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[coolerjunpei]

[Hey gang, it's Junpei, filming in vertical because he's a terrible millennial. He's at the inn, sitting at a table with a stupid-looking projector which he drums his fingers on occasionally.]

Uh, hey, soooo... that shit all sucked, huh? Yeah. Really did not expect "kill everyone now because I, the mysterious mastermind, said so" would happen a third time.

[To him, personally. He's too new to know if that happened a bunch of times previously here in Aldrip, so that's a Junpei Original as far as he knows. He's including Gnos infection as A Mastermind, it makes sense to him.]

Anyway, whatever, right? Look, I borrowed— this thing, [shakycams down to the projector, whoaoaoao] and it's kind of my birthday this week, so y'know, calling all people who said they wanted to watch some shitty movies...? And good movies, too, I guess.

[A beat.]

I mean, I just thought that movie night thing could be... fun. After the bullshit. If anybody wants to come watch some stuff, in a park or something? Like a drive-in! Get a bunch of snacks and hang out.

...Also, I need someone to help me hang up a sheet.

[He will be watching movies in the park by himself if he must!!]

Comments

[coolerjunpei]

better than a fake one, i guess...? i've never had to fight gods, i don't know.

and yeah that. sorry. i spent most of it going nuts in a storage room, so i missed most of it too.

[solitarysoul]

we didn't fight him, but we did end up fighting a different god.

from what i've seen its probably better to have missed this one.

[coolerjunpei]

damn, you're like an actual serious fighter type, huh.

and yeah, i think so.

[solitarysoul]

not all of us were, but i was a solider.

[coolerjunpei]

let me guess, you were all strangers before you got there, too?

[solitarysoul]

yeah.

well, two of us were from the town it was in but we didn't really know each other.

is that the way those things usually are? a bunch of strangers?

[coolerjunpei]

usually, yeah. unless your big freak in charge has some stupid ulterior motive even besides the whole killing part. then everybody secretly has interlocking backstories...

[How much exasperation can a text message radiate: this much.]

[solitarysoul]

i don't think we had that. or that he had any other goal other than making us fight and kill.

[coolerjunpei]

yeah, then it makes sense that you wouldn't know each other. psychology and stuff.

[solitarysoul]

what sort of extra bullshit were yours going for?

[coolerjunpei]

convoluted time travel stuff. real weird. it worked the first time, but right after the second one, i showed up here. so i don't know.

[solitarysoul]

time travel? ugh, that sounds complicated.

[coolerjunpei]

it is, annnnd it sucks. but this place doesn't want it to work, so for now i guess i'm off the hook.

[solitarysoul]

probably good. you don't want to unmake the present by accident or whatever.

[coolerjunpei]

you ever heard of the many-worlds interpretation? even if everything goes to shit in one timeline, there are more where that came from.

but don't worry, i don't like doing it anyway. the time travel stuff. this timeline's safe from me.

[solitarysoul]

[Many worlds what?]

this is my first experience with other worlds. i don't know anything about any of that.

[coolerjunpei]

okay, uh, let me see.

stay with me here. what did you have for breakfast today?

[solitarysoul]

[???]

cereal. why?

[coolerjunpei]

it's the easiest way to explain. let's call this timeline, the one where you had cereal, history A. according to many-worlds, that means there's a history B where you had toast, or eggs, or whatever.

so it doesn't mean... guys from other planets kind of worlds. it's the cereal vs. toast kind of worlds. variables. maybe there's a history where you never had to play in your fucked up death game at all.

[solitarysoul]

...or one where i won.

[At least he thinks that's what that one alternate him was.]

so you could travel between toast and cereal worlds?

[coolerjunpei]

or that.

and yeah, something like that. if i'm in the cereal world, i can swap places with the me in toast world. can't have two of me running around. and like i said, i can't do it anymore.

[solitarysoul]

that still sounds complicated and confusing. but in this place its probably better you can't do it, they'd find some way to fuck you twice.

[coolerjunpei]

oh yeah, they'd probably kill me for real. a guy who can switch the timeline he's in is a liability for bullshit like this.

[solitarysoul]

either that or they'd make sure every time you swap you end up somewhere worse.

[coolerjunpei]

wouldn't be too hard. depends on how much i pissed them off, i guess.