w7 still-not-curfew: kaveh drinks and swims in this one.

[rewriter]

[we are slightly less depressed. we are in the pool. we are slightly less depressed in the pool.]

Comments

[camena]

I was gonna say if they were the same thing, they would have just said Composer to begin with.

But I learned about the Game Master from Ruby, so.

[westedge]

...actually thinking about it, Aika mentioned the Game Master too. They're still a Reaper, just higher. I don't know if the Composer would still be a Reaper, too.

[camena]

It seems like a much fancier title. Like, Game Master is just a technical, self explanatory kind of thing. Composer is... I don't know. Kind of an implication more than anything.

[westedge]

Yeah, I guess. But makes you wonder what kind of help they could leave us for this. If we actually think it's going to be helpful.

[camena]

It'll be good. [ no idea what it'll be, but. ] Maybe some kinda... counter-Noise... thing?

[westedge]

I'd be surprised if those existed, but...maybe it'll be like more psychs or something. Kiichi told me in his game they were able to just buy them.

[camena]

I'm past the point of surprise, after getting blown up by some weapon we didn't know about until it was being used. But, yeah. Maybe one really strong psych, even.

[westedge]

Honestly? We deserve a really strong psych after all of this.

[camena]

Like a... bad-vibes-be-gone psych.

[westedge]

You really want this thing to just be counter-Noise huh?

[camena]

It's hard to know what else we'll need. At least the Noise are an obstacle we know of.

[ and she doesn't want to fight ruby. ]

[westedge]

[ tapping ash off of his cigarette and looking at the water because...yeah, he knows. his own feelings about this are pretty tempered but...uneasy. ]

We do have to figure out if those are even still around before we do anything else.

[camena]

I don't know why they wouldn't be. We didn't really... deal with them.

[ also. holding her hand out? give cigarette. ]

[westedge]

I don't know. We didn't really see them roaming around either, but...I guess we didn't really look.

[ looks at her hand. ]

This one or your own?

[camena]

Maybe someone else... dealt... with them?

[ i hope that was not a thing the erased had to deal with for some reason? somehow? ]

That one.

[westedge]

...hopefully not the other us, actually. [ but he does hand over the cigarette. here. enjoy. ]

[camena]

[ thanks, hers now. ]

... What do you think happens? If past-us get hurt or something? Would it retroactively hit us, here? Or do we stay displaced from it because we're from another timeline? [ who cares. ]

[westedge]

[ ...................

uh. hm. good question. ]

Pro...bably the latter? I guess? Seems weird to hit us later if we're technically from two different timelines now. Or points in time. Whatever.

[camena]

[ she is thinking very deeply about this while she smokes, for some reason. ]

We proooobably shouldn't check in with ourselves. But, like, it would be interesting to. See if there's been a butterfly effect sort of thing?

[westedge]

No. [ just. immediately no. also alex why! ] No, nope, we are not doing that, no.

[camena]

Wouldn't it give us a higher chance of changing things if we could warn ourselves?

[westedge]

Or it expedites the process because something else happens we can't foresee. That's the thing.

[camena]

... Maybe. And I guess we're here, so it's fine if they do things the same as the first time around?

[westedge]

Probably. If we're here, it means nothing actually changed to erase ourselves sooner. [ versus if they tried to change something to stop people from dying or sharing things or etc... ]

[camena]

[ ... ]

Time travel's weird, Jonas.