audience: nico di angelo

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[becomemod]

[Tiger lets Nico in and brings him up to the 5th floor. As soon as they exit the elevator, three curious cats are walking over to them to inspect Nico. One cat is a ginger tabby(girl), another is a tuxedo cat (boy), and the third is all white (girl).]

Ah, you don't mind cats do you?

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[ wow this is drastically different than phoenix's dorm and he's not entirely sure how to feel about it. he keeps to himself, but he follows after tiger while he's observing the area and heading up to the 5th floor with them.

there are cats. and he pauses for a moment, tilting his head as he looks at the three of them while letting them sniff him. he's half-expecting them to hiss at him, frankly, because most animals hate him for smelling like death. ]

No, though most animals don't actually like me very much. I feel like since I'm intruding on their home though I don't get much of a say in if I mind them or not anyway. [ a joke. ] These are the ones from your pictures, right?

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[Surprisingly Nico passes the cat test. He must have no death smell on him right now or something, because these cats love him. They're rubbing against him and demanding attention.

Tiger is smiling at that too.]

They're the ones. And they seem to like you too.

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[ well. thank you, cats, he will pet them and allow them to do what they want and give adequate attention. ]

Surprisingly. They're cute in person as well. We don't have pets over at Phoenix but the Cocoa Puff's more than enough.

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[They are attention hogs and will eventually curl up in his lap whenever he sits down.]

Cocoa Puff?

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[ that's fair. he's used to a little cat curling up on him at all times, so when he does sit and is attacked by affectionate babies he is allowing this and petting them.]

Ah. A cacodemon...they came with me from home, so I've been taking care of them since we've been here.

[becomemod]

Oh? That must be nice, to have something from home to keep you company.

[Will is here too, but.

Tiger will go ahead and sit on the other couch then. They sit with a straight back, both feet on the floor, and their hands folded in their lap.]

[resumed]

Sure. [ it's complicated and he doesn't think of explaining it.] And they love Will so that makes it a lot easier to have both of them around, too.

[ sometimes you just want to make sure your children love their stepdad. anyway, tiger sits down and nico's busy balancing the cats as he thinks of how to begin. ]

So...what gave you the idea that this thing could possibly work anyway?

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[Ah. It's time, isn't it? They take in a slow breath, and then they sigh.]

I've seen several of these pages, they're made of the same kind of paper. But they probably didn't come from one huge sheet of paper, not if they were written on. You can tell by how the paragraphs are formed, the pieces of paper all come from sheets of paper the same size. So, what would they have been contained in?

[It's a leading question. Tiger's logic is that if they lead Nico towards what they are thinking, then it's not the same as them stating it outright.]

[resumed]

A book, right. We've heard about the book before but I'm going to present the same question I'd asked Phoenix, too. Why can't we just burn the pages or rip them up or something to destroy them and break the power of the words? Is that a possibility?

Unless you're suggesting these are from a different book entirely.

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No, I think they are likely from the same book. And if you think about it, they were already 'destroyed' in a sense. They were ripped out of the book, so wouldn't that be enough to break the power of the words?

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Sure. [ that makes sense. ] So why isn't it?

[becomemod]

If my theory is correct? It's because it's already happened. Whatever was written already came to be, so ripping it up or burning it won't change anything.

[resumed]

[ there's a nod. ]

Some of us have thought this as well. Which makes it really frustrating that we can't erase the past but can't predict the future either. [ but... ] The pages were written a while ago, and now they're coming true now that we're here.

What's the likelihood there're still new pages being written versus pages that're already written and ready to come true?

[becomemod]

Either could be likely, it's hard to say. But that's why I said we should look for a blank page to test it out.

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So then the next question is where would we start to even look for a blank page?

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If we are lucky it will show up, like those other pages have been.

If we aren't, we may need to find that book.

[resumed]

We only have a few weeks until the full moon. So...we should probably start looking harder. Those adventures can't be the only way to find pages, can they?

[becomemod]

I have been searching this city top to bottom for weeks now. If I find something, I'll share it.

[They have had no luck so far though.]

I don't think the adventures are the only way though, no.

[resumed]

Right, thanks. We're still searching, too. [ ...but he decides to bring this up, again. ]

If I could communicate with our dead, maybe they'd know. I've been thinking about workarounds of how to summon them or ask questions besides what I suspect is through the newspaper. Since the halloween store just opened I'm almost willing to downgrade myself to using a ouija board.

[becomemod]

[...hmm.]

Isn't there already a way to contact the newspaper?

[resumed]

I'm not writing a stupid letter that might not get answered, Tiger. We're already seen that doesn't work effectively because their answers get cut off. Plus it looks like they can only answer a few things at a time, and they're only published in the Monday and Friday editions of the paper. That's why I want to find something more concrete.

[becomemod]

It looks like they can do more than just answer questions though. They made a couple comic strips too. And did you find all the secret answers on that crossword puzzle?

[resumed]

Yes, and yes. I know you weren't there Saturday but a lot of people were discussing the crossword puzzle and pointed out the answers. And the comic strips are basically saying the same thing as the puzzles, which are kind of saying the same thing as the letters we're finding. So that's where I'm at with this. Even if they don't actually have any idea more than we do, we can't even confirm it because what they are able to tell us is the same information we already have. That's why I want to try and find a way to talk to them myself, so we can be sure we're all on the same page and they know what to look for and maybe we can springboard ideas off of each other.

[becomemod]

[They listen to all of this, nodding along.]

Right. So an Ouija board is your thought? I don't know what that does, can you explain it to me?