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late 106/early 107/whatever works best

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Anubis: not to be dramatic or anything
Anubis: if you still want to see me lose my cool, now's a good opportunity

Late 106

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Jeebus. Is this a "I need help hiding a body" text? (It's not but, Intensity would totally be that guy)]

CEO: Where are you?

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[IT'S TRUE, INTENSITY WOULD BE THAT GUY]

Anubis: sensitIV, but thinking of leaving, maybe
Anubis: I just found out some murders happened yesterday apparently.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

CEO: Do you have a secure space in SensitIV?
CEO: If not, there's my lab. Or office.
CEO: Or a couple other remote locations in the city.

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Anubis: I'm the one imposing on you, so
Anubis: I can come to your lab if you want
Anubis: or whatever works

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

CEO: Imposing?
CEO: Ha!
CEO: Meet me in the lobby. I'll be down in five.

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Anubis: that works

[... and he heads down to the lobby. which is only one floor away, hooray for dorm placement.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Intensity will be there just under five minutes as promised.]

It must be really bad if you're calling on me as the voice of sanity.

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Nine has status effects, and Cobalt-san is probably busy dealing with the fallout in his own unit. It's not even that bad, objectively, it's just-- it's--

[grasping for words]

Stupid. Among other things.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Gestures toward the lobby doors]

Let's get some distance, and you can let tell me just how stupid it all is.

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[takes a deep breath, exhales, then nods.]

Yeah. C'mon.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Blue Eyes is waiting outside. Hope you don't have a fear of heights, Anubis]

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... oh!

[he has no issue with heights. hopefully Intensity has no issue with his dragon receiving pets.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[As long as you don't also take her on a date, Anubis.

He'll wait patiently (for Intensity!) for Anubis to have his fill of dragon pets and climb up on Blue Eye's back]

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[no, that's apparently just the Yugis. anyway, he's just being polite, so it's not like there's a long delay before he gets on.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[He hops up behind Anubis and Blue Eyes takes off in the air. Toward a pre-planned destination by the looks of it. It seems she knows where she's going anyway]

So I guess your unit or someone you know is tied up in all of this murder nonsense?

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Mm.

[stares off into the distance past Blue Eyes' head, voice flat.]

Lucifel-san lost his memories again, and apparently so did Doodleman-san from Zrael. History repeated itself, except this time Lucifel-san actually died. Levi-san arrived a few moments later and immediately killed Doodleman-san.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Not quite sure what he was expecting as the victim/culprit.

Somehow this is incredibly surprising. And at the same time NOT AT ALL]

. . .

Well that's fucked up.

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[gives a humorless laugh]

Right? Honestly, I feel bad about Lucifel-san being killed, because... one of us should have realized that was a possibility, but I didn't know who was suffering from what effect. I really do feel bad! But at least he seems unphased by it? I think it was over so quickly that he doesn't remember what happened. And neither of them are likely to care when they get their memories back... so I just end up thinking, "well, that's unfortunate," which is fucked up on its own! I don't want to... to become desensitized to something like that, but... well, Levi-san's the real problem.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Lucifel and Doodleman are a complicated situation. They're from the same world. They both think that they're not human and should be treated like tools or weapons. And Doodleman isn't happy with how Lucifel is being coaxed into being more than just that. I wouldn't worry about their arguments with or without amnesia.

But yes - I could see Levi being an issue considering... everything.

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Ah, is that Doodleman-san's view of it? I'd wondered...

[just sort of. shakes his head. his tone grows somewhat incredulous as he continues.]

The only reason I know what happened at all is because Levi-san wanted to apologize for potentially harming our reputation with other units. He said killing Doodleman-san like that was generous. This whole time I thought his persistence about getting along and units being able to work together was-- I don't know, some sort of slightly naïve optimism, and now he's in favor of murder, but only the kind of murder he personally sees as justified?!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Hate to break the news to you, Anubis. But your newbie is a self-righteous idiot. His retribution is allowed because his is just. And everyone else is just wrong.

But now I'm curious.

How did he and Lucifel tell you how the murder mystery game went down?

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I...

[well, shit. there's a pause as he comes to an unpleasant realization.]

I was so focused on healing everyone in the aftermath that I didn't ever... end up asking for full explanation.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'm sure everyone appreciates your dedication to unbiasedly making sure we all don't suffer do to our own stupidity.

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If you don't, you can go without next time! Like you don't have your own ways to cope!