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week 7, thursday

[reconnective]

[cloud knocks on the door, and sora opens it a crack before noticing it's cloud and gesturing for him to come in.

cloud immediately gets accosted by meow wow as sora closes the door though.]

So...today probably could've gone a little better.

[skyagain]

[ god this cat dog is so big. cloud's trying to get him down without being attacked by licks. it is not succeeding ]

Could've gone a lot worse, too. [ they did not immediately get smited? sooo ] You sure you guys'll be alright until check out?

[reconnective]

[meow wow does bounce, clearing the air a little to try and licky at cloud's face.]

Nope! But we'll figure it out. Always do, remember?

[skyagain]

[ there's a surprised "oof" when meow wow fucking bounces. he should've expected it and yet ]

Not like we've got much of a choice-- down, already...

[reconnective]

Meow Wow...[he's moving to pull around the middle, trying to make the puppycat sit even as he whines loudly.]

We don't have a choice. But we do have a choice in how to handle it next.

[skyagain]

No chance we can handle it with a sword to the big guy's throat, I guess?

[ meow wow whines so cloud crouches to pet him. this is teaching him nothing ]

[reconnective]

I've been asking for weeks. [HE'S SO ANNOYED.

meow wow immediately is greedy for pets, standing up to put his front paw paws on cloud's legs.]

But no. You guys are still under contract.

[skyagain]

[ he kind of sighs even as he is petting the needy, needy dog ]

Can't wait until that part's over with. [ so he can sword a guy ]

[reconnective]

[licky.] Check out's soon. This weekend. You just have to wait and then you can try to beat him up however much you want.

But until then...what are you going to do?

[skyagain]

... After tonight, guess I'm trying to figure out a way to use those glitches in the hotel to create some kind of path to the other side. That's about the only thing left to do still.

[ STILL. ]

... Think there's gonna be another death?

[reconnective]

If you can figure that out? That might not be so bad. I still haven't figured out the glitches myself. [but he frowns.]

...I don't know. But I really, really hope not.

[skyagain]

No clue if I can, but it's the only lead we've got.

[ ... he kind of sighs and scratches meow wow behind the ears ]

Me too. No telling until tomorrow, though.

[reconnective]

Once tomorrow hits and you know just who's left to work with...you can start seeing what else there is to make your final plan. Maybe the dead wrote some more letters. I'm not in charge of delivering those.

[skyagain]

Last I heard they didn't have anything, but... we'll see.

[ looking over at sora ]

You guys'll be trying to dodge the guy in the meanwhile, I guess?

[reconnective]

There's still time. [which is good and bad.] I'm not a fan of running away, but we might have to for a bit just to make sure things don't get messed up right at the last minute. For all we know, this is exactly what he'd be looking for.

[skyagain]

Probably. I doubt it's a coincidence you all got thrown into that portrait at the same time.

[ which is... worrying ]

[reconnective]

I don't know if it was on purpose either. That's the thing. We weren't all together so for all of us to glitch into the same portrait? It's like something went wrong from the start and it worked out in his favor on accident.

[skyagain]

That's some insanely bad luck if you're right. Either way-- he's got to have some idea by now. I doubt the dead could distract him that much.

[reconnective]

Clementine told me they were all busy brawling the other day. I almost don't want to underestimate the dead at this point.

But you're right. He's got to have some idea, so we have to act fast.

[skyagain]

... At least the tickets we sent them won't go to waste.

[ they can buy more healing. tired. ]

You guys have an actual plan of action?

[reconnective]

She did feel kinda bad about that, I think.

[shrug!]

But of course not. Our plan for the last several weeks has just been about buying time until your term was up and trying to course-correct. Even now that we're out and exposed...he's probably going to be more invested in making sure not everyone checks out on time.

[skyagain]

About what, getting tickets? Not like I ended up doing anything with all the stuff I've bought yet.

[ he had so much money. and he has wasted it. he just has Things. ]

We can take care of the check out part. You guys just make sure you don't become a permanent fixture of this place while we're busy trying to figure out how to get the other side connected.

[reconnective]

About getting them but not really using all of them while they keep doing stuff over there.

We're not staying here either. I think it's probably our turn to be the distraction anyway. I just don't know how yet.

[skyagain]

[ he kind of goes eh because again. what would he have used the tickets on. it's fine. ]

I don't know, but... If it's a distraction you need, I'm pretty sure you know how to cause a ruckus better than that Edgeworth guy.

[reconnective]

I dunno. Edgeworth is really loud when he starts yelling. But he's not much of a fighter or anything either. He's just very smart.