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[placation]

I've never seen that date before.

[gotbrains]

get used to it doc it's a good one

[placation]

Hm...

I'm not a huge fan of mine either, so I can understand your hesitation to tell me. What if I promise not to tell anyone else? I won't even put it on our calendar!

[gotbrains]

why do you even want to know so badly

it's just another day

[placation]

It's just a nice gesture to be able to cook for someone on their birthday...

I've made it a tradition here.

[gotbrains]

then it's one less day you have to cook

[placation]

How magnanimous of you.

You aren't the first person who's tried to hide this information from me. I'm good at ferreting it out!

[gotbrains]

well if you're gonna frame it like a challenge i'll want to hide it even more

[placation]

If I guess it correctly, will you tell me? That's only fair.

[ Despite what Akechi said, Maruki DOES NOT cheat at games. Does Adachi, though? ]

[gotbrains]

[ That all depends on how closely you look at the rules, baby. ]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

sure

you get three guesses, and if you lose you have to tell me something

[placation]

[ Ugh. The odds aren't in his favor. All he has to go on is "in a couple weeks," and that could be anything... ]

Alright. It's a deal, Adachi-kun.

Let's see...

January 30?

[gotbrains]

❌

[placation]

Ah, I felt good about that one!

At least tell me if it's earlier or later...

[gotbrains]

you know i don't want you to win right

[ Hmmmmmmmmm, how much could it really help, though...? ]

later

[placation]

And yet you're being a good sport! I appreciate it.

Later...

February 3?

[ Ha ha. Ha ha ha. ]

[gotbrains]

[ Oh this could go very well or very badly all of the sudden. ]

❌❌

earlier

1/2

[placation]

[ TRIANGULATED. ]

Really? How lucky is that?

[ Thank you, "a couple weeks," for doing all the heavy lifting for him. Now he just has to get it over the finish line. ]

Even if I lose, that narrows down a small range of dates, and I can just cook every night - I usually do anyway, so it's not like it's a big deal.

[ Bring it home, Maruki. Be the genius that you are. ]

Let me put all of my brainpower into this...

[placation]

January 31!

[gotbrains]

[ OH GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH TO THE 2/3'S CHANCE ]

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sorry doc, the luck was short lived! it's all gonna be normal boring dinners after all

[placation]

No!!! My future career as a psychic...

Oh well. I got close enough.

[ SIKE. Maruki got exactly what he wanted out of this. He can still hide himself away on the third to relive the worst day of his life in peace and solitude, and he has an excuse to force himself to spend the preceding two days at home instead of wallowing in anticipatory misery elsewhere. ]

Ask your question, then.

[gotbrains]

couldn't help but notice a piece of big spooky azathoth went down pretty quick when we first met

wouldn't happen to be weak to darkness, would it?

[placation]

[ Oh.

Somebody's observant. ]

Nice catch.

Yes, but only that tentacle. Those three have their own affinities, or so it seems...

[ Boy, it sure is helpful to have a NAVIGATOR living in the house who can ANALZYE weaknesses and then EXPLOIT them like a brat. ]

Azathoth itself doesn't, though. The whole thing is odd. I don't pretend to understand it.

[gotbrains]

so it seems

[ Well that ended up revealing even more than he anticipated. Huh. ]

you don't know for sure?

[placation]

No. Despite what you may think, I'm fairly clueless about the specifics of this whole thing.

[gotbrains]

okay but

how???