week 2, tuesday

[seaclipsed]

[ katara is seated in front of the bonfire, cooking... well, fish. fish is probably like 90% of everyone's diet at this point honestly.

anyway, this is a good opportunity for anyone to come by. it's almost midnight don't expect me to write anything more eloquent than this dammit. ]

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[vipmix]

I'm glad you get it.

[whomp there it is]

This is the kind of environment we're in, Katara. The only way to make it is if you don't blind yourself to the things around you. People are already willing to settle for less than the truth to make themselves feel better, and it's just begun.

[seaclipsed]

We're just going to make things harder for ourselves that way... and at least with Yato, we were basically lead to that conclusion. How are people going to react if they do the same thing again, but only this time it was completely our mistake and not because Hal basically lead us there?

[ katara acknowledges that this is a shitty situation, and that they are all going to have to do things they normally wouldn't. but she doesn't like the idea of saying it's the lesser of two evils to get by. ]

A lesser evil is still evil. So we need to look at all possibilities open to us instead of just clinging to whatever's easiest right away.

[vipmix]

Bravo. You're a lot more perceptive than I thought. [does he have to be condescending about it? yes.]

The easiest path is a pit that's not easy to climb out of. That we were lead to believe Yato did it doesn't absolve any of us from the guilt of condemning him to death. [except the like. three people who didn't do it, but] That's going to be true every week, whether we succeed in catching a killer or not, with the partner system.

[seaclipsed]

... Right.

[ she taps her chin, frowning. ]

Do you think that might affect votes though? What if someone who killed a person is partnered with someone who is well liked?

[vipmix]

It already has. You think people defended Laura when I brought her up for her charming personality?

[he did it partially for a test to see how they'd react because he is The Worst, to be fair, but. yknow.]

I'd be shocked if people won't work less hard to find a murderer if the victim is disliked, too. That's just how people are.

[seaclipsed]

That's just... unfair! They can't expect people to try their hardest to solve murders for people they like and then not do their best every time. What will happen if they don't catch the killer? All that means is that there's one person on the loose who already has been confirmed to be okay with killing!

[vipmix]

It's all theoretical so far, so you shouldn't get too upset yet. [a beat] But with our group and how the first trial went, the odds aren't exactly high for a change unless there's a push otherwise.

[seaclipsed]

It'll probably require speaking to people outside of trials, I think... during them, people might be a little emotionally charged.

[ and she's saying this as someone who typically makes decisions base on emotions. ]

[vipmix]

Maybe... It's good to appeal to their logical side, but how much they'll take into account when emotions are running high can't be predicted. It's the same of anyone, even in scenarios less dire than this.

[seaclipsed]

That's true. I can't say that I've never acted on my emotions before.

[ katara you do it in every one of your episodes ]

But I think that people would be more likely to listen to you if you've spoken to them before.

[vipmix]

[wait, what]

To me?

[seaclipsed]

I meant the general you. But you count for that, I guess.

[ .... probably. ]

[vipmix]

[oh thank god he was worried for a second she'd lost her mind. CONTINUES LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED]

Most people will have talked to each other outside trials soon enough. There's only so many of us here. [...] Well, Neku probably won't, but that's Neku.

[seaclipsed]

You know each other from back home, right?

[ she... thinks??? like they sort of talk like they do, but at the same time they... don't... it's weird. ]

[vipmix]

Yes and no.

[that's. vague.]

[seaclipsed]

[ ???
????????

????? ]

[vipmix]

We are from the same world, but he had no idea I existed before this.

[........will he ever give a full answer]

[seaclipsed]

But... you knew him?

[ that seems to be the implication here. ]

[vipmix]

I'd heard about him. He met a... friend of mine.

[implying joshua has friends?]

[seaclipsed]

Oh. I wonder how people were chosen to be brought here then...

[ since some people are here by themselves, others know each other, and then there's joshua. ]

[vipmix]

[is that a bit of an annoyed eye twitch?? why yes. it is]

You know, I'd really like to know that myself.

[THIS GAME MAKES NO SENSE]

[seaclipsed]

Like on one hand, it seems kind of random? But on the other, it doesn't.

[ it's also hard to tell for sure when they still don't know much about the other participants. ]

[vipmix]

There should be a pattern... Or maybe the only thing we have in common is that everyone here would be willing to play the game in the first place.

[hmmm.]

...There is that wording on our "profiles".

[seaclipsed]

Do you mean the thing about being sacrifices?

[ it's the most alarming thing on it, really, aside from how the heck did they even get the information on them to begin with. ]

[vipmix]

It's nothing concrete, and it might just be wording meant to upset... I wouldn't put it past them. But I wouldn't rule it out entirely, either.

[he's vague, but this time it feels less deliberate to be a shit and more talking to himself. woops]