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. ]

Comments

[vipmix]

[... giggles because ofc he does]

Hmm, well, hopefully not fully on your own. You've got that friend of yours, don't you? And I'd rather not be doomed to die because people settled on the easiest path.

[backtagging is funny]

[seaclipsed]

I don't want to assume that Zuko is always going to agree with me.

[ he's probably going to always agree with her. ]

[vipmix]

Hmm, really? Friends usually have similar moral values.

[way to make it sound like you've had a single friend in your entire life, josh]

[seaclipsed]

Zuko and I weren't always friends.

[ an understatement for the ages. ]

But... this is the kind of game where people are going to argue a lot, so I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up arguing at some point.

[vipmix]

Hm. Something to do with his father?

[GUESSING, 100%, BASED OFF OF ZUKO'S DAD ISSUES]

Maybe. But we were talking about wrangling people to do the right thing. Do you think Zuko would argue against you in that?

[he's honestly asking the fuck does he know he's not even mildly omniscient rn]

[seaclipsed]

... sort of. I guess it all lead back to his dad, but in the end, what he did was on him.

Not against doing the right thing. But... sometimes people's ideas of what the right thing is differ.

[ like the time she and aang argued over whether or not she should murder a man, so. ]

[vipmix]

Hee hee... I'd have been worried if you said otherwise. You would make a good wrangler. Even going all the way to realize people's morality is subjective.

[and then katara kills him here because he was just being a leading asshole]

[seaclipsed]

[ yeah we're gonna have to retcon the entire trial tbh ]

I won't lie and say that I haven't acted as if what I think is the absolute [ she... she does that a lot tbh... ] but this isn't a situation where we can all afford to think like that.

[vipmix]

Hmm. I'd say even being that level of self-aware is impressive, but I doubt you want to hear it. [remember that whole argument about him being condescending. yea.] The only way to succeed in trials will be to focus and work together and argue... less, but I don't see that happening immediately. We might go a few murders before catching a single killer.

[seaclipsed]

[ look. she is only aware of it because the gaang constantly yell at her about it. she and toph even have a bonding episode over it.

at his words though, she looks annoyed for a second, but then her shoulders just droop. ]

That's... probably why they bring in such a large group at the start, right? It's harder to figure things out when there's so many possible suspects.

[vipmix]

Where's their fun if all we do is succeed? [shrugs] It's an extra challenge, but since the idea from the start is to cull numbers... It works better if all your killers aren't uncovered too fast. They'd either run out of designated killers or discourage potential ones... or both.

[seaclipsed]

Ugh... I really hate that you're right. I mean, I want to say that we'll catch them, but...

[ it's not that she thinks they won't, but they're definitely at the disadvantage here. ]

We can't even examine the body, or-- have evidence!

[vipmix]

Because the emphasis is on "knowing" one another. We'll just have to make sure we get the information we need from the body before we give it back to the Chiefs.

[and not kick it down a mountain without looking at shit, NEKU]

[seaclipsed]

Last time the body was all... [ chopped up. ]

Well, it was kind of like they purposely made it hard. The rest of them might be like that too, right?

[vipmix]

If the killer wants to get away with it, probably. The more gruesome a death, the less likely people are to want to look closely at the body.

[seaclipsed]

... especially depending on who finds the body.

[ katara can admit she'll have a harder time looking at a super gory death than someone like laura might. not that laura would actually hunt for bodies but ya know. ]

[vipmix]

... The amount of people who would be willing to look at a body and who would also know what they're doing is rather small. It'll definitely be a problem.

[everyone who hunts for bodies is nice]

[seaclipsed]

I'm not really sure how to teach people something like that. At least... not as quickly as we'd need everyone to know.

[ and if they don't even know how people are going to be killing, how are they gonna know what type of injury to look for. ]

[vipmix]

We lack proper resources to teach, and I'd wager maybe a handful of people have a real concept of anatomy in the first place. The best we can hope for is the big picture from whoever finds the body... assuming the killer doesn't just "find it" themselves to cover their tracks.

[seaclipsed]

[ the real reason neku dropkicked the body down the volcano: confirmed. ]

... all we can really do about that is try to make sure no one finds a body on their own.

[vipmix]

[smh @ andie :/]

A good idea in theory, but nearly impossible to make happen in reality. [he huffs a bit] Our Friday scavenger hunts aren't mandatory, and even trying to pair up the people who do volunteer for it isn't foolproof. I think our best bet is to accept the lack of evidence as an inherent flaw-- oops, I meant feature-- of this game and learn to work around it then try to force our way through.

[seaclipsed]

Ugh... I guess. It just feels like we have to work our way around most things.

[ more like all of them. this game is a mess. ]

[vipmix]

That'd be the lack of organization.

[unlike,,, his,,,, game]

[seaclipsed]

The game you were in before this one... what was it like, anyway?

[vipmix]

A lot less gory, for one.

[there's a lot of answers he can give, but he can't get into the true nature of the reaper's game, so.]