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[deadlynadder]

Who: Idols!
Where: Anywhere!
When: 504

[ It's a new day! Hopefully, you're feeling a little less zappy, jelly-like, and zany. And if you're not? Maybe that's the perfect excuse for ✨memories✨. ]

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[leaveofabsence]

[ That's what happens when you're a literal rock ]

I do believe I saw something that I was not meant to see.

[malumdiscordiae]

Sorry? [ shuts his... notebook??? ] ...wait, why am I apologizing. [ squints. ] What did you see?

[leaveofabsence]

Did you not purchase a memory on your phone just now?

[malumdiscordiae]

[ going to look at his phone. fff. ] I had been buying songs to listen to and I guess I... [ his lips pull into a tight, thin line. ] What did you see?

[leaveofabsence]

You were preparing to sing in front of a crowd. There was a voice though the owner of the voice could not be seen. You performed. Many of those watching your performance collapsed. And then you yourself collapsed shortly thereafter.

1/2

[malumdiscordiae]

... [ those two things must be unrelated. clearly!!! ] Oh. [ ... ] ... [ clears his throat. ] ...uh, s- sounds like a bad time.

[malumdiscordiae]

[ INTERNAL SCREAMING. ]

[leaveofabsence]

Did you not see the memory?

[malumdiscordiae]

I mean, I got to thinking about... that, but I thought it was because I was listening to the song. Like, you know how music makes you think of stuff and... stuff. I didn't think I was playing a memory! to everybody!!

[leaveofabsence]

Ah.




Then now I am sure that I saw something I shouldn't see.

[malumdiscordiae]

...you and a bunch of other people apparently. It's... alright. If I had purchased it willingly and been an amnesiac it would have been some kind of roulette nonsense, so... [ shrugs. ] yeah.

What, uh, happened..?

[leaveofabsence]

Someone talking that could not be seen. And your viewers collapsing at one of your performances.

[malumdiscordiae]

...oh. [ rubs the back of his neck. ] Ah, yeah, I... remember that one. [ unfortunately. ] A friend of mine got a little greedy... and that's the reason for the shit show at the end. It wasn't supposed to be like that.

[leaveofabsence]

Was that voice your friend?

[malumdiscordiae]

Friend is a... broad term. I am not not friends with him. [ . . . ] I think our relationship is more like, ah, business partners! [ wait, that seems... worse. ]

[leaveofabsence]

Business partners.

[ Hmmm ]

Is the contract between the two of your fair?

[malumdiscordiae]

[ fuck. ]

Probably. I mean, we’re both getting what we want, so… that’s fair, right?

[leaveofabsence]

I think that depends on what it is you want. It's very easy to convince someone to agree to something when they are under emotional duress.

[malumdiscordiae]

…what makes you think I had some emotion whatever going on. I was fine. [ h- hahahahaha. ] And are you, like, the authority on fairness or something. I feel like it’s pretty hard to judge that kind of thing…

[leaveofabsence]

I did not imply whether it was one way are the other. But you say you were not under duress when the agreement was made?

[malumdiscordiae]

[ buddy. ]

[ stop making such a serious face at him!!! ]

Does it... matter? It wouldn't have changed the terms of the agreement any. [ probably. ] I wanted what I wanted... [ his ears flatten. ]

[ he's feeling nervous all of a sudden. ]

[leaveofabsence]

Of course, it matters. It means that the other party could have taken advantage of your situation to arrive at a contract that was unproportionally more beneficial to them.

[malumdiscordiae]

And how would you even be able to tell if that was the case? I'm pretty sure we're both getting what we want out of this... I live, he eats, we both win.

[leaveofabsence]

[ Zhongli could discuss on one side of the contract being "I live" is already dangerously unbalanced in the first place, but---

Perhaps now is not the time. ]

Then if it is a fair contract that you are both aware of and accept, why does it affect your memory so?

[malumdiscordiae]

I... don't know. I'm not sure what's wrong with my head. Or... my memories, I guess I should say. I keep taking them in the hopes that maybe they'll, I don't know, unfuck themselves or something... but... I don't know. [ ... ] You're smart, right? Maybe you could help me dig around and figure it out.