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CAR WASH

AT THE CAR WASH, WOAH

The door leading into the car wash is locked. You all know that, of course. You've likely tried it yourself, or watched someone make a fool out of themselves trying to break in. (Man, this is going to age poorly if you've all decided to surprise us and just leave the locked door alone.)

But today... well, call it a feeling. A gut instinct, maybe, that leads you to the doorway. This time, you put your hand on the doorknob - and it turns fully, the door swinging open so that you can enter. As you draw your hand back, you'll spot a bloody handprint on the knob - but then you blink, and it's gone.

The inside of the car wash is rather industrial looking, albeit mostly powered down. The lights are dim to begin with, and flicker ominously from time to time; occasionally, they even go out entirely, and it may be several minutes or several hours before they come back on. None of the machinery seems to be working, though there's a faint electronic hum coming from a shelf built into the wall, upon which a radio sits. Strangely, no matter how tall you are or how you conspire to stack things up and climb up to get it, it always seems to be just out of reach - there won't be any changing the channel for you.

It's hard to tell what you're meant to do here, now that you've gotten in. But since you couldn't get in until now, there must be some reason... right?

...only time will tell.

NAVIGATION

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[carefully poking his head in, with no mask, looking absolutely baffled by the fact that he can see in here?]

Tall guy, you're here too! Hi!!!

[nott then shoots someone]

[AND THEN NOTT JUST SHOOTS SOMEONE so he yelps, slightly, and steps back -

only to vanish when he steps out of the car wash!

... a beat, and then he pokes back inside with a frown. hello again.]

I do wish you all would quit murdering each other.

[She blinks when she sees him disappear, tilting her and starting to follow him out, only to gasp a little when he comes back.]

Oh, that's weird ... You only show up when you're in here?

[But, anyway:]

Owen sucks, so it's fine!

[he just doesn't argue when she says owen sucks]

I believe I am still dead. Technically. [he wrinkles his nose.] You know, this is not entirely what I was expecting when I woke up this morning.

[Just. Whallops him in the middle? To see if he's solid?]

[OW

she gets him right in the stomach and he just goes oof.

in the distance there's the sound of shoebill beak clattering]

Ow.

Oops-- Sorry! I got kind of excited. But you feel pretty solid, so you're kind of a special ghost if you are one! I can't normally punch ghosts.

Anyway, you're so pretty! Wow! It's good to see you again.

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[beau in the distance like LEMME AT EM

thankfully he just looks vaguely amused at this.]

I - thank you? [he thinks?] Full glad am I to see you, as well. This is a strange existence. One foot in the grave, as it were.

[...] Fare you well? Despite everything.

Yeah, I'm okay -

[Or, at least, she can't really be anything but okay.]

Especially now that we've seen some of you guys! Um ... You were saying you could speak to Riku before? Does that mean you've seen everyone?

I have indeed. We all exist in a place that...

[he frowns. trails off.] ... I cannot quite recall. Hm.

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Hythie-san, you're - are you alive? A lot just happened.

[he blinks, and then smiles when he sees her.]

Oh, Miss Ann. I, ah... could not say what the state of my existence is, at the moment. Though your inclusion in this exclusive little club is troubling.

[ there's a smile back, but give her a minute, she's not the brightest. she can at least kind of puzzle piece things. ]

You're here, and so's that Owen guy... and all of us - hey, wait, does that mean you really did kill him? [ riku, she means. ] I - uhm, it's complicated, too? Fushimi and I got in a fight.

I assure you it was not on purpose. [he says, looking sort of sad about it.] ... But I suppose that does not matter in a place like this.

I guess not... [ looking at, you know, where riku shows up. ] Things are really getting weirder and weirder, huh.

A stranger fate I could not have imagined when I awoke in that truck. [he says, amused.]

[ thinking about the truck makes her sad... awone. ]

Well, we'll try to figure things out, right? Wherever you guys are, and everybody else. And if you're here, that must mean Iris-chan is okay, and she's so smart...

She is making the best of what she has. I shall pass on any message you should like.

[...] This building must have some secret to it. Riku and I had resolved as such to find some thread to pull and unravel what mysteries our prison holds. Perhaps you can help facilitate on the side of the living.

Hey!

[It's the hot guy under the mask.]

So - what happened with Riku? What was all that?

Hello, Miss Nott. [he's very amused to see her.]

Do you believe him to not be telling the truth? I asked him for a game on the dancing machine, and we could not stop until one of us died.

It was not premeditated, if that is what you fear.

Oh. No, I believe you about that! He can't remember what happened after he died. Why'd he run over Sora with a car?

[ohhhh, okay. a pause.]

I could not say. I've no idea what happened, I'm as surprised as you are. Though I do not believe it was Riku who was the driver.

Then it was the rat driving the car!

[he frowns, and then:]

... Perhaps. I do vaguely remember a rat, somewhere. Ah, this fuzziness is vexing.