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@senku
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My Self-Summary

I'm Senku Ishigami.

My Future Plans

I want to find out as much as I can about the resort and how we got here. If there's a way back home, I was in the middle of some pretty important things when they brought me here.

Since it looks like we're stuck here for a while, I also want to explore Game 52. Hit me up if you want to help me experiment.

My Talents

I'm a scientist.

Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and Food

My favorite book is whatever is most useful to me right now. My favorite food is ramen. I don't have any particular favorites for the other two.

My Ideal Partner

I'd like a mutually beneficial relationship.

Height 171 cm/5'7" Body Type Nothing impressive Smokes No Drinks Not really, but I can distill alcohol. Drugs Not the kind you're thinking of. Sign Capricorn, AB blood type if you're into that one - I don't believe in any of it. Education Never graduated high school Occupation Scientist and Village Chief Income I made up my own money so I don't have a good answer for that. Children The ex-wife and I never had any. Pets None Hobbies Science

art credit: one. two. three. four. five.

01. WINE OR BEER

WINE

.02 CLOWNS OR MIMES

CLOWNS

.03 SHOWER OR BATH

SHOWER

.04 PIRATES OR NINJAS

Do I need a pirate or a ninja more at the time?

.05 TITS OR ASS

I'm sure yours are fine.

.06 COFFEE OR TEA

COFFEE

.07 SPICY OR SWEET

SPICY

.08 SUMMER OR WINTER

WINTER

.09 LEATHER OR LACE

LEATHER

10. ROUGH SEX OR GENTLE SEX

I'll let you know when I've had some.

Personality Type
ISTJ-A

ENERGY

58%

Introverted

MIND

70%

Observant

NATURE

52%

Thinking

TACTICS

78%

Judging

IDENTITY

97%

Assertive

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text; un: eve (Backdated to 5/3)

[tfy]

Oh ~~~Senku-kun~~~! ✨✨✨

I have some news I want to discuss. Unfortunately it's not exactly good news. You might already be aware, but if not, I thought you should be first to know. And even if you are aware, I wanted to discuss it anyway.

Is over text OK? Or would you prefer to meet in-person?

[senku]

Over text is fine. It's not like I'll need you to offer me a shoulder to cry on, no matter how bad the news is.

[tfy]

Alright, here goes!

[And now for the moment of truth!

... honestly, the reason he asked about meeting in-person is because he wasn't sure the House wants this info getting out. But given that their verbal conversations are probably also being spied on, does it make a difference? At least this isn't a public network post.]

Rinne-senpai said people have turned to stone here before. He claimed that's what the House does to you if you refuse to go to bed with anyone. I'm not sure how the process works, but I assume it's similar to things like those animal ears, or that flower-coughing disease that went around. In other words, it's something that just happens.

He said it was another guest who told him about it, but he refused to name names. I guess he wanted to protect their privacy.

[senku]

That's news to me.

[The things he's learned and/or theorized about the House's methods for encouraging their sex lives have been mental in nature.

Stone. There's a moment when not again flashes through his mind. It would be the height of self-centeredness to think that the effect is in any way targeted at him, but how many of the resort's current residents have personal experience with being turned to stone?

On the other hand, probably no one else has personal experience with being turned to stone. He's uniquely qualified to accept it as an outcome.

Hiyori won't get any of the inner turmoil, though. It's nothing personal. Senku just isn't really one for unburdening his soul. He prefers to side-step emotions whenever possible in favor of facts. What he's going to add instead is:]

They want us rock hard one way or another, huh?

Can't say I'm itching to experience it again, but at least it's something I know can be overcome.

[tfy]

[Hiyori can imagine the inner turmoil even if he doesn't see it. He doesn't know whether the stone business has any connection to Senku's life, but the House does seem to know an awful lot about them all. Who's to say they weren't inspired by what happened in his world?

Though he wrinkles his nose when he sees that initial comment.]

You must get your jokes from the same book as Rinne-senpai, since that's just what he said!

[He doesn't like crude humor!! But he'll forgive it given the seriousness of what they're talking about.]

"Overcome" by sleeping for thousands of years, you mean? I'm not sure the House is kind enough to put any of us into that kind of sleep. I'm worried they might just chuck us in a ditch somewhere. Or let our statues decorate the place.

[He's seen those. The ones that look eerily lifelike. And now he'll never be able to look at them the same again, though he's not sure whether he's right in that suspicion or not.]

