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rafayel - scaredy cat
fiammetta - old lady
tokinaga - mr know it all

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evening of post-cyoa

[transmit]

[ where are you. he's hunting you down.

this will be short, prommy. ]

[handfast]

[ is elysium coming to exact vengeance for his bald evangelism curse


anyway he's at arcadia sitting on one of the benches. ]

[transmit]

[ surprisingly



no. He's just here to drop a bag of cookies onto his lap and sit next to him. But, like, five inches apart because they aren't close like that. ]

[handfast]

[ what the fuck, now i'm just hungry

hak looks at the cookies. ]

We don't have to eat here.

[ takes the bag anyway and opens it to pop a cookie into his mouth. not even a thanks......ungrateful. ]

[transmit]

But you're eating them anyway?

[ long pause. ]

I made them.

[handfast]

[ ......finishes the first cookie. doesn't take a second one. ]

Did you poison them?

[ no he's just kidding. takes a second cookie and eats that one too. ]

.....Thanks.

[transmit]

Mm. You looked like you need to be taken out of your misery. Sweet way to go, yeah?

[ watches fondly 🥺 ]

[handfast]

[ pauses in eating a third cookie. teenage boys and their metabolisms. ]

Being stabbed in the chest?

[transmit]

[ He has an infinitely powerful metabolism here so it's fine, he can eat the whole bag and not feel sick unlike us… ]

Seriously? That's what happened to you there?

[handfast]

[ chews his cookie..... ]

A giant rat also kidnapped me.

[transmit]

[ Hak may be an even worse of a storyteller than Thorns. That's impressive. ]

Huh. And you just let it.

[ why is he victim blaming ]

[handfast]

[ HELLO ]

I didn't let it on purpose. [ sometimes you roll the dice (of life) and it fucks you over. ] I didn't ask to be stabbed either.

[ even if it was better that way..... ]

[transmit]

[ hi… ]

Yeah? And what was the sequence of events that lead to both?

[handfast]

I'm surprised Thorns didn't tell you already.

[ assigns them yaoi ]

[transmit]

He's notoriously bad at giving any sort of retelling. That's why I was hoping to hear more from you.

[handfast]

[ thinks about the four people on this cyoa and tears up ]

Which part didn't you hear?

[ like ely would know that?? ]

[transmit]

[ yosuke really carried for all the people curious about elysium's… wipes tear. ]

All I know is that there was a brothel involved.

[handfast]

Yeah. Thorns slept with a lot of people.

[ just says that. pauses. thinks about it. ]

I think I did too.

[transmit]

… A brothel would do that, yeah. And this sleeping around lead into giant rats and stabbing?

[handfast]

No, that was the human trafficking ring we led. The rat was mad about it.

[ rightfully so. ]

[transmit]

[ WHY DOES HE ALSO HAVE TO LEAD YOU TO GET ANY KIND OF PROPER STORYTELLING ]

And this all happened before or after you guys got murdered…?

[handfast]

Before. [ no, wait, ] After.

[ ..... ]

We woke up dead already. Then some of us died again.

[transmit]

So… you all died. Multiple times. But you still managed to get your revenge in the end, right? Everything worked out?

[handfast]

Thorns didn't die. At the end.

[ he has to point that out. thanks for carrying, mr. sexy person. ]

I don't think we all wanted revenge though. [ well. he rethinks his answer. ] Medea probably did. I just wanted to find out what happened. Or the other me did, I guess.

[transmit]

For our expedition, the only thing we had to worry about was going up a mountain and everyone around us dying along the way.

[ the more he asks the more confused he is. cool. ]