[CLOSED] try for the right kind of life

[sunstead]

Who: Clamor & ?????
When: All through June
What: Catch-all log for closed prompts!
Warnings: None at the moment, will update as needed

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((Just closed prompts for now since I'm focusing more on my other character this month. If you'd like to thread something out with Clamor, feel free to hit me up on plurk at BlueFlewFedUQueen, ping me through the game discord, or send me a PM!))

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[sunstead]

You should still get it checked out by someone... Senku could take a look at it. [senku assigned doctorkin by all of yogen, sorry blame figaro for ditching you] The imps were... well, I've met the people who summoned them, and I believe that it was an honest mistake. Lucifer and I made sure that they cleaned up the mess they caused. They won't be causing any more trouble like that again, I can promise you.

[just don't make him say that it was the cult, because he might be a cult apologist now, just only for this cult. Henir's Order is still the worst, but the satanists are A-OK in his book.]

... It may not be an illusion. I don't know. [he was never sure. maybe he feels a little guilty for acting so certain of it, back when they didn't know shit and thought looting random desks might help. sigh.] Whether it's an illusion or not, or the Order's fault, or some other group entirely... what matters is that we don't let them control us. We'll find a way out of here, whatever path we have to take.

[so cheer up a little. don't get so hung up on your revenge schemes... not everything in the world has to be connected to the same damn cult.]

[silentabyss]

[Yeah, but the looting of random desks was pretty fun, looking back. People failing their math exams is super funny and not at all relatable, please do not look at his grades thank you.]

Yeah, you're right. I know you are. [Clamor always is, at least in Noah's eyes. Even if the original hypothesis was wrong.] So... speaking of this place. This is news to me, but... After that slaughterfest with Ishimaru, I went to confront Maya with the, uh... intention to fight her, honestly.

[Gonna own up to that here, Noah was really considering decking someone, his blood was boiling.]

We wound up talking instead, and she said some things that are bugging me. For example, apparently I've been here for a year or more. The thing is, my memory only goes back to right before the charity auction.

[sunstead]

[He's getting The Look when he says he went there to fight Maya, boy pls......

Clamor doesn't look too worried about that statement, though. He puts a hand to his chin thoughtfully, thinking back to a previous conversation.]

Back in May, when Nao was rescued... sorry, I should've mentioned this before. I asked her what she remembered from last year, and if she recognized any of us at the meeting then. She said she didn't. If we can trust that her memories are reliable, then no one who was in our group at the time could've been here last year, at least not until after her near-death.

[and he feels pretty confident in that, so... he's not worried. their memories are definitely fake.

(unless, maybe, everyone was dead and took awhile to respawn, so their "previous years" in Yogen actually happened much longer ago... but he doesn't have all the pieces to put that together, alas)]

[silentabyss]

[Noah does not fear The Look when it comes to Maya. He'll revenge-punch a woman he doesn't give a shit.]

Are any of our memories reliable, though? [Beat.] ...I don't have my journal from Elrios. You know the one. If I can find that somehow like I found the Moonstone, that might tell us something. Maybe.

[But that also being said...]

The other thing she said was that you haven't been with me the entire time. That can't be right, though. You're always with me... but it explains why we're in different "years" I guess...

All I'm saying is we can't count our own memories in here. Which is rich coming from me, I know.

[sunstead]

[well. that's unfortunately true... even if it doesn't seem like Nao's memories have been altered from last year, do they really have any way of knowing for sure?

Ugh. He'd rather just write everything here off as pure illusion... but he can't ignore the other possibilities.]

I was able to find my spellbook... maybe your journal will turn up eventually, too. [... though, actually, once it's out of his mouth he realizes that raises even more questions, since he died a thousand years ago and hasn't had his spellbook since then. So how the hell did it turn up like that?]

Maybe... if we've been here for more than one year... maybe I was still a sickle back then? I doubt Maya would've recognized me as a person if I looked like that at the time.

[then whatever lead to him having a living body again would've happened during the years they can't remember... it does explain some things. but only some.]

[silentabyss]

...maybe, but then how would you have gotten a body?

["Especially one that looks like how you did in Seven Tower", Noah wants to add, but he realises he hasn't exactly come fully clean about that save for one misstep back in Elrianode. He bites his tongue; now isn't the time. He'll just get sad all over again recalling how he tried to stop that Henir's Order member from killing Clamor and how spectacularly that failed.]

The more I think about this place, the worse everything gets. I kept trying to get answers from Maya, but she wasn't much help. —Oh, speaking of...

I'm sure you haven't forgotten about... Aiko, right? I think that was her name. When I was trying to ask Maya about why killing is something that's apparently necessary in this school, she wouldn't answer me and kept telling me to think about it, but she did tell me in basic terms that the person who killed her is Komaeda.

[And then no one was shocked.

Well, okay, Noah had been a shocked at the time, but thinking back to how Komaeda spoke to him in front of her body in the case... he should've known.]

I mean — she didn't give his name, but there were some hints she gave me. Apparently she witnessed it. [And, angrily, he adds:] When I first asked her if she saw anything back then, she said she didn't. Stephanie said Maya lies her ass off, though. Not... not in those terms.

[And he definitely didn't teach a ten year old the phrase "pissed off" either.]