Though Rinne-senpai implied that turning to stone doesn't necessarily kill you, so maybe you are right.

Anyway, I wanted to warn you first. Though now I think it might be best to put up a big PSA warning everyone.

[senku]

Great minds think alike.

[It's typed with a bit of a smirk on his end, but he quickly turns more serious.]

That's not what I mean. A person here and there turning to stone is ten billion percent different from everyone being turned to stone. If there's someone around to revive you, sleeping for thousands of years doesn't have to be your fate.

[If there was a way to find someone immediately after they're turned, he could test if the Revival Fluid that worked on his form of petrification also works here. If it didn't work, start experimenting from there. Even - and it's hard for him to admit this given how strongly he resisted believing in magic - get some magic users involved.

Talking about it at large would be the best way to have that chance, but there is one concern.]

Is that the kind of secret they want revealed?

[It might be okay because the House would understand how motivational avoiding that fate could be, but if they truly wanted to be forthcoming with the information, why wasn't it common knowledge?]

If you do decide to make a PSA, I can offer suggestions for what to do if you get turned to stone.

[Again, uniquely qualified.]

[tfy]

That's true, I suppose. I'm not really sure what happens to people after they *do* turn to stone. But as long as you can find their statue somewhere, maybe there's some hope.

I just hope the cure isn't something nasty, knowing this place.

[Translation: he doesn't want to fuck any statues. Nor does he want to think about anyone else doing so!!]

Does that mean you went around reviving people who'd turned to stone back at home, though? I knew you were involved in rebuilding society, but I just assumed all the stone people woke up on their own or in sleep pods.

[As for the PSA question...

His shoulders sag. Ugh. He may have a point about him getting punished if he tries. Though the only "punishments" he's received so far were rather weaksauce.]

Not if they want us to think they're so kind and loving and generous, just like all the longer-term guests do. Though I think the ship's already sailed on that for most of us.

We know they're always spying, so I'm not sure how much difference it makes. But if you think it's safer to spread the word in-person, I guess I can try that first.

[senku]

Only a handful of people ever woke up on their own. I kept my mind active the entire time, counting the seconds, and the energy burned by thinking wore through the stone over the years. Nitric acid finished the job.

[It does sort of discount his claims about his bad luck that his stone body drifted to the right location to be freed.

Maybe the fact that a cave full of guano was involved counts as the bad luck.]

After what you said about it being something nasty, if my original formula doesn't work, I'll try one with calcium, chloride, citrate, fructose, glucose, lactic acid, magnesium, potassium, protein, sodium, urea, and zinc.

[Hiyori probably doesn't want to know what that's the chemical composition of.]

I don't have a good answer for that. You need to decide how daring you're willing to be. I wouldn't put it in the having a death wish category, but I don't think you can guarantee no consequences, either.

[tfy]

[Yeah, that first bit earns an expression of pure disbelief. Not that Senku can see it.]

That sounds like something out of a manga.

[He doesn't even read manga, but he knows enough to know that.]

You're stronger than I am. I'd probably die of loneliness and boredom before the first year was up. Though I guess it might be different if I knew Jun-kun or Nagisa-kun was still out there somewhere.

Good luck getting your hands on all that stuff!

[Yeah, he has no idea. He's glad someone around here knows what they're doing, though. Even as he wonders whether Senku's science prowess is any match for the resort's magic.]

I don't think there's any way to guarantee no consequences. Rinne-senpai's been cooperatively playing that game the way they want us to, and they still made him disappear for a month. Sometimes drastic times call for drastic measures!

But telling people separately should still help spread the word. So, I guess I'll start with that first.

There's also another thing I'd been thinking I should make a PSA about at some point. Have you heard the term "suit effects"?

[senku]

Believe me, if I hadn't lived through it myself, I wouldn't believe it.

Surviving in a primitive world is a lot of work. I was too busy to be bored. Besides, I woke my friend Taiju up six months later.

[He would say he woke him up because he needed his muscle, but Senku had resorted to talking to passing monkeys by that point.]

One more thing about people turning to stone here - from what you've learned, do you really think the statues around the place could be petrified guests?

[Because if the statues are already people, he doesn't have to wait for someone who's heard the message to point out a friend who was recently turned to stone.]

I have. I've talked to a couple people about suit effects in the past month.

Before you get your hopes up, we only talked about how we need to figure out more about them.

[tfy]

I meant that I would've died from boredom while I was still stone. Though inhabiting a wasteland doesn't sound like much fun, either. If there were people I knew who still needed waking up, though, I'd definitely busy myself with trying to do that. By throwing them a concert, for example!

