don't go playing the fool, you are what you do;

[recrypt]

either i'll make a shitpost or travs will give me one

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w0, tuesday, post scrunchies

[muragas]

[ after the great Scrunchie-gate, Minako bounds up to wherever 45 is ]

You're an android!

[ the icon is a very accurate representation of her ]

[recrypt]

It's a bit of an open secret, yes...

[ for example: how the fuck did majima know, who told him. ]

[muragas]

[ wow who's telling secrets and why aren't they telling Minako :( ]

That's incredible! I couldn't even tell! What year are you from? I want to know how long it'll take before Aigis can totally blend in!

[recrypt]

[ it's akira for at least some people, go bother your protag kouhai smh ]

I was booted up in 2061, but I'm second generation of a specific build? Generally we started becoming more common in the 2030s due to an increased need for automation.

[muragas]

[ she already has! about important things!!! why bother him about android stuff when he's not an android tho ]

... Wow, that's only twenty years away.

[ gosh, she can't imagine it ]

"Increased need"? Did something happen?

[recrypt]

Llllet's just say a really big, worldwide natural disaster that kind of affected some industries a lot.

[ sure are a lot of people from the early 21st century, it seems. ]

[muragas]

Talk about ominous. No chance of you giving me a hint that I could maybe pass on?

[ she's got to try ]

[recrypt]

Are you sure? It's not exactly reassuring news, and probably not something you can really do much about...

[ so like, sitting on the info would just suck ]

[muragas]

That's why I'd pass it on! Mitsuru-senpai might be able to figure something out.

[ ... ]

Though I'll admit, I'm not sure how I'd get a message to her...

[recrypt]

[ ... ]

Containment failure of a highly radioactive substance off the coast of China. Got into the atmosphere and spread via tradewinds across much of the globe. Compounded by other unique properties the substance had for potentially destabilizing large structures.

Or, at least, that's the thing that jumpstarted everything. Another world war after certainly didn't help.

[muragas]

... That definitely sounds like something Mitsuru-senpai could do something about...

[ though she's not, entirely sure, how? how do businesses work. maybe she'll sick Kirijo Corporation's private OSHA department on it or something ]

Thank you for sharing that. You're very kind, aren't you?

[recrypt]

Don't forget to get past any government cover ups. I don't think people knew the shut down Beilan Island site existed until it happened...

[ what. ]

Kind?

[muragas]

Mm, kind!

[ she folds her hands behind her, smiling ]

45-san, what will happen to you if the past changes?

[recrypt]

Is it my past you'll be changing? Maybe it's a world that won't have anything to do with us at all. A new branch entirely.

[ fork off of an existing repo. ]

But, hehe. ♪ You must be mistaken.

w1, saturday, post trial

[muragas]

[ hello roomba, Minako is pacing up and down a stretch of the dock. her sandals make slap against the wood. ]

[muragas]

Oh? Is that so.

[ heehee, she doubts it ]

Of course, of course, what was I thinking.

[recrypt]

[ oh, slap slap slappy. what a mood. ]

... Trying to see what you could have missed?

[muragas]

[ wow i don't even remember what i deliriously threw at you ngl

uh, anyways ]

Something like that, sure.

[ ... ]

You know, on the island we never didn't find a murderer. But...

[recrypt]

Not dealing well with getting it wrong this time?

[ ... ]

In the mansion, we only got it wrong once. You'd think that since we've all been through this before, it'd get easier. But I suppose... this sort of setup does impose a fair amount of difficulties onto the situation.

[muragas]

... We may not have been wrong on the island. But the people we found... they were less culpable than the ones we didn't find.

[ which isn't a great feeling ]

What do you think is the hardest part of this? Do you think we'll slip up again?

[recrypt]

The fact that we all know others present, and will have inherent biases based on that regardless of how fair we try to be.

As for slipping up again ... I don't know. I don't have enough data to extrapolate. Possibly, if we do not adjust.

[muragas]

... You think we might unconsciously overlook suspects because we're familiar with them?

[ or perhaps... not unconsciously... ]

[recrypt]

Perhaps. Or we are also too quick to judge simply by character, when we do not necessarily know yet the motive for any actions taken.

[muragas]

Ah... Like that, huh?

[recrypt]

[ she hums a bit, thoughtful. ]

Ah, but I do have to wonder if all of us were actually trying to get the right person? Disregarding the fact that a very vocal number of our own have declared that they don't buy into the setup of the game ... well, their loudness probably makes it easier for others to go unnoticed.