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Yeah, fuck you, too.

[It’s almost a reflex at this point.]

God, I could sleep for a week.

[He just snickers.

At least they were well past the point that it was ever considered personal. Sure made this particular habit easier to manage while it wore off.]

Fuckin' right? God that was a shitshow.

I can’t believe we didn’t all die. Good job to the investigators, I guess.

Yeah, but like - not for lack of trying, really. D'you know Hajime just fucking transformed into this weird demon bug form, right to Cain's face to prove he wasn't actually Ike? Like. [There's a sense from him of flailing limbs, overall representing a tone of what the actual FUCK]

Wait - Ike died? Shit.

[She missed a lot, okay?]

Also that’s - you know, I can see him trying that. His bug friend is like, eighty percent of his impulse control. Whoever that dragonman guy was that tried to set me on fire? That actually got reported to the producers.

...yeah, he went and explored Gods' Isle like- a week after the Day of Naming? Went in there to fight them and Hajime came out instead. Bug friend is called Ryo, by the way, he got infiltrated as Chum and now he lives with Cain and Stone. Mostly Cain, really.

Jesus fucking Christ, seriously? Ugh. Wow.

Ah, he always was too smart for his own good. What a waste.

... Wait, is that what was up with those weird roach things? Jesus.

[He can't help but laugh.] Fuck yeah Hajime was the weird-ass roach things. Demon roaches, he said, some old Purgatory thing he picked up.

Okay, first of all, gross. Though a new creature there being some Traveler thing from hell probably actually is better than the alternative.

When these guys break stealth, they really go all out.

I'm fully willing to bet this isn't even the worst intentionally un-stealthed mission, either. Or at least, like, a Jaunt-side one.

Oh, absolutely it isn’t, considering things ended relatively well.

I feel like that one and like, Harrogate Mark Two are the ones I've personally seen that've gotten closest to Total FUBAR.

That thing where everyone decided to antagonize the ocean could have ended really badly.

I mean yeah, absolutely. But like. Eldritch horrors escaping into a universe and turning the entire dimension into an unlivable hellscape, and mass genocide of an entire group of people who got put in that situation against their will and doing the same thing to another batch of people while the entire remaining populace watches without caring because they don't think it's real, is like.

A different scale to 'ocean falls city-slash-possibly-country dies', I think?

You ever think about how fucked up it is that we have scales for that kind of shit now.

... Yeah, this was my highest stakes jaunt so far, and as much as it sucked, I’m so glad I wasn’t investigating. Sure, I almost got a lot of people killed, but that would have happened that way even without me along for the ride, you know?

[She’s only investigated once, and even with the relatively low stakes it was a lot of pressure for someone who actively avoids responsibility.]

The almost is definitely the keyword here. I doubt your first thought back here would be 'oh cruel irony' if you-slash-your-overlay was the instigator of murder.

I mean, she did kill people, but it was before we got there so I didn’t have to watch it. Suppose this kind of thing’s always easier to think about in the abstract.

From personal experience, death in the abstract is a lot easier to handle than death in the first person.

Hm. It depends.

[It’s not as easy for her to assume here, but between the two of them Chloe likely has the bloodier hands.]

Death of a stranger’s easier to handle than someone you know, but even that gets muddled on jaunts.

[Gil had a lot more blood on his than you'd expect, as it turns out.]

Yeah. You never know when a stranger on a jaunt is gonna turn out to be your best friend as a Traveller. It sucks.

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Bando was more chaotic, although admittedly we weren't helped by Tower and Judgement repeatedly interfering with the local dragon shrines.

Tower being on a Jaunt automatically deducted chaos points away from the Travellers, I think. He's his own brand of fuckery.

I don't think either of them are, or were, paragons of subtlety. Maybe if they were different aspects of themselves...

Either way, their interference certainly didn't make things any easier.

I mean, does Arcana intervention ever really help all that much, generally speaking?

[He still remembers how he met Raidou, after all.]

Not usually.

[Although you could possibly make a case for Mars.]