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[ It is a broken smile

Ayabe looks like he wants to do anything but smile, stalling when he sees 45 like that. ]

Is... everything okay? With you, I mean.

[Because nothing's okay with anything else ]

I am. Fine?

Perfectly fine.

I simply love going to sleep in a room where something happened, specifically to watch for any difference upon waking, only to see nothing of use while other people walking in probably get all the details.

[ also, curfew effects maybe. :') combined with which sins it is, exactly, that she's been hit with this week, makes for a bit of. hm. ]

[ Hm.

Ayabe cringes at that, because he also made the note to spend the night somewhere he thought he'd be able to watch for things, and then Asch happened and he only got to see the aftermath anyways. ]

Where were you staying last night? I was in the hallway on the first floor with Luna and Asch, but had fallen asleep until ...well, you saw.

The gun room, of course. It's an obvious choice, since I know much of the inventory in there.

If anything's missing or disturbed I should be able to tell.

[ except this mansion sucks. ]

Uh. There are guns everywhere and a wall got smashed, 45, there's no way you missed that.

[ Maybe she got temporarily blind again ]

Oh, so you were one of the ones who looked. Maybe I was even still there when you checked.

[ she can see perfectly well, thanks, she hasn't lost an eye yet. ]

I can't see any of it. Like the invisible rats of last week, I suppose.

That doesn't make sense, if you were there first, you should've seen it. Why would I be able to when I got there almost an hour after?

[ Mansion taking pity and giving them hints. But he shakes his head and nods his head back towards the gun room so he can point things out to her and occasionally look over like "do you really not see this?" ]

[ No, Ayabe, she doesn't see any of it. She doesn't even trip over any of the guns that might be lying around, because there aren't any.

She is going to study the apparent smashed wall that Ayabe claims is there and she sees as

A solid wall. ]

Are there any openings or gaps, and if so, where are they? Point me to the worst of it.

[ Galo ordered him not to touch anything because Ayabe had wanted to clean up, so 45 gets to see him carefully tiptop around guns scattered over the floor that doesn't exist, gesturing at a portion of the wall that looks perfectly fine, and staring 45 in the face going ??? can she really not see. ]

It's a mess down here. Guns thrown everywhere, some cleaning supplies too- something must have come here and went through the laundry room.

[ He will physically point her to the smashed wall, OPEN YOUR EYES 45 ]

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So this wall is damaged, correct? Stand aside. I wish to test something.

[ she'll wait a brief moment but he better get out of the way because she's going to

shoulder check the damaged-intact wall

collide very solidly with and bounce off of it with a hiss, because the wall is a perfectly normal wall. hm! which means to him she probably bounces off of thin air or something. ]

... I wonder which is the truth?

[ He does stand back but evidently not enough because he still shouts out in alarm when 45 full on bodyslams the wall. ]

What- Are you okay?!

[ Mod note says a portion of the wall is crumbling but whether or not that means there's a hole there idk. If there wasn't one before, though, there would have been now, except. The wall doesn't fall and take the entire mansion down over their heads. ]

[ Please, even if she'd punched a hole in it the rest of the basement walls are still intact. Or are they. Hey, which wall is this anyway, point it out on the map. ]

I'm fine. ♪ I've taken plenty worse than a little bump like that.

That's not very comforting...

[ @ mods, please give me a spot on the map. The mess that happened in here leads towards the stairs up to the first floor, so presumably it's the wall with the door that Ayabe now steps through to stare out across the lake.

... ]

Across the lake. I thought the monster might have attacked Asch in here, but maybe he was running and it caught him while he was going for the stairs.

[ Maybe it's a testament to her good mood or the last thereof that she doesn't respond with a quip of any sort to the notion of comfort. ]

... how was he awake? He wasn't in here before the doors closed. Maybe victims and the monsters stay awake, but in that case...

[ He lived? If Nia hadn't died, would they just not have had a murder this week and ended up with a TPK? ]

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[ A timeline where Asch saved Nia and TPKed them all... ]

That's something to ask him. He was shouting for Nia- I don't think he wanted to kill her, but...

[ Who can tell. Would Nia have wanted Asch dead? Nobody should want anybody dead and that will always throw him off. ]

Pointless to ask. If he wanted her alive he would say he didn't want to kill her.

If he killed her and didn't know or couldn't say, he would say he didn't want to kill her.

If he killed her and didn't want to get caught, he would say he didn't want to kill her.

[ Losing an arm is a bit dramatic to go to for the sake of pretense, of course- but it remains that Asch isn't exactly going to go and say "yeah actually I wanted the airhead princess dead :/" in any circumstance.

45 is usually not this scathing, but. ]

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[ She's completely correct, though. No matter what, whether Asch did anything or not, he would claim that he didn't kill Nia- didn't want to- either way. ]

You're right. There's no point, but...

[ Okay, he hates this, but he still has to say it: ]

Right now, Asch is out of it due to the pain of having his arm treated. It would be hardest for him to lie in this state, and if you think there would be any merit whatsoever in asking him, now would be the best time. Right?

[ IT'S MEAN BUT it would make more sense to interrogate somebody though the fog of pain than it would when they're clear minded and able to lie. ]

Perhaps.

[ But if he's suggesting for her to come along or help, then: ]

But someone else should do it. I wouldn't handle delicate tasks very well in my current state.

[ Regardless of whatever it might be affecting her systems, 45 is above all else logical. ]

[ Me with my eyes closing, I hope somebody interrogates Asch because it's not Ayabe ]

Are you not feeling alright, 45?

[ She seems fine talking to him, though ]

Put simply, I want to break something.

It's really quite irrational.

[ sleep in a room full of weapons, wake up with a mindset to match, she supposes. ]

...Ah. Why don't we go outside for some fresh air?

[ If she's going to punch something, better be trees. Or maybe up to her bedroom with a pillow to scream at, if the ducks and horses out there are too much. ]

Unproductive, unless you know that other people have found things there.

[ that everyone else can't see. ]

... I know people have been talking about magic, or curses, or hauntings. Has anyone considered that this all might be a simulation instead?

[ He doesn't know yet, but he will later. Spiders in the garden he's not keen on seeing tbh ]

-—a simulation would make a lot more sense.

[ It's SCIENCE and not bullshit magic, he would believe a simulation over any of that ]

If something were wired up to our heads, we would be able to experience everything without it actually happening, and that would explain all the weirdness and all the discrepancies.

Some sort of shared virtual network, where it'd be easy to affect perceptions and statuses...

[ Ayabe believes in a scifi theory immediately and not magic I'm crying ]

Haha, but then the problem is getting ourselves to wake up.

[ REALITY IS SCIFI ADJACENT OKOK ]

How does it usually happen? Dying...?

[ Do you wake up when you die or do you die when you die ]

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