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day 0, friday

[holeful]

[Someone just died!!! Perfect time to.... play board games?

That seems to be what Fukuda is doing right now, anyway, sat on the floor of the rec room.]

Ah, Kaz, care to join me?

[bachelorbored]

Join you? [he saunters into the room, curiosity vaguely piqued.] In what?

[holeful]

Haha, the game of Life.

[Gesturing to the unfolded game board.]

Take our mind off of things.

[bachelorbored]

The game of life? Wow. That’s a little on-the-nose, don’t you think?

[he’s still sitting down to join though!!]

[holeful]

Well, you play through your characters entire life, I think... So the name makes sense. I just finished reading the rule book.

[There was a lot to explain.]

What color minivan do you want?

[bachelorbored]

Red Porsche 718 Boxter, please.

[holeful]

[....





He puts the red minivan at the start. And then the blue one for himself.]

Now you need to decide if you want to go to college or not.

[bachelorbored]

Pass. Those ivory tours are a destination I dream not of. My street smarts have carried me farther than any university education ever will.

[holeful]

Then you get to pick a job card right away, from these ones...
[The cards say Salesperson, Mechanic, Artist, Police Officer, Entertainer, and Athlete.]

Haha, you've got a lot of strong opinions as usual, Kaz.

[bachelorbored]

Oh, none of these are good. [he flips through the cards, and holds them out, back to fukuda.] Can I see the rest?

[holeful]

[Kaz....]

I mean, you can, but the other ones require you to go to college.
[He hands him the teacher, computer designer, accountant, veterenarian, lawyer, and doctor cards.]

[bachelorbored]

Damn, whoever's life this is sucks!

[with all the cards in his hand, he hems and haws, and finally pulls "Athlete".]

I guess this is closest to my personal brand?

[holeful]

Haha, I think the point of the game is that it’s yours? I’d expect you to pick artist, being a designer...

[Anyway he’s gonna spin and move his blue car.]

week 3, thursday

[holeful]

[Fukuda has in fact been bringing Kaz coffee every morning like he said he would. However it's got increasingly low effort as he shifts from proper coffee to the instant kind through the last few days. Not that it matters because chalk but!!!

Today he wanders in with just a cup of instant coffee powder. He sets them down in front of Kaz.]

Good morning, Kaz.
[Is it good, though??]

[bachelorbored]

[kaz takes the mug, looks into it, face a mask of confusion

and sets it aside.]

Thank you, Fukuda. That's... probably kind of you?

[beat;]

Did you... bring any water?

[holeful]

... Your mouth's wet, isn't it?
[There is no water.]

I think I'm depressed this week, Kaz.
[Just this week. Somehow.]

[bachelorbored]

Um.

Okay.

[holeful]

You always seem to have a certain level of existential dread so I was wondering if you had any advice for dealing with it...?

[He's just gonna. Try to lie down on the bed next to Kaz.]

[bachelorbored]

[normally, conversations with fukuda are pretty short? and he gets coffee, and then the guy leaves. but today, he's here with like a? cup of coffee powder?? and now he's trying to lie down on the bed???????

kaz scoots over, visibly uncomfortable with this, but still just letting it happen, he guesses.]

Oh, uh, I don't know if I would say that. I find I have a generally cheerful disposition, with some, uh... exceptions.

[like

right now he's feeling pretty morose? about fukuda being on his bed?]

What's got you feeling down?

[holeful]

[Either Fukuda's poor social skils are failing him here or he doesn't care if Kaz is uncomfortable.]

I don't know... I guess our general situation. Plus I miss everyone who's stil alive. If felt so tired too, though. Like I just want to sleep all the time/

[bachelorbored]

What's wrong with sleeping all the time? Isn't that what everyone's been doing?

[or at least

he has]

The living? I've definitely moved on past all of that. [well. mostly.] Who do you miss?

[holeful]

... I suppose.
[He only had this week to go off of, and all our extra sloth and despair has definitely been doing stuff.]

Mm... Omi and Gojou and Aoi the most... but also Miss Sheila and miss Qingxuan... miss Lenore, miss Yuel, Mahito, Mineo...
[He just trails off at that point but it seems like he misses a lot of people???]

[bachelorbored]

That's like half the people there? [he barely recognizes any of those names.]

I... suppose I miss Aoi. Not in any serious way! Just... you know, roomie to roomie. Naturally.

[holeful]

It's not half. That's nine people, and there's twenty-seven people still alive. So it's only a third.
[He could have said more names though probably.]

She did seem sad when you died. I'm glad that you two were friends. I really want miss Aoi to be happy.

[bachelorbored]

Yeah. I... yeah.

[he falls into a silence that is strangely thoughtful, considering kaz kaan]