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]

[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.

[soloremix]

I'm starting to doubt you even have feelings.

[vipmix]

Hmm... that sure would make things easier for you, wouldn't it?

[a normal person says ":/ rude", joshua]

[soloremix]

I wouldn't have to deal with that stupid laugh of yours anymore.

[vipmix]

[.... giggles <3]

Unfortunately for both of us I do have feelings... Or, well, at least two.

[kill him?]

[soloremix]

Congrats. You want a trophy?

[vipmix]

Hmmmm~ If you're offering to make one, I might.

[soloremix]

[he's so done]

Sure, let me just hallucinate a trophy for you. Oh wait, you can't see them. That sucks.

[vipmix]

Hee hee... Too bad. You'll just have to make it up to me later.

[you know what neku it's time for you to suffer and he's sitting on the bed now!!! i mean. he's like. perched on the very edge at a respectable distance. tfw you can't commit to gay jokes because touching another human being might kill joshua. like the fire that does kill joshua after this convo. i got lost in this bracket text. anyway WHATEVER JOSHUA IS OMINOUS I DONT KNOW]

[soloremix]

[zia, respectfully, what the fuck]

...Do you really think this'll convince people to not suspect us?

[vipmix]

[that was my stream of consciousness tag. joshua looks to the side, frowning in thought.]

I can think of a few people who might still be wary, but they would be regardless of anything we did. Everyone else seems oddly intent on believing people at their word in a game like this. [which is just odd. people can lie??? joshua first and foremost???] It's a very... emotionally-driven group.

[read: stupid]

[soloremix]

I hardly trust your ass half the time, but here we are.

[vipmix]

[HEE HEEing intensifies]

So suspicious, Neku... [though he leans back and looks at the ceiling] Hmm, not that I can say I don't understand the sentiment.

[or share it is implied, but only implied because he trusts neku to ... be himself... which is all josh needs]