a camping we will go

[sniptuck]

[ Anyway so one day a bunch of nerds went camping and it went exactly like this the end.

To be more precise, close to the lake on Floater Island a nice lil camping spot has been made! There are a couple of tents next to a campfire. The campfire even have logs arranged around them for that authentic camping experience? You sit on the logs, obviously.

A large variety of snacks have been brought over! There are hot dogs that can be roasted over the fire (made out of... some... animal idk use your imagination). Most importantly, they have marshmallows and chocolate to make s'mores! Because that is the most important part of camping. Clearly.

Mingle with other crew members! Wander around Floater Island and pet birdogs! Tell scary stories by the campfire! Fall into a ditch somewhere and have to be carried back by your crush like a stereotypical shoujo heroine! etc etc have fun ]

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It's dangerous.

[despairing_hope]

Maybe it would be better to go down it then. If they can be set off than no one else would have to worry, right?

[And it wasn't like he was worried about traps....]

I don't mind setting them off.

[splinten]

They aren't likely to hurt you. [He assumes Komaeda is just blandly walking into it on the assumption his luck will protect him, but.]

Most of the traps are meant to be uncomfortable or embarrassing. One of them was rigged to dump on my head a mud that attracted flies.

[fuck you jake]

[despairing_hope]

Oh that would be fine.

[If he meant his luck would still take care of it, or it didn't matter because it was him was debatable.]

Since the other day was pretty bad today should be more than fine.

[splinten]

[Why is Komaeda so himself??]

I'm not gonna stop you if you want to, dude, but I'm a little baffled why you would want to aside from taking the hit for the rest of us.

[which Dirk guesses is a good reason if
you have dangerously low self-esteem goddammit]

[despairing_hope]

[Maybe one day his thinking would change, but it would take a while.]

Eh? Should I need a better reason? Everyone here definitely doesn't deserve walking 8nto trouble.

[splinten]

[Welp. Dirk looks at Komaeda a moment, then pushes to his feet.]

Okay, dude. But let me disarm them. It would be damn foolish relying on your luck when there's an option that doesn't hang on probabilities.

[despairing_hope]

If you really want to, I suppose I can't argue it.

[splinten]

Cool.

[Dirk gets to his feet and starts heading down the path. He also pulls his sword out of his sylladex, because Jake's traps are designed for him and his skill set and he clearly needs all of them if he wants Komaeda to not get hit by any of them.]

You do that kind of thing a lot, huh.

[despairing_hope]

Do what kind of thing?

Rely on my luck? All the time! I even won the Final Dead Room on the hardest setting.

[He was so proud, but then, as much as he hated his talent, it was his talent and he had complete faith in it.]

[splinten]

You're gonna have to explain what the Final Dead Room is to me if you want that to mean something.

[He can't tell with Komaeda if that's a video game, or a terrible ritual where a bunch of people are massacred all at once. Both seem possible.]

[despairing_hope]

Oh, it was a room that was an escape room, it lead to another room that had a lot of weapons and information. We were told that to go into it was to risk your life.

[He's far too casual about this.]

After solving the puzzles in the room the final key was to play russian roulette. If you survived you could leave. The easiest setting was leaving in one bullet, and the hardest setting was taking one bullet out.

[splinten]

[This is stupidly casual, and Dirk is aware of that, but Dirk is also aware that he has been party to equally stupid things thanks to Sburb. If not dumber, honestly.]

I don't know if I get the point in offering different difficulty settings on it if the reward is the same either way.

[despairing_hope]

Oh the reward wasn't the same. Clearing the room let you get to the weapons and the secret of the fun house we were all trapped in. But clearing it on the hardest level let you get our school profiles!

[Which had been incredibly valuable since they hadn't had their school memories.]

Oh, and of course our current profiles.

[It was fine to talk about that part, since none of it mattered anymore.]

It answered a lot of questions.

[And happened to be the one thing that made him make a rather troubling decision.]

[splinten]

That's because of the memory situation you guys were in, yeah?

[Double-checking. There are some gaps sometimes, and Hinata explained some matters but glossed over others.]

[despairing_hope]

Yes, we had all our school memories taken from us. It was estimated that two or three years were lost.

[splinten]

The profiles were a substitute for that, but they don't cover anything. Do you have your memories back?

[despairing_hope]

I don't have mine. Only Hinata kun has his. And though they didn't cover everything, they did cover enough to get an understanding of our situation at the time. It was definitely a good prize!

[splinten]

[Huh. That makes Dirk wonder.]

Setting aside how dangerous that sounds coming from you, do you have any ideas on getting your memories back?

That's assuming you want them. [Hinata did make an allusion to WRECKING EVERYTHING. Dirk really should follow up on that some time.]

[despairing_hope]

I'm not exactly sure.... There's some things I would like to know, like my time at school, when I first really met everyone and having an idea of what I had been doing for the past two to three years.

But then there's....

[He lifts his left hand up casually, letting the machine noises murmur with his movement.]

I'm not sure I'm ready to remember what lead up to this....

[Remember that hand? That hand that's in the library now? That hand that was attatched to his arm when he first arrived? Something seriously messed up happened to make that a Thing.]

[splinten]

Yeah, that would have to have been pretty fucked up. Fair call.

[It's a casual answer but it also isn't dishonest, and there's a depth of genuine emotion behind it well enough. Whatever happened, whatever they all did, was something. Dirk knows that he couldn't stand not having his real memories, that he'd have to go for it.

But he can understand choosing to leave something like that behind.]

[despairing_hope]

But, I'm not against trying. Especially now, when only Hinata kun remembers anything. It must be annoying to not have anyone else around who knows the same things.

[Well, at least Komaeda didn't have fake memories, he just had a huge gap in them.]

Why do you ask? Is something on your mind?

[splinten]

Just wonderin' after you brought up those files. [He wonders if he could find it in Komaeda. But Komaeda doesn't seem to want that, and Dirk doesn't really know if memories are covered under the 'soul' category. Best not to worry about it.]

[despairing_hope]

Looking back, though they were very valuable, and worth the price to win them, it might have been unlucky in the long run.

[He can't help but sigh.]

Though, I think no matter what events had to play out the way they did.

[splinten]

Is that a weird sense of fate related to your Luck powers or is there something going on there?

[Things are honestly hard to tell with Komaeda? Sometimes he's like an alien.]

[despairing_hope]

Perhaps it's related to my luck, or just that the Mutual Killing Game had to end and that was really the best way to do it.

[Was it a problem he hadn't explained how it ended? Who needs details.]