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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

The Devil... Interesting.

So there might actually be an Apex predator at the top of this food chain?

[rollplayinghouse]

That's what that implies. But even she phrased it like a rumor.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What do you mean - phrased it like a rumor?

[rollplayinghouse]

I mean that she said it just like that. "They say Mr. Devil Himself picked him."

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Got it. The mysterious they.

[rollplayinghouse]

Right.

That's about it, though... When I asked what his goals were, she told me not to ask her to understand him. When I asked what her goals were, she got mad at me for asking her personal questions. When I told her she needed to tell me something for it to be an actual information exchange, she told me she didn't like my approach and if I didn't understand that her knowing a bunch about his history was useful I could leave. I told her that sounded very useful, actually, and she could tell me some of that... And she told me that her boss was working with him and she didn't want to risk breaking her non-disclosure agreement and getting on her bad side.

And then she kicked me out of her apartment.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Well she sounds like she was in a mood.

[rollplayinghouse]

Yeah, well. She did get a text about the whole... "down for maintenance" thing just as we were heading in, so maybe that was also part of it.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes, well it does seem like the rest of the party did get up to a proper dungeon crawling adventure.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Apparently. I heard about some of it from Man Eater, and from Requiem second-hand...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You ran into Man Eater? Is he okay?

[rollplayinghouse]

Oh... yeah. He actually showed up in the cell after you guys left. He came to Exael's.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Good.

[Quiet sigh of relief]

I heard he was trying to get back to the rest of the group.

[rollplayinghouse]

Well, I'm not sure how it happened, but I guess he got caught and tossed in with us... clearly there's some kind of... monitoring of interdimensional travel, or something.

[she's trying]

Even if it only works half the time.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Well then I will be appreciative for this one time it worked in our favor.

[rollplayinghouse]

Yeah.

[...]

What do you think of the fact that everyone's here in Hell now? Have you seen all the weird effects people have?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I think I wouldn’t have jumped out of a prison window if I knew all of Tokyo-F was going to be here.

[Maybe a little disgruntled about that]

Outside of the escape party, I’ve only talked to Hurricane, Nemesis, B and King. Though B says it’s fairly widespread. I’m assuming Hell is just making a stronger claim on its inhabitants for the moment.

Not as concerning now that we know the process can be reversed.

[rollplayinghouse]

—It can be reversed? For real?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. Purification chamber in Heaven’s spaceship.

Provided that stays in one piece.

[rollplayinghouse]

Spaceship??

—Wait, before that, I wanted to warn you... A said there are mental effects going around, too. That he and a unitmate were in some kind of... fugue state for a while, before they started talking to people and came out of it. Maybe be careful of wandering around alone too long.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I’m not alone. Outside of peeling off to meet all of you, I’m traveling with Kohime. Who is very capable. And also checking to see if John is still alive every six hours.

...

What kind of mental effects?

[rollplayinghouse]

Mm, that's fine. Just be careful.

I don't know what all there is. A just mentioned that he wasn't really aware of himself for his whole bus ride, and it seems pretty unlikely that's the only thing. Probably all the monochome effects are a danger...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Lovely.

[/sarcasm]

The same should go for you then. Don’t stay alone for too long. And maybe not even with only one other idol.

Everyone is supposed to stick together anyway, aren’t they?

[rollplayinghouse]

Apparently.

...I may do some things with Yugi and King tomorrow. But I also want to go see Asshole's domain, eventually.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Oh really. Any chance I could have you run an errand for me?