[Of course that's what he'd try first. Perhaps he could also try talking incessantly until they woke up. Sometimes it pays to be annoying!

But enough silliness. That next question is sobering.]

I've been wondering that nonstop, to be honest. But not everyone who disappeared here came back like Rinne-senpai. Some of them had their names taken off the registry and were never heard from again. I don't want to assume the worst, and I almost don't want to investigate because it's such a horrible thought, but I do think someone needs to get to the bottom of this. If it's possible to turn people back from stone, then perhaps those who disappeared aren't a lost cause after all.

I don't know anyone who has disappeared permanently, though. So even if their statue retained a lot of their features, I still wouldn't recognize them.

[This will change in a month or so. But at the time this conversation is taking place, he doesn't know any dropped characters.]

So no findings worth mentioning? I wonder if that's another one of those things the House wants to keep under wraps. If so, they're pretty bad at preventing information leaks. Alright, time to start polling people on that!

[It might be safer to discuss that, and cause less panic, than broadcasting the whole stone thing in public.]

[senku]

[Throwing a concert is not the scientifically approved way to turn people from stone back to flesh and blood.]

An investigation like this isn't for the squeamish.

There are people I talked to once and never ran into again. Maybe they're just not going to the same places I am but maybe something happened to them. I'll have to start looking more closely at the statues for their faces.

Or I could dump revival fluid on a random statue and see what happens.

[Inexact methods to fit a mysterious process.]

Not yet. If I was the easily embarrassed sort, I'd be mortified to tell you I don't have even a millimeter of data.

[Why hasn't he made more progress? Is that in and of itself something they're doing to his mind, distracting him?

No, it's player error.]

People don't take too well to finding out they're being manipulated. I think that would negate any benefit to the House of being open about it for motivational purposes.

[tfy]

If you remember their names or their network IDs, you could try checking the registry. I guess there's still no telling what happened even if they were removed, though.

Rinne-senpai also said the resort's been running for a while. Or at least that's what J told him. So if those statues *are* guests, they could be guests who were petrified decades ago.

[Which is a really depressing thought: being stuck like that for years. Most people couldn't power through it like Senku, surely.]

Do you have all the ingredients for "revival fluid" here?

I don't think you have much to be embarrassed for. At least you've been looking into some stuff. That's more than you can say for some people here. Though I guess if you bought the whole wish-granting thing and you're fine with sleeping with whoever, then ignoring the mystery behind this place and focusing on "Game 52" might seem the most logical. I'm sure that's what they're counting on us to think.

And if that's the case, they shouldn't be so blatant about their manipulation! We were all kidnapped, for starters. Then some of us were made Rank 2s or Rank 3s and got stuck with those awful basement rooms. But they made sure to tell us, "If you want to rank up, you have to sleep around! Same if you want to go home!" So anyone who knows about the rank system, or anything else about how things work around here, should already see their true colors for what they are.

[senku]

That's right. I once saw some old books, journals really, in the library. I only skimmed through them, but I got the sense that they were from guests from a long time ago. There were some maps, too, showing the resort has been around long enough to do some big remodels.

[All the more reason to figure this out so they can save people who might have been turned to stone decades ago.]

The alcohol in the mixture will be easy to get, but the nitric acid is going to take some work.

[Unless, say, a university with labs were to conveniently open up.]

But if I can make it with what I managed to find in nature and build myself, I'm ten billion percent sure I can make it here.

[He feels some of the hopefulness drain out of him on reading the last part of Hiyori's message.]

They're toying with us on every level, aren't they? If they were really all about spreading the love - or even spreading the debauchery - they could find people who would willingly sign up to escape their responsibilities and live it up here.

[tfy]

The library has stuff like that, huh? I tried to learn about magic through the library once, but it's so huge and there's so much trash to wade through that I basically gave up and started asking people in-person. Guess I'll go back sometime! Did you get anything noteworthy from the journals, though?

The House seems like they can procure just about anything, so I wouldn't count it out. But if you do have to make it yourself, then good luck.

[Thanks, Clubs!

And no thanks to the House. It's always depressing to he reminded of how dismal their circumstances are.]

Yep. We're more like test subjects than guests. It's like they're trying to breed lab rats in captivity, or something like that.

[...]

But enough of that analogy.

