seaclipsed | week 2, saturday

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week 2, saturday

[ another trial, another sad meetup after.

a little after the trial, katara is going to be knocking on the door of zuko's hut. luckily, ruby isn't around, what convenient timing. ]

Zuko? It's me.

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Some people only think about themselves, Katara -- and in situations like this, their own survival. Especially when they're desperate. I know. I've been there.

[although, even season 1 Zuko wouldn't have done this....]

But I've changed. And you're right. The only way we get out of this is together -- all of us.

[Plus---] I mean, only Laura and Jacopo were only considering the option for real, and Laura's..... [vague gestures of frustration]

She says that she's already dead, so she doesn't care what happens.

[ which is... seriously super freaky to think about. reanimated corpses? in any other situation, katara would spend more time on that, but they don't have much time at all. ]

Did you hear what Hal said to Yona though? That the last group he did with this won the game, so all of them got to go back home. He revived them from the dead.

It doesn't sound possible, but after everything we've seen here, who knows.

[he sort of.. shrugs. He's in the same boat as her] But I don't buy this "I don't care" nonsense. If that were the case, she would have already killed herself, or stopped voting, or something.

[---but that gets his attention]

Wait-- Hal said that? That they were revived? [evidently he missed it]

[ tbh a lot of people probably did since it didn't really get discussed. ]

If we win the game, then everyone who died gets brought back to life, apparently. The problem is that I'm still not entirely sure what "winning" means here. That group killed everyone until there was one person left, but they sound like they were pretty terrible at figuring things out? Hal said he even started going easy on them because he felt bad for them.

[ which sounds like a feat in of itself. ]

I can't imagine Hal going "easy" on anyone. Or that him "bringing people back to life" is even true.

[but there have been a ton of unbelievable things so who is he to judge]

I'm guessing "winning" means everyone but one person dying, and that's the only way to tell if he's lying or not.

That's... kind of a major gamble.

[ she's silent for a moment. ]

Hiro told me a theory. He pointed out that... all of these games are probably not exactly the same as the others, since that would probably be "boring" to them. He said that... what if the win conditions are that the killers have to get away with all the murders?

It's not something we can really rely on.

I guess it's possible. I can see this "game" being rigged in favour of the killers. But if it's true, we have no guarantee they'll act in everyone's best interest.