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[rubykomachi]

⭐ Who: Ruby Hoshino rubykomachi and YOU
⭐ When: Late November & December
⭐ Where: DU, Waking World, Dreamsphere
⭐ What: Catchall! Ruby is not about to let her spirits get trampled no matter how many failures the dice throw her way! Join her idol group!
⭐ Warnings: Will add if they come up

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[rubykomachi]

[She paces around in a circle.]

What do I even say when I've got him? [She clears her throat.]

Alright, tell me who's gonna have problems that get them abducted by the Dream Sphere next! And is it gonna be any more of my friends?! Or is there gonna be another party crashing disaster?? Help me out here!

Should I include a "please, Omen-sensei!" in there to really sell it? Nobody's so heartless that they'll turn down a cute girl in need of guidance...

[predecir]

[Omen hangs around in the tunnels for a while. That's been pretty standard lately; he's felt a lot less social since everything blew up, since he started being known around here for prophecies, since...well, honestly, since Ruby first tried to run him down. It's not her fault! She's a good kid! He's just...you know, he's him. He can't get caught now.

Eventually, though, he does come creeping out again. Is she still around?]

[rubykomachi]

[Soleil takes a brief patrol around the tunnels before she's considering giving up, and it's right then when she sees someone. Wait, that cloak! That's--]

There you are! [She runs forward but quickly skids to a stop. Given Chaos earlier assumed she was going to shank him, Soleil figures she should hesitate a little bit before tackling him this time.] Don't run away from me this time! Just stay put for two minutes, okay?!

[predecir]

Aaaaaaah - !

[Probably a good idea, he is already sort of screaming the second he realizes he's been seen! But he does pause, at least, between the words and realizing that he's not immediately getting attacked again.]

Why?

[rubykomachi]

Because I wanna talk to you! Back then, that thing you said I needed to worry about--it was Hibiki-chan, wasn't it? Did you know it was gonna be her?!

If something bad's gonna happen to my friends, I should know! If I knew it was Hibiki-chan that was gonna be in trouble, I could've...I don't know! Something!

Point is, I wanna be ready next time!

[predecir]

Uh -

[That was the girl who'd been in the Disturbance. Bruno heard about it around the DU, though he never reached her in the Dream Sphere. It's not somebody he really knows. Would he have recognized her if he'd seen her in the vision? Either way, though...]

You couldn't have done anything. You can't stop the future, kid.

[He doesn't really expect that to work. It never does.]

[rubykomachi]

I couldn't have? So if you got a vision that this whole maze was gonna blow up and kill us, we wouldn't be able to stop it?

[Ruby blinks for a second as she processes this new information. On one hand, she does feel a little less guilty about not figuring out it was Hibiki. On the other...]

Your power kinda sucks.

[predecir]

Yeah, kinda noticed that.

[rubykomachi]

I mean...well, if I knew I was gonna die in an explosion, I'd know to get my affairs in order! So it's not the worst power in the world...?

[She's not helping.]

Wait! So like--you knew about the whole "getting trapped" thing a while ago, but did it not tell you how we'd get out?

[predecir]

...I knew there was gonna be...something. Something big. Didn't know it was gonna be exactly like that though.

[And viewing it from the future while in front of it, like he normally might in a fight, was...much too intense. It was like it could see him.]