007 [Video/Public]

[otakuro]

W-What happened to all of my saves?! I found a Legendary sword yesterday! A Legendary sword. Do you guys know the chances to proc a Legendary drop?! It's like, 1 in 8192 kajillion! Probably higher! I could go the rest of my life without ever getting another one!

This is totally not acceptable! I demand compensation! Whatever Hinoto-Ri is doing this time, I'm not gonna stand for it! Who's with me?! Do you hear the people sing singing the song of angry m --

[beep bloop beep sounds in the background]

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Uh.

Never mind, it dropped again from the same enemy and probably after the same number of RNG rolls or whatever. 'K, false alarm, everyone can go back to their daily business.

I've got a new sword to test; you guys'll have to figure this one out yourselves.

Comments

[otakuro]

Me? No. Who told you that?

[Midoriiiiii]

I figure I'll do my part by teaching everyone how to play Mega Mash Brawl; guaranteed to lift people's spirits.

[otakuro]

I mean, there are a lot of pluses to repeating days forever. ...No pop quizzes, you know all the answers to the homework, endless free food...

[badluckhealer]

Told...huh? [Blinkblink.] ... Sorry, I think I might not have been clear. What I meant was, you could also do what you're recommending regarding fixing the time loop, right?

[all_wound_up]

You're right... there are a lot of good points if you look!

[mementodagger]

If you're planning to cheat, then what's the bloody point?

[Yurick scrubs a hand over his face.]

I would think that after what we've faced together, a little thing like this wouldn't even bother you....

[And then he trails off, lowering his hand to reveal a slightly wide-eyed stare.]

Wait... was this whole burst of panic in jest?

[pretty_pink_ribbon]

[Rolling her eyes, but smiling anyway.]

No, they air drop it from a spaceship.

[Setting that aside...]

But at least I'm not the only one having a total deja-vu-day.

[bondsofsuffering]

So... something like that one American film?

[Gosh, he hopes not.]

[otakuro]

What do you mean?

[Atsuro solemnly finds his coat underneath a pile of papers that had exploded out of his bag.]

Humorous overreaction to trivial things is probably someone else's shtick. I'm just the alpha nerd.

...I can honestly say I'm really not keen on going outside though.

[otakuro]

Ohh.

[Atsuro ponders on this for a moment or two.]

No, I don't have anyone in that position in my life or able to take that position. It's all up to everyone else!

[otakuro]

OK, so I think the solutions we have here are --

Fall in love, brush your teeth, and do your homework.

Did you forget to do any of these things?

[otakuro]

We could do all kinds of things we couldn't normally do.

Like... 24-hour drum machine marathons without worrying about dying from heart failure!

[a pause]

Wait what do you think would happen if one of us died?

[otakuro]

...Why a spaceship? That seems unnecessarily troublesome.

[Clearly the important part.]

What's up? The clothes you bought yesterday vanish from your closet or something?

[all_wound_up]

...I don't know. But I don't think we should find out.

[otakuro]

You know...

Come to think of it, I've never heard of any of us dying here. The people native to Hinoto-Ri, yeah, but...

I wonder if we're protected somehow.

[all_wound_up]

Maybe Philemon-san is watching over us.

[otakuro]

...If he's watching over us, you'd think he'd nip some of these things in the bud.

[all_wound_up]

I don't think gods work that way, do they?

[otakuro]

I would be perfectly alright with a universe where gods viciously defended their creations from terrible supernatural mishaps, for the record.

[themortalhalf]

You sure sound concerned about it.

Couldn't you have just hacked it and shit?

[all_wound_up]

It would certainly be a lot safer...

[bondsofsuffering]

Aww, crap! I totally forgot to fall in love.

Any luck on your end?

[otakuro]

...What, the games?

That would take a lot more effort than complaining about it to everyone.

[otakuro]

Maybe they could make fortune booths where all the bad luck 'kyous' are removed, too, and we only get good fortunes.

[otakuro]

...

I think I just set myself up for an awkward answer regardless of what I say, so let's move on instead.

Seriously, though, that's how they got out of time loops in the shows I've seen. What else can we do?

[all_wound_up]

Wouldn't that defeat the point?