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. ]

Comments

[deto]

[ thankfully jp healthcare means the money more than covered the cost, with about three-quarters of it left to spare. but before then it meant deto’s family couldn’t visit as often and he worked extra hard to get healthy asap ]

Yeah, everything worked out. We didn’t have to really dip into any savings.

[ he worries his lower lip ]

… I'm going to give the remaining money to my mom. And then, use my own savings and work hard to get that apartment with you, even if… it'll take us a little longer that way.

[justonezero]

...I'll have to talk it over with my parents, but we might be able to use the money I got to get started.

[deto]

[ that would be more than enough to get started but - ]

If that’s what you want to do, but, Yoshi, you can save that money for yourself - we’ll be fine eventually.

[justonezero]

...But that's what I want to use it for.

I mean, I want to pay my parents back first. They had to pay extra so I could live in Tokyo. But... if it means we can live together sooner, that's what I want to use the rest on.

[deto]

[ as long as it’s what yoshi wants, deto will go with his decision ]

It’s been weird, right? Not sharing the same room, or sleeping in the same bed at night.

[justonezero]

[He nods.]

I miss waking up next to you every day...

[deto]

God, yeah. I’m looking forward to doing that here.

[ regardless of whether they’re assigned rooms or not, deto’s rooming with yoshi. tough luck to anyone who minds ]

[justonezero]

[Nodding eagerly.]

It'll be the first time in this world. ...Kind of weird to think about.

[deto]

Ah. [ like he’s suddenly realized ] We’re gonna have a lot of firsts again.

[justonezero]

[Thinks about that for a moment.

...Tips his head down as his cheeks go pink.]

Um... Yeah, I guess we will!

[deto]

[ meanwhile deto’s trying to remember their very first… firsts… ]

This counts as one. I remember - in the game, I had really wanted to go somewhere nice and quiet and monster-less with you, so I thought the shoreline would work.

[justonezero]

First walk on the beach together?

[deto]

And also, uh, first confession. First time holding hands. First… kiss. A lot happened that day.

[justonezero]

We really did do a lot... Plus, I was missing even more of my memories at the time.

[deto]

[ yeah, the memlost-and-found sure was a thing ]

Now that you have all the pieces, what do you think? How would you grade us out of a hundred points for that day?

[justonezero]

-Eh? It gets graded now?!

[deto]

I feel like my timing could have been better so I lose some points there.

[justonezero]

I wasn't really helping either, though.

[deto]

But we wouldn’t have kissed if you hadn’t pushed for it, so that deserves extra credit.

[ in his humble, unbiased opinion ]

[justonezero]

...Maybe the timing was for the best after all. I probably would've caused a lot more trouble if you'd confessed when I still remembered everything.

[Oof...]

...Because of that, I didn't have any reason to doubt I could be loved. It was a lot easier to decide what I wanted.

[deto]

I don’t know about that. [ yoshi could probably out-stubborn the both of them ] When you get caught up in your head, you do hesitate to make decisions, buuut… when you don’t, you tend to just go for it. It’s kind of fearless in a way?

Oh - when did you ever cause trouble though?

[justonezero]

But I could've decided it would be better for you to date someone else, even if I wanted to date you too...

[He can be that self-aware, at least.]

I guess... as it is I didn't cause much trouble, but if I'd had my memories, I probably would've dug my heels in.

[deto]

Well… If you had your memories, I wouldn’t have said anything then. Probably. My initial plan - sorta - was to wait for a couple more weeks at least. Two months.

[ so thanks, lily ]

[justonezero]

-Eh, really?!

[Much restraint. Wow.]

I guess it did happen pretty fast...

[deto]

So would you have been as stubborn about it two months in?