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pandatreasure ([personal profile] pandatreasure) wrote in [community profile] randangonpa2018-02-04 04:35 am

ENDGAME/EPILOG



[In the control room, the raccoons float quietly in their pods; none of the wild cackling from before, no raucous mocking—Where did those pesky animatronics go, anyway? Maybe not every question has been answered, but...how much does it matter? The lost souls are back, tangible and whole, though marked still by whatever's done them in. Maybe those scars and aches won't fade, either.

A metric fuckton of experimenting has gotten us to the answer of how to get back to where we belong: the first control room console makes it easy to find the thumbnail of your world, and, when selected, it automatically brings you to twenty two days from moment you were kidnapped from. It's easy to see an image where you should be there and aren't, and simply select it. The program confirms that you'd like to initiate the transport process, and directs you to stand on the glowing platform; have someone hit the button to shut the process down, or it will time itself out in five minutes.

Is the moment you were brought from not good enough? What about the rewards you were promised? It seems as though specifying those offers or threads isn't quite possible, but the console has two options, each manipulable independently of each other: you can control the date and time, allowing yourself to return as though you hadn't been kidnapped at all. You can also use a slider at the bottom to control the quality of the universe you're brought back to, sliding from the carrot to the stick side: A world where everything that possibly could have gone right for you and those you'd want it for does, where every choice and chance resolves in your favor...or one where there isn't a single moment that isn't conspiring to work against you.

It should be that simple, but...none of those are your universes. Trying to go to any universe but the one marked for you, and/or at any point but that three-week span you've been gone, prompts a warning message about a duplicate version of anyone belonging to that world. It asks if you'd like to proceed, and warns you once more by giving names of potential "doppelgangers"—but will not stop you from stepping onto the platform as it twinkles blue light, regardless. Is improvement worth interfering, maybe destroying, the life of another you?

That choice is up to you. For the first time in a long time, these choices are yours.

It's over. Happy graduation day.]

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2018-02-04 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[i'm...]

Ah haha... thank you. I'll be sure to take good care of them.

[thankfully no one ever goes to his apartment, so like...]
respendent: (Living in a material world)

[personal profile] respendent 2018-02-04 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, make certain of it! Or I will charge you for damages.

[ HOW WOULD YOU EVEN KNOW is the obvious question, but hiyori is nodding along to his own words like yes, this is a perfect sensible plan of action. ]

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2018-02-04 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[... you are still so delightfully faux self-assured, Dazai can't help but appreciate.]

Haha, I'll keep that in mind if I ever want to summon you at random.
respendent: (Is always Mister Right)

[personal profile] respendent 2018-02-04 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Dazai! That is what phone numbers are for!

[ He knows they're not from the same world, but. Hey, who cares about things like the cold hard truth. ]

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2018-02-04 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
But I don't have your phone number, Hiyori-kun!

[pfff truth? what is truth anyway?]
respendent: (that's right)

[personal profile] respendent 2018-02-04 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
And I am not about to give it to you! Coming running at someone's beck and call is beneath me! I will come if I want, but not at all otherwise.

[ Folds his arms. ]

I will give you Jun-kun's.

[ He says with the sound of long-suffering compromise ]

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2018-02-04 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ROFL bless u Hiyori.]

My, Jun-kun's number must get passed around quite a bit if you're so willing.
respendent: (Living in a material world)

[personal profile] respendent 2018-02-04 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
He is my soulmate to do with as I like, yes!

[ hmm, pen, pen. He needs a pen. checking his pockets and then just, around. ]

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2018-02-04 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
In that case, it's a bit much to ask for that number. It's probably best if you just haunt me if these dolls should be ruined.
respendent: (And I am a material girl)

[personal profile] respendent 2018-02-05 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ stops looking for the pen, and turns to face Dazai again fully. ]

It won't be a haunting, it will be an inquisition with a full battalion of lawyers on my side!

[personal profile] cw_suicide 2018-02-05 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
How terrifying!
respendent: (Living in a material world)

[personal profile] respendent 2018-02-05 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Correct!

[ Very pleased with that being properly acknowledged. ]

In any case. I have made certain Tsumugi-kun will be coming home, so you can put all concerns regarding that aside.