four

[bookpapers]

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week one, tuesday

[forefall]

[ we're at the corn.... we're at the maze..... we're at the combination corn maze. four is lost! somehow. somewhere deep inside.

she projects her voice: ]

Hello? Is anyone there?

[ a pause, and then a quiet but almost desperate: ]

Marco?

[ marco polo was born after her time in an alternate timeline, and the game waaaay after, but some modern playground games inexplicably are named in dod3, so this is stupidly allowed. ]

[bookpapers]

[jumpscaring four is becoming a pattern.... also google tells me that the game is after lavi's time too, help. punches dgm for not giving me marco polo

thankfully, lavi can be just as dumb as he always is even without this knowledge, in that he suddenly rounds the corner with absolutely no preemptive warning except for his muffled, eerie footsteps --]

Who's Marco?

[forefall]

[ starts every pc as a riff of previous pcs

her hand flies to her chest, but at least she doesn't jump. she was expecting someone to hear her eventually. ]

I'm not sure, but there's a game where one person yells Marco and the other Polo, and the former person tries to find the latter.

Almost like hide-and-seek.

[bookpapers]

[NO MORE JUMPSCARING,]

Huh, so it's named after the explorer.

[he has heard of marco polo though,]

Wait, so you're you in the middle of a game? Who are you with?

[forefall]

There's an explorer named Marco Polo?

[ news to her! ]

... No one. I was wandering.

[ as if she'd admit to being lost so soon. ]

[bookpapers]

[(lavi voice) maybe it's not the same guy...]

Hmm... [hmmMMMmmMMMM] So you were just saying Marco for fun?

[forefall]

I was hoping someone would say Polo back.

[ there's a beat as she realizes how pathetic that sounds but looks away as if there's nothing wrong and she doesn't know better. ]

[bookpapers]

[Lavi doesn't think it's pathetic, he thinks it's cute... But he feels like saying that might make Four yeet him into the cornfield head first.]

I'm here now, ain't I? Must be your luck that summoned me.

[or lavi's intrepid curiosity that makes him explore all things]

[forefall]

[ she wouldn't. she's not that type of character. well, she is, but she isn't.

... ]

I don't know if I would consider myself that lucky. I'd say your curiosity brought you here.

[bookpapers]

[WHICH IS IT? ARA?]

Quick as ever.

[hehehe, when she's right, she's right.]

C'mon. With your smarts and my curiosity, we'll find the exit in no time.

[forefall]

[ that's for you to find out or to not find out..... it'll become apparent by endgame, probably.

she's a little doubtful. ]

All right. We may as well choose a direction. We can't go anywhere by staying still.

[ she starts walking. hope they get even more lost. ]

[bookpapers]

[STOP they can't be lost forever, maybe. Lavi will follow after,

after some time he speaks up,]

Oh, I went right here last time. That led to a dead end.

[there's a left turn and also one that just goes straight, remaining]

[forefall]

[ they don't have to be lost forever, just a time. time to take a left and be surrounded by scarecrows. ]

Were you lost, Lavi?

[bookpapers]

I was exploring!

[he was lost, yeah. but in that annoying way when the person who's lost doesn't mind being lost.

(muffled chainsaw sound intensifies)]

[forefall]

You sound so easygoing about it.

[ the chainsaw noises in the distance sets her on edge, and she slows her pace. ]

[bookpapers]

It feels like an adventure.

[he's incredibly annoying like that,

though he also slows down a little as the sound picks up,]

Do you have scarecrows back in your world?