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Day 7

[ Instead of his normal morning announcements, this morning you awaken to… Ronald McDonald playing a lovely tune for all of you with his band. Audible even over the metal is a louder sound of scraping, and a low rumble that persists throughout the song. ]

[ Afterward, you'll find that a new hallway has appeared in the studio. Where there was once an empty wall, there is now a theater! And your tablets will display the rules for a brand new competition… ]

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Good luck with that. --Ah. Maybe I should say 'break a leg'?

I wonder how they're going to score this. We really can't afford to not get enough votes.

Hopefully not literally...

And yeah, I have no idea what they're going for. They didn't say anything about popular votes, so I guess it's whatever appeals to Ronald and...whoever else? Though who knows what that is.

Question though.

When you said "something like metal..." what is that?

We're thinking like '80s throwback heavy metal rock & roll, all guitars and pleather pants and guyliner and stuff. I usually do more jam band-type stuff, so this should be fun.

[...this conversation was making her feel old, so she'd nod and pretend to know what he was talking about.]

...How can it be a throwback if it's the same decade, though?

Same for you, maybe. It was 2027 last I checked a calendar.

...There's apparently a weird time thing happening. It's best not to think about it.

...

[bursts out laughing]

You're kidding... right?

[shakes his head]

I was born in 2006. --Hey, I wonder if I ever met you in the future!

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...Sure, and I'm really six-hundred years old.

I aged well, don't you think?

Vampire? I don't see you as a succubus.

... [t-twitch]

--No, that was a joke.

Yeah, I was joking too. ...Anyway, like I said, it's easier not to think about it with everything else going on.

R-right, sorry.

...It was more gruesome this time, wasn't it?

...Yeah. Didn't seem completely unfamiliar to him, either.

Maybe it was some deep-rooted, irrational fear of his... to have his brain replaced with an animal's.

How would they even know about that stuff? --Not that there aren't all sorts of things they seem to know that they shouldn't. But still... It's--invasive.