▌ ENTRY: week 1. monday. steph.

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[ a little after dinner on monday night, 2b can be found outside cleaning up the sparring space. it's a nice enough thought, seeing everyone working together after gi-gan's murder... even though, if what the crafters say is true, it'll just happen again later this week.

she glances over her shoulder as she hears footsteps approach, arranging the stripped wooden poles souji had borrowed from the armory for practice. ]

Forget something?

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[vigilantics]

Oh, hey 2B.

[ she wasn't expecting anyone to be here. she shrugs, pulling her token out of her pocket. ]

I was just on my way to try this baby out.

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[ ooh, that thing. ]

The wishing well?

[vigilantics]

Mmhm! I figured now would be a good time to rest it out.

[ where no one can watch her potentially trip and fall into it. ]

Have you tried it?

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[ at least 2b wouldn't make fun of her for it??? or tell anyone else, even ]

I don't trust it.

[vigilantics]

Hm. Well, think of this as an experiment!

[ she points in the direction the well is. ]

Let's find out what it does, and then you can decide if you want to try.

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Don't blame me if anything happens to you.

[ but she is ready to go whenever steph is! ]

[vigilantics]

Nothing ever gets accomplished if you don't take risks, my dear 2B.

[ but she'll start heading in that direction!! ]

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Calculated risks, yes, not suspicious ones.

[ fast forward 2 the well or else this'll turn into a "thread" ]

... Well, here it is.

[ she doesn't realize she punned ]

[vigilantics]

[ please we can't do that, the mods are reading this ]

Ha ha, good one.

[ but steph did. ]

this is it this is literally my tag

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[vigilantics]

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[ GO TO SLEEP ]

Just do it already.

[vigilantics]

[ FUCK YOU ]

Okay, okay, hold on. [ ... ] Do I, uh, say this out loud, or...?

[ of course, no one actually answers her question. so steph will just quiet make a wish to herself before tossing the token in. ]

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[ toob watches... and waits... humans and their weird rituals ]

... Is something supposed to happen?

1/?

[vigilantics]

How am I supposed to know? I don't normally throw things into magic wells--

[ she stops. steph thinks she can hear something but it's not coming from the well. confused, she looks around. ]

Can you hear that?

[vigilantics]

[ the sound stops. ]

Uh, never mind. I guess I'm hearing things.

done

[vigilantics]

[ AND THAT WAS WHEN THE BAT NATION ATTACKED.

from the woods.

there's bats flying from the woods towards them. ]

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[ i mean

the comment specified that they'll just attack steph

so im gonna assume toob isn't?? getting directly attacked???? ]

What the—

[ but she'll still put up fists and get ready to punch some bats i guess suddenly i regret this pc ]

[vigilantics]

[ andie: i didn't think this through ]

Oh, come on!

[ THESE AREN'T BATARANGS, WHAT THE FUCK.

steph will also try to... punch some bats... this really is stupid isn't it. ]

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[ rip (rest in pcs) ]

What the hell did you ask for?

[ look... she's a fighting robot? she can fight literally anything? even bats, especially while they have another person to focus on? it's fine. ]

[vigilantics]

Batarangs! They're like, boomerangs, only bat shaped and pointy!

[ and instead she got real bats!!! ]

I thought that would be a safe enough thing to wish for!

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[ she's not even gonna comment on how stupid that sounds, but sure, keep on with your batesthetic ]

Again, don't say I didn't warn you.

[ some of the swarm does zip past 2b while making a beeline for steph. they don't linger around her, but they fuss around her enough to make some small tears in her clothes before she can swat them away. rude. ]

[vigilantics]

[ SHE'S NOT THE ONE WHO NAMED THESE THINGS, LEAVE HER ALONE ]

How was I supposed to know this would happen?

[ a bunch of them are trying to yank on her hair, which is somehow more annoying than them scratching at her. steph swats them away. ]

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Maybe don't trust suspicious wells.

[ i don't know any more ways to type "she punches more bats" without getting repetitive we made a mistake ]

[vigilantics]

Let's try running? Maybe they won't follow us!

[ spoilers: they will. ]

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Better than whatever we're doing.

[ without waiting for another response, she grabs steph's wrist and starts dashing back toward the castle. ]

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[ and they escape!





no, the bats are following them. ]

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[ hey what the fuck ]

—What, are you carrying bat bait?

[vigilantics]

No! I don't know!

[ KILL HER ]

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[ you know what

2b's gonna take some drastic measures and

tackle steph to the ground, to see if the bats fly overhead assuming the two had kept running ]

[vigilantics]

Wha--

[ #WASTED ]

im tagging this bc im too dumb to comprehend trial rn

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[ IT'S A LEGITIMATE STRATEGY???

should the bats just. keep flying. idk this is your bat problem not mine ]

[vigilantics]

[ the bats will make one final sweep at them that will probably mostly just ruffle up their hair a bit

before they zoom back to the woods. ]

...

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. . .

Well, that was stupid.

[vigilantics]

...

We're never going to discuss this again, right?

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Fine by me.

[ pause ]

Unless someone asks where the scratches came from. I don't need to become a suspect over bat bites.

[vigilantics]

...

Okay fine, unless that happens.

[ little do they know, absolutely everyone got injured. ]

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[ and then trial and execution sure happened, ]

I'll let you get back to whatever you were doing before this, then.

[vigilantics]

I am pretty sure you were more busy than I was. But see you later, 2B.