001 / january 2026 — week two

[for_sake]

( so, here are the most important things yoshiki has pieced together from the information he has been unwillingly receiving as of late:

1. the subways are very bad
2. there are a lot of people in the subways right now
3. MORE people are going into the subways, including people he would like to return alive and whole

he's gotten better at reviewing the murmur for information but initiating contact is still tricky. this is why, when he sends out, )

Please survive,

( across the murmur, he accidentally shares the thoughts immediately after the sentiment as well, which is a rapid series of thank god i'm not down there, and this weird fruit is actually pretty good today, and: )










[ ooc: i'm so sorry but this was an enlightened post i cannot take sole credit. ]

Comments

[snaggletooth]

But Steve would still really appreciate being saved, I think.

[dollpin]

( ! )

Is there a pool around here?

( nevermind the fact that she was just BEANED in the head with a really old meme - )

[demoon]

I think I feel worse than I did before.

[for_sake]

Huh?

( give him a moment to realise... )

OH SH- ( perhaps the loudest he's been in sleephattan. ) Y-yeah, yeah, you're so right, uh.

Can you, can you pretend you didn't see that?

[longwillows]

[Just the absolute most raucous witch-like cackling that a person could possibly imagine.]

[trashblaze]

[ Entirely unhelpful. He's just adding to the chaos. ]

Hey, Yoshiki! You left me hanging last time about that fruit! You're not escaping this time!

[for_sake]

Maybe at some of the hotels? But I've seen more lakes.

( maybe he doesn't realise how many people he's hit with it yet, but if it fits it fits. )

Why? You a merrow too?

[for_sake]

Ah. I can say 'don't survive' if it'll make you feel better?

[commitments]

[ Adolphe finds this a little amusing, but then the meme hits him. He doesn't know how to parse it. He's fake Victorian. ]

... What was that?

[ He didn't mean to engage, mostly thinking to himself. ]

[for_sake]

( he deserves this for what he's done.

but it's still surprising! )

A GHOST?

[demoon]

Why the hell would that make me feel better?!

( Don't mind him, Yoshiki, he's just irritable from eating rats instead of curry. )

[snaggletooth]

[ Well, it wasn't that interesting, but now it's more interesting. HUH. ]

What's wrong, Yoshiki?

An embarrassing memory? I don't see how. The man who wasn't drowning looked happy, at least. [ Very! ] But if that's what you'd like.

[ Oh, is it a sad memory? Did Steve die— ]

[for_sake]

( ah, he's even been caught in the act.

but adding to the chaos will help him learn! probably. )

I was trying to build suspense. ( mostly, he enjoyed caelus' reactions. haha! ) How about when you come back safely I show you one of them for real?

[longwillows]

[this.......is what opportunity looks like.

the laughter continues.] All the things that happen to people in this city, and you're shocked by a ghost?

[for_sake]

( by now, yoshiki is getting a grasp of what he's done... and he would really rather not give adolphe a bad impression of him. so: )

Uh. Just some picture I saw online once.

( now that he Has engaged though... stuck here... )

[trashblaze]

[ Wow!!!!

Ah, but the offer of fruit makes him beam out happily. Anyone who looks at this broadcast would feel it. ]

Yeah! Can I eat it, too? You're eating it, so it's safe!

[ Nobody will get on his case for it! Unlike that damn egg episode! ]

[for_sake]

Didn't ya just say 'please survive' made you feel worse?

( meanwhile, yoshiki, ignorant of his sins... )

[commitments]

[ The emotions of not knowing what "online" means, but doesn't know if he wants to ask. ]

[for_sake]

( oh no, he's drawn More attention to it. prayer emoji. )

S'nothing, just... ( it's not an embarrassing memory, true, but This Moment is about to become an embarrassing memory. )

Yeah, he is happy. It's not really a memory, just ( yoshiki suddenly understands how pokemon hurt themselves in their confusion, ) a random picture. I don't want it distracting you, is all.

[demoon]

Your thoughts started wandering after that, idiot.

I'm a little impressed you managed to convey a whole meme directly into our brains, though. I'll give you that.

[for_sake]

( when the prey instincts wear off, surely he will put two and two together. until then, )

There are lines that shouldn't be crossed... And if even a ghost is stuck here, we're really really screwed.

[for_sake]

( it's fun to be the one teasing sometimes, he can't help it...

thank you, caelus, for always bringing light and smiles! in the chaos, it is truly as good as a sunbeam. )

Haha, you caught me. Yeah, this one's safe for sure. 'Course you can eat it too.

( yoshiki, too, is thinking of the egg episode... but they were delicious! and so yoshiki will return the favour, )

How about I show you the ones I'm sure about? So you can eat 'em whenever you see 'em.

[longwillows]

I don't think we'd all be screwed. [she has some standards for that.]

No need to fret, though! I only haunt my favorites.

[for_sake]

( in the meantime, well, yoshiki is willing to start guessing what that silence means! )

Was it that weird? Or was it the 'please survive'- Did you go into the subways too?

[for_sake]

Eh?

( well, okay, now that it's been laid out so plainly

all he can do is double down in embarrassment. on account of being called 'idiot'. )

How bad are things down there for you to be this grumpy?