netherwork | — @lark | text, late october.

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— @lark | text, late october.

Hello! This is Lady Rudbeckia de Borgia. 😊 I wanted to speak to... the new Restless? Um. Those of us who have arrived recently. Actually, that was the first thing I wanted to discuss!

1) Should we have a name for ourselves??? Maybe that seems silly but everyone else here in the Netherworld is also part of the Restless, aren't they? So if I want to address "us" as a group then I can't just say the Restless... And I think we are a group! It would be nice if we all worked together.

2) What districts is everyone staying in? I was curious to know how spread out we are. I've been staying in Serene so the Oakwoods thing was really really scary for me. 😰 Does everyone have proper housing? Should we be making an effort to fix some of the empty houses??

3) Do we... have a plan????

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[why wouldn't it mean who she thinks it might mean]

yoo joonghyuk and kim dokja

[since ruby likes them both right??]

they'll live on separate floors tho so u wont have to see them and also yjh is a decent cook and a handyman
dokja is

[she doesn't finish it bc she can't think of what dokja can do she just leaves it like that]

[ SHE WAS JUST REALLY HOPING...... ]

Are you sure I wouldn't be a bother?
I think I should make sure that the signori are both okay with it first...

[ living alone in a place like this is definitely worse and she can hardly sleep most nights for the fear. but... living anywhere near Yoo Joonghyuk... is that going to strengthen or ruin her lifeline? well, surely he'll say no and she won't have to decide. ]

[unforch for ruby yjh will be okay with it if mods approve our submission so now she has to live with them forever]

if it was i def wouldn't be asking
like u said it's all about working together

[RUBY SAID WORK TOGETHER NOT LIVE WITH THE INSANE ORVS? ig it's the same thing now]

and itd be easier to share info and stuff since we really do need a plan. we're easier to pick off if we're separated

[ good she gets to move into the orv house just in time for her to forget how doors work later this month— ]

You're really kind, Signora Sooyoung 🥺
As long as it's okay with everyone, I'll graciously accept your offer!!
It's definitely scary to be alone here, and I've never lived by myself at all...
I promise to earn my keep! I can do the housework and I'll run errands and anything else you need!!

[it's gonna be this except with the orvs breaking down ruby's door]

stop im kind but not THAT kind dont just offer to do anything
u can help with errands tho we're all gonna pitch in
ill text u the address once we get the place ready

[WHICH SHOULD BE SOON, HOPEFULLY]

It's okay, I trust you completely!!
I don't mind offering to do anything!

[RUBY................... this is Sooyoung's cue to feel bad. unfortunately she thinks ruby is getting a pretty good deal bc of yjh's cooking and doesn'T KNOW ABOUT RUBY'S EATING HABITS]

alright hold up define anything for me

Um
Is "anything" something that can be defined?
I thought it was just... anything.

ITS TOO GENERAL

But I trust you, so it's fine?

[RUBY.......................

....thinks about it]

ive thought of something u can do

[waits just in case ruby decides that she wants to run]

Okay! What is it?

[ it's an immediate reply SHE CAN'T AFFORD TO SAY NO ]

[STOP SHE COULD HAVE SAID THAT HER STOVE WAS ON]

keep an eye on kim dokja and tell me if he starts acting weird

[okay]

[ ok she's starting to get Concerned about what the hell is wrong with dokja now that everyone keeps talking about him like this...... ]

Um
I can definitely do that for you, signora!
But what would be considered weird? I don't know Dokja too well yet...

[Sooyoung considers the irony of demanding Ruby to do something that she herself doesn't think she'd be able to notice. Kim Dokja is just as frustratingly hard to read as he's always been, so why is Sooyoung pushing the burden of trying to figure him out onto someone else? Someone unrelated, no less?

'Because you don't really care about him, and you never have.'

Immediately ignores her Shadow.]

if he's being more of a shut-in than usual
if he tells you that he's fine while looking like he's dying
if he's dead

Aren't we already dead?

[HER HEADACHE]

i mean 'bloated corpse in the shadowlands' dead
no breathing eyes closed kind of dead
and anyway do u really think we're dead????? how did u die do u remember

Ummm the last thing I remember... I was pretty sick?
I don't think I was THAT sick but I did pass out...
It's not impossible to think that I died.

okay i can see why you'd think that

[it feels like a natural conclusion to draw, probably one sooyoung would have made herself is she was in that situation. passing out could absolutely lead to death?]

it just feels weird
that we all more or less remember what we were doing or what state we were in
but there's that gap where we don't remember the dying part
the pain or even the shock of it
idk

i mean i was getting my ass kicked and the guy i was fighting definitely wanted to kill me
but i dont remember the killing blow

Then, do you also think that we're trapped here and there's a way back home, Signora Sooyoung?

i don't think we're trapped
i do think the way out? or whatever Ascension is supposed to be won't take us back to our worlds
if there is a way back home it might take years to figure out

[if she were a few years younger than she'd have all the brash confidence of 'of course there's a way out and of course we're going home' but she's OLDE AND TIRED and also home sucks]

[ hah. she likes the sound of that. everyone else is so fixated on going home, it's nice to hear just one person say otherwise. ]

I wonder if Ascension is more like moving on to Heaven, or if it's reincarnation...
There really is a lot we don't know.

that's what i think too esp from the name. tho ig i wouldnt put it past these people to just use a fancy term that means something else entirely

[she's read too many webnovels for that? but as ruby put it, it really boils down to the fact that they don't know anything]

whats something u want to figure out? u know out of the everything that we dont know

Where we go after Ascension is a big one, but ummm
What happens when we "die" here... maybe
Or what the purpose of this place is at all? Whether or not we're really dead, are we here to be punished and redeem ourselves??

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