catchall rupert

[skyagain]

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[skyagain]

... Yeah. Circumstances from that side are pretty different. [ cloud wanna out yourself as being an npc? no? ok ] The way she tells it, it was more like one round that got extended into a second a few months down the line too. So it wasn't a continuous thing.

In the Realm, we went through the scenario over and over until we got the right ending. We didn't know we'd been resetting until nearer to the end of it, though.

[agleam]

...It sounds pretty awful.

[and speaking of things that sound awful!!]

Wait - how many times? And what do you mean by resetting?

[skyagain]

Like... starting over. I told you it was a simulation. We chose to keep going until everyone could make it out alive. But every time we started over, it shuffled some things, and no one could remember what happened in the previous round. Not in details.

We left ourselves some notes so we could figure it out eventually, but we have no clue how long it took us.

[ A MYSTERY ]

[agleam]

...I'm really sorry to hear that. Going through that over and over, even if you don't remember it, I mean.

[his face makes it clear he thinks that's Pretty Bad! after a second, though:]

Are you glad you don't remember the rest?

[skyagain]

From the little of them I do know... Yeah. It's probably for the best we forgot.

[ there was so much murder. ]

And it's not like anyone else remembers them either. I'm not missing out on anything.

[agleam]

It must be hard anyways...

[even just knowing they went through the same thing so many times.]

Sorry. I didn't mean to bring up something painful.

[skyagain]

I brought it up first. Don't apologize.

[ he looks around the hallway ]

Worst part of it is that it ended up with me in this hotel, anyway. Figure it's a similar deal for you.

[ you think you are free and THEN ]

[agleam]

...Yeah.

[he frowns.]

I'm not going to pretend to know why that was their criteria for the offer we all got, but I'm guessing we'll find out at some point.

[skyagain]

Could be they think it'll be more entertaining if we've done it all before. It sounds to me like they might've seen what happened to us the first time around. Or... the second, in some cases.

[ third timers rip ]

[agleam]

Yeah... If they think it's entertaining to see us deal with that kind of thing, you might have a point.

[gesturing towards the olive garden snake room they both just suffered in]

[skyagain]

[ he looks back at the snake door ]

... Seriously, why noodles?

[ do snakes eat noodles. ]

[agleam]

Apparently they gave it pasta for its birthday so it wouldn't kill them all?

[but, that being said,]

If we're going to move on to the logic behind the snake wanting and subsequently being appeased by pasta, though, I'm immediately coming up empty.

[skyagain]

... It seems like kind of a lousy birthday present to me.

[ and he hasn't had a birthday celebration in like 7 years ]

Maybe that's why it was so mad.

[agleam]

Ohhhh, like - it wanted us to eat it so it didn't have to? Maybe.

[skyagain]

Who knows. Maybe finishing all the pasta frees it to go terrorize other places.

[ maybe it's a gag, cloud. maybe it's just an all you can eat pasta gag. ]

[agleam]

Then I guess we made the right choice...?

[no this is clearly a much deeper snake conspiracy]

[skyagain]

It might've bitten us, but we did get out. Sounds like not the worst one, at least.

[ it is absolutely a snake conspiracy theory ]

We might want to tell the others to watch out for it. [ looks... around the hallway. and. frowns. ] ... Do you remember which door it was?

[agleam]

Uh...

[there are so many doors, please hold.]

[skyagain]

...

Did we even come out the same door we came in...?

[ HELP ]

[agleam]

I was, uh... Not paying the best attention when I got sent back out, gonna be honest.

[due to the snake conspiracy (snonspiracy)]

[skyagain]

...

Even if you did, I can't remember which one we came in from.

[ this hallway. is the same. the entire time. ]

They're not exactly labelled.

[agleam]

And it seems like a kiiiinda bad idea to open one to check if it's the same.

[skyagain]

Yeah. Pretty sure we'd get a new messed up experience.

[ so here they are. two idiots with bite marks in a hallway. ]

[agleam]

[math lady meme]

...Maybe we could still leave a note, but just say that we don't know exactly which door it was so maybe nobody should open any of these doors because bad things might happen?

[skyagain]

If the Realm was any indication, if we leave a note, everyone's a lot more likely to open doors then.