let's sync up!

[justmeheere]

[Jeremy hasn't actually been around a lot, but he has been having a lot of long conversations with the SQUIP because they, unfortunately, are in possession of a bunch of information and a weirdly unique situation that means they kind of understand some things about this whole being dead thing.

So late Tuesday afternoon, the SQUIP will be wandering around and informing everyone that they should all convene in the dining hall. Unlike a lot of other meetings, Jeremy's a garbage teenage boy who's provided uh. There's some grilled cheese and Minion mugs full of water. You're welcome.

Oh, he's also laid out a whole Pepe wall's worth of notes and shit on the table. You might wanna ask about that first.]

Um, hey. So, uh. Well, I mean - have you, uh. That's the SQUIP and it's gonna be quiet [Jeremy glares at the SQUIP.] but uh. I just. We thought. Have you ever really thought about being dead?

[Oh god, he's gonna ruin his own meeting, isn't he?]

Comments

[beejfq]

Constantly. [Yes, your old buddy Beej is here and yes, he's sitting criss-cross applesauce in the middle of the table.] I got a whole song about it, wanna hear?

[justmeheere]

Beej, please. I'm trying. I'm trying to have a serious meeting!

[beejfq]

You asked, I answered, J-man. If there's anyone here who knows about being dead, it's me.

[But he guesses he'll be good. He'll just (literally) zip his lips and sit here.]

[justmeheere]

Wait, no. Actually how - what, uh. Computers don't die.

[That was really coherent, thanks Jeremy.]

[beejfq]

[BJ tilts his head curiously, running that whole sentence through several filters before unzipping his mouth.]

Yeah and-?

[itsfromjapan]

He's asking why I'm present as a "ghost," as it were.

[Jeremy glares at the SQUIP but also. Yes. That.]

[isawallflower]

[ ...Do you ever just.

Simultaneously want to save someone, and also see them crash and burn? ]

Jeremy.

I think all we've been able to do is think about being dead.

[justmeheere]

No, I mean - [He shuffles some papers around.] I'm trying - why's the SQUIP even here? Like. Like it's just computer code! It. I mean you can make the argument we, like, share? A soul or whatever, but then like. Why's it.

[He just gestures helplessly at it.]

[isawallflower]

I... [ ? ?? ? ] I mean, I don't...get it, but- we're ghosts, right? Un...resolved issues, or whatever? I've been haunting everyone like, so much.

[ She's still thinking about the talk with the Phantom...... ]

We're- that means we're ghosts. Right?

[justmeheere]

Okay, but like. Like I said - it's a musical, right? We're in a musical. We all agree on that part?

[Jeremy .............. is trying. There's an attempt at communication.]

[isawallflower]

How do those things have anything to do with each other?

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[You got this, Jeremy. Sigyn believes in you.

She holds up a stack of letters]

These are from the first week Jonny and I were here. I tried to contact the Phantom through the drop box, but someone else replied.

At first I thought it might be BJ, but I'm not sure.

[justmeheere]

I mean, he's. He's right there. Beej, did you write these or did Chewie's Leia or is there, like, a completely different random person involved here?

[isawallflower]

--Who the heck is Chewie?

[reassuranceandrevolution]

[Sigyn was just about to ask this, thank you Riley]

[justmeheere]

My. The, uh. The phone person. They said I could call them Chewie.

[isawallflower]

You...kept talking to the phone person? And got something actually useful?

[beejfq]

Bold of you to assume I can write, Jerebear. These though- [He takes the letters, squints at them for a long few seconds, turns them upside before handing them back to Sigyn.] Yeah, I have no idea.

[reassuranceandrevolution]

Other than Evan, was there anyone here before us?

[beejfq]

For like 5 minutes, yeah! Never caught his name but he was my best bud until he up and vanished out of nowhere.

[mcfife]

I expected that I wouldn't be able to think.

[Hi, Angus is here and is playing around with a small roll of fabric.]

[isawallflower]

[ ...She also expected to be, like, literally burning in hell, so. Angus does have a point. ]

[superbeliever]

[Richard raises his hand.]

I assume you don't mean thought about what kind of legacy we leave behind.

[You know, the whole "who lives, who dies, who tells your story" thing.]

[etincelledefierte]

I prefer not to think about it too much. I really don’t want to have another breakdown if I can help it.

[she’s got shit to do, and breakdowns are not on the schedule!]

[herwiggles]

Well, I've been alive for over six thousand years. [And it so happens that Gems are functionally immortal.] So... No? I haven't?

[She's still getting used to it.]