come into the world, what's reverberating is an exquisite concerto of raison d'etre;

[recrypt]

what the hell is a comics shitpost i'm cry

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[vigilantics]

Well... at least it turned out okay.

[ minako getting sick not included, but it's better than her freezing to death ]

[recrypt]

Apologies that I can't exactly overheat on demand when we're knocked out by means unknown overnight.

[ she's rated for performance in this weather, she's done search and rescue in blizzard conditions, come on. ]

Anyway, the path back from the lake has a couple extra snowmen friends as decoration now.

[vigilantics]

I thank you for your snowmen duty.

[recrypt]

Danke, danke.

There's also three 3s painted onto the bottom corners of the directors' doors in blue.

[ continues collecting warm drinks. ]

[vigilantics]

Just... why.

[recrypt]

You're asking the wrong doll for answers.

[ she knows nothing. ]

Speaking of, care to explain what that was yesterday?

[vigilantics]

We broke into a cabin, it was terrible for everyone, but now we can play video games so you're welcome.

[recrypt]

... Nothing important otherwise?

[ glad they're all having a great time on these breakins. ]

[vigilantics]

[ she shakes her head. ]

We didn't learn anything new from it.

[recrypt]

Seems more common than not... I take it you all had a wonderful time bonding, then.

[vigilantics]

[ in the most tired voice ]

We definitely know each other a lot better now.

[recrypt]

Hmm, at least you have that much going for you. Care to offer any details on what the fun theme was this time?

[ did they larp five nights at Freddie's. ]

[vigilantics]

We had to solve a murder.

[ SHE SOUNDS SO FUCKING TIRED ]

[recrypt]

... The way the group that broke into the arts and crafts cabin had to, or...

[ what the hell is this, murderception ]

[vigilantics]

I’m not sure how theirs went. But basically there were hallucinations of people we knew from our old games there, and one of them got murdered. We had to figure out who did it by questioning all of the witnesses.

[recrypt]

Oh, so you weren't just speedrunning a warped amalgamate of your previous games, then.

[ or did they. ]

That sounds ... almost tame, for this place?

[vigilantics]

Yup. It was pretty lowkey.

[ haha ]

We didn’t solve that murder either, so it was pretty accurate to our experience here.

[recrypt]

And here I thought unlocking these places required us to be marginally successful at solving whatever puzzles they put in front of us.

[ but then again, from the sound of things, the mansion-redux fucked up all their trials too? ]

[vigilantics]

I think the fact that we participated at all meant that we passed the requirements? Since it seemed like there was an option where we didn’t do it at all, and... that one may have gone worse?

[recrypt]

An option where you... didn't go through a murder mystery going worse than the one where you did?

[ squints. going to have to explain that one. ]

What, does not trying mean that your murderer becomes a serial killer who murders everyone, or something?

[vigilantics]

I don't know? We didn't do it.

[ how is steph supposed to know what would happen if they did not choose that route ]

I just don't think we would have gotten any items if we did.

[recrypt]

[ fair enough, re: not doing murder mystery. though she wonders how that choice was even presented... ]

Ah, yes, your items.

So, what did you get. Anything interesting, or were they as useless as a lot of the other things that come out of these ventures?

[vigilantics]

We actually got stuff that could help, I think. Depending on how they're used.

Sometime that lets you record like a minute of footage, something that lets you check to see if evidence is fake or tampered with, another thing that can temporarily change the size of something for an hour, and an item that stops time for a few seconds.

[recrypt]

Wow, an entire minute compared to the ten seconds we got in the mansion... Of course the thing about these items is that you have to find some way to secure the footage from your would-be killer for them to be of any use.

[ still, useful. hm. ]

I can see the value in the second, but the other two are... interesting.

[vigilantics]

I have the size one, if that helps.

[ she just flat out admits to it since she knows that could, technically, be used in a Crime. ]