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[ You would not be wrong. ]

Yeah. That's probably how I would put it. He has a connection to this place.

Uh, I think.

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And a love of various holidays, apparently?

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[ He shrugs. ]

Apparently.

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There's no way that like...

He became, like...

The house itself, right?

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[ You might just be on to something there, pal. ]

Uh.... I dunno, actually.

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[brasco you beautiful bastard you are SO getting a glass of coke]

If the cult did something here, and you guys got wrapped up in it, then...

Hey, Thug, help me out one more time. How did you learn about the cult thing?

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[ Bribed him with the coke, did you? Brasco's easy to please like that. ]

Uhh, I didn't learn about the cult thing until after I got pulled into this mess. I think. It's been a while so it's kinda fuzzy.

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So whatever happened here was long before you guys got roped in to running this show for them?

And coming up with names like "Thug Dangerzone"?

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Yeah, probably. I don't really know for sure, though.

We didn't use fake names at first, that's kind of just lately since we've been doing this for so long.

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You play different roles, to distance yourself from the fact that people are always dying.

[Or maybe, just because it's fun?]

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It's like you're looking into my soul....

[ He's got chills, dude. ]

You're really good at this! Have you considered trying to become a detective?

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...Someone told me once, that I had a knack for understanding people's hearts.

...I thought it was a pretty stupid thing to say.

[A sad sort of sigh.]

I don't think I'd make a good detective, but maybe for now, I'll try to be one.

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That doesn't sound stupid if you ask me.

[ but then Thug is SUPER LAME, don't ask him. ]

Yeah, you've totally got this! I think if you guys work together, you can figure things out.

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Yeah. Maybe it's not so stupid after all...

[Hmmm...How do you defeat an evil, sentient house that presumably can create festive demons?]

You said people get to go home sometimes, right? When the "storm ends", yeah?

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That's right. People have gone home before.

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How many people have to die before that happens?

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Trick question! Sometimes nobody dies.

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Really?

Does that mean if Ries hadn't murdered Kido, things wouldn't have snowballed into what they are now?

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Well, it depends. The one time nobody died we were doing Hanukkah so maybe that's why it worked out so well.

Most of the other holidays have had people killing each other. Thanksgiving was especially bad.

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No wonder Brasco wanted to do Hanukkah again...

You think it depends on the Holiday? [Shintaro doesn't know much about Thanksgiving but it has to do something with carving birds, right?]

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I think that might have something to do with it, yeah. Some holidays just lend themselves better to killing, I guess.

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You never answered my question about how people go home, by the way. Brasco said it was just the storm ending, but there has to be more to it than that, right?

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Don't you think we'd have gone home by now if we knew how to do that?