15strangers | WEEK 1

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*round 3,
*week 1

WEEK 1

WEEK 1

[Well, this is...happening. This is a thing. This is your life now. The Commander is expecting you to just up and kill one another, and then try to get away with it. No big deal, right? You guys can handle this. You won't fall for what she has. She's clearly an idiot. A loud idiot, but still an idiot. She's not going to get one over you.

...Right?

In any case, the Commander's quarters are now open for anyone who decides they can actually stand to be in the same room as her, but beware - any favor you might ask of her is going to come at a price, and who knows what she'll ask you to do if you decide to gain a boon from her. Unless you're a suck-up like Baku - then she'll apparently be flattered. Maybe that's a good tactic to use?

Whatever you do, try not to murder the bread again. The Bread Did Nothing Wrong.

There are fifteen strangers in this place.]

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No one is above being bought, after all.

Demons at least have rules. Humans are the ones who're unpredictable.

... Not all demons are predictable.

They have rules, yes, but he's correct. You try telling Loki that he's 'predictable'. I'll wait.

Loki, if I recall, isn't a demon. That's a god. Either way, we have to function inside the rules, so don't count on something like me killing someone unless the deal's good for me.

Not so in my world. When Yehowah - the one that people call 'God' - took power, He cast down all other gods to the demon world and they became demons. Extremely powerful ones, but demons nonetheless.

That sounds incredibly stupid.

He didn't want anyone else challenging Him.

No. I mean the idea that a God exists, let alone that one would be able to cast out other deities.

[ There's bitterness there. Yup. ]

Well, He does exist in my world. I know that quite well. And I know one particular demon who was definitely cast out. We have a good working relationship.

... That's not how any of that works. There being one big God. I never saw any evidence of Him, anyway.

[ BOY DOES HE SOUND BITTER. ]

A very close friend of mine believed that when we died, universes were born of our own consciousnesses. All that we had thought, created, and were. That... is how it should work.

That's how it works in my world. I know that for a fact.

... And that's not what happens after you die in my world, but perhaps it is in yours.

Are we sure we're from multiple worlds at all? I mean, the confusion between the lot of us makes this make the most sense. Multiversal theories are certainly plausible, I simply... wonder why go to the trouble? And how they managed such a thing.

[ He taps his chin. There's a pause, and then he asks: ]

... How do you know about the death thing, though?

Personally, I'm about ninety-nine percent positive we're from different worlds and universes.

... How can you be sure?

The... people who put us through the game in the mall...

[ He tilts his head a bit, twisting a strand of bangs. ]

The whole point of that game was to save various worlds. So I assume we needed to be from different worlds for that to work. Even here... I've met people who are each related, in some way, to those from the mall.

Because I have literally spoken to demons and heard the Voice of God. He doesn't sound like you.

[He sounds like James Earl Jones - wait. Possibly Alan Rickman.]

As for the death thing... heh. I wonder~.

I would counter-argue, but I presently... cannot remember what my Heavenly Domain actually is. Which is something of a problem.

[ So he's sort of stuck there. He's just got this nebulous... idea... ]

If you're knowledgeable about death, you've likely seen it, at the very least.

[ ... Like him. ]

Sounds like it would be.

But hm. And how would I have done that, do you think?

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[ He's quiet, but he's eyeing Naoya with a bit of tension for a split second. ]

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... Was there something you wanted to say, Akira?

[ He shakes his head. ]

It's another one of those things I can't put a finger on. For some reason, I spent some time reading about Loki. It felt important - kind of like I was doing it because of someone, even though I can't think of anyone.

[ Annnd just going to shrug now. ]

Hm... amnesia? That's... unsettling... you had memories taken?

Yeah. That's how these kinds of places usually do it. They'll take memories of things away, sometimes of things that are very difficult to miss being gone.

Last time, I couldn't remember something as extreme as either of my own parents. But that was combined with memories that I didn't even notice were gone, thanks to the nature of them.

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Not as... wait.

[Parents. His parents. His first parents.]

[His face goes even paler than it already was.]

That's... not possible. I'm not supposed to forget, that's the whole point -