catchall for miki

[leaberator]

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[stillstands]

[ she's lifting up the box and turning it around to try and see if she can see any way to gently get this thing open. ]

Some people see stubbornness as more of a personality flaw, you know.

[leaberator]

[ easily; ]

Oh, believe me, it's definitely both.

[ that casual self-roast... he sets his own puzzle aside to try and see if he can't help with Miki's, instead. ]

[stillstands]

I know.

[ said immediately. she's stubborn herself.

lawd okay how do these boxes even work i'm dumb and can't read all of a sudden. she reaches out and tries to tug at one of the jutting edges, frowning when it doesn't seem to move very easily. ]

[leaberator]

[ he laughs at that, then settles to look at her solve it. we are going to have a very stupid thread now, because neither one of us knows how puzzle boxes work. after a while, he offers ]

Try pushing that first one in.

[stillstands]

[ no one can tell us how these work, we can bs this. ]

This one? [ she tap her finger against it, before pushing down. nothing really seems to happen? ]

[leaberator]

[ he frowns a bit and leans to see better ]

Are they not moving at all?

[stillstands]

Maybe I'm not pushing it enough?

[ let her in!! LET HER IN!!! ]

[leaberator]

[ that seems legitimate? ]

Try doing it harder. Either way, pushing or pulling. Just go nuts on it.

[ that's how you solve a puzzle? ]

[stillstands]

Aren't we supposed to not be breaking it...?

[ i mean. she's doing it. she's trying her best. ]

[leaberator]

It's not breaking it if it's just testing to see if anything moves at all!

[ he's actually an asshole, it turns out. ]

[stillstands]

It's breaking it if we break it.

[ She frowns at the box, like it has personally offended her. And, because the only puzzle box solution I found is the one where you push on the opposite ends to open it, this is what I'm goin' with. So when she kinda squeezes the box to get more force going, something shifts. Just a little. ]

-- ah! It moved. But not by much. [ She holds up the box and stares at it suspiciously. ] Maybe I'm not strong enough?

[ axel. axelea. leaxelea. help? ]

[leaberator]

Tomato, tomahto.

[ it isn't broken YET and that is what matters. but he holds a hand out for the box, because he is not enough of a little bitch to take it from her without permission. ]

I can give it a shot?

[stillstands]

Both are still a fruit.

[ she hands it over without any real argument. ]

Please do. It might just need a bit more strength behind it to get it open - but it seems like it's a pressure thing?

[leaberator]

[ once he has it in hand, he presses on it, hard-- and somehow another part of the puzzle pops up, even tho wooden puzzles probably don't do that, solely so it's funny ]

Is... that supposed to happen?

[ why is he asking miki ]

[stillstands]

[ why IS he asking miki? ]

Maybe?

Sometimes the puzzle is getting something open without a lock in and of itself. So it's about shifting pressure and the material itself.

...

I think.

[leaberator]

Well, it doesn't sound wrong. [ he sounds. amused. like an asshole. ] Think it'll open if we just keep pressing it every time it pops up?

[ it's too late because that's what he's doing ]

[stillstands]

[ hey, she can BS too. ] I mean... at this point we might as well try, right?

[ Right?? ]

What if I tried pulling part of it when you press in? It could be like a little drawer or something in there.

[leaberator]

So we just work on it in tandem? That makes sense. This place does take the whole "work together" clause pretty seriously.

[ this is absolutely not necessary, but this is what they are doing now because we say anything goes on this wooden box. ]

Alright, you count us down, then I'll push and you'll pull. Ready?

[ this is a PUZZLE, YOU IDIOTS ]

[stillstands]

[ idek i'm literally following this thing come at me. ]

Okay! [ She's just. Getting her hands ready to try and give this a pull and FREE THE BOX if she can. ]

Ready when you are!

[leaberator]

[ it's been too long i've lost my own thing i refuse to click new ones they're gonna beat this puzzle by the power of FRIENDSHIP ]

Ready. Let's do this!

[ and then he is going to PUSH I GUESS this is incredible...y stupid ]

[stillstands]

[ and i guess she's going to pull!! on the box!!

it feels like something's shifting?? maybe? or are they just straining like idiots being defeated by a tiny little box? ]

[leaberator]

[ it's been like thirty comments of them failing to open one(1) box so i'm gonna throw our idiots a bone and say it just pops right open so something happens in this thread

but i am also going to say that the combined pressure and it opening means the box just fucking flies out of their hands like a strained rubber band, no matter how implausible it is, For The Joke ]

--Aaaaand hopefully whatever was in it wasn't breakable.

[stillstands]

[ i'm proud of us. 30 comments, wowzers. ]

Ah--!

[ she watches as it goes sailing across the room, a little helpless. but there's no shattering or breaking sound, so? this is positive? ]

Doesn't sound like it. Hold on -- [ She's running over and grabbing the box, tugging at the drawer and--

oh. ]

It's a book.

[ It's Miki of course it's a fucking book. But it's specific book, one that she takes a long, hard look at, before setting it down. ]

One down. Yours is the same, right?

[leaberator]

[ he's looking very intrigued by that book ]

"Stephen King"? [ he's not public domain yet disney doesn't own him. who is he. ] Yeah, my box is pretty much identical. Think it'll work the same way?

[stillstands]

Mm. He's an author where I'm from -- he writes in English, and I'd read the book in Japanese so thought I'd try it.

[ ... ] You can read it if you want.

Might as well give it a go, right? [ C'mon. They're veterans now. ]