[Voice]

[poweryetunknown]

Look, I'm just going to ask this straight out.

Who here's dead?

[... Smart ass responses incoming in three... two... one.]

And no, we don't need to swap death stories, that's dumb.

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[poweryetunknown]

[Hey, he can respect that. He'd have locked this too if there were someone from his life that was here.]

[Not that they'd probably believe it anyway.]

I'm curious. And uh. Some of my... powers, I guess you could call them... don't work unless I make a pact with someone else who's in the Reaper's Game. And everyone there is dead.

... And I guess maybe I kind of want to know that I'm not the only person who's confused as to whether they count as alive or dead or some kind of weird zombie thing.

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[poweryetunknown]

Yeah. Me, for one.

[He'd... accepted it by now but it didn't sound any less weird.]

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[kings_thief]

Why do you want to know?

[voice]

[palletless]

[Warning, this is possibly the raspiest kid you'll hear for a while.]

It's sort of a confusing subject, but I'm pretty sure I died. Or, if I wasn't yet, I was going to.

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[drakenguard]

That is strangely a lot...

[Well, how odd. Why would they go to the trouble of snagging up dead people?]

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[greatseal]

[she giggles.] I can understand that. But you're talking... and eating and breathing, I'd assume. So we're probably all alive again.

I don't know about the game, but have you tried making a pact with someone in general?

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[gforceinmyfaaaace]

I kind of died once.

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[fools_journey]

I see. Like a Wild Card of pins. That seems a logical conclusion.

How do you make a pact?

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[poweryetunknown]

[... Wow he really does sound like shit.]

Hey, I've been dead for three weeks, I know confusing. But that sucks.

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[poweryetunknown]

A what.

Uh. It's hard to explain, since I don't really know how it works. You find another unpacted Player and you agree to a Pact. It's probably something stupidly named like 'soul resonance' or some shit

wait

[There's a pause for a second hang on.]

How did I not see all the damn music puns before?

[Let's not even talk about 'Beat' and 'Rhyme'.]

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[poweryetunknown]

That's what I'm thinking, too. It can't be a coincidence.

[fracta_anima]

Minami Arisato! Nice to meet you!

So! Where are you from?

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[poweryetunknown]

Yeah, but I did that when I was dead, too.

[The Reaper's Game is weird okay.]

... It'd kind of be hard to do without looking completely nuts.

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[poweryetunknown]

I'm curious to know how many of us are in the same boat.

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[poweryetunknown]

... 'Kind of'?

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

I think I might have been in the Underworld for a short time? As a spirit...

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[kings_thief]

Hmm...I've died twice in my travels. Does that count?

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[drakenguard]

It isn't. We are here to fulfil a specific purpose, after all. They must have wanted us enough to ignore the fact that we are dead.

What is more troubling is that they have the power to achieve such a thing.

[palletless]

[It's gonna take him a while to not sound like that sadly.]

What, like as a ghost? I didn't think humans could...

[A pause to realize what he was about to say.]

...where I come from, there's a legend that human spirits who are left to wander become yamasks. I don't know if it's true, but I wouldn't want to find out personally.

[poweryetunknown]

... Ah. That sucks.

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[poweryetunknown]

Yeah. Sounds like it sucked.

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[poweryetunknown]

Well in the Reaper's Game you feel alive, even if you're not. So it's not like this is the first time I've run into someone with that kind of power.

It's definitely worrying though.

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

Yeah, it wasn't...the happiest time of my life. Or half-life.

[poweryetunknown]

I don't know what yamasks are, but sort of like a ghost. I didn't feel like one, but I might as well have been one, since anyone not in the Reaper's Game couldn't see me.

[poweryetunknown]

Uh, I'm from Shibuya. You?