dropoffs | AUDIENCE 🚀 DAHUT

[THIS IS SO SAD. HE DOESN'T MEAN TO SHOOT THEIR LOCAL PLANT!!]

You're super useful! You found us all that tasty food! That was so nice... [After so long just eating oatmeal, spam and pies...] I think I probably shouldn't ask you any more questions just yet, either... I don't want to make you sad or give you another headache.

[ YOU GUYS COULD LITERALLY SUBMIT FOOD LOCATIONS ]

Thanks... [ it was a fluke... ] I think my memories from home aren't messed up, but they aren't very helpful for the winter tour mystery.

[ Which now talking about it doesn't give him a headache. ]

[LISTEN... why do that when instead we can submit 20 more labs]

Oh... [Watching him JUST TO SEE, JUST TO MAKE SURE!! But when he doesn't seem to be collapsing from head pain:] Mm, well! At least it's not all of them. Having your brain all scrambled up must be pretty uncomfortable, right?

[ watches us give you guys a library then you guys submit another library but it's worse.

Dahut watches him and Vash looks fine? ]

Yeah, that's good, but it being a section where I'm not sure is super ominous.

[ Vash doesn't seem to mind the pain, but instead worries what it may mean. ]

[WE REALLY SAID 50 LABS AND 2 LIBRARIES BUT STILL NOWHERE TO GET FOOD BESIDES THE DAMN PIE SHOP

Dahut just hums at the response, though, looking at Vash's noggin.]

Yes; I've never seen memory tampering result in anything good... But you could hardly even think about it before without it hurting you, right? So maybe that means something is changing.

[ His head is fluffy blond. ]

... Right. When you guys mentioned stuff about the ghosts before—and their names. What happened to them. I think it's fine now. [ Which is something. ] I wonder if it'll feel familiar eventually.

[Reaches up to pat the fluff, as a creature of compulsion is wont to.]

It might! That would be a good trend... I think? [Unless he remembers something horrific, damn.] Though it does really make me curious how any of this is happening in the first place. What exactly made you forget, and why is it wearing off?

[HIS SCIENTIST HEART IS VEXED.]

[ But aren't you guys looking for the answers to the horrors? Vash lowers himself for some petting. It is soft. ]

... Wearing off... Because of exposure?

[ Wouldn't that just mean you got used to the headaches? ]

I don't know why this happened, though. Or... Why. [ This reminds him. ] Do you think it's purposeful?

[THEY'RE... THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING, THAT'S FOR SURE. He seems grateful for Vash making his soft pettable noggin easier to reach with his tiny shrimp arms, though.]

I don't know about exposure... [He doesn't know a lot about anything though, damn. As for the question, after a moment of thought:]

It would be pretty unusual if it weren't, right? That would be way too much of a coincidence, considering you aren't the only one who can't remember things well.

[ sometimes your dream is to be a little support animal for humans ]

But what do you think whatever's doing this gets out of it? [ man ] A laugh?

[One day he will find a good home full of people who will give him tasty snacks and head scritches without also accidentally shooting him.]

Mmm... I don't know! Maybe? It's a lot to go through just for entertainment, but some people have incomprehensible minds.

[Who is he to say what crazy entity out in deep space would or wouldn't find this funny...]

You're right. Some people are insane.

[ His brother exists and No Man's Land is kind of more insane than Knives. ]

I don't know if I'd prefer it to be the company, a secret mysterious person, or a mysterious force behind this.

[WHEN YOU LOOK LESS INSANE BECAUSE YOUR HOUSE IS COMPARATIVELY SO INSANE.]

Mmmmm, I don't know, either... A mysterious force would feel much less personal! But I feel like that would also be harder to find, let alone deal with.

[ mad at someone for calling you ugly? pull out a gun

oh, it is grim. He's trying to weigh dealing with a psycho maniac vs something impersonal. ]

... I'm gonna hope it's something we can deal with.

[THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE PEOPLE when you're baked by 2 suns all day and night damn. He will ruffle Vash's fluffy hair again.]

Me, too! It has to be! Failure isn't an option, you know?

[HE REFUSES TO BE EATEN BY A HELLY BELLY.]

[ Whispering to himself as he's ruffled. ]

The pressure is on... Yeah! We need to find a way to get you guys back.

[THE PRESSURE IS ON!!! He ruffles one last time.]

Include yourself in that as well, monsieur!

I'm kind of the senior here, so I'm already included!

[ PEACE SIGN AFTER THE RUFFLING. ]

Good! [DON'T PULL SOME RUBY BULLSHIT AND DIE AT THE LAST SECOND.] No one left behind in the Helly Belly! Maybe we can even help get our mostly eaten friends out...

[ remember we had a party immediately after she died ]

Oh, you mean the previous crew. [ He can say that without inflicting himself too much brain damage. ] They're still around? If they are, we definitely should see what we can do to get them out, too!

[ of course he wants to save them all ]

[STOP I REFUSE TO SEE.

They're on the same page about this, though! They are optimistic fools!]

They are! Kind of... Not in one piece, which is why I think we might be getting digested or something. Still, if we can see them every now and then and feel them a little, then there might be enough left to help!

... Do we have to figure out their body situation...?

[ uh oh ]

[A long pause.]

...Hmm, that could be a problem. Their bodies are probably long gone, huh?

[TIME TO INVENT CLONING IN SPACE.]

We... Could figure something out... When we're back. The nanites keep DNA information, too.

... But that means we need their nanites—no, it should be in the server. [ Help. ] I didn't handle this stuff! I was in combat systems!

That's okay! We can figure it out! None of us are experts on these nanites either, but we're going to try learning more about them!

[Dahut studying his super cutie cute nanites that don't actually exist or whatever the hell is going on here.]

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