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[[auauugh once again i am so sorry for the godawful timing of this but unfortunately it is looking like this lil break is gonna have to be a bit longer than the other ones i've taken while i get all this other irl stuff sorted out >:/ yall have no idea how annoyed i am about it lmao

on the brightest of bright sides i think i've found a half-decent way to integrate the weird gap into the story so at least we got that :> but for now i'm just gonna need ya to bear with me for a bit!! thank you so much for your patience!!!!!]]

[[ok gang i am genuinely so sorry to be doing this literally RIGHT before the end of the event but i've got a whole buncha stuff lining up irl that i am starting to reeeaaally need to address/prioritize and there are a couple things that i still want to do for the "finale" here that i haven't had the time to set up, so all of this is to say iiii need to take at least a day or two to Slow Down And Chill for a bit

I haven't entirely decided if this means I'll take a full break like i have been for the weekends or if I'll just post a little less than I have been, it depends on how I end up feeling really. I will absolutely try my best to make up for the days I've missed tho! I have something pretty cool planned that I think has the potential to be pretty fun, just like i said I gotta set things in place first haha]]

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[[ok gang i am genuinely so sorry to be doing this literally RIGHT before the end of the event but i've got a whole buncha stuff lining up irl that i am starting to reeeaaally need to address/prioritize and there are a couple things that i still want to do for the "finale" here that i haven't had the time to set up, so all of this is to say iiii need to take at least a day or two to Slow Down And Chill for a bit

I haven't entirely decided if this means I'll take a full break like i have been for the weekends or if I'll just post a little less than I have been, it depends on how I end up feeling really. I will absolutely try my best to make up for the days I've missed tho! I have something pretty cool planned that I think has the potential to be pretty fun, just like i said I gotta set things in place first haha]]

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ebony, mate, if your trying to get us to be less suspicious of you, it's not working lmao

"OH PLEASE. DO YOU REALLY THINK I STILL CARE ABOUT THAT BY NOW?"

"I CONCEDE! YOU CAUGHT ME. YOU KNEW THAT I WAS LYING TO YOU, AND I KNOW THAT YOU'VE FOUND YOUR LITTLE SNIPPETS OF THE TRUTH. YOU'VE PLAYED THE GAME WELL, EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NEVER ANY WAY YOU COULD HAVE WON."

"NOW I GET TO WATCH YOU FLAIL AROUND WHILE YOU TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL, AND SEE JUST HOW EASILY I CAN THROW YOU OFF WITH ONLY A FEW SENTENCES. IT MAKES FOR SOME FANTASTIC ENTERTAINMENT."

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since it's apparently so close to the end, can you finally tell us what you're planning to do when your done with this whole takeover?

"HMM... ALRIGHT, FINE. THERE'S ONLY A DAY OR TWO LEFT, SO I SUPPOSE NOW IS AS GOOD A TIME AS EVER."

"AS SOON AS I'M FINISHED EXPORTING ALL OF THE DATA FROM THIS ACCOUNT, I PLAN TO SHUT IT ALL DOWN AND SEVER ITS CONNECTION TO ME, THOSE FOUR, AND THE MULTIVERSE AS A WHOLE."

"YOU WON'T GET TO SPEAK TO ANY OF US EVER AGAIN."

"PERHAPS YOU CAN CONSIDER IT MY ONE GOOD DEED IN ALL THIS. IT'S NOT LIKE YOU WERE EVER MUCH HELP."

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wait, how long HAS it been since we've seen the other guys? what have we missed?

"AH, NOW THERE'S A GOOD QUESTION! 'HOW LONG,' INDEED..."

"TO START, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THE MESSAGE THAT I INTERRUPTED UPON ARRIVING HERE WAS NOTHING BUT A LEFTOVER, AN ANSWER THAT NEVER QUITE WENT THROUGH UNTIL I REVIVED ITS SIGNAL. IT WAS FAR FROM RECENT."

"WITH THAT IN MIND, IT HAS BEEN AROUND... SIX MONTHS, GIVE OR TAKE A FEW WEEKS, SINCE YOU'VE HEARD FROM ANY OF THEM. QUITE A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN THAT TIME, WOULDN'T YOU AGREE?"

