alex

[pipa]

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week 0, monday

[pipa]

[ well

yang guifei is just swinging on the swing! wheeeeeeee ]

This has been an interesting few days.

[camena]

[ well then alex will drop down onto the swing next to her! ]

I'll say. Not sure much can top meeting 40 people from other worlds.

[pipa]

Ah... don't jinx it, we're here for seven weeks...

[camena]

But it wouldn't be so bad if that was the most excitement we saw, right? Like—if all the scary stuff didn't happen after all.

[pipa]

Yeah...

If this was just a regular kidnapping, we could just deal with it, I think.

[camena]

Well, not that I'd want to just be stuck, either. Just... Here. Forever.

[ bad, ]

[pipa]

Yeah...

Doing a competition to get back to life wouldn't be that bad if it didn't involve murder and also everyone could win.

[camena]

Ruby said that would make it more of a charity than a competition... Which is fair enough...

But I'd still take a competition without erasures before this.

[pipa]

I guess some people might still be very bad at that kind of competition...

[camena]

[ she opens her mouth to say something. then closes it. ]

That's gonna be the gamble of every task. We don't know what they'll be or who's good at what. I don't even know how to prepare.

[pipa]

And they don't really seem to like giving out hints...?

Just ominous statements.

[camena]

They're not so bad. Maybe it's more that they just... Can't?

[ her frame of reference for 'unhelpful and ominous' is a much higher bar. ]

[pipa]

[ she sighs ]

I get it, but I'm not good at puzzles...

[camena]

Me either. And I'm tired of them, honestly.

[pipa]

These kinds of things are never straightforward...

[camena]

If I'm ever in charge of something like this, I'll just make it super straightforward.

[pipa]

You just do one really intense game of hide and seek.

[camena]

Yeah! I'm good at hide and seek!

[pipa]

Me too! The Reapers would never find us!

[ assigns reapers 'it' in this scenario ]

[camena]

I think we'd be playing against each other, not them.

[pipa]

I see...

How would we decide who's hiding?

[camena]

Rock paper scissors?

[pipa]

What if the whole contest was rock paper scissors?

[camena]

That kind of tournament can take a long time.

[pipa]

It can't be longer than seven weeks.