[ over on the bookstore side of the xpress stuff 2 go holding up a pair of sweatpants with ASS printed on the seat. ]

...Okay, they definitely know what they're doing.

[ is he already nose deep in whatever trashy books are available? maybe! but sqq does glance over and recoil just as fast. why do they need ass pants to go with their ass coffee!? ]

Either someone has a sense of humor, or they didn't bother to think about it until it was too late.

There's no way. I mean, how is that even an acronym for Allstars?

[ catch sqq slowly becoming one with a massage chair, coffee in one hand, idly scrolling through his phone with the other and chuckling at the various stupid comments from the peanut gallery. he'll flick a wrist at totty in greeting and gesture for him to join ]

Kidnapping aside, if my game had this, I wouldn't have been nearly as upset about things.

[ that he can definitely do. comes over and sits down in another chair, setting his own coffee on the table beside him. ]

Right? I mean, this place still sucks and I hate it and will not give whoever's behind it the satisfaction of ever hearing me say otherwise... but our location the last time we did this was objectively a lot worse.

[ sinks farther into the cushions ]

We had empty warehouses and m*donalds. I'll take decent coffee and massage chairs over that.

[ well now that we're in the same room

i guess he wakes up mid to late morning, picks up his phone, and looks at the death announcement. ]

...Huh.

[ that's what he said ]

I guess he used his flashlight on the wrong person.

What?

[ yeah... yeah.

lies down. ]

Fuck this.

[ groans and slumps down on a couch in the lounge. ]

Ugh. How are we still only on the second one of these?

[ IT REALLY DOES FEEL LIKE WEEK 5 ]

[ if you think about it, it's technically week 8 or 9 for a number of us. weheh ]

It bodes well for the rest of this nonsense, if we're working so close to the wire.

[ flops on a couch and just

oozes ]

[ looks at his canon, there is no way this is the filthiest string of curses he's ever heard in his life. but anyway.

wanders over to see what's— who the hell is that. ]

...Um. Are you good over here?

[ GOOD MORNING MURDER BRO!! RISE AND SHINE, IT'S A NEW MURDER WEEK.

so he'd like to say but someone just looks like he got run over with a truck after all that nonsense this weekend, and now they've got stupid missions. what the fuck ]

Why feet!?

[ looks at his phone and groans. ]

What the fuck...

Hey...

[ offers him a cold bottle of barley tea or something ]

You know Jacopo-san was on one of these things today too?

[ blearily ]

Huh....? Yeah, we made him leader, why?

[ not me having to triple check what week it was. wow, wowee!!!!!! we did it!!! back to home away from home and not the fuckoff weird nonsense of the gy hotels. I'm assuming this is sometime after we get aventurine settled and they've returned back to their room so,

sqq just immediately starfishes upon his bed and just lies here for a moment ]

You know, I never did ask what you all did to the lounge after I died.

[ same tbh. ]

Well, the tunnel's definitely the most exciting thing.

[ the tunnel is so fucking great, it's like a dance club with crazy lights and fog machines with a sit-down coffee bar and a luxury bathroom. ]

We didn't change too much on our side besides getting the entertainment center and board game add-on. It was the Wahoo side that made the big changes; they traded their dorms for two private rooms, so Tama-san and Jonas lived over there and Ichiban was in here with me.