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[slobjection]

this is dimitri and phoenix now

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[slobjection]

The mansion, yes. Though it wasn't really Blue's.

[ there is no way he's going to understand these jokes and yet phoenix makes them because he is just like that. ]

Gave us all the blues, though. Now you can see it second hand.

[overruns]

[ the completely incomprehensible inside jokes are just part of his mystery.

the movie's starting. the reel is rolling, and the noise of the trial rings out all around them. ]

You seem rather calm about it.

[slobjection]

Should I be panicking at my ratty past being revealed...?

[ the directors know about blues. the knowledge is getting around. so sooner or later, it'll be out there. he's not surprised. just tired. ]

[ better to joke about it then be bitter. ]

[overruns]

The invasion of privacy is one thing, but... I think people are more upset about the fact that they have to revisit these memories.

[ It just seems like a lot to have to sit through again. ]

[slobjection]

[ there's a pause, and dimitri almost gets a serious answer: ]

You islanders didn't experience this, but we had something like this happen to us in the manor. We learned more about each other than we cared to.

[ compared to that, this is nothing. ]

[overruns]

[ it gets worse than seeing entire trials on-screen? ]

Really? I feel as though even the profiles were overly invasive... It seems there's a lot we were spared on the island.

[slobjection]

Seems so. But it might get even more invasive, so I'd brace yourself.

[ memshare week.... ]

[overruns]

[ he's gonna be dead before memshare week it's fine ]

Things were not easy for us, but I do not envy what you had all gone through.

You ended up defeating the mansion though, right?

[slobjection]

[ no he's living until endgame nu don't even play. ]

Feel like every place has their "perks".

[ emphasis on sarcastic quotes. ]

We did, yes. Head-on... that's always a plus.

[overruns]

[ no free me ]

Head-on... Mm. I think we have to confront these things as directly as we're able.

May I ask how you all achieved it?

[slobjection]

Not always that simple. But when it is... we can't let the opportunity pass us by.

[ hmm, well. ]

Afraid it was quite a process. We all had to risk our lives and confront things that spit out illusions and removed our memories and such... and that was before the trial. During the trial, we were all able to vote for the house, leading it to reveal its true form, and well, the battle began. [ if dimitri was wondering about the bit in phoenix's profile about fighting the house... mystery revealed ]

Don't think it'll be quite that simple this time around.

[overruns]

...It does not sound like it was very simple to begin with.

[ He sighs—even between just the house and the island there's so many differences. ]

I do not wish to 'win' this place's game with the conditions lain out for us. But it is so difficult to find a path beyond them.

[slobjection]

Not exactly, no. But maybe a little more clear-cut than what we've got laid out in front of us.

[ he nods. ]

I've got no interest in playing the game, myself. But as of right now.... there doesn't seem to be an other option.