"SO, LET'S SEE, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD... EDGE AND FLUFF HAVE BECOME RATHER CLOSE, AND AS SUCH HAVE BOTH GROWN A FAR MORE OUTGOING AND NEAR-OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK IN THEIR LIVES. EDGE IN PARTICULAR HAS SHOWN A GREAT DEAL OF IMPROVEMENT."

"THAT IS, IF YOU CONSIDER 'BEING A LITTLE HAPPIER ABOUT DEVOTING HIS ENTIRE LIFE TO A MINDLESS IDIOT' AN IMPROVEMENT TO GRATUITOUS SELF LOATHING."

"AH, AND SPEAKING OF WHICH, RUSS..."

[HARSH COUGHING]

"...HAS HARDLY CHANGED AT ALL."

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So what makes an interdimensional traveler (or their world I suppose) conclusive or inconclusive? How come Russ's is inaccessible? Or do you not know

"OH, IT'S NOT ANY TRAVELER I'M LOOKING AT. JUST THOSE FOUR. IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TRACKING HOW... USEFUL, THEY MAY BE. THEIR DIFFERENT WORLDS ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS WHATEVER CONTEXT THEY PROVIDE."

"...AND IF ONE OF THEM VERY NEARLY BLEW NOT ONLY YOUR COVER, BUT YOUR ENTIRE MODE OF TRANSPORTATION INTO A FIREY CAVE-IN-CAUSING CATACLYSM, I SHOULD HOPE YOU WOULD BLACKLIST IT AS WELL."

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Who or What are you looking to make First Contact with? Because it Doesn't Seem to be Us.

"WELL, ANYONE THEY STILL HAVE YET TO MEET, OF COURSE!"

"AS WE'VE ALREADY SEEN PLENTY, IT WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD TO ATTEMPT A RAPPORT WITH THOSE ALREADY FAMILIAR AND SYMPATHETIC TO THEIR CAUSE."

"THERE ARE MANY, MANY, MANY AREAS TO EXPLORE... BUT A LITTLE ANCHORING BIAS WOULD CERTAINLY SAVE ME SOME WORK."

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you can try and pretend you're in control all you like, Princess, you're just a pawn in whatever game this mysterious "You" you've been talking to is playing.

"PRIN...???"

"AHEM! I-I MEAN... LISTEN."

"WHILE I WON'T DENY THAT I DON'T HAVE ALL THE CARDS IN THIS, I ABSOLUTELY HAVE JUST ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW TO WIN. I SINCERELY DOUBT THAT YOU CAN SAY THE SAME."

"AND, FOR THE RECORD... THAT LITTLE INFORMANT IS FAR MORE OF A PAWN THAN I AM. I BELIEVE I WOULD BE MUCH MORE AKIN TO A KNIGHT."

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[[OKAY my awesome roommate allowed me to check how it looked on THEIR laptop and i did not realize that thing was just completely inaccessible i am so sorry,,, different screen sizes have become My Enemy

i fixed it though!!! that one should be able to actually read now, at the sacrifice of being less hidden but honestly this late in the week thats definitely fine]]

[[hey, late night check-in bc it hasn't occurred to me until now that the reason nobody's mentioned it yet might Not just be because you don't have questions about it--

on ebony's not-blog thing, have y'all been able to see sticky note 3? i checked it on my laptop so i'm preeetty sure it doesnt completely disappear on smaller screens but now that i've thought about it and remembered it did that on some previous tests i have some Concerns]]

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[[hey, late night check-in bc it hasn't occurred to me until now that the reason nobody's mentioned it yet might Not just be because you don't have questions about it--

on ebony's not-blog thing, have y'all been able to see sticky note 3? i checked it on my laptop so i'm preeetty sure it doesnt completely disappear on smaller screens but now that i've thought about it and remembered it did that on some previous tests i have some Concerns]]

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oh since multiverse stuff is available to talk about you'll get a kick out of this, one of your alternate universe selves we call fluff has a brother we call karma, and he got tricked into taking a deal by some asshole named doctor dingdong gasket or wingus gasbag or something to try and steal russ' soul, and he wound up getting plopped into The Void where he's had to hang out for god knows how long until the asshole doctor decides it's the right time to use him, ain't that crazy?

