ENDGAME GROUP 1: The Other Box (Log 2)

[yourghosthost]

[Off-screen, the groups manage to reunite themselves once more. More notable than anything else is the little black floating box, though if any of you have any information you wish to exchange, now would be an excellent time to do so.]

I know this isn’t exactly on the docket, but I intend on heading in there. You’re welcome to join if you’d like.

(ooc: this is the second and final log for group 1 - if you weren’t here for the previous log, feel free to use this as a jumping-in point!)

Comments

[not_over_yet]

[ So not familiar at all to this mouse. Cool, cool. ]

...Is the plan to stay in the void, or head for the only visible location?

[ Genuine question. ]

[stenchus_rodentus]

[Just going to hang around Basil because he hates being in hell void again.]

Better question: did anyone bother bringing the key?

[not_over_yet]

An even better question: is there a keyhole from this side?

[stenchus_rodentus]

It's a box. The keyhole has to be on both sides.

[not_over_yet]

It's a prison, and made of magic at that. Why would it be as easy to leave as enter?

[stenchus_rodentus]

I'm not saying it's easy I'm merely saying it has to be there.

[not_over_yet]

Magic doesn't have to make sense, Ratigan. It very rarely does so.

[stenchus_rodentus]

It has RULES. Otherwise everyone would be doing magic, Basil!

[not_over_yet]

Oh, many rules, certainly--rules that don't make a lick of sense, and which cannot be figured out by employing logic. It's the combination of unbreakable rules and those rules being nonsense that prevent "everyone" from using it.

[ We're all trapped in here, just accept your fate. ]

[stenchus_rodentus]

Listen here Basil.

[Fuming.]

I'm going to get you out of here AND I will solve this puzzle of Walt and Hades' contraption if I have to do it all on my own!

[not_over_yet]

...Get me out. [ Uh. That's weird phrasing under current circumstances, so have a genuinely incredulous look. ] You really needn't bother. It's not as if I've plans for after this mess is dealt with.

[stenchus_rodentus]

[Haughty scoff.]

Only a small job in the day of the world's greatest criminal mind~

[not_over_yet]

[ ...That "persistence beyond reason" is still oddly charming, but it's going to get annoying if it never stops. ]

Ratigan, I'm not going to go back to normal simply because you don't like my current state. I don't either, and that hasn't fixed a thing.

[ Delivering bad news is so much easier without hope getting in the way. ]

[stenchus_rodentus]

[Frown. Basil can be so exceedingly thick-headed. He would have thought the mouse would have felt something.]

You hardly seem too ecstatic about mine either.

[not_over_yet]

[ Arm-crossing, looking away... he can push through this long enough to point out the obvious. He can. ]

That doesn't change the fact that. That I can't keep up in our usual game, so if you're so invested you'll... need to find a new opponent. A different.

[ yeah ok maybe he can't. FINE, harder to say but done with faster: ] You--[ ...a lot harder to say than expected... ]--you, you win, fucking goddamn--leave me alone. [ BOOKING IT straight into the manor. ]