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]

[ if he squints ]

He acts old, like his soul’s been scarred.

[ which

given what happened

but ]

[justonezero]

Doesn't that apply to everyone who became a Wave?

[deto]

Uh. Yeah, but… not because they became a Wave? But because they already had… those scars.

[ and during the battles, all of those wounds reopened. that’s how it seemed to deto ]

Anyway, look at how gray Mithrun1’s hair became. Old.

[justonezero]

Doesn't that mean he's super stressed out?

[deto]

Him?

[justonezero]

It's possible, isn't it? He got involved in a lot during that game...

[deto]

[ tbh mithrun1 doesn’t seem like he exists in the same reality as them, even now ]

I… guess. Maybe less stressed and more heartbroken for no reason.

[justonezero]

It could've been from before the game too, I guess. A lot of people who played have been through some pretty crazy stuff.

[He says, rather blithely.]

[deto]

Crazy stuff… Wait, is there more you didn’t tell me?

[ deto, who is pretty normal - had been pretty normal? uh. he still feels like a regular dude, despite all the shit they went through ]

Not everyone can be happier now, huh.

[justonezero]

Huh? I'm pretty sure you know just about everything about me?

But... it kind of feels like the people who were invited to play aren't really what you'd consider normal. I mean, one of them was able to pass out a ton of money to each of us and get us this whole island to ourselves...

[deto]

[ oh good his phd in nanase yoshi remains valid

and also only now realizing: ]

… Oh. He mostly picked people with loaded pasts, you mean. Easier to manipulate? Stupid though, those people have the strongest hearts.

[justonezero]

You think so?

[deto]

[ he nods, firm ]

Otherwise, we wouldn’t be here.

[justonezero]

Feels like it still made it pretty tough, though...

If my history wasn't what it is, erasing my memories of the real world wouldn't have had such a big impact on me.

[deto]

[ having a strong heart doesn’t mean things are easy, he thinks ]

Yeah, it definitely wasn’t easy. More like… it made it so this outcome was within our reach. Or something.

[justonezero]

Hmm... We already had the EXP we needed to beat the final boss?

[deto]

We already had the ultimate weapon all along. Just didn’t always know how to use it.

[ and it didn’t work - wasn’t enough for everyone. he won’t forget that ]

[justonezero]

...I wonder if things would have turned out differently if we did.

[deto]

Differently, sure. But perfectly? Probably no, still.

[ … ]

You mean for Hien and the ones who didn’t make it, right?

[justonezero]

...Yeah.

Sometimes I still wonder if there was anything more we could've done...

[deto]

Hindsight always makes it feel like we could have done more.

[ deto fully believes yoshi did his best ]

It’s tricky. When is it up to them to reach out and accept help? And when is it up to us to push for that? How hard do you push? When is it not okay? When are the lines crossed?

[justonezero]

...Yeah. I was never really sure, when it came to Hien.

[deto]

He loved that other guy, right? That… wasn’t enough either.

[justonezero]

...That other guy was turned into a Wave, too.

I wonder... if that's part of why.

[deto]

[ deto can’t imagine being a wave, but he tries to - to maybe understand what yoshi already seems to get ]

Hrmmm. He thought he didn’t have anything left?