[ 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.
[ @ 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.
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.
[ 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. ]
...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. ]
[ 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.
I would recommend against trying that. The shock might wake up you, but there is also a very high chance that you will simply fry your mind, or whatever processors and cores currently substituting for it.
[ If you die in the network you die in real life. ]
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Date: 2020-02-29 03:37 am (UTC)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. ]
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Date: 2020-02-29 03:48 am (UTC)I'm fine. ♪ I've taken plenty worse than a little bump like that.
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Date: 2020-02-29 04:06 am (UTC)[ @ 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.
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Date: 2020-02-29 04:26 am (UTC)... 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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Date: 2020-02-29 04:30 am (UTC)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. ]
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Date: 2020-02-29 06:27 am (UTC)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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Date: 2020-02-29 06:36 am (UTC)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. ]
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Date: 2020-02-29 07:03 am (UTC)[ 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. ]
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Date: 2020-02-29 07:06 am (UTC)Are you not feeling alright, 45?
[ She seems fine talking to him, though ]
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Date: 2020-02-29 07:37 am (UTC)It's really quite irrational.
[ sleep in a room full of weapons, wake up with a mindset to match, she supposes. ]
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Date: 2020-02-29 07:44 am (UTC)[ 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. ]
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Date: 2020-02-29 08:14 am (UTC)[ 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?
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Date: 2020-02-29 03:52 pm (UTC)-—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.
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Date: 2020-02-29 04:24 pm (UTC)[ Ayabe believes in a scifi theory immediately and not magic I'm crying ]
Haha, but then the problem is getting ourselves to wake up.
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Date: 2020-02-29 04:56 pm (UTC)How does it usually happen? Dying...?
[ Do you wake up when you die or do you die when you die ]
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Date: 2020-02-29 05:07 pm (UTC)[ If you die in the network you die in real life. ]