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

[isawallflower]

If you could cut out like, every single non sequitur I would sincerely appreciate that.

[ The wheels in Riley's head are turning but damn, for a girl who likes thriller novels she's bad at this- ]

The...cemetery wasn't there. Not until we...started dying? And this- this is like. The event horizon thingy Dr. Browning talked about, even for- for a demony-ghost like you?

[beejfq]

Let me think about it for a second.........no.

[Anyway!]

What I mean is it showed up a little before you guys showed up. A lot of stuff did, actually. The cemetery happened, there's a pool now, the recording studio moved floors for God slash Satan's sake. Someone did some redecorating.

[isawallflower]

[ Why is he like this. ]

Well- but it looks just like it did- I mean, besides everything being backwards. Does that mean someone like. Rearranged not just here, on this...dead-side, but there? Like. Just- changed the floors?

[ That doesn't seem possible but like, magic apparently? ]

[beejfq]

Oh, trust me: there's definitely some magical bullshit happening. With how this place is and everything that's been happening?

There's a Narrator involved somewhere.

[isawallflower]

...A Narrator?

[ Wait- ]

Like. Like how he's been talking, like this is some kind of show?

[beejfq]

Exactly! See, Narrators are...special. You guys see in three dimensions? We see in, like, eight. It's not omniscience but there's a lot of Knowing and magic and shit involved.

[isawallflower]

You're talking like you're a Narrator.

[beejfq]

[He grins, opening his arms wide.]

You got it, kid.

[isawallflower]

[ Mouth opens.

Mouth closes.

Mouth opens again- ]

Then- then why haven't you gotten us out of here yet?!

[beejfq]

Yeeeeeah, see the thing with that is...I can't. If I could, do you really think I'd of let myself get stuck here for 4 years? No! Maybe like 6 to seven weeks tops, after that it just gets excessive.

We're like Highlanders but with less beheading. There Can Be Only One and all that crap. If there's already a Narrator taking up space in a show, any others around can only do so much.

Including dead people jail breaks.

[isawallflower]

[ Riley slumps for a moment, but- ]

Then... All we have to do is...get rid of the other Narrator...and you can fix all this, right?

[beejfq]

I mean...I can try? No one's, uh, no one's ever asked me to fix something before.

[To stop causing problems on purpose? Constantly! To actively fix something as huge as this? Uhhhh...]

The problem there is getting the living to summon me again.

[isawallflower]

Not a problem! I figured out- if we use the recording studio, we can talk to them. Like...I don't know how much they heard? But- if I tell Mephisto to, he'll definitely listen to me.

[ Well at least she knows she has him wrapped around her little finger. ]