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WEEK 3 DAY 5: ......?

Mission:
Time Limit:
Noise Plane: Solo
Wall Instructions:
Wall Rewards: 5,000 Zeny
Reaped Rewards: 10,000 Zeny
Mission Rewards:

[Still no mission! But there's a couple things of note. Santa was gone yesterday, but now he's apparently come back to his house. And there might be familiar faces going into the Toy Factory. Other than that, though, there's nothing really different. It may also be of interest that there doesn't seem to be any repercussions for doing nothing yesterday...]

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[... well, she certainly does have her information. Hmm.]

... you were with them when they went into the tunnels below the church, right?

[He pauses a moment, glancing back into the factory before stepping out and, effectively, beyond it's decal'd boundaries and back into the UG.]

Shibuya's Composer wanted to destroy his city, because it was chaotic and stagnating, threatening to poison neighboring districts - like Shinjuku. But his Conductor thought it could still be saved, so they played a Game of their own. The only problem was, the Conductor thought that he could change Shibuya by brainwashing its people to all think the same exact thing. Unifying and harmonizing, yes, but... in the end, it isn't everyone thinking the same way that prompts change; it's individuality and clashing values. So it didn't work.

The brainwashing was done with pins, Imprinted with a specific command.

[And with a little hand motion, he's prompting her to make a connection with one of last week's missions.]

[No need for the hand motion; she's already made that connection, to judge by her grim nodding.]

And the illegal entrant to the Game?
Was that different, or part of the same?
I'm beginning to see how this all fits
But some answers still escape my wits.

If there's an illegal entrant into this Game, it's difficult to say. Technically we all could be considered illegal entrants, seeing as we're from different worlds. But in that Game, the difference was that the illegal Player entered the Game willingly.

That argument is poorly constructed:
I for one was formally inducted.
If I wasn't supposed to be in
Would they have given me a phone and Pin?

Sadly, I think it's more a case of "you aren't supposed to be here, have some coffee while we work on getting you back". Except they don't seem intent on sending us back at all. They're trapping us here by inducting us into the Game. Or, so it feels, anyway.

Regardless, my case still stands. If there is someone in this Game that's an illegal entrant, it could be difficult to say. To a Player, they would seem to be just another Player.

RGers, too, are trapped in this world
And travel to each new location unfurled.
What state do they occupy?
In, out, neither, and in any case, why?

[She's musing out loud, not expecting him to have the answers.]

... that's a good question. It could be that, simply put, they haven't died but were drawn in regardless. If someone isn't dead, they can't access the UG. They don't seem to be restricted to the same areas that we are, either...

Have there been illegal players before
Entered in other games? And how did they score?

[Joshua is clearly the Game Expert in Zecora's mind.]

None that I'm aware of. It would require being able to see the UG from the RG, which is a fairly rare ability from what I've seen. The chances of someone both having that ability and putting it to use in that way are slim to none.

You might say 'slim to none'
But from what Neku said, it was slim to one.
Still, the parallels are clear
But what do they hope to accomplish here?

True. It's a one-in-a-million shot. But it has happened.

It could be any number of things, really. It's too difficult to say with what little we have to go on.

These worlds, in which the Games have been
Might give us someplace to begin.
You have seen them with human eyes.
Is there any connection you recognize?

The only connection I can see is between Shibuya and Shinjuku. They're neighboring districts - and apparently, this is Shinjuku's Game, despite our location. I can't find a connection to Romania, and this world we're in now isn't even in the same world from what I can tell. The world-jumping seems to be random... Though it shouldn't even be possible in the first place.

You think this is still the first Game?
Not three separate ones, but all the same?

Well, that's what I managed to get from our GM friend last week. According to him, this is still Shinjuku's Game.

[He's still suspicious, of course, but he's not totally dismissing it. It could be the truth, or it could just be a lie to throw him off.]

So even if the district we're in changes
That does not mean the Game itself rearranges.
If the same -- Composer? -- remains in charge
Then Shinjuku's Game is just at large.

Precisely. If someone were to overthrow the current Composer, however, things would more than likely change. Though, that all depends on what the incoming Composer's intentions would be.

If every region has a Game
Why are these cities not the same?
Surely the local folks
Would not appreciate these jokes.

I wondered the same thing when we were taken to Romania and the denizens of the Game there didn't converge on us. I believe we're being taken to parallel worlds and different worlds entirely, where the Game doesn't exactly exist. Or, so the last two changes have shown, anyway.

If we could come her from such alternates
Then I'd place money on that bet.
Perhaps they seek to unearth
An item of otherworldly worth.

Hmm. Possible. We can't exactly count it out without any other proof to go by... But, at the same time, what would emulating Shibuya's Game have to offer? That's intentional, obviously so. So it's more likely that whatever they're doing, it has something to do with Shibuya.

So you propose this is an evolution
Of an attempt to bring a revolution.

That's one possibility. Another might be an intended takeover of Shibuya, but... I can't exactly say how solid that theory is at the moment.

What does Shibuya have to offer
That they would like in their own coffer?

[To this, Joshua shrugs slightly.]

Greed, perhaps. Maybe the Composer of Shinjuku's Game is trying to spread their reach far beyond where it should rightfully stay. It's all speculation, of course; merely a thought brought up by our GM friend from last week.

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