♈ Aradia: Reverse.

[psych0p0mps]

[You are now ARADIABOT, and you do not know where you are.

It's already weird for her to wake up at all, because she doesn't sleep. Ever. Even weirder is waking up in a recuperacoon, in a room that feels kind of familiar but at the same time isn't anyplace she's been before. Or any time, for that matter.

There is a lot of weird stuff in her sylladex, too. Why the hell does she have Eridan's legendary piece of shit gun, for instance? This is useless. She dumps the stuff she doesn't want in a pile on the floor. It is basically all of the stuff.

She's about to dump her journal, too, when she stops. Hm. There's something... odd about that book. Odd, and familiar. She decides to open it and speak, but listeners may notice her voice has an eerie metallic tone to it, as well as a pr0n0unced h0ll0wness...]

is this a j0ke

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[biwinning]

...Yeah. Thome.

Terezi, Nepeta and Vrithka.





...And Equiuth.

[psych0p0mps]

I already talked to him. [Terezi and Nepeta don't really interest her at the moment. Fuckin' Vriska, though.] And one of the humans. John.

[biwinning]

Oh, right. There'th thome humansth from their thessthion here. John and Rothe are the onesth I've theen motht, I haven't theen much of Jade or Dave.

[He still hasn't noticed he just referred to them by first names rather than last. ]

[psych0p0mps]

And who are all these other people?

[biwinning]

Inhabitantsth of the cathtle, taken from their univertheth. Thame ath we are.

[psych0p0mps]

By the castle itself.

[biwinning]

Yeth.

[psych0p0mps]

Okay.

[man didn't you miss these conversations sollux ♦]

[biwinning]

[SO MUCH.]

...

Look, let'th jutht get back inthide.

[psych0p0mps]

[A long pause... then the slightest of nods.]

You were going to show me something.

[Could this be... interest? Le gasp, stop the fucking presses.]

[biwinning]

Yeah, I wath. My room, your room, In-- Intholi-- I can't thay it without totally mutilating it, but I'll show you there too. We FLARPed there once. And the lather zone-- we were there recently. You can't have forgotten all of that.

[psych0p0mps]

[Her memory whirs as she tries to dredge something up. Anything. There's her room, where she woke up a half hour ago and where most of the contents of her sylladex are still piled on the floor. His room is a mess, but when she knows this from, she isn't sure. His room has always been a mess. And the Insolitus - just that the name sounds familiar is telling, but she doesn't FLARP anymore, that's stretching it a bit.

So... does she remember? It's hard to say, even for her. It's hard to say why she's even considering the "tour" as an option, or why she thinks Sollux might have any idea what's going on. But she does think it, and is considering.]

... Show me.

[If nothing else, she doesn't have anything better to do.]

[biwinning]

Okay.

[Maybe it'll be easier convincing her than he thought?]

Where firtht?

[psych0p0mps]

[The faintest of mechanical shrugs.]

I don't care.

[biwinning]

...Of courthe you don't. Okay, Inthol-- insolituth firtht.

[Derp derp, back into the castle through a nearby window... and looking over his shoulder every few seconds to make sure Aradia is following. She has the emotional capacity of a rock when she's like this, but she could still wander off.]

[psych0p0mps]

[Well, she's not wandering off. Aradia just follows patiently along, derp derp.]

and I actually don't remember much about where the door to insolitus is... so here is me bullshittin

[biwinning]

[He's still going to keep turning around to look at her. Ugh, he hates seeing her like this. Maybe he should stop looking...

And okay, there's the door to Insolitus.]

We shouldn't go too far in or we'll get lotht.

sixth floor now :3

[psych0p0mps]

[Goes on in without the slightest hesitation. (Keep up bro!) Soulbot Video Log active.]

What is it?

[biwinning]

I don't know, exactly. When you were alive, you were really excited about thith place though. There wath a thecret room in here thomewhere. You took thomething from it back to your rethpiteblock.

[psych0p0mps]

[Insolituception. We need to go deeper. ... Seriously she's just gonna keep going for a while. She is not really worried about being able to find her way back.]

And you were FLARPing down here.

[biwinning]

Yeah. Well, I tried. Mage-ninja wathn't working out well.

[...She is going pretty far.]

Hey, don't go that far. If you get lotht in here I'm not thticking around to find you.

[psych0p0mps]

Yes, you are.

[Just a statement of fact. SHE KNOWS YOU TOO WELL...]

[biwinning]

...

[STOP KNOWING HIM. It just pisses him off even more.]

You don't know that. Maybe I won't. Maybe I've got better thingsth to do than wait around for your metal ath to mosthey on back!

[psych0p0mps]

[What was that Sollux? She can't hear you over the sound of moseying on in. You coming?]

There's something else in here, isn't there? [it's just this vague notion, maybe a fragment of memory again. but the secret room can't be the only thing.]

[biwinning]

No, there ithn't.

[He takes a step back toward the entrance of the cave. ...Just one step.]

I'm leaving.