[ jesus christ so much is happening this week and especially in these past 24 hours

but AT SOME POINT pretty late wednesday night, todomatsu and kazuki are going to track temenos down for some info sharing before the inevitable thursday drama. ]

Temenos-san! [ waves ] Do you have a few minutes? We found some stuff last night that we wanted to talk to you about, but, um, you were a little kid earlier, so...

[ help being a little kid makes his brow pinch briefly.... dont remind him he was so lame... but temenos as ever has a smile for both todomatsu and kazuki in greeting. ]

Of course. What did you find?

It was from the Hydroponics area.

[ making a face because nature officially sucks!! but anyway, he pulls up a data log on his IRIS for temenos to look over. ]

We found this after we woke up - another one of those logs about the last tour.

[ nods ]

FYI, that place is creepy as hell. We kept like, time looping and getting followed by some messed up flower scarecrow.

[ it felt VERY TARGETED. ]

...Also I think the crappy cafeteria food is made out of tortured eels or something?

[ crawls in here now ]

...tortured eels? [ but he will take the video pads and watch them! and. wow. yikes. both of these are bleak huh ]

... I suppose this confirms the theory that things were as dire before as our time now. Are you two alright?

Yeah, there were eels being cut apart for the food they make here. Something called a screaming room?

...A little freaked out. [ just a quiet confession. ] That scarecrow thing looked a little like the people we saw on Verdure - the ones the heartseed already got to.

Otherwise, I think we're fine?

[ glances at totty. ]

Yeah, it was way too reminiscent of that.

[ rubs the side of his neck ]

I'm fine, though. Just don't exactly love knowing that thing exists in the same space as us.

[ unless it doesn't really exist, but he doesn't like those implications either. ]

Were you able to kill it? Or did you both just escape from it? I'm glad that you did, but either way.

[ thinks about how he murdered shrek...anyway.... ]

These anomalies aren't so uncommon. Ideally, that will be the first and the last you've seen of it, at least - no anomaly has ever been the same, so far. If that helps.

No, it was - the time loops. We just didn't go back in, the last time. [ a beat. ] It might still be in there.

[ he will never go anywhere near hydroponics ever again ]

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[ nods ]

Unless we hallucinated it, I assume it's still there? It kept sneaking up closer every time until it was finally right there and about to kill us, and then... yeah, we just got the hell out of there instead of going through all that again.

[ hm. ]

I'll go take a look at it later.

[ i'll beat this weird flower monster to death for you my weird children ]

... You did well, nevertheless - I'm glad that the two of you are unharmed. I had thought the hydroponics area might yield something useful.

...Just be careful.

[ don't get impaled again. ]

It's good that we found it, but it's not a very good sign for us, is it? That things are still going so badly after so long.