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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]

ha! that's probably right. there's no way we're all here to redeem ourselves for these bullshit crimes. did you know they can change them whenever? i've never seen a flimsier cover for fucking with people.

[solitarysoul]

yeah the obviously just grabbed a bunch of people from a bunch of worlds and threw us into this computer or whatever to fuck with. maybe they think they'll learn something or maybe they just want to watch us suffer. doesn't fucking matter to us either way.

[Things weren't always terrible here but he's gotten into complaining so everything sucks.]

[coolerjunpei]

it never does. has anybody tried to escape? or clip through the walls, i guess, if it's really a simulation.

[solitarysoul]

people talk about it, but i have no idea how anybody'd go about doing that. and if they got out its not like we'd know. people disappear sometimes, but we don't know if they got out or the overlords just got tired of them and switched them off or something.

[coolerjunpei]

yeah, that makes sense. it's probably still worth testing out, and you'd hope someone who gets out would come back for the rest of us... i dunno.

still. can't be a perfectly closed system.

[solitarysoul]

the council, or whatever the fuck is running this, is probably outside of it somehow. so at least that has to be reachable.

or, fuck, i don't know. this is all over my head. we didn't even really have computers where i came from.

[coolerjunpei]

well, yeah, if it's a computer program, someone's running it somewhere. that's right. and that would mean we're being held somewhere in the real world, unless....well, let's assume they've got us somewhere first.

[solitarysoul]

some people died before they got here. i maybe did. but its not like we understand any of this, so maybe they can bring back the dead in whatever place they're in too.

[coolerjunpei]

or we're back on the toast world vs. cereal world, and they can cross those lines, too.

that's harder to prove, though... someone'd have to get out before we worry about that.

[solitarysoul]

ugh. this is all so fucking complex and confusing i hate it.

[coolerjunpei]

pretty much.

you can come watch movies with us, though, if you want. can't promise it'll help in the long term, but.....

[solitarysoul]

it sounds fun, it should at least distract us for awhile.

[coolerjunpei]

that's the idea. you got a snack you like? i'm making lists.

[solitarysoul]

chocolate, maybe.

[Or sweets in general, but for some reason that was odd to ask for.]

but i don't really care, i'll eat whatever's there.

[coolerjunpei]

oh come on. i'll find you some chocolate.

[solitarysoul]

you don't have to, but thanks.

do you want me to bring anything?

[coolerjunpei]

maybe your own blanket to sit on, just in case we can't get enough borrowed from the inn.

[solitarysoul]

can do.

let me know when you decide to do this.