DOES AND DOESN'T REALLY REMEMBER THOUGH.
There's a little huff of a laugh at the statement though because it's TRUE.]
It does pass by faster as you grow older. Before you know it, you'll be seeing old acquaintances every seventy or so years and it won't feel like much time has passed. [Still amused... But then:] Has something happened to your throat or lungs?
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Seventy years... [ he genuinely can't imagine. haru who is largely codependent on the people around him. but maybe that too will fade with age. anyway, his thoughts are interrupted by the question. ] Ah. Yeah—looks like I'm still sick.
[ his SPACE TUBERCULOSIS that he still has ]
...It shouldn't be contagious, if you're worried about that.
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He just looks faintly amused by his pondering over 70 years, which is still a lot of time. Oh immortals. God. Why has he been around for so long.]
I'm not. [Worried, that is.] I wouldn't catch it, regardless. [The confidence... But for GOOD REASON.]
What were you sick with?