week 7, wednesday

[vigilantics]

[ oh how the turnstables

anyway, they are now at belph's room. she will set the pot down carefully before turning her attention to him. ]

Let me see the injuries.

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[axilium]

They're not severe.

[compared to some past cyoas, anyway??]

I can handle them.

[vigilantics]

Are you sure?

[ she doesn't sound too certain. ]

It'll be easier if you had help.

[axilium]

It's mostly just my feet and lower legs. Not like I can't reach them myself.

[vigilantics]

... fine.

[ but on that topic. ]

What happened?

[axilium]

[he lets out a scoff.]

Where should I start?

[vigilantics]

Just retell your fun adventure.

[ she's going to. sit down on his bed, because she still doesn't respect other people's personal property. ]

[axilium]

[he's not one to judge!]

Well, Sanji, Akechi and I were on a ferry.

[and it was a horrendously awkward combination for a multitude of reasons, one of which he won't state.]

We arrived at a carnival—ah, right. First, we were shrunk down as kids.

[imagine bitty sanji, akechi, and belph running around.]

[vigilantics]

[ ... that's adorable, but she keeps that to herself. ]

Uh. Okay, weird. [ her cyoa was much more straightforward than everyone else's. ] What happened there?

[axilium]

Well, the carnival was full of kids. Everything was free, do whatever you want, etc.

Anyway, we found one kid who stood out. [and belph suggested shoving him because he's an asshole, but he won't mention that.] Name was Quark. Akechi and I decided to make ourselves useful, so we checked out different areas.

[he shrugs.]

Which means I can't really tell you what Sanji and Akechi were up to, but it probably involved playing therapist.

[vigilantics]

[ BELPH DON'T SHOVE THE CHILDREN??? ]

What did you do then?

[ she knows that sanji said quark's name and that akechi said another one, but belph did not. ]

[axilium]

Ran into another kid, beat him in a shooting game, and then accidentally ripped his skin off when he started fusing with the counter?

[y e a h

not all of the blood on belph is his, so guess who's the other source!]

[vigilantics]

[ UHHhhhhhhhhhhh

opens her mouth. closes it. ]

[axilium]

Yeah.

... I mean, it didn't kill him or anything?

[vigilantics]

So he was... okay?

[ or as okay as anyone could ever be after they get their skin ripped off while fusing with a counter. ]

[axilium]

Okay enough to run when our surroundings started mutating.

[vigilantics]

What the fuck.

[ it's muttered, but at this point she can't really say she's too surprised by what kind of nonsense this place can come up with. ]

What happened next?

[axilium]

I heard the joyful sound of Sanji yelling in the distance for us to get our asses to the ferris wheel, the only place in the park not mutating?

[vigilantics]

[ belph is probably the worst storyteller of all time. ]

And after that?

[axilium]

[he is, especially since he's conveniently leaving out any personal bits...]

Well, we regrouped, along with Sanji and Akechi's kids, and had to deal with the floor trying to kill us? Very troublesome. Also, spiked floors are such a cliche.

[vigilantics]

[ look, she is aware he is leaving stuff out especially considering the others' facial expressions when they got through the door. steph has just also realized belph is never going to tell her anything. ]

How unoriginal of them. [ ... ] And?

[axilium]

We jumped through the door and voila, pots.

[vigilantics]

So you just have... ink now.

[axilium]

... Well, if we want to be technical, I suspect said ink might be the remnants of Narrators from past wars, but... pretty much!

[vigilantics]

Gross.

[ she glances at the pot. ]

What do we do with it?

[axilium]

No idea. Hold onto it for now, I guess?