homophonic: kyoko

[camena]

Comments

[camena]

Hopefully that's gone by tomorrow...

[factoring]

The glitching from last week lasted until Sunday.

[camena]

Ugh... Rough.

But—at least you kind of know it's happening? I guess?

[factoring]

Everything feels like it's on the edge of real and fake. Sometimes I can trust myself and sometimes it feels like I can't. Like all of this is going to melt away and I'll be right back in the void.

[camena]

The... void?

[factoring]

The nothing where we arrived and where we left.

[camena]

[ a very brief laugh. haha! voids!!! always fun. ]

Well. It's not happening. You're not going anywhere.

[factoring]

Oh? What makes you sure?

[Thoughtful, and not hostile.]

[camena]

Your team just took a hit already. No one should be freaking—like... double-tapping.

[factoring]

You don't think it's deserved after what Libby did?

[camena]

I think Fei Du was annoying, but that doesn't mean he deserves to be dead. And I don't think any of you deserve to be punished for what someone else did. I don't even think Libby deserved to be punished.

This game is just messed up. That's all.

[factoring]

I didn't think he was annoying.

[ It's more emotion than she's been showing. ]

It's a cruel game.

[camena]

Yeah. My point is that it doesn't matter. Liking someone or not liking them isn't enough motivation to kill them. Or to not want to protect them.

[factoring]

It really should be that simple. Why was this game chosen? Why are the rules laid out this way?

[camena]

... I don't know. I can't heads or tails of what the Reapers say, they don't know about other games, I doubt we're ever gonna meet the Game Master, and those texts people have been getting really aren't clarifying anything.

[factoring]

Which texts do you mean? From going on those special missions or something else?

[camena]

I meant the ones from the special missions.

Buuut we are also getting completely incoherent texts from all kinds of crazy usernames, so—who knows!

[factoring]

Are they coming through corrupted?

[camena]

No, they're all just like... spam texts, you know? Bad short horror stories and weird advertisements that make no sense.

[factoring]

Do you have an example?

[camena]

[ she will take out her phone and pull up a message: ]

from user saintmochelloc:
A young girl was playing in her bedroom when she hears her mother call to her from the kitchen, so she runs down stairs to meet her mother. As she's running through the hallway, the door to the cupboard under the stairs opens, and a hand reaches out and pulls her in. It's her mother, she whispers to her child, "Don't go in the kitchen, I heard it, too."

You guys have been getting these too, right?

[factoring]

I haven't personally, but I know some people have.

I wonder what the common thread is to you receiving these strange ones.

[camena]

I have... no earthly idea.

[factoring]

I wonder if we're even on Earth right now.

[camena]

... Hadn't thought about it. I think... no? Like, why would it be Earth, when there are people here who aren't from Earth?