[WEEK 1: FRIDAY EVENING, AROUND ROOM 112; DAVE]

[nowyouseeit]

[WELL THAT SUCKED. we're down a roommate and a doorknob, and someone wound up dying in this place after all. Kaito's probably hanging around Room 112 sometime in the evening before curfew, just kind of. piddling about, trying to see if there are any more clues he can find]

Why would he just. . . get up a leave the room? If that's what happened?

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[parodeity]

I don't disagree.

[ it's quiet, but. ]

None of it's okay, but I guess...freakin' out does no good. We have to actually do shit.

[nowyouseeit]

I know.

I've known that from the beginning, but I still reserve the right to grumble about how much it sucks.

[just because being bratty helps him feel better sometimes]

[parodeity]

Dude, I'm one thousand percent behind that.

[ like. A LOT. ]

I complained sometimes back in the game - sburb, it was a thing - when I had to like. Well. Do things that were...yeah.

[nowyouseeit]

[offers him a slightly lopsided smile]

Coping mechanisms, right?

[he pauses]

What's sburb? And what kinda. . . stuff. . . did you have to do?

[parodeity]

Sburb was...a video game, I guess, except not that. It's like. It was supposed to be a computer game, but we played it, and everything changed. The game took us inside? Like...it also created our universe, and the point was to create another new universe as ours ended or. Whatever.

[ he waves it away. ]

I was - am - the time player. So. I ran a bunch of stable timeloops and some unstable ones. We fought a lot of enemies. Killed some. Died a bunch. There were...always things that needed doin', I guess.

[ a pause. ]

I realize it mostly sounds insane, but yeah.

[nowyouseeit]

. . .

"Insane" sounds like an understatement.

[BUT YOU KNOW WHAT??]

I think I'm at the point of believing it despite how crazy it sounds, though.

[parodeity]

Yeah, my life is...very weird? I don't mind, like, answerin' questions, but. Sometimes it is better not to ask.

[nowyouseeit]

S'okay. I'm not one to pry.

[a wave of his hand]

If you wanna tell me something, you will. That's how it works.

[parodeity]

I mean, same here, dude.

[ dave is like willing to spill about his weird life it's just the #child abuse he won't get into. so. ]

I think it's pretty important to...stick together? I dunno. People are gonna splinter, because people do that.