[ Joonghyuk doesn't want to wander too far from his room, so he's in the courtyard, sitting at the garden patio. Niah rests his head on Joonghyuk's thigh, whining.
Instead of looking out to the nice sights, he staring down at his sword. ]
[Yea, those were the good ol' days when his brain was scrambled.
He frowns, but pauses to greet Niah by ruffling the dog's head and neck.] Hey. [He wanders over to stand by Yoo in the front. He brings something out of his pocket and holds it out. It's a Starlight C*ke.]
Haunted hotel to Yoo. Come in. [...] ...Wanna talk about it?
[ Coughs yellow (specifically chartreuse) petals. This makes him frown. ]
I was in a place called Hole while the others were elsewhere, but for a short time we could communicate with each other. That connection was cut off when we moved out of our initial locations.
[ He holds his head some. ]
... Found a vivisected man in a garbage bag down in the incinerator room of the hospital I was in. I took him with me outside in hopes of threatening information out of him. He was being unruly and obnoxious, so I started chucking his body parts around the city.
[ sometimes you're just a bastard Joonghyuk orates this very seriously. ]
[ "-Yoo Joonghyuk: A professional gamer, an awful personality, a psychopath, kills if words don't work (sometimes just kills)" — Omniscient Reader, Chapter 285. ]
I wasn't the one that vivisected him. After a bit, he told me a bit... It gave context. The trip we were on, it's based on someone's memories here. [ so. NO. HE DIDN'T CHUCK ALL OF THE BODY PARTS ACROSS THE CITY. ] I buried him in the graveyard, like he asked.
[ One moment, he's going through it again, eyebrows furrowing as he tries to focus. ]
There was a street that seemed oddly lit, so I went there. The only thing of interest was a pawn shop and an empty lot.
[Stop, this is veering into Joker territory, and Jason will kill him dead on the spot at that time. This is the only place where Joonghyuk diverges from Bruce Wayne.
Also, he just MAKES A FACE OF EXASPERATION at the fucking standard here being "I didn't vivisect him at least." The bar is in the GROUND.]
What'd the pawn shop have in it, hearts and eyeballs?
[This is just an assumption Joonghyuk went in the pawn shop. He is shitposting because of the fucking vivisected man.]
[ Jason really is just letting this go... Joonghyuk talks like this is whatever. ]
... Magic in vials. Weapons. I had nothing on me except for my sword, so I pretended that I was willing to part with it to know what exactly the pawn shop stocked.
I would have left, but the pawn shop keeper mentioned having the highest grade of healing magic in a vial. [ i'm sorry ] I killed him, took that vial, and also pocketed some others items to prepare for the next engagement.
[He only says this once, and not half as scoldingly as he should definitely be saying it. (He does not want to be Bruce.) Also? He kills plenty of people, too. Except they are bad people, and that's where he draws the line. Either they attack him first and deserve it, or he has already found all the dirt on them to know they are terrible, they're scum.
Besides, who knows in the end, maybe this shop keeper was an asshole doing shady business. There were guns. And magic. (Eugh.) So it might have been whatever for Jason. Very funny.]
The shopkeeper kept a box under his desk which had some heavily redacted medical records. One piece mentioned locations and at the bottom it said to go to where "Lake of Refuse" once was...
[ Hm. ]
I searched for the lake, found a door, went in, got taken to a department store and met with the other two. They had clues as well, in the form of doodles... Which illustrated we had to go down a hole. We couldn't discuss or linger for long because monsters appeared and chased us, but we found the hole at the bottom of the department store. It was gushing out sludge that burned like acid.
[ You see this is like. A mess? And Joonghyuk is doing his best here, but there's a long pause, like he's thinking on something. He's thinking for a very long time. ]
A larger monster came out of the hole, using most of the sludge in it, and blocked our path.
[His brows furrow. He actually follows this rather well, but only because he is used to crazy shit happening back home despite how ordinary all the Bats are in their collective group.
Sometimes, you coexist in a world with other beings, metahuman, and things like that.]
So you fought the sludge monster. [It isn’t a question, but it is.] So you could get down the hole.
[His eyes skim slowly down the page once more from the top, and then he hands it back to Joonghyuk. He taps his temple with one finger on his other hand. I may not be smart enough to copy it with only my expert Bat brain memory, but Jason is.]
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YOU JUST DROPPING THIS IN HERE
Instead of looking out to the nice sights, he staring down at his sword. ]
it’s what people get when they make the catchall
He watches Joonghyuk for a few seconds.]
Yoo.
[He is surprisingly sobered from his usual self.]
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Niah pads over to him to greet. ]
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He frowns, but pauses to greet Niah by ruffling the dog's head and neck.] Hey. [He wanders over to stand by Yoo in the front. He brings something out of his pocket and holds it out. It's a Starlight C*ke.]
Haunted hotel to Yoo. Come in. [...] ...Wanna talk about it?
