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“That’s where you come in.”

“Me?”

“I’d like you, over the course of the next few weeks, to find ways to keep my One in the game, and get everyone else out. Do you think you can do that?”

“Get them out? Like how? Sabotage? Turning them against you? Or do you mean something really bad, like murder?”

“If it comes to that, yes.”

“…Wait. I was joking. You really - want me to kill–? But how? How can-”

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Before we get on with Virgo’s Maybe Babies, now is as good as time as any to clarify the true ‘test-y’ nature of Episodes 9 through 13. I know it’s weird to bring it up here rather than at the time, but Virgo is tied intricately into the risk of what I did.

If you recall, Reef died from ricin poisioning, which is interpreted in the game as Mummy’s Curse. I’d had this idea pretty much from the beginning, the fixed one that Mummy’s Curse had to be the group date death. Theoretically, I could have just rolled the victim when the time came during that date, clicked Die By in DebugEnabler, and had him die immediately with no riffraff. However, I wanted whoever died like that to have the moodlet and go through the decay, else the suffering wouldn’t ring true and there would be literally no foreshadowing, which I thrive off of. Besides, I’d already made a mod that makes the curse last for three days instead of three weeks, so I could be faithful to that ricin plan, and there was no sense in wasting it.

Ergo, I needed to roll the death for Mummy’s Curse three days in advance. As in, during the tail end of Episode 9, while Reef went back downstairs. Before Challenge #5 had happened.

An easy enough idea on its own - roll that death, have the murderer add a Herb to Reef’s Firecracker Tofu, add Cursed by the Mummy moodlet as he ate it - but it gave Breath Kiss an interesting dilemma that I both did and didn’t want to see play out. There were only two immunity slots in that challenge (three if you count the murderer, and two if murderer and innocent slots happened to overlap), and since it would be weird and redundant to poison Reef only to kill him off before it could take effect *side-eyes Bianca*, Reef automatically had one of them. As such, only the first person to find their chest would really have immunity - in this case, Laurel. The second placer would still gain the social benefit, but Reef had the spirit of the immunity: not being able to die yet.

And that meant that the person who came second could have been rolled to die that night, in theory.

Virgo could have died even while ‘immune’.

Her favourite bathbomb in-game is, obviously, Phoenix Rising. Big Blue comes a close second.

His deadname is (was) Melvin Brightside. You can see why she changed it as soon as emancipation kicked in.

He loves the feeling of freshly-shaved legs… he’s just not fond of the process of shaving itself, because the lazer-razor feels too sharp and the initial prickling is uncomfortable, so it’s rare she ‘finds the time’ to do it.

This next fact depends on if Nix is the murderer or not. If she is, then the jammed brakes that killed her mother were definitely her fault. If he isn’t, then they were… still his fault, but due to a glitch in the joyride he’d taken the night before rather than a deliberate decision.

Frankly, she doesn’t see the fling with Yam Pesca going anywhere.

He worked a part-time job at the Bot Arena growing up. Not out of any passion for it, but it was close to where he lived, and he really needed the money.

She’s not so secretly starting to resent Sedna for the crappy situation she put everyone in. But that’s not the scary part. The scary part is that she’s getting more and more attracted to Sedna not in spite of, but because of that resentment.

He’s squicked out by praying mantises. They eat each other’s heads while mating…!

I’ve said in the past that Nix would be six foot nothing? Well, chalk that up to why he’s not fond of wearing high heels. Get any higher, he thinks, and he’ll break his neck, or at least hit his head on the ceiling.

Its most potent fear is the dark - or more accurately the absence of light - but it’s also afraid to varying degrees of falling from great heights, losing every left sock in its pairs, and eggs.

Midnight was not actually the first NB Sim I ever made, despite how easy it would be to get that impression. That would be Alex Hatcher, made for a long-defunct Simblr before SJS even became a thing.

Nov has always wanted to keep a pig. No one’s sure how that happened.

It’s got a pet sprite called Skronk instead, but it’s not the same.

I initially conceived nov as a homage to those weird Novi Starz dolls (hence the pronouns) that were around a couple of years ago. You know, the ones with names like Mae Tallick and Sila Clops? I believe nova general aesthetic came specifically from Una Verse.

Its favourite dreams of the Dream Pod are “About Heroism” and “About Romance”.

The reason Lacey ‘Lapis’ Lazuli broke up with it was she got tired of having to constantly reassure it about stuff. Of course, it took a lot of cover-story unravelling before Lapis could say that out loud, so yeah, jerkwad all around.

Ha! A lapiz lazuli with a space rock. Is that more or less awkward than a peridot with a pearl?

Since ephyradear deactivated a while back, I can’t remember its ‘canon’ fate so well. But I do know that if it had kids, it would definitely name at least one of them Allie. Maybe all of them Allie if it could get away with it.