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[blindknight]

Okay, first of all, I think some of you neglected to mention that we can't fucking die. What am I supposed to think when I turn on my phone and somebody's going "oh yeah, I got murdered but I'm all better now"?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to go out and get my ass killed just to see what it's like, but that's kind of an important detail to leave out. Jesus.

[ There's a bit of an awkward pause here. He sort of doesn't have a segue for this. ]

Aaaaanyway... somebody wanna help me set up a keyboard? Some fucking Shadow dropped it, and I'm not going to ask what it was doing with my keyboard, but I'll take it. I'm in room 414 in the hotel.

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[Voice]

[technologic]

[... He does have a point about the death thing. But, she only really replies to his second statement.]

Ah, I can help set it up.

[Voice]

[blindknight]

Sounds good to me. I'm up in my room.

[Voice] to [Action]

[technologic]

Okay, I'll be there soon!

[And a few minutes later, there will be a knock at his rooms door.]

[Action]

[blindknight]

[ It takes him a moment, but he swings the door open. His room is... clean-ish, considering who lives there. ] April?

[Action]

[technologic]

[Considering she lived with a bunch of messy people back home, she's seen worse.] Yep. Hi, Lindsey!

[voice]

[jitensha]

...

[ give her a minute to get past the I WAS KILLED BUT THEN I GOT BETTER part. ]

Wha--

[voice]

[blindknight]

... Uh. Hello?

[voice]

[jitensha]

W-wait what was that about zombies??

[voice]

[blindknight]

... Not quite, Makoto.

[voice]

[jitensha]

R-right, they weren't... asking for brains, right? So of course they couldn't be... right...?

[voice]

[needsteaplz]

Well, I thought death was something that we'd avoid to begin with. The thing about dying here though is we do eventually come back. It just takes time.

I would know since this is the second time I've died.

[voice]

[blindknight]

Still, it would have been nice to know.

[ He pauses. The last time he talked to her was forever ago, but for some reason or other, they were essentially family, despite having never met. It's hard to forget that. ]

Um. You okay?

[voice]

[needsteaplz]

Well, when John comes back, I can ask him to add portion about death in that primer he was working on.

Yeah. It takes sometime to recover and catch up on the news, but I'm good. It's great to be back.

[voice]

[blindknight]

Does anyone know why we can't die? Is that like a Persona thing?

[ voice ]

[selene]

[ ... ah, this is.. a little awkward. For once Usagi isn't entirely sure what to say, but she feels like she can't just not reply either - it wouldn't be fair. So she just takes a deep breath to herself and tries to find words. Just focus on the topic at hand, that's all, right? ]

Maybe those other people just.. didn't really know about it either?

[ voice ]

[blindknight]

[ It's a good thing this is all audio, because Lindsey just turned red all the way up to his hairline ]

U-Usagi. Um. Hi.

[ voice ]

[selene]

... [ She laughs - but there's obviously something awkward in it. ]

Hi Lindsey! .. Sorry, I should've said hi first, huh?

[ voice ]

[blindknight]

No it's... you're fine. I don't... Ah, fuck. I'm really sorry.

[caliberill]

[It's a late message, but.]

You didn't get that when I told you my roo-- ex-roommate was here?

[blindknight]

That's different. Somehow. Also, you didn't see him die.

[caliberill]

Yeah, well - he's gone again, so we'll never know.

And you said something about a keyboard? What kind?

[blindknight]

The kind you play music on?

[Voice]

[seeslights]

[... somehow she missed all this talk of murders in the confusion of learning how to use the phone and what all this modern technology is]

We... can't die?

[Voice]

[blindknight]

That's the rumor.

[Voice]

[sawthelight]

[there's a pause as Rapunzel tries to figure out whether this is awesome or terrifying]

So I guess this place has its own magic, then, apart from whatever brought us here. It gets weirder all the time...