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[predomination]

[The magitek isn't pointed at Urahara, but rather filming the area around him, but even if the username didn't give him away, the lilting overly exciteable terrier voice of his does.]

Good morning, everyone~

I know we're all very tired of this maze and whatever might be waiting for us once we get to the end, but it didn't feel right not to show you all this.

[The magitek shows one of the walls of the maze where an engraved bull's head stands out. Yeah.] I thought this might have been a bit of gallows humor from some of the previous inmates, but it's a reoccurring motif throughout the maze around here.

[A dry chuckle as he turns to face the camera, hatless and exhausted looking. Goddamn he misses his hat.] And if you're not up on your Greek mythology... Well, let's just say this situation could get even more frustrating. It's a shame Achilles-san has left us- perhaps he might have appreciated this in an odd sort of way.

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[ofobedience]

[Admittedly he hadn't been considering it from that angle, had only been thinking about the possibility of a good fight. No surprises there, right? But now that you mention it--]

Well. There are multiples of Earth, aren't there? Perhaps this place was created by one such multiple. Or the people who created it, being a space-faring lot, picked up the legend on their travels and thought it would make an interesting torture method. Or its just an actualised version of said myth, only in space.

[Pity Gio's never seen Ulysses 31]

Does it matter? We're still likely to end up fighting a giant humanoid bull, at the end of the day.

[predomination]

I suppose in the long run it doesn't. We should still be wary, either way- this could just be something to play on our expectations or even a red herring.

[ofobedience]

I suppose that's possible, but at the very least, it must mean something. Hopefully something interesting.

[A brief pause, and then--]

Is that the only one you've seen? If there's more, there's a chance it could be leading us towards a way out, past the danger of course. Although there's just as much chance of it being a warning, an indication that we shouldn't go that way. Or an attempt to scare us off-- your red herring, as it were.

[predomination]

There's been several- all of them bull's heads. I haven't ruled out it being a company logo, but it seems odd to only find it here and not in the first part of the maze.

But if it is meant to dissuade, they've picked the wrong group to try and terrify. We're all very reckless.

[well, he's not, but the point stands.]

[ofobedience]

[His voice, when he answers, is coloured by wry amusement]

I'll say. Hahah. A mythical bull hardly sounds like the worst thing we've had to fight. After killing a goddess, everything else begins to look a little tame.

And does there seem to be a pattern, as far as you've been able to discern? Or are they just spaced out at random?

[predomination]

Mm. No patterns. [Well. And now he knows who was on Team Goddess Killer back on Nalawi. He was wondering about that.]

Though I'm sure there's more to it than we know. Keeping the story in mind may be helpful, but ultimately we can't base our entire strategy on it.

[ofobedience]

[Oh, Giovanni's always on Team Kill unless there's someone around to talk him out of it. Despite that he'd disliked what happened on Nalawi, thought they shouldn't have got involved at all. Should have let the people of that world come to their own decisions-- he knows what he would have done, had some alien team shown up to kill his 'goddess'. But that's rarely something he speaks about, and right now--]

No doubt. Things are rarely ever straightforward, particularly not with this team. Hahah.

[They always seem to want to go the convoluted route, around instead of straight through.]

[predomination]

We're predictable in our lack of predictability, anyway. It finally seems to be working out for us.

[ofobedience]

Perhaps. But let's not go counting our dubious blessings just yet. We still need to get out of here, after all.

[And he sure is ready to do that.]

[predomination]

Oh of course, of course. I'm merely speculating that our odds are good. We're not the type to accept a failure when it involves loss of life.

[ofobedience]

Well. I suppose we've made it this far with relatively little of that.

[Which strikes him as odd, sometimes, how they've managed to avoid any major casualties so far, despite how fragile some of their members are. And so perhaps Urahara has a point.]