week 2, thursday

[vipmix]

[it's thursday evening. emotions are running high as everyone hallucinates on and off and a murder is about to happen. and here joshua is, in neku's hut, looking at it critically. how did neku get to this point.

also nanashi is there somewhere idk you can have a private convo w/ someone in the room shut up]

It's amazing how empty these look without the piano.

["joshua stop being on that" NEVER]

Comments

[vipmix]

Ooh. What kind?

[he will absolutely judge neku when he hears its not shio even tho IT'S ON NEKU'S PROFILE]

1/2

[soloremix]

[excuse u he loves shoyu!! aka i tried to figure out neku's favorite using the chart on the twewy wiki and he has several ramen types that give him max food bonuses so i just picked the one that wasn't mystic ramen bc what even the fuck is it]

Shoyu. Pretty sure it's from Ramen Don.

(Man, I would kill for a real bowl at this point...)

[soloremix]

(...

Actually, I take back that thought.)

[vipmix]

Hmm. Lacking in imagination, but I suppose you can't control your hallucinations.

[can he ever not judge.]

Which brings me back to your original question-- it seems like everyone has been seeing things today. ... Except for me.

[soloremix]

[asshole]

Oh, lucky you. Brag about it.

[vipmix]

While I am eternally grateful to not be making a fool of myself in public like the rest of you [peasants], I'd like to know what it is that makes me "immune", if I even am. It might be a matter of time, in which case I'd rather not be asleep when it hits. If it isn't... well, like I said. I've got a few theories.

[soloremix]

[neku begins to move the bowl off the bed, knowing full well it doesn't actually exist but it's still too realistic to just ignore it... and then it suddenly disappears from his hands. he blinks a couple of times, then just shrugs and kicks back.]

Well, go for it. Not like we're gonna get anything else done tonight.

(And I want to save the rest of my batteries for when someone ACTUALLY completely unbearable starts trying to talk to me.)

[vipmix]

[... okay, he didn't actually expect that. also great now he's standing there awkwardly with his hands in his pocket looking a bit taken aback. hmm. are any of his theories workable with his neku narrative????]

... If you insist. It all depends on how the hallucinations are caused, of course. For example, if we've got our lovely Chiefs to thank, it might simply be that I wouldn't have an amusing enough reaction to seeing things to make it worth it. From what I experienced with Fie, it seemed like it was limited to personal things. Fears, dreams-- nothing was taken that didn't have a basis in her. [a pause] Not that I don't have those.

[is he going to have to admit he could see the dead before the game. hm. he didn't really want to... it doesn't quite fit his neku narrative.]

hey guess who 1/2

[soloremix]

[what, did he just expect to spend the night sitting here in awkward silence? they may as well use this time to shoot the shit. neku sighs when joshua starts getting introspective, though, and just gives him a tired glare.]

Look, I asked for your "theories," not your life story. (Spare me the details, please. I. Don't. Care.)

[he's getting out of that one easy, at least]

[soloremix]

[that aside, though, neku settles into a more...disgruntled state.]

...Mine not being completely awful must have something to do with my entry fee. You can't really use fear and dreams against an amnesiac.

[vipmix]

[thank god neku doesn't care about people enough to be curious. hahaha. josh is relieved enough to not address it]

My, my. Aren't you lucky? [what neku told him earlier :) ha ha] To summarize, the first theory I've got is that I'm simply not an entertaining enough target to bother. A bit flimsy, but considering the kind of character the Chiefs have, not completely out of the question. [hums] The second one assumes I'm simply immune to it because the Chiefs aren't causing it, and it's something on the island itself that is. I... don't think that's likely.

[then why bother saying it?? also, important, he's started pacing as he talks because LOOK]

[soloremix]

[fuck u neku's in bed and he's not getting up]

What, are you saying there's something like a higher power at work here? Give me a break with the crappy clichés.

[vipmix]

[he pauses his pacing to look critically at neku for a second. that's not what he was getting at, but...]

How much do you actually know about how the Game works?

[soloremix]

We're dead, we get paired up with other dead people, we do missions, we try to survive the week and hope that we're the ones who get to come back to life. Did I leave anything out?

[vipmix]

Hmmm. You're not wrong, but that's not what I was asking. What do you know about who runs it?

[soloremix]

...What, the Composer? All Mr. Hanekoma told us was that the Composer runs the UG. He said couldn't give us any more details.

[vipmix]

Right. The UG belongs to the Composer. As for what that means for Shibuya... you've seen firsthand how much influence just a player can have on the RG. I'm sure you can guess how much power that gives the one running it all. [shrugs] Is the idea of a "higher being" really that far-fetched, after that?

[soloremix]

...Point taken. What a crappy place to run, then, for whoever this place's "Composer" is.

[vipmix]

Isn't it just? [he's not so sure it's a composer involved, but he's not going to go into the details of the rules and regulations of a job neku doesn't know he has.] A higher being wasn't what I was talking about, though. I meant something in the atmosphere, or a plant, or some such common nonsense. That's why I said it was unlikely.

[..then why lecture neku...]

[soloremix]

...

Then what was the point of that Composer pop quiz?

[callin ur shit out]

[vipmix]

I'd be a terrible associate if I just let you be so glaringly wrong about things, wouldn't I?

[<3]

[soloremix]

[oh my god]

Shut the hell up.

[vipmix]

Hee hee... But Neku, you're the one who asked me to talk. Changing your mind so soon?

[:3]

[soloremix]

[all josh is getting is this and a lot of groaning]

[vipmix]

[ah neku. such a drama queen, thinks joshua, with 0 amount of irony,]

It's a good thing I'm not taking that personally, otherwise you could really hurt my feelings.