BARiTONES looks like they cheat on their taxes

[intimitation]

Who: BARiTONES and visitors
Where: BARiTONES dorm
When: Day 227-228, SOMEWHERE AROUND THERE IDK

[Man, we didn't get any game punishments and someone STILL got beaten up. This is just the BARiTONES way, I guess.

But maybe you're having a fine time anyway!! How we doin'?]

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[notadrop]

Woaaah, hey Mister Funbucks!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[I---

Is that a compliment? Or a dig at his continual poverty?]

Mister what now?

[notadrop]

[ heh. ]

You heard me. To what do we owe the visit?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'm here to listen to grandpa tell stories. Take your pick on which one it is.

[notadrop]

Emi-Selcchi. The zombie probably doesn't even know what happened 'cause he was too busy being a creepo or something.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

...

Okay, I have to admit, I like this 'cchi thing when added to Alexander's name.

Tell me it's a secret basketball diss.

[notadrop]

Dude, I wish? It's just a cutener. I guess it's a diss if being cute ruins your image or something.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[No comment]

Well, then. You guessed correctly. I'm here for the non-zombie elder mostly, but to also talk to the rest of you.

[notadrop]

Yeah? About what, our failed attempt to die for your sins?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

Well now I see why you and Kohime get along.

Sadly no. You'll have to find some other pleeb for that. I'm here to ask about my cat.

[notadrop]

Eh? Yeah, what's up?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

She's a bit keyed up after the last game. And I want to help calm her down.

Paloma said the two of you are close.

[notadrop]

Well, like you said, we're similar so we get along. I'm not great at dealing with her though 'cause I like, suck at kids, apparently? I'm probs closer to her than anyone else on the unit, but that's because I force her to talk me about her problems in a way that's less distant than Yvette's debriefings.

So like, my point here is that she didn't answer my texts and I have no idea what's up with her right now or where she is, other than 'she's fucking pissed and might be about to murder Eichi'.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

She's concerned the rest of BARiTONES are secretly out to get her. Or supporters of Eichi.

I'm here to try and separate the truth from the paranoia.

[notadrop]

I literally already had this conversation with her? Nobody's out to get her, Eichi's just a selfish rich kid and gets asspats when he's sad. She also gets asspats, but she doesn't trust any of the unit because we're all like, super untrustworthy due to our own incurable trust issues. So none of those count, and also people humoring the whole "emperor" thing means they literally want him as a leader, even though everyone would either rather eat shit and die or don't actually care one way or the other. Emet's the only one who actually thinks he should, and is definitely the only one who actually supports him in any way that isn't "oh no poor baby" nonsense. See also: him being as absent from the dorm as Koko has been since their fight.

Basically, we all have a compulsive posturing disease and she takes all the posturing 100% seriously and nobody here besides me really notices that because I'm the only one who presses for emotions without being all interrogative about it. Maid cafe work really paid off for once in my fucking life, not like it helped anything. That enough separating for you?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Looks slightly taken aback like that was the last thing he was expecting.

Well played, Ruby. Well played]

Yes, concisely and clearly. My condolences for being the unit mom for the midboss unit.

Well, I'm trying to convince her to come back to the dorms. And in the interest of easing her paranoia, I was wondering how the rest of BARiTONES would accept myself staying with her for a short time.

[notadrop]

[ they have not gotten to vent any of this for weeks, ]

What, worried she's gonna go grey? She'll be back before then. She's stubborn, not stupid. If you wanna try I don't care, since you're important to her or whatever. And we don't suuuuper know each other personally, but future is now's the only full unit we can actually count on, so whatevs.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I agree. I don't think she's stupid, just stubborn. And she's a survivor.

But I want to get to a point where she feels comfortable back in the dorms. And if the first step is a wingman, then so be it.

[notadrop]

...Well, I'm hardly gonna say no to someone who cares that much about her. She needs more of that.