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[coolerjunpei]

[Now, Junpei is fairly certain they're all here for some kind of fucked up death game, because why wouldn't the third time be the charm!!— but until some mysterious costumed weirdo starts getting on all the screens and making announcements, there's not that much to go on. He can skulk around town glowering suspiciously at things for long so long.

Sooooo.]

if anybody wants my vote, it's t minus however the hell long before we all start killing each other. would love to be wrong, but if i live long enough to say i told you so, yknow. yippee.

so.

why do *you* think we're here? wrong answers only. top 3 by popular vote get a prize.

[Does he have a prize to hand out... No, no he does not. He will find some cheap garbage in one of the shops and write a 1ST/2ND/3RD PLACE on it, no problem. Eventually. Maybe even a sticker.]

and what do you guys think about picking code names? you know, just in case.

[big talk from username junpei]

Comments

[icanfixer]

[ small blessings, junpei... ]

Thou hath such an amazing bond with the others who share thy fate... It truly is similar to my and mine own -- perhaps we resonate with one another too, and that is how we come to work with one another no matter the circumstance!!!!!

[ that's so!!! cool!!!!!!! she loves it!!! sorry, but she genuinely thinks your shit is cool!!!!!! ]

Let us patrol the station frequently just in case! That way, they will know what history to SHIFT to -- and they do not end up in one just beside thine, where they are the only one instead!

[coolerjunpei]

Wait, what? You'd come with me to look?

[he's earnestly touched by this suggestion? time travel death loops really do bring everyone together, huh...

but he really does need a moment, sitting back and dragging a hand over his face. maybe the entire city isn't shitty after all-!!

okay!!!!]

Yeah. Uh, thanks. We can look for the rest of yours down there, too. Might as well stick together, you know, as fellow SHIFTers.

[icanfixer]

[ does this look like the face of a woman who doesn't mean it??? didn't think so. welcome to the crew junpei ]

Right! We shall employ the buddy system! Do thee think there are creatures beneath the city?

[coolerjunpei]

[warm fuzzy feeling immediately dashed on the rocks when he has to think about Creatures, god, does she want creatures??]

I... hope... there aren't? I'm just a guy, I don't fight creatures or anything.

[that said,] But this is a pretty big city, so there's got to be a way down under it somewhere.

[icanfixer]

[ she does!!!!!! she wants creatures!!!!!!! you don't understand she's getting cabin fever from no fights!!!!!! ]

Perhaps there is a cover which we can open? Also, thou needn't worry about battle -- I shall soundly take care of anything we may meet beneath our very feet! Armed or not!

[coolerjunpei]

[gurl please discover arcade games or something!!!!]

You mean sewers? That's not as cool as secret underground labyrinths... [sigh. he had one hope for this creature idea and it was cool tunnels without shit in them.] I haven't seen any normal animals up here— you really think there's going to be something underground?

[icanfixer]

Where else would they be?

[ terrifying sentences from the most innocent little lady. ]

[coolerjunpei]

[are there creatures in the walls, now he has to think about it, COOL]

Once again: hopefully, nowhere! Nowhere at all! Not a single creature, unless it's a tiger or something, at the zoo.

[icanfixer]

[ if there is call the exterminator (don) ]

The zoo?! Hath thy been to one?! What is it like?!

[coolerjunpei]

The— yeah? Uh, a bunch of times when I was a kid... It's okay, if you like watching animals just sit there.

[he almost asks if there's just no zoo where she's from, but oh yeah, the bus eats people, so a zoo would be too normal for that. he's learning.]

[icanfixer]

[ there probably is in one of the northern nests but there's no guarantee the animals are normal ]

The animals I hath encountered are more the of the attacking sort, but there are some of whom I've pet. What is thy favorite?

[coolerjunpei]

[horrible to think about]

Uh, I don't think I ever picked a favorite animal outside of grade school crap... [rabbits, no,] Let's go with dogs, that's nice and basic. No surprises with dogs.

Did you try petting the attacking animals?

[icanfixer]

[ looking forward to the event where they stick backstreeters into cages for the amusement of nest-dwellers ]

Naturalmente! Once they hath been knocked out, they are quite easy to pet -- but even before then, I cannot help myself! They are so cute...! I have endeavored to bring them onto the bus more than once, but have so far been denied by mine allies!

[ unfortunately... no lightning wolf on the bus. the umbrella fox was a huge maybe until it bit her for petting the wrong way. ]

[coolerjunpei]

[gurl please get a puppy or something... or don't if it has to live on that bus.]

Not enough space for a hungry monster on your hungry bus? Too bad. Tell you what, if I find a pet store... or a cute enough stuffed animal... you'll be the first to know.

[icanfixer]

Really?! Thou wouldst do that for me?!

[ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

like she's really AAAAAing here, don quixote is 75% justice and 25% noises and this is a happy clap-squealish sort of time!!!! ]

Much thanks, mine esquire!!!!! I shall owe thee a debt of gratitude if thine eyes ever do spot one of the two, though I am grateful for the thought itself as well!!!! Thou art a kind person, Junpei!!!!

[coolerjunpei]

[--wow, she sure is just Doing a Sound, huh. junpei is so legitimately unused to enthusiastic gratitude that he can only vaguely go "uh, heh" and glance... to the side... suddenly he has to rearrange his bangs, definitely not so she doesn't see him make a dumb little face.

for a stuffed animal, even, wow. "probably haunted teddy bear" goes on his mental list of things he will inevitably put in the effort to get, after coffee.]

Yeah, yeah. It's really nothing. Just think of it as a "thanks for the job" present.

[the job with quantum-state realness...]