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[wildcardpotential]

[She can't do voice, can't let them hear how hoarse and pained she is. She has to just be clinical, factual. They deserve to know.]

You all deserve to know. I'm so sorry. Rin Okumura [She types his name and falters, staring at the screen for long minutes before finishing the sentence] is dead. This inky shadow shit... it did something to him.

pinging Ryuji Suguro
pinging Maka Albarn

I'm sorry.

[She isn't going to offer up details.]

Comments

[bluestreakspeedsby]

... That's the guy who showed me around when I first got here.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry you had to be involved in that.

[wildcardpotential]

He's a good kid, he's my best friend... I have to believe he'll come back...

[bluestreakspeedsby]

... Wattaya mean "come back"?

[Shadow came back from the dead, but... he'd never really died, had he? And Sonic's own brush with that had been erased from the timestream, anyhow...]

[wildcardpotential]

Ah, you must be newer here. Ozuma has enough power sometimes to.. regenerate us, if we die. It doesn't always work, but it's worked for me. And others.

[bluestreakspeedsby]

... That's.

Okay, I don't know what to say to that at all. What do you mean when you say it doesn't always work?

[wildcardpotential]

I'm sorry I'm not doing the best job of explaining this.

Have you seen the statues? Those are of people who came here, and didn't stay. Either they died and didn't regenerate, or they simply... left. Probably they went back to wherever they were when Ozuma brought them here.

[bluestreakspeedsby]

... Okay, that's more than a little creepy. Are we sure the people didn't get TURNED INTO the statues?

[wildcardpotential]

yikes

i think you're making it more creepy than it is. they're just memorials for the people who leave. Sometimes we leave here and we end up right back where we were before.

It happened to me, for a bit, and then I came back here.

[bluestreakspeedsby]

Okay, okay. If you came back, then it probably isn't anything like that. Still, that seemed kinda suspicious.

[wildcardpotential]

I can see why that might seem so. I've been here long enough to trust Ozuma by now, though. He makes some mistakes, but he wouldn't do something like that.

[bluestreakspeedsby]

I've had people play try and plau the friend card only to end up going for the backstab so, ya gotta keep your eyes open I guess. But it's good if he's trustworthy.

[wildcardpotential]

Mhmm I know what you mean. I find it's better to not let yourself stop trusting because of that, though. I hope you'll come to trust Ozuma too, he's a good guy.

[bluestreakspeedsby]

Well yeah, I'm still working on getting there with the guy. I don't really know him. But... he can have the benefit of a doubt, I guess.

[wildcardpotential]

Good! I'm sure he'll earn that benefit sooner or later! He works so hard, poor guy.