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The dream world that they enter is shrouded in darkness. What was always an everlasting night has now taken even the stars from them. The only light comes from small, floating torches that flicker. Through what little light they have to guide them, they can see a small familiar form waiting up ahead. Coming closer, they can indeed tell that Sheepy is waiting.

Now more than ever it is important that they arm themselves with the evidence that they have collected regarding the mastermind behind all this. Because this is the only chance they'll ever get to present it. Though death has always been the risk, now it's all or nothing.

Sheepy waits for them all to join her before grinning.

"Well, well, well... here we all are. Not all that many of you left, are there? Ah-- but then... maybe there won't be any of you left after this. Keheheheheh!! So let's make the most out of this last little session, shall we? Think you have it all figured out? Well let's find out. Like you were told, you gotta name all the remaining gunmen as well as the mastermind. So. Let's begin."

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It's not anything to do with their physical bodies or anything - those are the actual thing, as far as I can tell. They feel right, their eyes are real, the whole nine yards.

But the sheep chose to try to guilt-trip me instead of letting Myca do the work for her; she put forth a damn heroic amount of effort into trying to make me feel guilty and acted like I'd have to deal with Myca knowing what I'd done. Which I would've, if she hadn't conveniently knocked her out first. Couldn't ask her questions, couldn't get any sort of reaction out of her, she was just out cold before she was brought to me.

We've also only seen everyone on that video acting drugged - which, okay, maybe they are. But.

[...Let him go over to one of those FIFTEEN FUCKING IDENTICAL CATS that are here because why the fuck did anyone let him submit evidence. He'll pick it up, it's been pretty remarkably chill all day so he doesn't foresee any problems in doing so.]

Number Twelve hasn't really been all that lively since we made him. No meowing, no sass, no nothing. I put tape on Number Seven and he let me do it, for fuck's sake. I dunno, maybe they're just based on a real docile cat.

Or maybe printed copies are shit at acting like they should.

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Please don't actually name that poor cat Number Seven.

[#priorities]

What, but Number Twelve is fine?

[#PRIORITIES]

Number Seven is the one you're keeping, ja? I'm sure someone else will give Number Twelve a loving home and a much better name!

I put tape on Number Seven, I'm pretty sure he fuckin' hates me.

[...looks...down...at cat...with note on it...]

...I mean, assuming Number Seven can hate anything, he's not all that great in the personality department.

I was going to say, I'm not sure these cats are capable of hatred. Which is a little strange!

Tell me about it. I normally hate the furry little assholes.

[Number Twelve can stay, though, he's just letting himself be held.]

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[ ANXIOUSLY BEGINS PETTING MURR #3 ]

They're like...empty shells. Everything on the outside is right, but nothing on the inside.

But if that's the case why are we fine?

I have no fuckin' idea.

[...At least he's honest about it.]

The cat is duplicated from a member's cat in his world, right? We should hear about how it originally acted.

...Good question, we can ask Noé if his cat's an asshole. Or if it's at least the sort to let a total stranger strap packing tape to it.

Seems especially relevant as I don't recall him ever freaking out about the cat he already received being different. I may have missed it, of course.

But if there was no such discrepancy, there is a hole in the argument. I'm sure his regain cat was printed as much as all our regains were.

Maybe something went wrong with those printed cats and the hostages?

Or maybe something was not implanted into them that was implanted into the better versions. Reasons may well be the amount of resources needed to make a completed copy.

Of course I am just tossing options out. I do not readily believe in myself being a fake.

There wasn't much time to do that to the cats, though. Top Dollar-san and I were right there when they came out of the machines.

[ She gently folds the #3's ears inside-out. You know what cats do when that happens? Shake their heads to try to get them back to normal. She waits.

...

(Presumably) nothing. ]

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Uhm... honestly, I don't think Murr would have let you put tape on him. He's not loud, but he can be kind of fussy.

[See: Really, fussy.]

And he's not always very good with strangers either.

[ Nods. ]

Was there anything off about the copy of Murr that you have had around this far? Was he fussy?

Hmm... well. He was rather docile... but I originally thought that was just because he wasn't used to the environment.

[GUESS HE WAS WRONG.]

[ He breathes out slowly. ]

That's one point towards us not being clones.

[ ... good. Probably.

He'd let Top Dollar tape regain Murr as well for comparison but regain Murr isn't here, so no dice. ]

The hostages act like people would, too - to an extent, anyway. You saw the tape of Yukino's hostage dying, yeah? They seem scared of the execution robots, but that's probably just, y'know, being a human. You see some big thing coming toward you like that, you're gonna move whether you have memories telling you what it is or not.

Yeah, I think that's more of a muscle reaction. I don't think you need anything more than that to be scared of something that can kill you.

Normally I'm shit with animals, too, if that makes a difference.

[And then there's Number Twelve over here, just. chilling.]

Yeah, if you're not good with animals, he'll typically make it difficult for you-- he doesn't like Vanitas very much.

[But these cats are chill. Like. Well. Good cats. Almost too good...]

And this one hasn't complained the whole time I've been holding him...

[ She's basically been holding him since she took him out of the printer pod, um. He's like a breathing plush or something.

Pet, pet. It may be lobotocat but petting it is still soothing. ]

[Seeing so many copies of Murr is really, really, really weird... but he's glad that the cat(s) are helping at least.]