Aoi is such a good girl

[housewolf]

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[housewolf]

[There are several bowls and several ovens preheating.

He takes a breath in and seems to settle himself.]

... How are you, Aoi?

[gamerbrain]

[ hmm. ]

Aoi feels... Bad.

[housewolf]

That's normal in times like these. It feels bad when somebody dies.

[gamerbrain]

Aoi... Isn't used to this kind of plot development... It's like a Bad End, after all.

[housewolf]

No restarts either. We got information in late.

[gamerbrain]

Maybe it... Can go better on the second playthrough...?

[ she actually sounds hesitant about that, though. ]

[housewolf]

I think we only get once chance for this week.

[gamerbrain]

Mm. But if we go through the game again when we finish this run...

[housewolf]

I don't know if they'd let us.

... Who's to say our memories won't get reset even if they did?

[gamerbrain]

They?

[ characters can't change a player's decisions. haha! ]

We might forget, but that doesn't mean the player would select the same options again.

[housewolf]

The Avatars.

I don't think we're all game characters. [Some of them are from books.]

[gamerbrain]

The Avatars might be NPCs, but they're still characters in the story.

Aoi can't reload an old save file, but that doesn't mean the game won't loop for the player when it's over.

[ just. completely ignoring that he said they aren't all game characters. ]

[housewolf]

[He's now moving to another bowl to aggressively mix it.]

Sometimes a story is set by somebody other than a player.

[gamerbrain]

[ well sure, the writers ultimately decide most things but... but... ]

But no one would write a story with only Bad Ends.

[housewolf]

I want to believe that too. The writer- our playwright at home- he always wrote a good ending.

[gamerbrain]

Someone died... And we spent all day and didn't figure out why, and we voted for the wrong person...

Do you think there's still a Good End at the end of all of this? Or are we locked in, already?

[housewolf]

There are still chances for a good ending. Just because one week went poorly doesn't mean that they all will. Maybe if we can get more good than bad, we'll be okay.

[gamerbrain]

Even though someone is dead...?

[ characters do get killed off for plot progression sometimes. it's not unheard of... ]

[housewolf]

It's possible. It depends on what everybody else is going to do from here.

[gamerbrain]

[ she's about to ask him what he thinks everyone will do but then instead just ends up? observing what he's doing. ]

... Baking.

[housewolf]

It's harder to dwell if your body's moving.

[gamerbrain]

[ ...


she starts slowly raising her arms up. and then lowering them again. and then raising them up. ]

[housewolf]

... Do you want to mix some batter with me instead?

[gamerbrain]

Aoi has never done that before.

[housewolf]

[He hands her a bowl of brownie batter that could use some more mixing, along with a spoon.]

You could start now?

Just mix this until it's smooth.