messy | w0 curfew (the other half of the game is in the sim room)

Syndicates...

Rocchan, are you part of the underworld?

Not usually. There's versions of me that are.

[ Definition of underworld pending but she gets the general gist of it. ]

...versions?

[Sounds like you're a whole story]

You know parallel universes and stuff?

Sometimes we borrow strengths that other versions of ourselves have to give us a little extra boost in missions and all.

[ The curse of being ICly aware of your own gacha mechanics. ]

[Sora stares at Rodion for a few seconds, then nods]

I believe I have an idea of what you mean.

[Dang, I brought Sora from the route where she doesn't get the memories of all the other routes, haha. She'd be nodding all 'yeah I get it completely']

Oh great, saves me the time of having to explain it all!

[ Since she's not the expert, she really doesn't know how to explain it in a better way. ]

[just like nodding along in the bg here... yeah sometimes you just know about the gacha.]

You get used to it after a bit.

It was pretty weird the first time...

[ Thanks Yi Sang and your freak tech. ]

No kidding. Can't say I like the idea of some of those other Gregors...

['is this mostly about bistro gregor' yeah.]

What's wrong with the other Gregors?

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At least you didn't get brainwashed into Hammer und Nagel?

[ Its REALLY hard to beat N&H. ]

[huh

simply nods and accepts this]

[ Both Sora and Harley being like 'yeap' is so funny to me like yeah this is girl hobbies. ]

[yeah! girl's night is just breaking the laws of space and time for fun. ]

Like . . . that mirror thing you mentioned before?

Oh, yeah. It's that!

...

Y'know, I don't know how I feel about the idea of another me running around somewhere in the...multiverse. I mean, it's in my name and everything.

Would it make you feel better if I told you the great majority of alternates likely make the same decisions as you, but with minor differences? Perhaps if you were to peek at the alternate version of you directly adjacent to this reality, you'd find him, sitting in this bar right where you are right now, identical in every way except perhaps with a different hairdo.

[the ichiban kasuga who instead of getting the afro back decided to keep the ponytail look forever and ever and ever]

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Well, if it helps...

Nobody is going to do you better than you.

[ Live and die by her philosophy that you are you and you're the best. ]

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Okay you realize you're gonna have to elaborate on that one.

It's as if every answer creates two questions more, hm?

[She finds that intriguing, truthfully!]

Hey hey, are we asking about me or our current situation here?

Oh, it's about you. The current situation answers half and creates only one question more, you answer one and create two.

[In other words, Rodion is fascinating, more than the ship shenanigans, in Sora's eyes, haha]

Well, I guess one of these two things is less concerning.

[ This is very person-dependent but probably better to be curious about whatever is going on in her world than panic about their lockdown. ]

I swear I've had nightmares about exams that went on forever before... every time I thought I was at the end of the booklet, more pages would appear.