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[personal profile] bellismortis 2025-06-04 01:26 am (UTC)(link)

[Everything is okay. He’s just answering questions with a strange man in a strange place and he doesn’t know what will happen if they stop answering or if they answer wrong or if they don’t answer with the truth (but he has, hasn’t he?) and everything. is okay.

[Basil continues to tremble out of his skin.]

Can… c-can w— May we go…?

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[personal profile] ihavelost 2025-06-04 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Take a deep breath, Barrington. Don't smack him still.]

I don't know any better than you do. All we can do is continue the game.

[Which indeed continues. The numbers roll: 93]

Would you sacrifice- [Sacrifice?

[Whelk's head jerks like there's a fly buzzing around it.

[Ahem. He starts over, slower.]

Would you sacrifice yourself. To save someone you care about?