(Catch all) Ominous October Threads

[insinning]

Who: Sinclair and You.
What: Dungeon runs, trauma bonding etc
When: All throughout October.
Warnings: Gore, Emeto, Psychological horror in one thread, NSFW stuff in another

“I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”

Comments

[justonezero]

I'd like to. He brought a chess set over to the camp grounds the other day so we could play while I waited around.

[Taking some to eat himself. This is all perfectly normal, just like Zelkova's zeroeth birthday. Nom.]

[deto]

Chess? [ dang, the high IQ type of fun, huh ] How good is he? Did you win?

[ and knowing how much they can eat, he’ll grab the tongs to put in more meat ]

[justonezero]

We played a few times, so it's not like I always won... Why, do you want to play too?

[deto]

I’m just thinking you like all sorts of games, don’t you? Not just video games.

[ but he shakes his head at the question ]

Dunno how.

[justonezero]

Some of the video games I played has it as a minigame, so that's how I learned... but those matches get predictable after a while, and it isn't like I know any special moves.

Want me to teach you?

[deto]

Alright, it’s a date. Teach me to be a chess genius. I only know the horse makes an L.

[ taking the chopsticks to feed nanashi some cabbage, sorry no meat this time ]

Wait, special moves?? In chess??

[justonezero]

Yeah, like certain counters to certain plays.

[Leaning forward to monch veggies.]

[deto]

Like a card game.

[ feeds himself this time. he likes napa cabbage ]

So you’re saying you can lay out traps and stuff.

[justonezero]

It's a strategy game, after all.

[deto]

Hm. Can’t you apply that to Lily?

[justonezero]

-Eh?

[deto]

Strategy games are pretty much mind games, right? Lily’s been messing with people’s minds, but I’m wondering if you can somehow lay out a mental trap for it - or him, or whatever.

[justonezero]

...Oh!

I didn't think about that.

[Shockedpikachu.jpg.]

[deto]

[ even that is cute to deto :( ]

I dunno about the mental gymnastics you’d have to do to pull off something like that, however.

[justonezero]

Seems kind of high level... Especially when we don't know what his goal is.

[deto]

[ feeding nanashi some meat ]

Being a jerk? Making us suffer?

[justonezero]

[Nom.]

Mmm... there's got to be more to it than that, right?

[deto]

[ watching him eat ]

What do you think his motivations are then?

[justonezero]

Not sure!

[Deto's turn for meats.]

[deto]

[ as clueless as deto is, he still feels as though he should be worried about that answer ]

… Then why do you think it’s more than what I suggested?

[ but the meat is good, so his expression lightens some ]

[justonezero]

Programs don't just get created spontaneously. Whoever made it must have had some purpose for it. "Making people suffer" is a possibility I guess, but... it just doesn't sound very likely?

[deto]

If it… uh… he was made like this… Assuming his program didn’t get corrupted in the first place… Man, this is making my head hurt.

[justonezero]

Hmmm... Like by a virus? Or something happening to his coding?

[deto]

Yeah. Don’t really see the point of making all the NPCs nice and then suddenly there’s this evil little kid out there.

[justonezero]

Even if it's because of corruption, I'm not sure there's anything we can do about it from here.