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Date & Time: 06.18 and on;
Location: Asch's basement, outside, anywhere;
Characters: the Dan, their uncles, anybody else involved?! I am losing track. people. six degrees of separation. tag yourselves!!
Summary: as usual, anti-spam mingle log due to numerous interactions between numerous people. action, voice, text, video, post-its.
Warnings: bombs?!

They thought that trips to Alaska and getting shots would be the beginning of a relaxing break. Instead they got quarantines and bombs and people getting mad at them. Big. Sigh.

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Meta? That relates to things outside of stories, doesn't it?

Good! That's right. We're all just 'stories' in the end, pieces on a board. I can hurt or heal with words by knowing the tropes and cliches people follow. That doesn't include myself. [The strange smile he gets isn't arrogant. It's more rueful than anything.]

Imagine being able to protect someone literally with your words. If you could make the statement, "You can't be harmed for reason X" and actually having it work because that follows the rules of the genre. Of course, saying 'reason X' is only for morons. But if you can think fast, I could even train you to debate on a meta level. It's the power to deconstruct the world around you.

[She sighs. Ah, how nice it was to be a witch, even briefly....]

[Just what sort of world does she come from? The more he hears her explanations on truth, the more strange and confusing it sounds. If anything, it seems more and more likely that she'd been plucked from a story of some sort instead of a world.

It's actually incredibly interesting.]

Wow, that's certainly something! But in an uncategorized world like this, outside your story, do you really think you can reach the meta level here?

[If only you knew, Kano.]

Hm... probably not. I can follow the different cliches to an extent but there isn't a pattern in the types of people brought here. The mixing of rules makes it really difficult to apply absolutes. Still, I'm bored enough that I'll try. If I do, why don't you play a game with me sometime? You must be bored, too. I can tell from your reckless behaviour.

That depends on how the game'd work. Even if I'm bored, I'm really busy this month! I'd like to know how a game of yours would go ahead of time.

I wouldn't be able to set it up for a while. Games are just debates. Commonly we use mysteries because they're the most interesting. Ah, of course, despite what you might think, I played for the human side. I think you would make a splendid opponent to play as the witch side.

[She holds out both hands to her sides and smiles.]

It's simple. I would play the witch side first for ease of introduction. I would create a murder mystery that seems impossible for a human to have committed. After all, have you ever considered a murder mystery? If it went unsolved, couldn't you easily say it was a revenge ghost or a witch or some other fantasy? The rumours would conceal the truth. The witch side tries to make that deception 'truth' with seemingly impossible crimes. The human side must solve them without a shadow of a doubt.

For the witch, even one unsolved murder leaves darkness in which the supernatural can live. The human side must have a complete victory to win. It's quite a challenge.

[It's obvious that something like this would interest a self-declared detective like her. Kano isn't sure where 'truths' or 'meta' came into the scene, but those aside, it sounds more like an invitation to a debate more than anything else. A part of him is admittedly interested at the chance to show off.]

You're terrible. Truly terrible, since you've caught my interest. Can't you just write a story, send it over, and have us argue over that? Ku ku... it should work if we do that, right?

I'm very terrible. [She sounds so serene about it.] But being terrible is fun. I suppose I could write something but I already planned to for someone else. Maybe I'll see who is the best opponent here.

[At least she doesn't deny it.] Huh? Really, really? Say, who's this other person you're thinking of playing with?

Shintaro-san. Your gang really gets around, don't they? I hope I get to meet them all.

[... ah, she really has been getting around, then. Kano isn't sure how to feel about that just yet.]

Eh, him? He didn't faint when he meet you?

He treated me to lunch. He's quite a gentleman for such a huge loser.

You didn't treat him with a boot to the stomach, did you?

That's rude of you to assume. I already said it was a really bad day for me, didn't I?

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