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week 0, monday

[dotcom]

[ so later in the day! sasazuka is waiting for the elevator to come down. this is an easy place to meet someone, i think. ]

[sistocracy]

[lenore sees him waiting there, and wanders over to give the elevator a curious look. it sounds like it’s moving??]

Oh. Is this working now?

[dotcom]

They seem to have fixed it, we can explore another floor now.

[ it's a terrible floor ]

[sistocracy]

Really? Have you seen what's there yet?

[dotcom]

There's a planetarium, but the two other rooms are... odd.

[ they're fuckin creepy is what they are ]

[sistocracy]

Odd how?

[dotcom]

It's easier to see it than to explain.

[ the elevator door opens and he'll step inside. ]

[sistocracy]

Well. Let's have a look then, shall we?

[she steps in too! and waits for him to operate the elevator for her.]

[dotcom]

[ at this point he is used to no one knowing anything about technology it's fine. but he'll press it! i have no idea how smooth this elevator ride is, but eventually it'll come to a stop and he'll step out, heading straight for the experimental holding room. ]

This is the most suspicious one.

[sistocracy]

Oh?

[and once they step inside and she gets a look at the tube-people, that smile is finally wiped off her face.]

What in the...

Well, that's certainly ominous.

[dotcom]

It's pretty unnerving, yeah.

[ he walks up to one, frowning. ]

I can't tell if it actually means something or if it's just to freak us out.

[sistocracy]

[she'll walk up to one too, scoffing.]

Is that supposed to look like me?

[dotcom]

I don't see one that looks like you.

[ that's... hmmmm. ]

But I see one that looks like me.

[sistocracy]

[??]

[she looks around.]

Where?

[dotcom]

[ hm.

he points to a pod slightly to her left. ]

This one. You don't see it?

[sistocracy]

Is your eyesight all right? That one definitely looks like me.

[dotcom]

... so we see different things?

[ he isn't sure if that's a good thing or not. ]

What about the others?

[sistocracy]

An illusion, then.

Hm... they look similar to one another, but I can't say that they have any distinguishing features to speak of.

[dotcom]

Those are the same for me as well.

So... are those real, but the ones that look like us aren't, or...

[sistocracy]

They're more consistent, in a sense, but they could all be illusions.

[a shrug.]

But who can say? I'm not a magician or a scientist.

[dotcom]

I mostly just wonder what exactly this is for in terms of what we're doing here.

[ like, how does this help with indulgences? ]

[sistocracy]

Replacements, in case someone has a little too much fun and breaks something they shouldn't?

[by 'something' she definitely means 'someone.']

[dotcom]

Well, they did say it's possible for us to get killed here...

[sistocracy]

It was a curious detail for them to include in the guide, wasn’t it? One would normally assume we would die if we were killed, yes?

[dotcom]

And they refuse to go into further detail about it...

So do they expect us to find out by it happening first?