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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji is sitting on the front stoop of the inn, looking around at the snow. His expression, while typically neutral, also shows a combination of excitement and pensiveness. He offers a tiny smile to the video feed.]

I think Kanji and I have to take responsibility for this event. It shouldn't be bad, though. Unless someone else's memories are mixed in, this was just a nice vacation.

[He falls silent for a couple of seconds, distracted, then addresses the network again.]

Would anyone mind helping me figure out what word we lost this time? I need to write it down.

Comments

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

[Hey there, have an intimidating guy in a hoodie with his face and hands wrapped in bandages.]

Whadya mean "figure out what word you lost?" What does that have to do with anything?

[Zack doesn't know too much about events. This is his first one.]

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

[Let Souji fill you in then, Zack!]

Whenever an event is based on your world, you lose a word or phrase related to the memory.

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

Seriously? That sucks!

[Because it would mean if something from his world came up, there's a chance he and/or Ray would forget their promise.]

How does that even work? Like, could you probably get it back by hearing the word or something?

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji shakes his head.] I can't hear or read the words anymore. They sound like radio static and they look garbled.

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

... I guess that's another way Wonderland is fucking weird.

How are you gonna write down that word if you can't even tell it's in front of you?

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

I'm going to ask someone to write it down for me. That way I can add it to the list I have.

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

Ooookay. Good luck with that.

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

It won't be as hard as it sounds. I don't think the word I lost is that difficult.

[He can still describe the idea, anyway, and that helps.]

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

Oookay, what do you think it's related to?

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

I know it's not related to snow or anything you can do in the snow. [He's already run all of those things through his head.] I think it has something to do with telling--

[There's a pause as though his words just hit a wall.]

...Some kind of story.

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

A story?

[Something didn't come out.]

What kind of story are you telling in the middle of a snow storm?

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

[He starts to try again and falters a second time.]

The...kind of stories that are scary.

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

You mean like horror stories?

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

Yeah. But I can hear that when you say it, so it must not be that.

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

Okay... What about ghost stories? Those are like horror stories, right?

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

[There's a blank stare for a second.]

You said it.

Re: [Video]

[zackthekiller]

Said what? Ghost stories?

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

Yeah. Whatever you just said, that was it.

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

Great...

[Now what?]

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

Can you write it down?

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

Uh! No...

[He can't write anything. He's illiterate.]

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

...No?

[Not the answer he was expecting.]

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

No. Don't ask.

Get someone else to write it down for you.

[Video]

[eatsyourscience]

I can't. I can't say it.

[Video]

[zackthekiller]

Then grab someone who can hear it and I'll tell em!

[zack don't make this harder than it already is]