I really am sorry to bring the bad news to you. It's not my fault this place is like that, of course. But my job back home is to spread cheer, so it's rather unfortunate I have to keep doing the opposite here. That's one more thing I'd like to complain about!

[senku]

No, it was a lot of day-to-day stuff. The only really notable thing was realizing the Golden Peacock really has been around for a long time. You'd have to ask Xingqiu if you want to see the journals yourself. He was the one who took me there. He had some kind of special pass to see them. I don't know if it's still good.

Otherwise, as someone who's spent a lot of time in the library, I can tell you without a doubt the porn far outweighs the useful information.

[But searching through it was and is something that makes him feel like he's trying to do more than just accept his fate here.]

Don't worry. I can take it all in stride. Tell me the bad news so you can save the cheerfulness for people who need it.

[tfy]

That's what Rinne-senpai told me. It's hard to imagine since the resort has all this cutting-edge stuff now, but in the past it must have looked different.

Is that a privilege that comes with his rank? In any case, I don't think I've met anyone with that name yet, but I'll keep it in mind.

And that's good to know. You're what we'd call the resilient type! We could use more people like that around. I like to spread my radiance to absolutely everyone, though, so I'll be sure to shine a little on you as well! ✨😊✨

[senku]

I can't imagine the resort without the technology. I don't see how anything would have worked.

I'm not sure. His rank is the lowest of the low, so it's not from that.

I should probably warn you it can be hard to get a straight answer out of him. You can trust him. He won't lie to you. But he's an expert at carefully omitting details.

Only a little. I've already reverted back to my pasty never-leaves-the-lab complexion.

[tfy]

Why, that's simple. It must have run on ~🪄✨🔥✨🫧✨~MAGIC~🪄✨🔥✨🫧✨~!

Though I already know how you feel about that idea. And it's not a satisfactory explanation to me, either, really.

Someone who "omits details on purpose" doesn't sound very trustworthy, you know! But if his rank is that low, maybe he can be plied with free food and such.

And if he can't be, oh well. That just means I helped someone who's down on their luck and failed to benefit in return. But that's something I like to do anyway, so either way, I win!

You don't want a tan, huh? I know it's impossible to get any real sunlight around here. But that just makes me the closest thing, so don't be afraid to bask sometimes!

[senku]

As painful as it is to say this as a man of science, I'm not as anti-magic now as I started out. I watched a bare twig regrow branches and leaves right in front of my eyes. Believe me, I'd love to find the scientific principles behind what people are calling magic, but there's not much arguing with that.

You're a real glass is half full kind of guy, aren't you? If Xingqiu gives you too much trouble, you can judge my taste in people to hang around.

[He has accepted some shady sorts into his circle in the past.]

I don't think I've ever basked in my life.

[tfy]

Yep, there are people here who can do plant magic! Or flower magic. There's this one person who makes flowers with healing properties, using drops of his own blood, apparently. I haven't met him in-person before, but his username is "Wildflower."

[They actually have met at the Roost once, but at the time this inbox thread is taking place, he hasn't realized that was the same person yet.]

I'd say I'm more of a realist. For example, I know the House wants us to kick back and have fun, but the situation we're in is quite terrible, so I'm afraid I can't just sit in salon chairs and shop all day. Which is a shame because I'd really like to!

But I try not to let all that unpleasant stuff affect my positive attitude, *or* my dazzling smile. So, whenever you want to bask in that radiance, feel free! Perhaps a day of basking would do you some good!

[senku]

The one who asked about flowers on the questionnaire. We ended up talking about tea. A lot less interesting than blood magic.

[And blood magic sounds more interesting than flower magic.]

I'll think about it. If I ever do decide to bask, you'll be the first person I call.

[tfy]

Flowers and tea, huh. Sounds like he has some interests in common with me! But I take it you're not as big a fan? Then again, I'd rather drink tea than just talk about it. Especially over these watches. My hands are going to cramp from typing on this small screen at some point!

And great! 😊✨

[senku]

Tea's fine, but give me a good energy drink any day for caffeine. I'm going to guess that's not your style at all.

Next time you want to talk, I'll choose the in-person option and save your joints.

[tfy]

Like the ones you find in vending machines? Nope, not my style at all! Though I've seen Jun-kun drinking them once or twice. Fortunately, there are energy-boosting teas, too.

And sounds like a plan It's easier to bask in-person than over messages anyway. Though I guess there's always the video or audio option. But at that point, you might as well just meet up. Preferably over tea!

Or other drinks. Whatever our hearts desire~