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[aunter]

G R E E N > You enter the door and find yourself in a glass box, suspended in the deep, dark ocean. Darkness surrounds you on all sides and once in a while, the box shakes. It'll be clear enough after a while that that's because of the movement of the water. The deep, dark water that they're surrounded by. Once in a while, something moves in the darkness, unnaturally large and much too close for comfort. Then... the noises. The moans and hisses of things living out there, in the deep. Then the words appear:

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[aunter]

[ Alice? Guess what.

Guess.

Suddenly, there's the sensation of things going extremely, extremely right. It won't be clear what's going on but it's just. Things are just right. Things are good. No matter what happens in this game, things will be fine.

Everything will be fine.

Because guess what? Alice? now has a home to return to at the end of this game. Whatever he wanted the most, whatever he could imagine, he will have it when this is all done. And as a result, Alice? can no longer die. Not until he gets there.

Oh, he can be injured. But he cannot die.

That is his reward. ]

[unnames]

[WELL.

He has no idea what just happened, but what he does know is... that he feels bizarrely okay about things all of a sudden?

WHICH IS VERY WEIRD BECAUSE HIS ARM IS MADE OF PAPER AND THEIR SITUATION IS SHITTY BUT.

????

Alice is literally sitting in the middle of this glass box looking puzzled and also weirdly okay with it.]

[cantdecideonausername]

[ so chidi is waiting for the cruel punchline of his actions to come but then for a few minutes nothing happens other than alice staring off into space. ]

Hey, Alice? Are you ok? ...Nothing else has turned to paper, right?

[unnames]

[Yeah nothing is happening and that's nice and weird.

A long, long pause.

He finally snaps out of it a bit. AHEM.]

I... think so? I mean I feel fine... weirdly... fine. Really weirdly fine.

So uh... we're good...?

[cantdecideonausername]

We're... good? [ his eyes look like they're about to pop but then he smiles. ] We're good! Hey, nothing bad happened, and that's -- that's good?

[ it is, but then also... ]

Wait, no. No, something must have happened if I rolled the dice and it landed on your number.

[unnames]

[... Presses a hand to his face. The non-paper hand.]

I know you're probably right but it really sucks to think about so can we just. Not. For a minute.

[cantdecideonausername]

Ok. [ hands up with a wave. ] Yeah, we can not. That's fine.

[ it's not fine, but he'll be respectful. ]

If something does start happening just let us know? And... I'm sorry. I shouldn't have rolled it, that's not the solution to this dilemma.

[unnames]

[A HEAVY SIGH]

S'not your fault I have shitty luck. Really.

[He looks away.]

You don't gotta apologize for it. We're not outta the woods yet.

[cantdecideonausername]

But I do.

Whatever game this is, we can't play it. When we roll the dice it isn't just you we could affect. It could be Sara, or myself, or anyone else from the other group. Whoever is doing this wants us to roll and hurt people by doing so.

[unnames]

Yeah... I got that too.

[This is a shitty game that's trying to make them hurt each other. Why? He's not sure. But what really matters is:]

There's gotta be another way.