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[thesettingsun]

Just a couple of things.

-I'm turning 25 on Monday and it seems like the kind of thing you should do something for. I was going to invite people to the pool until some things happened, but now I don't want to, so. I'm going to be at the Inkwell and will accept all birthday congratulations, gifts, and complaints about how grey water is super weird.

Anyone can come, it's not like I run the bar. Unless you're that guy that threatened me, you have to stay at least ten feet away from me at all times.

[Water being grey now is not actually why the pool party is being called off, but it makes an excellent excuse.]

-Does anyone have any advice about explaining your sudden changes in behavior to people who know you really well but don't know what's going on with Retrospec? I can't not talk to my parents.

Comments

[thesettingsun]

No. I refuse. I'm not going to do anything with you where you're allowed to shoot at me.

[buncho]

it only hurts if i shoot you right in the face! we can be on the same team!

[thesettingsun]

Still no. Absolutely not. And isn't shooting someone in the face against the rules anyway??

[buncho]

sometimes accidents happen. but it wont happen, because were a team! were partners! i know youre fast, shuji, you can draw enemy fire while i snipe them from up above!

[thesettingsun]

I don't want to be a target! Now I really won't play with you ever! Not in a million years!!

[buncho]

thats not fair! we can play something you like! what do you want to play! ill play with you!!

[thesettingsun]

[...hm...]

I'll play tic tac toe with you. You probably could not hurt me in tic tac toe.

[buncho]

[ that's optimistic. if they're playing with a pen and paper though, just be careful Mafuyu isn't holding the pen when she loses. ]

tic tac toe is boring. but ill play! if i win, i get to choose the next game!

[thesettingsun]

...okay I spent too long trying to figure out how to make a tic tac toe board with underscores that didn't look stupid. Sometimes I wish we used monospace fonts more.

Twenty questions?

[buncho]

playing tic tac toe through text is stupid anyways. we can do 20 ?s! ill go first

1. whats your favorite food

[thesettingsun]

[That's not how you play twenty questions??]

Kaiyaki miso.

[buncho]

[ at least this version is relatively safe? answer her questions and no one gets hurt ]

whats kaiyaki miso? can you make it?

[thesettingsun]

It's a kind of soup with scallops. I can't make it, but Mom used to make it when I got sick.

[buncho]

so if you get sick again, shell make it for you? i can help

[thesettingsun]

I don't want you to help my mother cook, that's weird.

[buncho]

haha no i mean the sick part

[thesettingsun]

Who would actually want you to make them sick?

[buncho]

i dunno, how badly do you want to eat that soup again? i think itll be worth it!

[thesettingsun]

Not that badly! I'll learn to make it myself!

[buncho]

good! then you can let me try it!

[thesettingsun]

You don't get any.

[buncho]

so stingy! why?????

[thesettingsun]

So many reasons that I couldn't possibly type them all out. But most of them are just 'I don't like you that much'.

[buncho]

but i like you?????????

[thesettingsun]

Do you use everyone you like to 'draw enemy fire'?