Wayne is exhausted, y'all. Pls let him nap until it's his turn.
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Wayne is exhausted, y'all. Pls let him nap until it's his turn.
Wayne is exhausted, y'all. Pls let him nap until it's his turn.
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Wake him up when Helena goes
ᴍᴇʀʟɪɴ.
helena like buddy i am with you in spirit
Mrs Sheepie
at some point gil is just gonna roll over and pin him down so he can stop looking at the heads appearing
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Probably for the best tbh. he will take SUCH psychic damage from seeing Helena's head
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(and might take even more from not seeing her head)
ᴍᴇʀʟɪɴ.
fun fact she's currently debating if she should give him her lei or not
ᴍᴇʀʟɪɴ.
he's already going in squishy he has a disadvantage
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He honestly wouldn't accept it. She deserves the chance to try first and then maybe if it goes sideways she can try and bite onto it and bring it back with her head.
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At least the good news currently is that Skul's speech took him back down to squishiness threshold
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As long as things don't immediately devolve into screaming and arguing again, he at least has a buffer time before he goes autotoxic again.
ᴍᴇʀʟɪɴ.
at least let her offer 8(
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oh yeah she can totally offer! He'd just argue that she should give it a try so maybe they have two tries at it
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all these speeches happening, and Wayne just wants to sleep. he's not going to say shit when he leaves.
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hugs will be dispensed, Helena is getting a kiss on the head, Gil is getting a kiss on the snoot.
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
If he ends up in an empty room he should just have a nap before moving forward 
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honestly I have thought about just that.
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
It's horribly brilliant how it works out - is seeing the head appear or not seeing it appear worse? Nobody knows
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I have also thought about the possibility of Wayne sitting down in the middle of the first room, saying up front that he wants to talk or he's not moving, and then pulling an I AM HENRY THE EIGHTH I AM until either the management talks to him or kills him to make him stop.
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
I mean that is sort of Ari's plan! She wants to negotiate with Sparkles
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Wayne just wants to know what he's doing
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
I think that the longer it goes on, the more it makes sense for people to try different and weirder strategies.
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yes!
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especially after this run of quick deaths
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
And both of them are suffering a lot in that room (Wayne more than Ari because he's literally melting (?) but Ari has serious privacy issues ) so taking a break in a nice empty room and asking to talk makes sense
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Wayne's cellular structure is losing its...well, it's structure the more his body is flooded with stress hormones
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
Ah. Which is in itself a stressful thing to happen. Going to make it worse. Poor guy.
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
Is Wayne part of Nobunaga's army? I know they're friends.
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and this is a guy who doesn't have ears, so his hearing is done via sinus-like cavities in his skull. so it's all literally rattling around in his comparatively large noggin
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no army, but yes friends
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he's decided that Nobunaga is definitely part of his crew
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oh, also bc Ari has seen Wayne doing his music thing once, has she come and seen it happen more often? bc she would have seen him having jam sessions with Nobunaga (and Vance)
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
Sure! She is with Nobunaga a lot so let's say that happened.
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
All the strange music fascinates her.
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it's a good handwavey thing yes! he's definitely played her something funky with Nobunaga making of lyrics on the fly
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
I'll have to check and see if Wayne would have been added to her list of people to look out for. Army people are on it automatically but there are a few others. She's Nobunaga's second-in-command and she can get protective. Not that he needs it right now since he has Gil and Helena, but for future things!
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I do love this idea of him having like a hands off protector like that. Someone looking out for him.
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
Then if you like the idea, it'll happen. 
She'll see how close he is to Nobunaga, and she quite likes him herself! She is not a very emotional or tactile person but if he needs someone to argue for him or shoot a werewolf in the face, she's there.
She'll see how close he is to Nobunaga, and she quite likes him herself! She is not a very emotional or tactile person but if he needs someone to argue for him or shoot a werewolf in the face, she's there.
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she will almost certainly have noticed the two of them riffing early on. Nobunaga dragging him upright and being like "hey let's jam", and Wayne falling right into step with it bc it meant he didn't have to think about anything but making up a rhyme
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I would love them to talk more in general. she has a logic that he can follow.
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
Yes! She's very stressed at the moment (as are they all) but I am so up for chat over burritos.
ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
He'll probably have seen how close she is with Nobunaga. He secretly thinks of her as his adopted daughter, and she secretly thinks of him as her adopted captain 
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new trigger for Wayne unlocked: religion
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stress spike over the whole...idea of praying to the erda flow
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the last people that he encountered that talked like this, were actively hunting him down. and were feeding poolwine to his larvae. and were responsible for Gibby doing Gibby things after he was killed the first time.
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if he could breathe, everyone in nap pile would feel him hyperventilating
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**if he needed to breathe
Pumpqueen Fall
Nobunaga suuuuuuper gets that. He can't with religion. see also: demon king.
Pumpqueen Fall
After he finishes giving orders to Ari he might go collapse on Wayne and use Klaus as a cuddle blanket
Pumpqueen Fall
he's just like "waaaaah Crichton's gone wah wah wah"
kingdonkey
Klaus is just trying to support Ava and hope they're getting through this shit
Pumpqueen Fall
yus
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Wayne wants to invite Ava over into the pile with them tbh
Mrs Sheepie
welcome to bear jail
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Gil sits on anyone that tries to start shit in nap pile.
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Shhhh times now.
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It's feeling increasingly necessary to encourage the quiet bc the sheer amount of drama in lobby is having actual negative rl emotional effects.
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Like a feedback loop into my depressive spiral
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It's why I so desperately want things to chill for a while, not just for the in-character mechanics.
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It's hard not to just go radio silent because of it all. It's not like we need AC this month.
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ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴋʏ
sorry ari, he's just explained this a lot and doesn't really have the energy to go through every little bit of it again.
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Wayne is attempting to Deploy a Hotdog
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(confirmed by cruisie that this will not actually work unfortunately, but Wayne still wants to try)