CROSS-CANON DOUBLE DATE OF THE MULTIVERSE

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[diffract]

[ he hates it. if people perceive him they might give him more work. no thanks ]

Oh? [ he briefly glances up to kaveh. ] I didn't realize the Light of Kshahrewar would be hard-pressed to find other topics to regale his guests with.

[ohthehumanities]

He's exaggerating. I barely mentioned you at all.

[HE WILL NOT BE SLANDERED IN THIS WAY]

[crucifer]

I'm not, he kept moping about it repeatedly.

[ohthehumanities]

[YOU'RE FULL OF LIES]

I did no such thing!!

[crucifer]

I feel like we talked about him a lot.

[ohthehumanities]

Vash talked about him a lot.

[Kaveh is downplaying his own part but he's also not wrong]

[crucifer]

Never heard him mention it.

[ Granted, it would be IMMENSELY weird if Vash and he talked about Alhaitham while Kaveh wasn't there. ]

[ohthehumanities]

[He was thinking of the double date but he doesn't want to specify for so many reasons]

Well, he did.

[piteous]

[ He'll let you do that Kaveh and not doxx you in front of Alhaitham. ]

Well... He seemed like an interesting guy! I was curious! And maybe made my own observations!

[ohthehumanities]

[Thank you Vash this is why you're his favorite when Livio isn't in the room]

Well, now you can observe reality all you like. [The reality that NOBODY IS INTO ANYBODY and that Alhaitham is a nerd and a jerk who obviously hates Kaveh as much as Kaveh definitely hates him!! Yeah!!!] Just don't blame me when you're disappointed.

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[ kaveh mentioned this. he wouldn't elaborate on it, though... ]

What sort of observations would those be?

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"It"?

[crucifer]

[ About what an incredible roommate you were. ]

Just comparin' living situations between the UG and... here, I guess.

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[ 😇 ]

Really. I understand that you all lived in random open establishments in the area. As an objective third party, how would you compare the two?

[crucifer]

I'd less call it "random open establishments" and more we got assigned warehouses and it was totally up to us to decorate it... or even put any furniture at all into it.

Didn't have nearly as many windows as your place, I'll give it that. Or as nice of a view outside.

[diffract]

Barring circumstances, I'm sure Kaveh enjoyed having such freedom given how often he complains about the decor.

[ 🙄 ]

Anyway, the more I hear about this game, the more I'm convinced that this was a controlled experiment. To what end, I'm not certain.

[crucifer]

Always easy to talk about folks from home, at least ones that aren't your literal national god.

[ So there's probably that. ]

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[ ... ]

I may have misunderstood. You're saying he talked about me while you were in the Reapers' Game?

[ he was giving kaveh the benefit of the doubt and thought he just meant today ]

[crucifer]

[ Uh oh. He blinks once. ]

If you live together, it's kind of hard to not come up in mention even once...

[ Will... maybe save this for Kaveh's sake? ]

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You said that I was brought up repeatedly, not just one time.

[ sorry kaveh. tbf characters point out that kaveh brings up alhaitham a lot when no one asked, so maybe he's less surprised than he should be. ]

Wouldn't that attention have been better spent on other, more important matters?

[ like being alive? ]

[crucifer]

There were usually stretches of time where we couldn't really do anythin' else.

[ Such is life when you're in a murder game where you must turbo CR and also there just isn't anything interesting discoverable nor occurring until the nearest Wednesday afternoon.

And also, to Kaveh's credit, he was indeed alive 'til the end. ]

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[ your three days of being cursed and getting your nails done until your cyoas happen.... ]

It's strange to me that you were offered rest periods when your lives were supposedly at stake.

[ it worked out i guess? and no one was really dead? what was even the point ]

Were there no opportunities to strategize or seek out answers regarding the game?

[crucifer]

Guess they decided it had to be seven weeks long instead of lettin' someone clean up the whole place within three days.

[ He doesn't make the murdergame, he doesn't make the rules. He does also think it's stupid. ]

We did plenty of that, where we could. The reapers themselves weren't any real good for askin' for answers though, so it was mostly up to us. There's only so much you can talk about before you're startin' to draw shapes in air, y'know?

And talkin' about that shit nonstop for two months without throwin' in some nice things in-between would drive most people a little crazy.

[piteous]

A lot of us got homesick, I think... So talking about home even if it was through complaints helped us get through the weeks.

[ VASH IS GOING TO TRY TO PROTECT AND OBSCURE KAVEH'S FAVORITE HOBBY, complaining about Alhaitham. ]

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[ it's super effective... alhaitham actually softens up a little bit. ]

Was that the case with you two as well?