[Voice, filtered from Isamu // 80% unhackable/Action]

[ledbythewind]

[Okay, so between everything that's been happening lately, Richard ALMOST forgot what date was coming up. Fortunately he remembers just in time to actually do something about it-- and do something about it he will whether Isamu wants it or not, which is why he's carefully filtering this message away from his friend.]

For those of you who know him, Isamu's birthday happens to be on Tuesday. I'm preparing a small party for him at House 28; any friends of his are welcome to stop by to give him birthday greetings and enjoy some food. I just ask that you not say anything about this to him ahead of time-- it won't be much of a surprise if he knows about it, after all.

[Later that afternoon Richard can be found hauling home a sizable box of decorations (the birthday ones are hidden beneath a seemingly innocuous mound of Christmas decorations) from the store, looking in a much better mood than he's been in for weeks. He can't explain this sudden cheer and he's not sure he wants to; right now he's just intent on enjoying the festive atmosphere while it lasts and trying to prepare a surprise party for his friend without said friend finding out about it-- which might be a difficult task considering they share a room.]

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[healedbythelight]

Continue... [She trails off. This is another thing she'd read about. That sometimes, people who are dead in their own world could still appear in Luceti. But Isamu...]

You mean he's... If he returns to his world, he'll die?

[ledbythewind]

In his world, he's already dead.

[It's something he hates thinking about. That his dear friend is already beyond any sort of help, even if they are able to find a way to travel to other worlds.]

[healedbythelight]

But that's terrible!

[She doesn't know Isamu very well and wouldn't consider him a close friend, but she'd never wish something like this upon him. It's making her feel guilty that she didn't get to know him better, even after all this time of living in the same house.]

[ledbythewind]

It is. But there's nothing we can do to change that, even if we do find a way to travel to his world.