POST-GAME IRL PARTY LOG

[cccorp]

Who: All the living players
What: Reunion party
When: Post-game
Where: ?
Warnings: none for now


[ It has been several months since the incident. Recovering from your body being in disuse for around two months must have been hefty, as well as your other commitments as well. Hopefully, everyone has recovered to an extent, because no matter where you are, the living players will receive the following in their mailbox: an invitation to a reunion party at a location near the beach between the ex-beta testers of Fragment, a bank card, and a 4-digit pin to said card from "Oriade". The invitation card will mention the following:

- A very convenient location nearby you with access to a small, private plane. For security purposes, you'll be told to list your in-game name, real name, and class before boarding.

- The bank card contains $10,000 as some sort of "compensation" for everything that happened because of the Fragment incident. He knows it can't replace everything (like lost lives), but he hopes this will help some people (because some people live paycheck to paycheck and he understands that). Access will be revoked in a month, so you better withdraw it all while you still can. Any unused funds will be returned. The bank will not question you withdrawing all the money from that account nor exchanging it all with foreign currency. (But-- no buts)

- The servers have been located and he knows how much you guys want to destroy these, so the server bash (literally) will happen some time during the party.

Being rich has its benefits, surely. When the plane lands with their luggage and all (if you brought any. please bring some), they'll be taken to a house that doesn't seem like much, but once they walk inside, it is actually very big! There are numerous rooms inside the house. The kitchen is stocked with everything you can think of with some dude(?) preparing all the food (he's the chef. don't worry about him). There is sure to be loads of different kinds of food that can cater to everyone's tastes. Yes, there is alcohol. Get some free rich ass liquor. No, you cannot smuggle any. That dude(?) will be keeping tabs. Sometimes there's a maid or two(? or is that the same one) running around and cleaning up after everyone. If you want something, go get it yourself. Self-service only.

There's a walkway in the backyard that's also wheelchair-accessible that leads to the beach! Enjoy that too.

But for the main attraction, the server burning. ]

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[deto]

[ straight face: ]

When we quiz you on all the counters.

[insinning]

[ aaaaaa. ]

Why does Japanese have so many counters anyway?

[deto]

As the number three expert in Japanese here, my answer is: no clue.

[ they just like to make things complicated for no reason ]

But English is… ah, easy? With counting. You… can just say… “that.” Three of “that.”

[insinning]

[Someone who understands!!]

I feel like if they had counters in English, we would still use 'that' no matter what.

[deto]

Mm. It’s useful.

[ jokes aside: ]

What’s up with you? Doing good?

[insinning]

[Sinclair brightens]

Mm. Work took it easy on me and let me focus on my recovery. What about you?

[deto]

I’m in-between graduating from high school and entering college, so it’s been a mess of catching up on one and delaying the other by a semester. But Yoshi and I ended up in the same hospital, so that was nice.

[ uh he would hope that emil got time off to recover from his coma??? ]

What kind of work do you do anyway?

[insinning]

Mmm...we do biomedical research and stuff like that. I'm not sure how to describe it...

[It's complicated.jpg]

oops forgot italics last tag weeps

[deto]

… Aren’t we around the same age? Are you secretly thirty??

all good

[insinning]

Ah. No, I'm definitely only
nineteen. I'm not involved in the research side...just the filing and organising.

[And being a test subject for a certain game but shhhh]

[deto]

Huh… It’s not a black company, right?

[insinning]

No, it's completely legitimate and everything.

[ Haha...ha...]

[deto]

[ his expression says, ‘like cc corp is completely legitimate and everything…???’ he’s just not getting the best vibes if emil has to say they took it easy on him for medical recovery when all he does is filing and organizing?? ]

Okaaaay, but blink twice if you need help. Anyway, what's up with the - [ he taps an ear ] - ? Isn’t that more his thing?

[insinning]

[Touching his own ear, glad for the change in subject. It's fine!!]

His are clip ons though...and I just felt like a change. Something to make me feel like this is real.

[deto]

Oh. Yeah, I get you - in a way. The shift was weird. When I first woke up, the real world felt like a dream. And then… very quickly, I got used to living here again. Existing here… and the memories of that other world now feels… distant, like a story I heard from someone or - you know?

[ “I've been having these weird thoughts lately... Like, is any of this for real... or not?” -S*ra from K*ngdom H*arts, probably ]

[insinning]

Mm. It feels so far away now...and no one but us will ready understand what happened.

[A fever dream, one collective hallucination is what people would say. There are no references to copyrighted work here thank you very much s*ra from *********]

...I needed something about it to feel real.

[deto]

[ yeah, it’s definitely not something he can explain to his family in detail ]

Did it help?

[insinning]

Mm. It did.

[A symbolic change, something to center him]

[deto]

[ it seems to have. deto’s glad to see it ]

So then what’s the plan now?

[insinning]

Mmm...continue with my current work until I figure out what I actually want to do.

[Life difficulties]

What about you?

[deto]

Lots of options. Isn’t what you’re doing now an option?

[ nodding to his book ]

Uh, mostly seeing what Yoshi wants to do. Figuring out school stuff and then get myself a part-time job or apprenticeship.

[insinning]

[ He holds up his language book sheepishly]

Mm. I figure the more I learn, the more I can choose from.

[But enough about him--]

I'm glad you guys are able to support each other too.

[deto]

You guys are doing the same, right? I made Yoshi a promise in the game and - well, I was always serious about marrying him, so. He’s the one.

[insinning]

[He knew from Oria telling him but...wow]

It's amazing you're both already know what you want. But, you're also really good for each other. I'm glad.

[deto]

[ he flashes emil a quick smile, easy and crooked, then it’s gone ]

… Thanks. I don’t know if it’s amazing - I’ve always been the kind of guy to decide on a thing and stick to it. Just a stubborn idiot, I guess. [ he doesn’t like to make things too complicated ] So what about you two? Is marriage a thing you guys want or…?