but even if the stars and moon collide [afterparty]

[allatonce]

[Well, that sucked!

After about an hour, invitations written in colorful ink appear under everyone's doors.]

Understandable if you're not up to it, but we're having a memorial and "don't wanna be alone" hang-out in the restaurant again.

[The restaurant has very much been decorated with the most rainbow fabric she could find in the department store. Jonathan got roped in, mainly so she could make sure he was doing okay, but also because she assumed that he knew how to put a tablecloth on a table. He seemed like the type, anyway.

After consulting with Undertaker, most of the food that's been set out is more traditional Chinese funeral food than Victorian—you can get a whole roast duck in the restaurant—but she tried for a mix of things. There is fruit, the aforementioned roast duck, and several vegetarian dishes along with potatoes for some reason and... cookies? Okay then.

Joy's trying, because that was way less terrible for her than it was for basically anyone else.

Happy Pride Wrath, New Rapture!]

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restaurant!

[hellaethics]

[Sup, Hagakure. Jason settles down next to him and slides one of the many slightly melty ice cream sodas he's made toward him.]

...Sorry I thought you were an alien back there, man.

[sixthnonsense]

[Ooh! The melty float perks Hagakure right up, and he grins at Jason as he takes it.]

Thanks, man! [He takes a sip, makes a pleased noise, then waves his free hand.] No worries, it was just kind of...freaky to think about, y'know? It's a lot to have something that's just been one way all your life suddenly turned so upside down.

[hellaethics]

[In your face, Seo! People do like ice cream sodas!

But Jason's enthused grin falters, just a little.] Yeah, I feel that. I had my world flip turned upside down right before I woke up here. It's like, you think you have the world figured out and everything kinda makes sense but then outta nowhere something new swoops in and knock you on your butt.

[sixthnonsense]

That's exactly it! Is...everything gonna be okay back home, you think? I dunno if it'd help to talk about it, but I'm listening.

[With his float! He takes another sip for emphasis.]

[hellaethics]

I...really hope so. [Jason has a float for himself that he rolls between his hands.] Me and my squad- we kinda got a lot dumped on us all at once outta nowhere. Like stuff about ourselves and the afterlife and Jeremy Bearimy.

So now we've been out here tryin' to help people and I dunno if they're okay or not. [He takes a sip of his float, more contemplative now than he has been since before waking up in suite 5 three weeks ago.] Mostly 'cause we were fighting a bunch of demons in a bar in Canada last I remember.

[sixthnonsense]

[His straw falls out of his mouth at all of this.]

That...does sound like a lot. You were seriously fightin' demons? What kind??

[Truly an important detail, right?]

[hellaethics]

They looked like totally normal people to me but Eleanor- my bud Eleanor, not the one here- she recognized them. They were gonna drag us back to the Bad Place to torture us but then Michael and Janet- Michael is the old dude who told us all about the afterlife and how we were there before and Janet is his robot-but-not-a-robot hottie assistant but maybe his daughter?- showed up and Janet just started throwin' down! It was kinda hot.

[Hagakure, I am so sorry you're getting the Jason Narration of season 3 of The Good Place.]

[sixthnonsense]

[I feel like this is well-deserved after Hagakure narrated Danganronpa to several people.

Anyway, because this is Hagakure, he completely understood all of this clusterfuck. Like full on nodding along in intense concentration and being on the edge of his seat, drinking that float dramatically all the while.]

Dude, that does sound hot. At least there was that!

[He gives Jason a reassuring pat on the shoulder.]

I bet they've all got it covered 'til you get back. And if you can deal with demons, you can deal with this place. So you'll get back. I can see it!