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[The Crossing is coming again.

There is no advance warning from The Ferryman this time. There is nothing to draw your attention towards the message that appears on your device, whatever it may be, except perhaps the expectation that it should be appearing soon.

Whether you think to check for it or you simply stumble upon it, the words are there just as before:]

A toll to be levied for safe passage
from the desert to ǝɹǝɥʍǝsʅǝ

envision a place of comfort and safety
a haven from the wants and ills of life
be it for a moment or for a lifetime

offer it to The Ferryman
and let go

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A good memory this time, then. What are we planning on doing?

[Of course he's going to ask again.]

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I take it you've seen something like this before?

Yes, we got a message similar to this before the last Crossing! I believe it was before you arrived. Ferryman-san gave us a little more preamble last time, though.

It seems your fears were unfounded, for this time. In any case, I believe we must continue to do as we have before.

- Celehar

Yes, as long as nobody gives up a good memory that's too foundational to their personalities, this should be much less stressful!

[Nagito can always create something new to be concerned about!]

[... So here it comes, once more. Celehar gives the message some space in his notebook before writing in a neat hand;]

If any would meditate on their Toll, please come find me.

- Celehar, Prelate of Ulis

[So he writes - but for the next few hours he isn't found in the little hut he's taken to staying in, and set up his own personal shrine. Instead he's once more found pacing the edge of the dunes, the farthest extent of the Ferryman's lantern, as the day cools into evening. No more watching the wraiths, this time - he's walking simply to walk, his eyes fixated on the sand in front of him.]

[Worry spreads like a bad cold - in this case, it's entirely contagious.]

What do you mean?

The easiest way to change someone's personality is to change their memories, you know? If we select things too carelessly just because the choice isn't as unpleasant this time, we could come out of the Crossing entirely different people!

If any are not planning on doing as the Ferryman asks, once again, you should contact me posthaste so we can make a plan.

- Daniil Dankovsky

plan how
they're obvs gonna pull some kinda fast one on us like last time

[he's not signing his name on what for him is basically a text message. fcuk u guys.]

workaday: I intend on complying. If you want to compare notes afterwards and can keep a civil tongue, Elder Dankovsky, I will make myself available. It's not the best experimental hygiene but one works with what one has.

And it 'obvs' stands to be prepared. Have you been keeping up? We believe that those who lost memories and crossed on their own did so due to injury. I plan on testing this hypothesis.

That means we're going to try to not get hurt to the best of our abilities. Figuring out how we accomplish that is the question at hand.

I do suggest complying. Being attacked by those wraiths is not something should put yourself through needlessly.

workaday: Then we are in accord. See you on the other side, Elder.

[He's read the details that have made it onto the network, averse as he is to the big town-hall style meetings everyone has been gravitating towards. He skims past it, though, because it implies he should be missing something now, too, and he doesn't know what that is.

also being a lil bitch over text message is more fun than contemplating the degradation of his soul.]

i get it
so when you say 'plan' what you really mean is you're gonna ask me for a favor
cause idk how you get outta there squeaky clean without me

[nevermind that yusuke has not identified himself. maybe being this annoying will be identification enough.]

Memory and personality are linked but not the same. Some of personality is inherent nature or related to changes in the body.

[Need writes with vine charcoal, which leaves a particular smoky, striated line. After a moment she 'signs' it, not with 'Need' but with the multiple crescent shapes on her quillions.]

Some, I'm sure, but not all. And you might express that inherent nature differently depending on what you remember about your life!

[Well, seems like the fact that they wouldn’t be sticking around here long was true.]

So, as someone who wasn’t here for this Crossing… what exactly should I know?

[He is shamelessly fishing for information.]

[Of course, Nagito would be the one to start proper discourse! Hanako isn’t surprised.]

Hey, Shounen! Am I to assume correctly that last time was a less-than-good memory then?

[Ah, just the person he was thinking of!]

So there is an alternative to giving up memories?

[That’s what Dankovsky’s message implied, anyway.]

[Once Hanako has gathered what he assumes to be enough information, he reaches out to Yashiro. From the beginning, the boy figured he would have to talk to his assistant about his.]

Ne, Yashiro? Have time to talk~?

[Despite the upbeat nature of his wording, there probably wasn’t going to be anything pleasant about this conversation.]

Go with the Ferryman. They protected us last time… even if it was scary

[Sunny seems to have absolute faith in their guide, even if he is struggling to come up with a memory to give up.]

What… do you think?

[Sunny sees the message float across his notebook and - in spite of his current muddled musings - goes to find Celehar. Sunhat firmly on his head, toucan side up (like the bird can give him some sort of bravery or wisdom, maybe), the teen wanders… until he spots the elf in the distance.

Maybe he should have checked here first. It seemed like Celehar spent a lot of time near the boundary between light and desert.

Sunny waves, though he isn’t sure Celehar will notice that, considering the man seems quite preoccupied looking at the sand. Maybe he wrote something in it? …No.

So he stands there awkwardly, almost waiting to be addressed, not too close or far.]

Are you going alone again?

[Sunny doesn’t think that’s a good idea. Kel went without them last time and he got hurt… and now his friend had been acting strange… asking him about Hero of all people, when Sunny had scarcely seen Kel’s brother the past four years.]

Ferryman can help you.

[Sunny doesn’t send a message over his notebook, though he does reply to some of the ones he has seen. Otherwise, he isn’t out and about like usual - even with his hat.

He’s holed away in the makeshift hut that he shares with his sister, arms hugging his legs and looking very much lost in thought. Perhaps even miserable.]

((OOC: Feel free to stop by and bug him!))

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