I hope you, dear reader, are also familiar with the relevant stretch of H.P. Lovecraft.
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More history recapitulated.
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She has some good sense, that Michiko.
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Somewhere in my notes there was once an indication of an unhappy past history between Aloysius and Michiko, and this is its survival into the main narrative.
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Thank Cthulhu for bureaucratic fuckups, for without them we would have no hope at all.
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Aloysius gives a little history lesson of the curious place he’s picked in which to hide out.
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The friends gather at a dark site. Special kudos to those of you who recognize the lyric that Jireen is using as a passphrase.
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Jireen and Aloysius are understandably looking to get underground at this point.
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When the building becomes unsafe, sabotage its systems!
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It looks like the g-goons are after Aloyssius as well, but he goes through life prepared.
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