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[He relaxes visibly when he sees B coming up to him. Thank fuck.

. . .

But that's short lived as then he gets mad and tense all over again]

Glad you made it back in one piece, B. Had fun with your little detour with security?

Exael saved me and I discovered from it that she has teleportation powers probably.

Not bad for the price of a scare from a bloody bleeding claw-y scary person.

Get a picture of that?

No. They had my phone hand.

[tugs down sleeve to show a bruise around his wrist]

Pretty strong though.

[Well.

That settles it.

You're never going to meet with another host again, buddy. JESUS FUCK]

Get someone on SensitIV to heal that. I'll pay the bill.

Edited 2018-09-03 02:20 (UTC)

It's a bruise. It's literally nothing.

Right. Right. Let's shelve that argument for now.

[Pulls out his phone and scrolls over to the conversation with B, bringing up one of the pictures he sent. This one:

"They're photos of... Tokyo-F? Almost tokyo-F. The buildings are the same shape as Tokyo-F's highrises at ground level, but if you look up they start to contort, spiraling."]

Can you send me all of these and where you took them?

Right right. I'll send all my pictures.

[here we go, pic dump
-Buildings that are the same shape as Tokyo-F's highrises at ground level but they start contorting, spiraling
-Cracked pavement with smooth, slick black substance underneath
-A Shinjuku busier, brighter, controrted. Shinjuku as you've never known it. Everything glows, every last window blazing with kaledescopic light, wrought iron and stained glass in all the windows. In the shadows cast from the light, the street is now filled with those who aren't quite occupying the same space as you-- black outlines. Their silhouettes are something like people. The sky shudders with stars-- none of them still in their celestial orbits.
-A building not in your Shinjuku. The second story up, it is covered in fragmentary display screens, between stained glass. The scene looks like a giant game, a board set up according to rules you don't know— and some of this glass is clear, not stained with color. Maybe fifty uncolored orbs, surround panels made to look like doors, little windows into the games you've played! It's a movie theater. There's a lot of figures around it, it seems pretty popular.
-Selfie with Exael: a bloody lip, gold ichor crusted at the side, and her skin seems kind of see-through luminescent in places. Maybe they're bruises. this face Her apartment is visible behind them. It's cavernous. She has her ceiling tented with fabric and the walls, alternating wide pastel stripes, a trapeze (why), a wall that's pink neon signs and lava lamps
-she's made of wings]

Edited 2018-09-03 02:30 (UTC)

. . .Did you take the subway?

No, I walked. I was on my way to where the twins play volleyball and got a text and walked from there.

[Fuck. Intensity should have taken more pictures]

I took the subway from Ichigaya station.

[He opens up a picture of him on what looks like a normal train, except its full of "people." The other passengers don't seem to be quite occupying the same space as he is-- they have black outlines with silhouettes are something like people. They're also blocking seeing whatever is outside the train windows]

Ran into the daily commute.

Mmm...

[seems to be thinking about. something. for several moments]

There was a piece of information she said was dangerous but I don't know if we have the context for why it's dangerous yet. So I'd prefer to say it somewhere more. Private? Probably later on.

I'll leave that to your discretion. We can sync up after we meet with the others.

What Exael was not afraid of sharing is that these people are the audience. And I couldn't interact with them. Not really. Based on what I asked and what I saw, it appears we could have up to three different dimensional spaces sitting on top of each other.

They're the damned.

When security grabbed me, they noticed me for the first time.

What do you mean the damned?

She said the bulk of the audience is the damned.

I'm not sure but they may be past graduates who accepted hell's wish prize rather than the return home prize. Since accepting hell's gift means you belong to them. That's speculation though.

Did she say what you get if you accept heaven's gift?

You return home.

Intact. You return home as you left it, she said.

I was asking her if you got your memories and any powers that had been stripped away back if you go home.

Did you give you an answer?

Just that you return home as you left it which implies you get it all back.

Ah, maybe this is easier. I wrote down notes after.

[PRESENT SKETCHBOOK he wrote a fuckton in sharpie

-Bloody bleeding figure with clawed hands = security
-Azzy (Not Boss Dad) hurt her but Her Boss stepped in
-Heaven and Hell are the two factions that run Imeeji
-"It's not like Heaven wants to let all of you graduate to their arms."
-Azzy IMPLIED hell faction
-Graduation is offered to you when People in Charge think you may accept it
-Graduation is a competition between Heaven and Hell on what is chosen (implied)
-Graduation choices Go Home Just As You Left It(Heaven's Win) or Get a Wish (Belong to Hell)
-Idols Picked: Reps from some places more than others but mostly chance, tries to avoid a Side Advantage
-Transfers lose their chance at graduation and aren't thought of as good reps
-Can't watch hell tv
-Transfers can reenter Imeeji
-Bulk of show audience is the damned
-Implied that the damned are past "representatives"
-Alcheme popular with [REDACTED] and some higher ups
-Implied past idol(?)
-Units are all new for this round
-Currently only Exael and Mukuro are active hosts
-Better to find a niche than appeal to everyone
-Included Easter Eggs because the pieces should know about the gameboard to make winning plays
-Exael said to think on: What does Heaven get out of this? Is there a bigger game?
-POWERS WORK OUTSIDE OF TOKYO-F
-Azzy's people (implied Hell) are the game-makers, they give templates and parameters
-Exael powers: Teleporting, temporary transformation of small objects?, wings]

[Taking a picture of B's notes to compile later]

Did she do the full transformation for you?

She jumped up and was just wings. It was one of the pictures I sent.

This doesn't make fucking sense.

Exael chose Heaven. Then she should be sent back home, right? But she's not. She's still here.

Unless she was just fucking wordsmithing me since she wouldn't answer the question directly.

She could have gotten a special deal? If she had an unhappy home life. I didn't think to ask. Stupid....

Stop that.

You did your job. Now let me do mine.