snackcakeordeath | date 1

🍰 You're here at the beach🏖️ with some of the people YOU rated the 🔥hottest🔥 in town, so get ready for your chance to make a summer memory that'll last forever☀️!

🍰 It's up to you to create the 💖best date ever💖. Pick your special someone or someones and find an activity to really wow 'em!

🍰 If sun and surf🏄 doesn't float their boat, then make your move during that gorgeous sunset, or around a bonfire in the evening--timing and activities🦈 are up to you.

🍰 You'll need a public thread with all of your teammates where at least 1 thing is done as a group👫👬. Feel free to have any number of additional threads, public or private, with individual or groups of teammates; the extra effort should pay off with both your datemates and your hosts. Assume that everyone has opportunities to be 💑alone👩‍❤️‍👩🏽 with each other person.

🍰 At the end of the dates💕, you'll play Marry💍/Kiss💋/Kill☠️ on your datemates. Rate your dates✌️🖕 and you're free to go--but remember, they'll be rating you, too😨🤞. Hopefully you pulled out all the stops for all your dates!😎⚰️

🍰 Need some activity suggestions?
+ Swimming, snorkeling, or surfing🏄
+ Kite flying, beach volleyball, or burying someone into a sand castle🐚
+ Scary stories, sparklers, or s'mores over the bonfire🎆
+ Don't forget suntan lotion, you wouldn't want your poor datemates to burn!👒

🍰 At the end of the day, vote here.

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I have a job that demands a lot of my time and attention...and superiors that constantly watch me now. It's rare that I get a day off.

[Which could be why he's so calm about being here, because this is like a minivacation for him--with death.]

Ah, I see. It must be difficult to balance such intensive work with your studies.

Hmm...I suppose it would be if I was still in school.

Oh, then did I misjudge your age? Or did you have to drop out, for one reason or another?

... If my questions are too intrusive, you do not have to answer.

[Shakes his head while waving off the concern.]

You're fine, and no. I was homeschooled.

[It's not a lie, but it's still not the truth yet.]

Ah, I see. [Yusuke has no reason to suspect it's not the full truth, so he nods.]

I received private tuition from my Sensei in addition to attending school, so I can relate, somewhat.

Oh? You lived with your teacher?

[Raises an eyebrow at this.]

I suppose I can somewhat relate to that too. I lived with my caretaker for some time, though he wasn't the one who homeschooled me...

[There's a drink that Josh had made for himself on the center table, which he leans forward to grab and take a sip of. It creates a dramatic pause effect.]

Unless you count teaching me how to be a god.

[Just gonna casually drop that now. He says it as nonchalantly as regarding the weather.]

That's right. He was not only my teacher, but my legal guardian.

[Past tense, anyway. Yusuke grabs some fruit to snack on idly, though he has to pause and tilt his head at what Joshua says next.]

...A god of what? Are you speaking figuratively? [He doesn't look like an actual god, all things considered.]

I see...

[This is like the fourth time he's been asked. Maybe he should ask Hanekoma when he gets home. He shrugs lightly in response.]

Shibuya, reincarnation, second chances...any of those could fit, I guess. [Smiles.] I'm speaking quite literally, I assure you.

[A flicker of distrust shows across Yusuke's expression. He frowns.]

Reincarnation and second chances... Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

You don't believe me?

[Not that he's surprised.]

I run a game in Shibuya that's similar to this one, though not as...crudely put together. You enter the game when you die and give up something important to you, like a memory or your self-image. Whatever the individual deems is more important to them than their life, I take it away for the duration of the game. If they win the game, they get what they lost back and are brought back to life. If they lose, they die permanently.

[Shrugs nonchalantly.]

Such is the way life goes. If it makes you feel any better, whether you believe me or not, I can't do anything with my powers here. I'm as harmless as a lamb~!

I didn't say that I don't believe you. It's your intentions that I'm doubtful of.

[That he runs a game just like this one doesn't seem to make Yusuke very happy either.]

On the one hand, it is generous to give the dead a chance at a second life, but... Just how often do people win? What are the conditions for winning the game?

[Tilts his head at that with a frown.]

My intentions? Right now I only intend to get out of here and go home, the same as everyone else here I imagine.

[Hums in thought as he considers how to answer those questions.]

Winning isn't easy. Players have to prove themselves worthy of being revived, after all. It'd be utter chaos if everyone who entered was a winner and got to go home.

[Shrugs and takes a sip of his drink.]

But, there is usually at least one winner every time the game is run, so I consider that a pretty good win streak. Wouldn't you?

The win conditions are pretty simple: survive and complete missions for the whole week and then defeat the Game Master.

[He's being surprisingly open with Yusuke, but that's probably because he figures most things aren't going to be understood anyway.]

[Yusuke listens patiently, but his expression is only becoming more troubled the more he hears.]

Why do gods insist on carrying out unjust games against humanity...? [He shakes his head, irritated.]

I'm not sure I see the use in making many people suffer over the promise of life, for only one to ultimately prevail. Aren't you tormenting those who should be resting peacefully, by giving them a false promise of hope? Do you enjoy watching them struggle against each other?

Unjust? [Smirk.] I suppose some would see it like that.

I can't speak for other gods, but in my district the game I run serves a greater purpose that ultimately benefits all who participate.

[Shakes his head in response.] Not at all. Those who participate do so voluntarily at the moment of death. No one is forced to be there.

One person may get the chance to return to their normal lives, but I assure you all surviving players will get something of a reward based on their performance.

Even so, I cannot imagine any version of that game which is not cruel and distressing for the participants. Whether they're there voluntarily or not, they're still desperately competing for another chance at life. Just like we are.

[...Joshua can die, right? Yusuke figures their hosts can think of some way to do it, if they're also capable of raising the dead.]

Still, even if I can't approve of such a game, its intentions seem more benevolent than... [He gestures vaguely around them.] This.

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