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As the three teens come home, the ghostly ghoul (largely just an asshole) greets them right at the door.
"Heya there, my dear idiots! I made lunch, and you'll eat it!"
"Wait what time even is it-?"
Niko questioned Shadez's judgement as they just got back.
Aubree simply pushed pass the other two, desperately trying to cling onto normality, just like her first time dealing with some.thing.strange.
A glowing green arrow points down the opposite hall of Guest's abode, on it is scrawled the words "dinning room down yonder".
The Guest follows the green glow like one would a stage light while Niko is a bit weary of it but still follows the "K1ng"s commands.
"I would just love to listen to dragon right about now! He always had the best way to describe the dumbest things!"
"Who?"
"Oh right, you never heard about him, it was a shame when he got split in half and had his heart ripped out."
"HE WHAT"
Niko trips over himself at the morbid statement. Flipping through the air and bouncing off the ground multiple times as he nearly breaks his shins on the door to the dinning room.
"This guy's got allll the show and none of the biz!"
A certain specter appears next to the almost-endling.
"Wow. What a good kid you are. I wonder how you were even raised."
"Noli is a good and honest god, I tell you, you foolish mortal."
"Wow. I'll totally believe that. What a true and honest statement."
Guest retrieves Model from his hood and brandishes it like a weapon, the cat is glowing, ready to detonate.
"YEESH. Get your dog off me!"
Guest withdraws his cat back into his hood.
"Now. Time to feast."
The door creeks open to the dingy old dinning room, a medium sized table which looks almost ancient and a large pot of soup.
"..soup?"
"Soup."
"Soup."
"Soup."
The soup..Is quite smelly, boasting an aroma like a graveyard. A spider crawls out of the endless maw of the pot.
Aubree is already seated, having set up the table for everyone else, all of the utensils neat and tidy sit on the table.
Niko rises up from the floor, his knees wobble as he walks to the table before sitting down, sighing in relief.
Guest mischievously bounces to the table before sort of..staring off into space.
And last of them all, the ghost himself levitates a chair over to the table, sitting down on the rickety old wooden seat.
Niko awkwardly shovels down a good spoonful of this..Soup? Could he even call it that? And..It tastes like rotten meat but the texture is surprisingly good?
The boy from nowhere is still staring at The Rumor, confused on what he could be doing.
Aubree is eating it like the taste means nothing to her, holding onto that spoon like she is too her sanity.
Shadez is just sitting there with his legs up on the table.
"..Hey, Guest?"
No reaction, his eyes just staring off at the wall.
"..Alright."
They all just eat in quiet for a while, no words being exchanged.
"..Hello."
"Guest! How's it going, man?"
"What's new?"
Guest stares at his bowl, somewhat disgusted but chows down either way.
"Noli."
His eyes glow through the dark of the crappy room, seemingly whoever made this place put regular lights instead of candles in this one room for some reason.
Niko ponders what he could have meant.
"You want to keep talking about her?"
Guest nods.
"Where Noli."
"Well like..Where could it be?"
Aubree's ears perk up at the mention.
"Well
she's
probably
in
some
forest
somewhere."
"MAKING ANOTHER CULT-"
"No."
"Probably
just
helping
people
out."
Guest manages to scarf down the whole bowl like a drink before carrying on.
"The others?"
"Where's
GunHound?"
"Idk."
"Where's-"
The ghost slides in to the conversation.
"Listen, eeeevvveryonnee besides lil' ole Brandy, and the kid himself are M.I.A."
"That's
great."
"Wait-who?"
"OK so: You are in a place, this place is called the Vast. It is largely empty ocean. There is-now was-a small group of survivors residing in a safe house out at sea. IHasLostMyFaceLulz over there is a former member of those freaks alongside safechat boy."
"So who's 'GunHound'?"
"Dog
with
a
gun.
It's
not
that
hard,
man."
"What, is there a guy who got thrown into roblox and lost all his friends doin' so as they desperately tried to get him back?"
Aubree looks like she's about to punch Niko square in the nose so hard that he would fall to pieces.
"..Anyone else I should know about?"
"Ann.
an
old
friend
of
mine.
She
was..
brilliant,
helped
anchor
me
during
some
of
the
worst
times
in
life."
"Well who do you think we'll meet next?"
"Jake."
"He's
weird.
He
always
looked
at
me
with
this
joy
in
his
eyes."
"That's cuz he knew you'd be happy when you get out."
"Happier
than
I
am?"
"So; are we all done now? Anyone want a second serving?"
"No, but thx."
"No."
Guest shakes his head.
"Wonder how you made that.."
"Found it on the ground here!"
Everyone stares in disbelief as Aubree prepares to lay a vocal smackdown on this ghost.