April Fools

[tickingheart]

[FAIL!FILTERED TO AOKO AND KUROBA]

Aoko? Kuroba? Tell me you're both back to normal.

[END FAIL!FILTER]

So, did the town just bring a bunch of new people in at once, or is something else going on?

Comments

[tickingheart]

Yeah Kuroba. I'm making it up.

[pandorabox]

Great. I'm lowering your score to a 2.

I'm also hanging up now and calling Aoko back. Always nice to talk to you, Dark.

[tickingheart]

Why'd you lower it?

[Not going to push the "Dark" issue there.]

[pandorabox]

Because Mayfield is a really uncreative name. C'mon, you could have done better.

[tickingheart]

Trust me, if I were making this place up, I would have done a lot better.

[pandorabox]

[siiigh he might as well go along with it]

Oh yeah?

[tickingheart]

Yeah.

[pandorabox]

Do tell, if you're so adamant about this entire thing.

[tickingheart]

Tell what, better names for this place? Or why you'd have to be completely insane to think somewhere like this up?

[pandorabox]

The second part.

[tickingheart]

Where do you want me to start? Brainwashings, the flu when you almost died, the acid rain, the time I got locked in a car with Aoko? That one wasn't so bad, but most of the other events are.

[pandorabox]

[he lifts an eyebrow on the other end, before he replies dryly]

You make it sound like such a pleasant place.

[tickingheart]

It's a wonderful place. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

[pandorabox]

How'd you get there?

[tickingheart]

I woke up here in August.

[pandorabox]

Just randomly?

[tickingheart]

Just randomly. And when I say randomly, I mean "without falling asleep first".

[pandorabox]

...

If you aren't aren't Dark, I wonder if the community is doing this.

[tickingheart]

Trust me, I'm not Dark.

[pandorabox]

[a thoughtful pause]

... universal multiples virus?

[tickingheart]

I'm not an alternate you.

[pandorabox]

-- eh?

[tickingheart]

Three guesses.

[He's quiet for a moment, shifts the phone closer to his chest. The sound of a steady ticking and whirring.]

First two don't count.

1/2

[pandorabox]

[-- HOLY SHIT HE DROPS HIS PHONE.

Robo can probably hear a lot of banging and scrambling around as he does so.]

2/2

[pandorabox]

[And finally, when Kaito picks up his phone again and speaks, he doesn't sound so amused anymore]

How'd you survive?