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[starlitvoidroses]

hello my dearest darling wife!! how’s the game treated you so far?

—@botanist-bird

Hello hello!!! This game has been pretty nice so far, certainly bettered by this last session :3 Although I did spend most of the first session alone, but I have a team now! And, of course, three wonderful wives. So, loneliness isn't much a concern anymore. within the games

How has your game been going?

[starlitvoidroses]

no hard feelings for hunting you down, right? (you did kill all of us. kind of embarrassing, but a slay for you)

—@botanist-bird

No hard feelings for the hunt, I enjoyed it to be honest. Little bit disappointed that I didn't actually get to kill you, Lime kept getting in the way and then stole the kill in the end, but it is what it is. With all that said though, did you have to break my wheat field? I suppose I don't actually know who did it, but until I find out I'm gonna have to assume it was the same people that tried to kill me. And I am angry about that.

[starlitvoidroses]

if you had to pick someone outside of your team to win, who would it be?

Probably Beetle. I haven't made very many friends outside of my team, but I've had some nice interactions with him, we're allies, and he's one of the last dark greens so he probably has a decent chance.

[starlitvoidroses]

Who do you want to win? The answer can be you.

Who outside of your team do you most want to win?

Who do you think will win?

Me. I want to win it this time. I threw everything away because I didn't want to win last time, but that's not gonna happen again.

Outside of my team? One of my wives. I think it'd be silly if Cry won, although with how much I've done to help Fusion, and how much time she's spent with the Eels, it does make me root for her more.

As much as I'd like to win, the odds aren't in my favor. I have a chance, but I think it's more likely someone from Fishtrix or the Mountain Hermits will win. Doubt it'll be Wefid again, but anything's possible.

[starlitvoidroses]

If you had to choose between your team and your wives, who would you choose?

Well... that's... quite the question. I suppose it would depend on why I'm having to make a choice.

Assuming you mean to ask about the most dramatic of scenarios, where perhaps my team and my wives have decided they are enemies to each other and I must choose which side to be on, or maybe you meant a scenario where my team and wives have all made it to the end and I have to choose who to fight for?

Either way those are terrible scenarios to imagine. But sure, I'll humor you.

For the former, if my team and wives were forcing me to choose a side right now, and with no further context, I would have to pick the people I swore my loyalty to first. Without me, my wives still have their teams, and each other. And choosing a side right now wouldn't mean I'd have to be against my wives either. Just that they would be abandoning me. And yes, Nix and Dune wouldn't be completely alone if I left, but still, they've shown me nothing but kindness, I can't do that to them.

As for the latter scenario, I don't know. I will fight for all of us to make it to the end, but if we get there? I'm not sure what I'd do.

...

Well, yknow, I've thought about, I've , hm. I've, thought, that maybe this time- maybe this time I'll try to win it. But if it came down to me or the people I care about? I think I'd find choosing to win quite difficult. And I doubt it would even feel like winning.

And if I chose not myself, then to have to pick a side? To look at the people I'd care so much about and decide which of them to kill? Who I'd betray the trust of? And ultimately, who I would leave alone, the "winner," after all of it? What a horrible thought.

As much as I'd hate to loose any of them before the end, perhaps that would be easier than having to discover the answer to your question.

[starlitvoidroses]

What do YOU think is behind the rising tide this season?

Well it's just some settings Redstone Inc changed right? A different challenge, a different twist, see how we'd react?

If it's not simply a deliberate choice on their end than I'm both concerned and quite curious.

[starlitvoidroses]

Time is turning, my heart's burnin' me through // Oh, I'm scared to close my eyes in case I miss my chance with you

Didn't know what I was missin' //You gave me something to miss

I don't need anybody, I'm fine here on my own // But if I needed somebody, it'd be you I'd call my own // I don't need anybody, I'm fine here on my own // But if I needed somebody, it'd be you I'd call my own

Stella - Cereus Bright

A wonderful showing this time around, little gladiator! I'm glad you found people you could depend on and stick by until the end. It's always a delight to watch you.

Oh! hello again stranger :D

ty ty, I did my best :)

[She can't help but feel sad reading the lyrics.] [She can tell they're from a love song of sorts, likely intended to be cheerful about the subject,] [and yet] [...] [They are fitting though. In some sort of way.]

A question for you, o mystery person, how do you watch us?

[starlitvoidroses]

Three weeks ago...

Rose couldn't believe she was happy to be returning to the simulation. Well... she had been thinking about how much she missed her friends every day since she got dragged away from them, but still, it felt wrong. This thing that she had once fought so hard against, that felt like a prison, a symbol of the loss of her self and life, was something she found herself aching go back to.

R.I. had tried to give her a way to speak to the others outside of the simulation, a kindness she wasn't expecting, maybe some of her friends were still looking out for her, but it didn't work for very long. She did get two messages out at least! A, very, brief conversation with Sparrow. Still, it was something. It gave her hope, which at that point was getting pretty hard to come by. But now? With the news that she was getting to re-enter the simulation with everyone? She was wishing more than anything that she could just be there already.

When the time finally came she tried to tell them that she'd go willingly, hoped that maybe this time they'd listen. Instead, she found herself waking up already starting to connect to the simulation. Oh well. Her fault she supposed. Maybe if she continued to be peaceful for long enough R.I. would be willing to negotiate with her again, but for now she couldn't complain too much. After all, she did get to skip right to the good part.