"GOODNESS, WHAT AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT TO GET YOURSELF INTO! I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE THE ISOLATION, THE BOREDOM, THE ALL-ENCOMPASSING SENSE OF FAILURE..."

"...BEING REDUCED TO NOTHING MORE THAN A TRAGIC GHOST STORY, ALL BUT FORGOTTEN BY THE ONES WHO SAID THEY WOULD HELP..."

"...YES, HOW FUNNY THAT MUST BE."

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Who's sitting in the sidelines and watching?

"YOU ARE."

"PLEASE, WHO ELSE COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE REFERRING TO? IS THAT NOT YOUR ENTIRE ROLE IN ALL OF THIS?"

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oh dear... are you sharing your body with something? someone? are you looking to find someone to be their next host so you don't have to deal with that burden anymore?

[COUGHING]

"WOW! MY APOLOGIES, THAT THEORY WAS SO INSANE AND NONSENSICAL THAT IT QUITE NEARLY SENT ME STRAIGHT INTO ANOTHER FIT! THAT'S IMPRESSIVE!"

"AS... DISTURBING AS THE SUBJECT MATTER IS, I'M QUITE GLAD TO SAY IT IS NOT THE CASE. AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE, I AM ENTIRELY MY OWN."

"AND I WILL REMAIN THAT WAY FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. OBVIOUSLY."

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Are you planning on trying to pass as Edge for some reason? Is it to get informations out of Stretch since he is wary of strangers-

"OH, MOST CERTAINLY NOT. I CAN SAY WITH CONFIDENCE THAT THERE ARE NO CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH I WOULD STOOP TO THAT LEVEL OF HORRENDOUS INSECURITY, EVEN AS AN ACT."

"TRUTH BE TOLD, STRETCH IS ONLY AS INVOLVED IN THIS AS THE REST OF THEM, AND HARDLY MY MAIN FOCUS AT THAT. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT HE'S BEEN THE HARDEST TO FIND SOLID INFORMATION ON."

"REALLY, HE ISN'T NEARLY AS IMPORTANT AS YOU ALL SEEM TO BELIEVE. I'D SIMPLY PREFER TO KEEP A WIDE PERSPECTIVE OF EVERYTHING, AS ANY SELF-RESPECTING RESEARCHER SHOULD."

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What are your intentions with that information? if you’re not willing to give details, at least tell us if you plan on hurting him or not, or simply if your intentions are morally good or bad, by societal standards. I’m not quite sure I want to know about your personal take on morals.

"ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, FINE. AS WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE END OF OUR LITTLE GAME HERE, I SUPPOSE I COULD FINALLY THROW YOU A BONE OR TWO."

"I AM BEING FULLY HONEST WHEN I SAY THAT I, TRULY AND GENUINELY, HAVE NO INTENTION OF HURTING ANYONE MYSELF."

"WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR OWN PERSONAL LV-FUELED ATTACK DOG, THERE WOULDN'T EVEN BE ANY POINT IN TRYING. IF ANYTHING, HE'D BE MORE LIKELY TO BEAT ME TO IT."

"AS FOR MORALS... WELL, SINCE THE QUEEN'S RETURN, THERE'S CERTAINLY BEEN A SHIFT IN HOW CERTAIN THINGS ARE SEEN. THE THINGS I'LL DO MAY BE A TAD... REPREHENSIBLE, FROM THAT STANDPOINT."

"BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER HOW I OR ANYONE ELSE FEELS ABOUT IT. IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWAY."

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Is the same thing causing the leak also causing your coughs?

"...COULD IT..."

"...WAIT, NO, THAT'S COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS. I DON'T KNOW WHY I EVEN HAD TO THINK ABOUT IT, THAT'S-- THAT'S JUST NOT HOW ANYTHING WORKS."

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are you... looking for viable worlds to move to?

"HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT I AM PERFECTLY HAPPY EXACTLY WHERE I AM BEFORE YOU START TO HAVE AN INKLING OF SUSPICION THAT I MAY BE TELLING THE TRUTH?"

"BESIDES... EVEN IF YOU WERE RIGHT, THOSE WOULDN'T EVEN BE IN THE TOP TEN. I'M AFRAID THEY'RE JUST A BIT TOO... MISERABLE, FOR MY TASTES."