🏨 cloud

[highestheim]

shitpost later :boo:

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[skyagain]

[ cloud is looking out into the distance of this nebulous location, shrugging one shoulder ]

Haven't been kind to anyone. I wouldn't say I won worst luck this week.

[highestheim]

Maybe so, but it seems like these have been...a little more personal for you.

[ the redacteds... ]

You, Clementine, and Bucky are all from the same game, right?

[skyagain]

... Yeah. Bad luck, I guess.

[ three out of four redacteds agree dying fucking sucks ]

[highestheim]

...Were you close to him?

[skyagain]

[ there's a kind of sigh, because the actual answer is an "iunno" noise, and that seems a little rude to say ]

Wouldn't say close, but... He was on my team, back then. And the same thing happened to him. Couple weeks later than this, though.

[highestheim]

The same thing... he was also scapegoated then?

[ oof ]

[skyagain]

... Yeah. I was hoping he'd stay out of trouble this time.

[highestheim]

...It wasn't exactly his fault, though. I don't see how people assuming he would wear a leather jacket counts as him getting into trouble.

[skyagain]

[ hope please do not be pedantic when he is saying that he was hoping the dude would not get scapegoated again ]

I don't see how we got to that conclusion in the first place.

[highestheim]

[ sadly he is like this ]

Neither do I, to be honest. [ ... ] It hardly means anything after the point, but I didn't think it was him.

[skyagain]

It doesn't change anything, no. [ blunt. but, alright, he'll bite; ] Who did you think it was?

[highestheim]

...I still don't know, and as long as the shadows remain active, I don't think there will be a way to ever be sure.

But...both Kim Dokja and Rin, in my opinion, seemed more likely than him in the end.

[skyagain]

... Yeah. I thought so back then too. [ he shakes his head ] But there's no way to figure it out for sure, and unless they'll be made to attack again, I guess there's no point in trying to learn.

[highestheim]

...I spoke with Gemini last night, and they told me they're not sure what the situation is looking like now. In their words, it's the first time this sort of thing has happened since our arrival here.

[skyagain]

Even if they knew, I doubt they could say for sure. No entertainment value in that. [ he shrugs ] I don't think there's a lot of actual answers those guys are allowed to share.

[highestheim]

...mm. Regardless, we should proceed with caution.

[ beat ]

I hate the feeling of walking on eggshells around people I'd like to consider friends, but I suppose we do that every week anyway.

[skyagain]

I don't know about eggshells. More like talking to someone you know is being watched. Might help if you consider it as them being undercover. [ he looks away pensively ] At this point, I'm sure they've got their own contracts.

[highestheim]

Who, the shadows? Or the staff?

[skyagain]

The staff. Pretty sure the shadows are just part of that guy, somehow.

[highestheim]

. . . What guy?

[ hewwo??? ]

[skyagain]

You know. The host. Nightman. [ waves an arm. ]

[highestheim]

No, Cloud, I don't know.

[ HEWWO?????? ]

[skyagain]

...

Did you not get a copy of your contract?

[highestheim]

I did, but I don't recall it saying anything about a... "Nightman."

[ are you pulling an always sunny joke on me ]

[skyagain]

... It's literally on the first line?