Yeah, but I didn't know whether you'd heard yet.

[ heh ]

Mmhm. We heard last night. It wasn't really something to bring up during the trial, but now that's over and done with for all the good we did...

[ mods said ok to talk ]

[ yeah! ]

Well, I'm glad you don't still have that hanging over your heads on top of everything else. Not really sure how it's going to work, but.

Yeah, that was one less thing to worry about. Thanks.

[ imagine if you're all gone nah fuck 'em. very funny. ]

It said something about pseudo-team, so... maybe we'll keep our areas and point scores but share the number of people for technicality purposes?

Maybe? It's a pretty weird thing no matter how you look at it, like... unless we're missing something, what reason would there possibly be not to agree to it unless you just hated the people on the other team?

The drama?

It might not be such a big deal if there’s always a lifeline out there, but they sure got some drama out of announcing it in the way they did yesterday.

Well, that's definitely what they're after, yeah. I guess maybe there didn't need to be any actual threat of rejection as long as it looked bad from the outside.

[ nods ]

Kinda awful, but brilliant huh? Small risk, high drama. Even higher if we’d refused.

[ ugh. ]

I still really want to know what audience they're making this for.

A… general one? There’s been multiple killing game type shows out there, and one of them spawned a sequel and a non-lethal game show based off the original show.

[ she shrugs. ]

People will unfortunately watch anything.

Oh, yeah, I know this kind of stuff is popular, but like, the whole multi-universe crossover thing? It's not that I don't get why they'd want to watch some Sq*id Game D*nganronpa knockoff, I just don't understand who out there can see it. Like, is there a whole society that exists at the crossroads of all the universes and has nothing better to do?

[ or are all of you just fictional too? ]

...

I mean. Maybe? We don't know anything about who these auditors are, and what they've told us they want us here for isn't exactly the whole truth.