Like… something happens when we enter a building to bring us on the same frequency as the store and staff?
[ he’s not scarecrow, he doesn’t know technical crap as well as he would, but— ]
Probably easier to isolate it to one location at a time, like a fast food restaurant or an IKEA. Rather than having that frequency thing happening randomly all over the city.
[ ………… ]
That must mean they can switch it off too. Pretty sure we’d have been banned from McDonalds for half the crap we pulled on Saturday, plus having a corpse just lying there on a table.
Yeah, I thought it was kind of weird it was just us after a while. [ this is all getting too technical and over his head, but he is putting thought into it. slowly but surely. ]
The reapers didn't say what, exactly, they did to make it so some people could see us. But I didn't think about being able to turn it on and off whenever they wanted. You'd probably have to on Thursdays too, wouldn't you? Otherwise...
[ otherwise other people would probably witness a wholeass murder. ]
It seems to only apply to us when we're in stores, but yeah. They must be able to manipulate at at will to prevent too much confusion between where we are and where everyone else is on Thursdays -- if anyone was out and about and we were on the same frequency then they could get hurt too.
And on Saturdays as well. Maybe Fridays. All times where the cases are involved.
Not to mention the missions if we start doing those around the city, too. So...pretty much every day of the week except for maybe Monday and Tuesday? [ hm. wait. ] Maybe our souls are messed up instead.
You think they're not entirely the same as they were when we got here? We don't...remember anything about how we got here or how we died. It's possible that means someone already meddled where we wouldn't have wanted them to.
I tried asking Ruby about the whole...not remembering how we died thing. She said it wasn't uncommon and that some people can remember but others might now. Maybe that's true, but for it to happen to forty people in the exact same way is way, way too suspicious. Even if it's not the reapers specifically but somebody above them.
Yeah, like they might remember over time or something like that. It's possible that some people have more of an affinity for it, but...then what causes that? [ he ponders on this briefly. ]
...I think I might want to though. Just so there's no mystery behind it. But maybe some things are better left unanswered.
Like typical amnesia, you mean. It just comes back with time. [ but… eeehhhh. ] Higher IQ? Less mental trauma? It’s not like you can measure it clearly.
[ booo. ]
Guess it depends on how traumatic it was. A level you can cope with, or something a lot worse.
[ this is probably a rude question, but he kind of has to ask. ]
Shu, do you have any idea what might've happened to caused you to come here? Like...some of us were in certain situations that it could make sense. Is it like that for you?
It's less of an issue if you think of it in terms of it being just something that happened. But when it's possible that something happened between how you died and how you got here...kind of makes it a little more important.
It could’ve been a number of things. I’m dead, ultimately, so how it happened’s less of an issue. There may be no way of knowing what happened between how we died and how we got here, because we died to kickstart it.
[ or me specifically, because i’m dumb. but also shu… doesn’t care………. looks at him. and also—]
I’m sure people will.
And there’s a lot of potential ways I could’ve died. Pinning down the exact one would probably take too long, so I’ll worry about that when I remember it. If I do.
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[ he’s not scarecrow, he doesn’t know technical crap as well as he would, but— ]
Probably easier to isolate it to one location at a time, like a fast food restaurant or an IKEA. Rather than having that frequency thing happening randomly all over the city.
[ ………… ]
That must mean they can switch it off too. Pretty sure we’d have been banned from McDonalds for half the crap we pulled on Saturday, plus having a corpse just lying there on a table.
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The reapers didn't say what, exactly, they did to make it so some people could see us. But I didn't think about being able to turn it on and off whenever they wanted. You'd probably have to on Thursdays too, wouldn't you? Otherwise...
[ otherwise other people would probably witness a wholeass murder. ]
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And on Saturdays as well. Maybe Fridays. All times where the cases are involved.
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[ ... hmm. that's a good point he's not super happy about. ]
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You're not wrong about us not remembering stuff. Sorry to say, they've definitely done something.
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Wonder if some people just have more of an affinity for it. But I’m not sure I’d want to remember how I died.
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...I think I might want to though. Just so there's no mystery behind it. But maybe some things are better left unanswered.
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[ booo. ]
Guess it depends on how traumatic it was. A level you can cope with, or something a lot worse.
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Shu, do you have any idea what might've happened to caused you to come here? Like...some of us were in certain situations that it could make sense. Is it like that for you?
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No, not specifically.
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...maybe that's for the better, actually. But I was just wondering.
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It could've been a number of things. I'm dead, ultimately, so how it happened's less of an issue.
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It's less of an issue if you think of it in terms of it being just something that happened. But when it's possible that something happened between how you died and how you got here...kind of makes it a little more important.
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[ again, but slower: ]
It could’ve been a number of things. I’m dead, ultimately, so how it happened’s less of an issue. There may be no way of knowing what happened between how we died and how we got here, because we died to kickstart it.
They could teleport us for all we know.
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Alright, alright. How it happened doesn't matter and we don't have to worry about that part. I got it.
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I’m sure people will.
And there’s a lot of potential ways I could’ve died. Pinning down the exact one would probably take too long, so I’ll worry about that when I remember it. If I do.
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And until then...we worry about lions being potentially used to maul someone on Sunday instead. Seems like a much bigger priority.
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The more immediate priority at least.
[ and then the murder wasn’t in the jonasseum. we think. ]
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[ and we can wrap this if you'd like becks to prepare for something else! ]
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