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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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[vecna]

[He's not so sure. Henry, too, is pretty... agitated, let's say, about being brought somewhere he didn't ask to be (again.) But that's neither here nor there, and he can talk about something as passingly important as codenames while poking around everyone else's responses.]

Five. Just like a star has five points.

[Clearly, there's a theme here.]

So why that number?

[coolerjunpei]

maybe it's my lucky number.

[It's objectively not, but he doesn't need to get his whole backstory out here in public at once.]

it's not a big deal or anything. now you go, what's your code name?

[vecna]

[People don't go by numbers because they're lucky, insofar as Henry's own experiences inform him.

But the conversation moves on, and he's just left wondering for now.]

Mine? Well, can I pick a lucky number, too? Or just "H".

[coolerjunpei]

depends on the number. h is fine, unless it's somebody's middle initials like j turned out to be. real code name killer.

[vecna]

Depends on the number? Are you vetoing certain ones?

[coolerjunpei]

that's exactly what i'm doing.

0-9 are all off limits, especially 0. i'm superstitious that way.

[vecna]

But weren't you just about to claim 5?

Either way, that takes mine out of the running.

[coolerjunpei]

well yeah, i get 5. the veto is for the rest of you.

why, which were you going to pick?

[vecna]

And how is that fair?

I was thinking 1.

[He wouldn't really.]

[coolerjunpei]

it was my idea to have code names.

1's not great. unless you want to duke it out with the fixer girl who claimed every #1 ever.

[vecna]

Sure, a battle to the death. Why not, if that's what we're all here for anyway, right?

What do you have against 1?

[coolerjunpei]

want me to take bets?

[he's so subtly skipping the number question, huh...]

[vecna]

As long as seeing who wins more of the bets isn't very embarrassing for me.

[He sure is. What if Henry just unsubtly pushes it back into the conversation.]

But like I said, what's wrong with 1? Everyone wants to be #1.

[coolerjunpei]

it could be. she's got... coworkers? or something? they're definitely gonna take her side.

i'm fine with 5. maybe i'm built different.

[vecna]

So others from her world. Lucky her.

If you say so.

[Obviously, the number talk is going to get sidestepped, so he can always pry later.]

[coolerjunpei]

[what if he didn't!!!]

so none for you either? i was starting to think it was just me.

[vecna]

[ :) No one is safe.]

No, there's no one here that I recognize from home.

[This is, in fact, what he thinks. He has no reason to believe otherwise, though to be fair, his social life has been very limited in the last couple of decades.]

So much for emotional support or commiseration.

[coolerjunpei]

yeah, me neither. i guess you'll have to make friends with people here for your emotional support.

[vecna]

Good thing it looks like everyone is more than willing to be sociable.

[coolerjunpei]

you serious? do you like... not spend a lot of time around people? we're all being shitty to each other on the internet, not hanging out.

[leaving aside that several people have already openly suggested in-person Activities to him, details.]

[vecna]

I've never been on the "Internet" before, no. But apart from a few arguments, I don't see anything too inflammatory just yet.

[coolerjunpei]

what are you, old? or from the 70s or something? uh, i'm not judging.

[vecna]

[wow "old"]

If I said I was?

[coolerjunpei]

dunno, i can teach you how to use a microwave? it's no big deal, but you don't want to be shit out of luck because you don't know how bluetooth works.

[junpei didn't know how wireless connections worked until a year ago but Never Mind]

[vecna]

[Aha, wait. Hold up, as the kids say.]

You don't think there were microwaves in the 70s?

I'm not that inept, you know.