Viewing Party 2 - R3: THE RE-CRY-ENING

[misanthropicprinciple]

We got castmates. We got clues. We got crap to bitch about. They get a library? And a LAUNDRY MACHINE?

Welcome, murderfam... TO THE R3 LIVEWATCH.

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[cyan_maid]

[She claps, smiling.] You've done it! You are the ultimate ancient person with a long name! It is you!

[scourgingstars]

[A shrug.]

I'm certainly no expert on the matter.

[scourgingstars]

[Ardyn managed a quiet laugh despite everything, Luscinia fluttering her wings before settling in place on his shoulder.]

Fate forbid I lose that honorable title.

[cyan_maid]

We will definitely help you defend that title, don't worry. Even from vampires, which I am not surprised they brought on board.

[She would pat his shoulder but the therapy pigeon is there]

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Hey. I'm here, if you need.

And booze is here if you need.

No reason you can't need both.

[scourgingstars]

I told you, I'm fine.

[...he said, begrudgingly leaning on Church's shoulder while Luscinia hopped down to perch on his leg instead.]

The bloodline has a terrible sense of humor, producing someone that looks like that two thousand years later.

[scourgingstars]

[it's okay jane, therapy pigeon will do a good job for you]

I'll admit that's something we didn't have at home. Even with all the daemons, I don't believe I can think of one that was strictly a vampire.

[ratherdoweddings]

They must be keeping them somewhere, even if this was pre-filmed. Just like our friends in the simulation.

[cyan_maid]

Are you familiar with the concept? They were strictly fictional in my world, but there were a lot of similarities between the different types. From what Miss Kiss-Shot says, some of them still hold up.

[ratherdoweddings]

That's true. Some people just want to go back to a normal life.

[scourgingstars]

Or they escaped as we did--then it becomes a matter of what happened to the ones who no doubt didn't survive.

[ratherdoweddings]

Maybe whatever happened to the others who came before us...

[scourgingstars]

We've had the occasional fiction on the subject. I believe some of it derives from ancient superstitions about daemons taking human form.

[...just gonna casually take a drink of his coffee and pretend he has no idea where such an idea might have taken root]

But she does sound roughly in line with what I can recall of it.

[scourgingstars]

I doubt we'll be fortunate enough for their facility to have a detachable morgue they could escape with, at least.

[ratherdoweddings]

They don't have windows, either. If this was a few weeks before we met you... It could be that they knew we were getting close, so while they were moving the mansion, they also made sure we couldn't track the new group the same way.

[scourgingstars]

It's possible...they did block off our windows a short while after we arrived, so it's likely they caught on.

[ratherdoweddings]

They've got so much space to work in, too. It's almost unbelievable. But there might be some way to work out context with what the staff are saying. It sounds like their counselor's from Earth.

[scourgingstars]

...

[Ardyn calmly glanced off to the side and hid an uncertain look behind a coffee cup, Luscinia shifting a little closer to his head.]

There are a number of planets with that name, by the sound of things.

[ratherdoweddings]

You mean how a lot of us are from universes where there's an Earth, if not from their own version of Earth itself. Come to think of it, it does sort of sound like he's not from the Earth here...

[scourgingstars]

Correct. And if he's from another universe like the rest of us, then it's likely that either the network chose him for a specific reason, or he came to work for them after a situation like ours.

[ratherdoweddings]

Maybe they got him during the testing phase of whatever machine they used to take us.

[scourgingstars]

...That's certainly a viable theory. They must have tested it somehow; regrettably the network doesn't strike me as complete idiots that would utilize it otherwise.

[ratherdoweddings]

Which would explain why he's on their payroll instead of an inmate, but he still has a PIP. I mean, there could still be other reasons, but this makes sense to me. Our own Overseers came from another season, so they had PIPs too, since they were captives.

[scourgingstars]

Which brings us back to my second theory. Even if he was part of a test, it's possible he went through another season or iteration of this entirely.

[ratherdoweddings]

But there were only our three so far, weren't there? Unless they've pre-filmed more, but if they only just started this a few weeks before yours was done, why would they have prepared more? They went a whole year on just Lovelocked.