[ senri & ray are not okay ]

[usogi]

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[usogi]

... I'm going to try to do that no matter what. You wouldn't even believe me if I said otherwise, because that's why we're all here.

[ . . . he pauses for a second, like he's thinking of how much he wants to say. then he admits - ]

But unlike some people, I have a chance to be able to do it back home. So even a hint or a consolation prize from a god... That'd be more than I started with.

I want the whole thing - but it'd be hard to accept knowing I hurt people to get there.

[1/2]

[selfimmolates]

...

[for a long while, he watches senri, his expression contemplative.]

[selfimmolates]

[........ and then he just



kind of sprawls onto the table, sighing.]

Why are all orange-haired people the same...

[usogi]

[what does that even mean]

Eat your cake, brat.

You know technically it should be harder for me to trust you than the other way around?

[selfimmolates]

[he lifts his head.]

And I don't expect people to trust me. I went into this knowing I'd probably be on my own.

[usogi]

Ah, you really are an emo.

[this is not a gag tag]

[selfimmolates]

[i hate this]

Call it whatever you want. You're still the idiot.

[usogi]

My grades in school are pretty bad.

[please don't admit that so easily]

But I can at least talk to people without getting sparkled all over.

And in the game of information, you can only do so much of it running around by yourself when other people have different specialties. So I don't think that - at least this early in the game - you can do all the legwork yourself and expect it to go great.

It's faster to share, and as you know, I talk a lot. So at the end of the day, why not put together what we both know for more information and you make sure I don't mess anything up by using your brain to make sure we can save the most amount of people?

[he has a deck of cards in his back pocket so he could quite literally show his entire hand for dramatic effect but he refrains]

[selfimmolates]

[the sad thing is that ray would not be in a position to judge for being a dramatic bitch

anyway, he just stares at senri with an air of utter exasperation, before he sighs. again. why is this life.]

... You're really lucky my patron god made talking to people my task.

[but why did it have to be! this loser!]

[usogi]

[nice.

senri seems totally fine with that? he more or less got what he wanted in the end.]

Any idea if there's a reward attached to it?

[selfimmolates]

Yeah, but they didn't specify. Ante gets upped if I fail, though.

[usogi]

Whoa, harsh.

How many people do you have to talk to?

[selfimmolates]

At least two.

[usogi]

Oh, that's not bad.

[back to eating cake!]

Maybe between all three of us we can talk to all the gods.

[selfimmolates]

[ray has not eaten a single bite of cake yet]

It's a little more complicated than that, but—"all three of us"?

[usogi]

You, me, whoever your third person is.

[senri shrugs]

You can be the go-between if you want but there's no point in talking to people in a game like this if you keep it all to yourself.

[selfimmolates]

Thinking of a third person is getting ahead of myself right now. We haven't even discussed anything yet and I'm already exhausted dealing with you.

[usogi]

I'd say just make it Shishimaru but that's not as useful since I've already got a connection to what he knows. Make it another emo. Maybe the ninja emo.

[please stop trying to collect emos]

Anyway, I've talked to two gods so far and know about some others through secondhand. How many did you get through before Disorder decided to make you fabulous?

[selfimmolates]

Do you really trust Sasuke right now?

[he hates that he knows who senri is talking about]

Successfully met with five, excluding Patience. Heard about a few others too, including the ones who didn't like my offerings.

[usogi]

Not really, but that doesn't mean I don't want to know what he knows...

[it's bad when smart people he doesn't like have a chance of learning things!!]

Fine - I'll start. I met with Beauty and Merriment, aside from Passhi. [why don't they have nicknames, senri] Apparently Ambition is super rude, but might be a cute girl.

With that in mind, I think that besides Ruin, she's the one I'm scared of most so far.

[senri is a diva but he doesn't get along with other divas it's fine]

[selfimmolates]

Huh. We actually managed to avoid overlap. Would I be right if I guessed Beauty Salon and Game Room?

[...]

I met with Justice, Cunning, Love, Fortune, and Sincerity. At least two of 'em expressed wariness over Disorder, Ambition, and Ruin, so agreed.

[usogi]

Yep and yep.

The lab's with Justice, Fortune's probably the spooky mystical room... Is Cunning the costume hall? Sincerity the mirrors - and Love is... what...

The Dance Studio?

[which god likes to break it down]

[selfimmolates]

[he can't even be satisfied because those two were the really obvious ones, damn it]

... Before I answer that: Senri, have you met your patron god?

I'll even throw in a gesture of goodwill and confirm right now that one of those five gods is mine.

[usogi]

[fortune scares senri it's cool

though at the question, he sighs]

Mm, I have. One of those two are mine - I tried to reach out to everyone who held their hand out to me to start, but the last one snubbed me. I tried to be nice too...!

[selfimmolates]

Them's the breaks.

[he pauses, seemingly examining senri, before,]

You're right about Fortune and Love. [and justice, obviously.] But Cunning is the armoury and Sincerity's the costume hall.