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He blinks multiple times because Jason is right in front of him with soda and is talking to him. We're back. By the way, he doesn't take the can. ]
Talk about what?
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What happened to the three of you.
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... Hole.
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[I hate Lowe.]
Is it hard to remember, or do you just not want to remember right now?
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[ Coughs yellow (specifically chartreuse) petals. This makes him frown. ]
I was in a place called Hole while the others were elsewhere, but for a short time we could communicate with each other. That connection was cut off when we moved out of our initial locations.
[ He holds his head some. ]
... Found a vivisected man in a garbage bag down in the incinerator room of the hospital I was in. I took him with me outside in hopes of threatening information out of him. He was being unruly and obnoxious, so I started chucking his body parts around the city.
[ sometimes you're just a bastard Joonghyuk orates this very seriously. ]
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Joonghyuk.]
That's the most sociopathic thing I've heard so far, but okay. [Christ. SOMEHOW, HE SIMPLY ACCEPTS THIS? And moves on.] And?
You toss him around until there wasn't anything left to tell you anything?
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I wasn't the one that vivisected him. After a bit, he told me a bit... It gave context. The trip we were on, it's based on someone's memories here. [ so. NO. HE DIDN'T CHUCK ALL OF THE BODY PARTS ACROSS THE CITY. ] I buried him in the graveyard, like he asked.
[ One moment, he's going through it again, eyebrows furrowing as he tries to focus. ]
There was a street that seemed oddly lit, so I went there. The only thing of interest was a pawn shop and an empty lot.
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Also, he just MAKES A FACE OF EXASPERATION at the fucking standard here being "I didn't vivisect him at least." The bar is in the GROUND.]
What'd the pawn shop have in it, hearts and eyeballs?
[This is just an assumption Joonghyuk went in the pawn shop. He is shitposting because of the fucking vivisected man.]
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... Magic in vials. Weapons. I had nothing on me except for my sword, so I pretended that I was willing to part with it to know what exactly the pawn shop stocked.
I would have left, but the pawn shop keeper mentioned having the highest grade of healing magic in a vial. [ i'm sorry ] I killed him, took that vial, and also pocketed some others items to prepare for the next engagement.
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[He only says this once, and not half as scoldingly as he should definitely be saying it. (He does not want to be Bruce.) Also? He kills plenty of people, too. Except they are bad people, and that's where he draws the line. Either they attack him first and deserve it, or he has already found all the dirt on them to know they are terrible, they're scum.
Besides, who knows in the end, maybe this shop keeper was an asshole doing shady business. There were guns. And magic. (Eugh.) So it might have been whatever for Jason. Very funny.]
Keep going.
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The shopkeeper kept a box under his desk which had some heavily redacted medical records. One piece mentioned locations and at the bottom it said to go to where "Lake of Refuse" once was...
[ Hm. ]
I searched for the lake, found a door, went in, got taken to a department store and met with the other two. They had clues as well, in the form of doodles... Which illustrated we had to go down a hole. We couldn't discuss or linger for long because monsters appeared and chased us, but we found the hole at the bottom of the department store. It was gushing out sludge that burned like acid.
[ You see this is like. A mess? And Joonghyuk is doing his best here, but there's a long pause, like he's thinking on something. He's thinking for a very long time. ]
A larger monster came out of the hole, using most of the sludge in it, and blocked our path.
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Sometimes, you coexist in a world with other beings, metahuman, and things like that.]
So you fought the sludge monster. [It isn’t a question, but it is.] So you could get down the hole.
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[ As if that’s all there is. ]
It was ugly.
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[It was bad.]
What was in the hole? Or did you just come back here?
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[ He fetches his notes, turning to this page. ]
For our troubles, Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd found a piece of paper with the hotel’s emblem on it. It was this.
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Even if this seems to just be a game between—who, the staff? Other people…?]
Well. The R worked. “That’s not a word,” huh?
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[ A theory! Anyway, this clue paper Jason may have… Cause Joonghyuk is loses focus. He shakes his head to come back. ]
Copy it. [ … ] I overheard you never experienced trips like these before.
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[His eyes skim slowly down the page once more from the top, and then he hands it back to Joonghyuk. He taps his temple with one finger on his other hand. I may not be smart enough to copy it with only my expert Bat brain memory, but Jason is.]
We didn't have them, no. Lucky me.
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He squints, but more so that he's having another short episode. Shaking his head, he pieces some words. ]
Are you prepared?
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Jason stands there with the most narrow-eyes and watchful gaze ever. Maybe his daemon really would be a hawk. That’s how he’s watching Joonghyuk.]
I don’t think there can be much more prep than what I’m already capable of. So yes and no. I’ll deal with it.
Maybe I’ll be lucky enough it won’t happen to me. That’s be funny.
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What is his third daemon form? Stop staring at him like that, hello? No, Jason is right to watch him because he kind of descends from here. ]
Happy dreams...
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