changing and replacing this mask, show time;

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I figured it'd control itself after a point. There's enough more grounded people around to keep others from getting too panicked.

[ 'the risk i took was calculated,' ]

... And if putting it out there might make people doubt everything they hear from the Directors a little more than they would have otherwise, all the better. Not that they might themselves be untrustworthy, but...

[ sorry akira she knows you like them, and they are generally nice, but also, ]

[survivaltricks]

[he just]

[gives her a look, but. he's not saying what he's thinking; there's no point now, and he likes and trusts 45 well enough]

All that aside. . . [he says as he goes for the coffee maker] Did you get any other information from them?

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[ stop what is it going to take to make people other than lili dislike her

but she shrugs, vaguely, in the middle of whisking something over at another countertop. ]

Asked about the mysterious visitor some of you have been mentioning. Didn't get much.

Sorry to disappoint.

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[IT'S TOO LATE JUST 'CAUSE HE DOESN'T AGREE WITH WHAT SHE DID DOESN'T MEAN HE CAN'T LIKE HER??]

[a huff, but it's slightly amused]

No, that sounds about right. That's exactly what I got from them when trying to ask about our jade-masked friend, too.

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[ listen it worked out for her needs, people like magnus, lili, and belph do all the work for her. doubt! think! figure things out yourself and don't trust everything the npcs say especially when they know the npcs can't speak freely!

also break this fucking game, on a large scale basis, and please rein in your local self-destructives. ]

Interesting, right? Though apparently they might or might not appear again for a little while.

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[45 PLEASE]

Mmm. Lili asked if they appeared every Thursday, but apparently they don't. So. . . we have no idea when they're going to show up next.

[and in the interim people are??? definitely going to die??? yikes]

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[ please, what, ]

Huh. I didn't run into them, so...

What do we know about them? Other than that there seems to be no way to contact them like with the Directors, either.

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I spoke with them myself, but I wasn't able to get much out of them.

I know they don't speak-- they had to write their responses to me in the dirt-- and they don't have an official name.

[though apparently they are Jadericho now]

When I asked if they had been to a game like ours beforehand, or even where they were before arriving in the camp, they just. . . stared at me.

No response.

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[ mysterious masky jadericho... ]

... Hm.

But they were fairly forthcoming before that?

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As much as they could be.

I didn't get to talk to them for long.

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Hm.

[ beat. ]

Well, maybe we'll just have to hope they'll be more cooperative next time, if there is one.

[ maybe we all just one day scare masky away forever. ]

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[holds up a hand, his fingers crossed. because that's really all they can do at this point]

. . . I feel like this is going to be the worst part of our stay here.

[the. the waiting. the waiting for things that are out of their control to happen]

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Not being able to do anything and being told to 'wait, we'll sort things out?'

And now we're back to waiting again for things to unfold.

[ and lbr, people are going to die in the meanwhile for no good reason. ]

... I wonder if there's a way to get a message to them somehow, even if they can't appear.

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[hm]

You know, when I asked Heart about Jack, he talked about passing them messages while we were here in camp.

Jade Mask might be similar, right?

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... maybe. It couldn't hurt to try, I suppose?

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It never hurts to try, no matter how unlikely it is we'll get a favorable result.

[GUESS THAT'S NEXT ON HIS LIST OF THINGS TO ASK WHEN HE TALKS TO HEART]