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[pursestrings]

WHO: okuya$u & emma
WHERE: emma's place and then who fucking knows
WHEN: now yall
WHAT: giving children bullet dispensers
WARNINGS: emma has a gun

[Now that he's received one whole ammo-dispensing ribbon that he does not need, Okuyasu figures he'll dutifully give it to someone who does need bullets for her fucking rifle. That would be Emma, who he should probably check up on and say hey to anyway, so off he goes with ribbon in hand to Emma's Flavo cottage.

knock knock knock knock knock]

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[keeneye]

[This is some true 90s teenage rebellion here. Chilling on a roof. Emma tosses her work gear into a pile by whatever project she was chipping away at today. She can go back to that later, it's hang out time now.]

Mm... It does feel like there has been less color popping up compared to the beginning too. Maybe his gifts directly tie into that?

[Although there have been larger scaled changes in comparison to the small pops of color from the start. The lazy clouds drifting across the warm summer sun being full of life is one such improvement that was immediately apparent form their vantage point.]

Or maybe the other way around... More effort is going into the world instead of us?

[pursestrings]

[Hey you know what? Fuck the sun, Okuyasu wants food. He does indeed frown up at the sky, like sure, it's there, but was it worth it... was it...]

Who gives a shit about that? Not like we're gonna stay here forever. [They've both been here for six months, but you know who just disappeared the other day?? Okuyasu's best friend in the world!!! He's not convinced any of them are playing for keeps here.]

So he's just giving us garbage for what? So we keep doing dumb shit for him and he colors some more grass?

[tell him, 12yo senpai]

[keeneye]

[How else are they going to cloud gaze and other mundane activities? Honestly, the sun really is important in the long run. The long run... Despite the wonderful people Emma has met in Chrome, truly they were family now, she can't help the squeeze of her heart when Okuyasu says forever. Six months she has been missing. Six whole months she hasn't had a word or update from home.

She kicks her legs, fidgeting to hide the discomfort. It's fine to vent with Okuyasu though, right? He's obviously not holding back.]

Hopefully not, but I'm still hoping that we'll be able to find a way out when it's back to normal. We had to have gotten here somehow. So there has to be a way back out. [Heck, people are being sent back all the time as it is! Well, probably being sent back home. They might not even have to wait until it's fully colorful to find it.] We just have to find a way to get in contact with him one way or another. I'm just betting that being on his good side will make it go smoother.

[Again! Not like this Mr. F has been forthcoming in replies! She sighs at the number of dead ends.]

[pursestrings]

[Of all people in the town to be a kindred spirit to his complaints, it's the 12 year old child... You know what, he'll take it! He will take it. He shrugs, watching a cloud go past.]

Bet he doesn't have a good side. [lmao...] He doesn't answer online and he screws with you if you try to find him the normal way...

[You know, digging. He thinks, then; people are coming in, and people are going out... perhaps there is an obvious solution.]

Could always trying going down the well again.

[keeneye]

[Twelve or not Emma will call bullshit when she sees it. Being kidnapped for six months is squarely in bullshit territory.]

He still could though. I would rather hope that he does then give up on that line of thinking before we even get in contact. [Sorry, not sorry, she is too shonen protag to not believe in the heart of the antagonist.]

[However! Emma turns to face Okuyasu fully, eyes bright at the suggestion. The kindred spirit grows.]

You've thought about that too?! I've been thinking about how strange our arrival was for a while now- And then there was what happened to you at the well and everything. It's obviously important, right? But going in alone isn't smart since there's no one to watch your back if you black out. [like Okuyasu showed in his digging experiment.] We could watch each other's backs?

[pursestrings]

[Shut up Emma, Mr. F is full evil, Okuyasu can feel it.]

Uh-- sure, yeah. [yes he totally thought about this weird thing before now] You wanna check it out?

[Is this idea... dumb?! Yes, of course. He thinks about it and decides they might as well, considering nothing else has given anyone any answers around here. The mystery of the well is as close as they've come to anything of note, if only because it- or, well, someone- doesn't want them near it when they don't have to be.

So. Stupid ideas club is go.]

Let's do it! But how are we gonna get back out?

[keeneye]

[Good response, bro! Hell yeah she wants to go into the well. She nods!]

Definitely. With both of us there one of us is bound to notice something!

[Probably. If all the weird stuff surrounding it actually proves to be anything for real. Now Emma has gone full tilt into planning this little exploration. Long live the stupid ideas club.]

We can prepare a rope or ladder beforehand. [Or! Combine the two with a rope ladder.] The issue would be preventing anyone else from moving it while we're down there. A lot of people visit the well.

[You know, since its one of the only sources of clean water. That they are going to be standing in. It's fine.]

[pursestrings]

I'll make a sign. No one'll tip the ladder down and strand us... uh, probably.

[Some people might, but he will find them, and he will destroy them. The sanitation of the well means nothing to him, considering people pop up in it every month anyway.

It's a great plan.]

Maybe in like a week? Just in case something gets weird around here again.