[superhell pcs] date

[voidshift]

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[psynchronise]

And to see things through. Even if you don't want to go down that particular path.

[voidshift]

Even if you don't want to.

[he exhales a slow sigh.]

If it has to happen, no matter what, then you do it.

[psynchronise]

...

Shit, isn't it?

[ ha. ]

And now we have to think about this party and how we're going to get out of here with as many of us in one piece as we can.

[voidshift]

You know, I think I'm going to prefer thinking about that to thinking about murder.

[psynchronise]

It's going to be so much harder to pull off. But-- you're not wrong.

[voidshift]

We've been doing an alright job here, overall, or so I'd like to think.

[psynchronise]

Sure, but if we want to help the people we’ve lost [ all (looks at notes) like 15 of them. (“becks isn’t it 16?”) we don’t care about mephisto ] And the demons, then it’ll probably be harder.

w7, monday

[psynchronise]

[ hey rynlan. date is literally just sprawled on a bench somewhere. probably being stared at by demons. he is no longer pretending that he's not talking to someone when he's talking to aiba now. ]

No, I'm not sure I want to drag myself back to the dorms every evening. But I don't think I can just rock up to a random building and go "hey, mind if I crash here", y'know?

Might as well deal with the bunkbeds a little longer.

[voidshift]

-Date?

[i actually don't think ryn knows about aiba so he's just. pausing by the bench and peering down at him, head tilted. he's still in shadowform, more or less looking like a living shadow.]

[psynchronise]

[ well this is fun. ]

-- ??

[ uhhhhh.

wait. ]

Rynlan?

[voidshift]

I still sound like myself, don't I?

[a tendril of shadow extends out to flick at his cheek.]

[psynchronise]

You do, but the change in appearance is something. That's with the powers switched back on, right?

[voidshift]

It is. This is what I should've been able to do all along.

[psynchronise]

Wonder why we had everything switched off in the way we did. Something to do with even ground, maybe?

[voidshift]

Maybe, but if the murder wasn't expected and we weren't in the original hell anyway, why do it from the start? It can't be related to keeping things fairer for the party if we just got it all back.

[psynchronise]

Maybe not original hell didn’t have the same kind of things regular hell does. Like powers.

[voidshift]

Maybe not. Still, it's been a pain to go without them for weeks...

[psynchronise]

[ there is a crackle, and then from date’s phone: ]

That must have been quite frustrating for you. I know it has been frustrating not to be able to come out as I pleased.

You wouldn’t have been able to anyway. I do not see why there would have been an issue with telling Zagreus about me and letting me out in the dorm room if things had been normal. I do not think the Prince of the Underworld would be a deceitful gossip.

[voidshift]

[-oh. his ears perk abruptly at the sound of that second voice, as he hovers over to squint down at date's phone.]

Wait, what is that-- or is it who?

[psynchronise]

Ah.

Ah.

[ .... ]

Who. It's uh-- [ he taps just below his left eye.





his eye wiggles. ]

[voidshift]

...oh. Your eye is possessed? Or is this more like Zhanlu?

[bless zhanlu's existence, he can comprehend ai.]

[psynchronise]

More like Zhanlu. Very similar, actually. I think.

[ helpful. ]

Concept wise at least.

[voidshift]

Some sort of-- artificial person, then?

[he's watching date's eye very curiously.]

[psynchronise]

Literally an Artificial Intelligence, so... sort of.