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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]

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[halbird]

[ sinclair also kind of laughs at his phone alone. not coolly. awkwardly. nervously. because god did don quixote threaten user name junpei? is that figurative? she'd do it literally. does he know she'd do it literally? it's only been one day what the hel-

(this is business as usual) ]

It's okay. I understood.
👍

[ an emoji towards junpei's friendship discovery as sinclair desperately tries to function here ]

If we say we'll repay them for it later, she should accept that.
That's how I've been looking at it.

[ his morals are a little more ehehehe wiggles hand in some ways and not in others but it's fine,

more importantly— ]

If it's okay to ask...
What did she tell you? Since you know about the Manager already.

[coolerjunpei]

i'll uh... give lying a try, i guess? i mean, not that i care about leaving a dollar on the counter or whatever in this place that kidnapped us. but that's still circuitous.

[best plan: they just don't tell don where they get things and save all those extra steps.]

and is that fishing for a specific thing? you're talking about the id stuff, aren't you? i would be. it's not like she was just throwing creepy bus secrets around [well kind of

also he knows about the bus

but anyway] but because a few of us back home can do something similar. we call it shifting.

[it's fair to just give up the shifty details, he thinks... just rip off the time travel bandaid since don already knows, anyway.]

she was really excited about that...

[halbird]

[ well. there's no way don wouldn't know where this stuff was from (there is a way) and he actually does plan to repay Them later if needed (it probably won't be needed), so it's not exactly a lie.

but who really cares about that when junpei just

drops that mixtape

and he realizes don quixote also just

dropped so many mixtapes ]

Re

[ he hit enter too soon ]

Sorry
Really? You can do something like that?
The name is a little vague, but shifting is... one way to put it, actually...

[ the coolness of it is subjective ]

[coolerjunpei]

the name is stupid, you can say it. i didn't come up with it. and it's more like... a swap. from one person's point of view it's a 1-directional move from history to history. but there's another version that goes in the other direction.

uh, she mentioned some kind of mindmeld memory musher... thing. the streams don't cross in ours.

either way, i don't think it's working anymore.

[concerning!!! there's something wrong with this city for sure!!! but please enjoy his hottest album of the year.]

[halbird]

[ yeah junpei called it stupid, not him. he would never. ]

Shift is okay. It's easy to remember, and it's less complicated than the other names we're used to...
I like it.

[ better than Extermination of Geometrical Organ or Threadspinning or Qliphoth Deterrence or— god he hopes don isn't the one who used "mindmeld memory musher" but that doesn't sound like her at all, so it's probably username junpei who's responsible for that

anyway. he's trying to understand this ]

Yours is really different, though.
Can someone or something really just... make that stop working...?

[ what'd they do to you junpei ]

[coolerjunpei]

fair enough, i guess. i'd hate to have to run around calling it "quantum headache generator" or something. "time screwy slip n slide". it definitely could be worse.

[so yeah it was absolutely username junpei who came up with the memory musher]

and yeah, i bet they could. there aren't that many prereqs and this place is meeting them just fine. but i doubt anyone who can block this kind of thing is going to come out and tell me how they did it...

still, would it even matter if i could do it now? it's a swap, like i told you. you'd just get another one of me, only that me'd have to start over from "yeah, i think junpei is a good username."