Yeah. Virgo's definitely the cannibal. No wonder they had him in a closet.
[ considering. the contract. on top of everything else. Yikes. he looks at jason with a frown ]
... Tsurumaru said Dimitri was convinced Aquarius was someone who was in that camp with them, based on what they saw. And I know Gemini 1.0 is from the station. [ he curls up his good leg against him as he thinks ] The way Harrow talked, I think she might know Aquila. Not sure which. Emet-Selch recognized some handwriting. And...
[ he shakes his head and doesn't add to it; ]
It's not that surprising, but both sets were in places like this before. And it looks like the Nightman made a more personal deal with eight of them. Though how willing they were seems to vary.
[Cloud sits up better, and Jason just obnoxiously leans back on his arm and shoulder and side. NOT THE FUCKED UP ONE, ZIA. He lets the back of his head rest against Cloud's.]
Lup knows Aquila too. They must be from the station. She said some things in the room didn't match what she knew of them. The feathers? Lup said they weren't right. This Aquila must be someone they know.
[His brows furrow. His voice has been pretty low this whole time.]
He was curating the best assholes he could for the job, but probably had to take his pickings with a few.
[ lets Jason lean on him while they talk low so it looks like they're having a romance instead of talking plot ]
... I know this Gemini. [ he says it lower than he's said anything, hesitant, and he looks off to the side ] Nightman wanted specific people to agree to help torture us. And they're playing as much as they can to keep up the rule of these contracts. And then there's that stuff you read in the room, too. His...thoughts? Diary?
[This makes him frown. He glances over his shoulder at Cloud, but only for a few seconds worth of sympathy.]
Do you think we can find… whatever the boss has that’s screwing up? Is it just something we’re in, or is there, like, a control panel? A room or something. If we can disrupt it, maybe the other side can get back.
But it sounds like more danger is what’s fritzing it out.
It might partially be the upped danger. But I'm not so sure it isn't the sabotage portion, too. [ cloud is ignoring that sympathy look forever anyway ] From that conversation with Lepus and Vulpecula.
From what you read, the hotel's mostly automated, which means it still needs some help to run. Right?
Yeah. You’re the big man with blowing up the shitty corporations, right?
[Don’t put this on Cloud when you do similar bullshit.]
If you were a control panel or vat brain behind a murder hotel, where would you be? And apparently not inside the boss’s room unless we missed some shit.
Reactors have a core. Not exactly the same deal. [ first of all. unless this hotel has a cool center somewhere. he hums ] I meant, if it's mostly automated, that means the rest of it is run by the staff. Obviously.
Yeah, but the staff are doing us a favor then. How do we help them speed it up? We don’t got a lot of time left here. His shadows diary, or whatever the hell, said termination was soon.
[Not that they didn’t know about the eight weeks.]
Think the cemetery is the connection? It’s where we saw Virgo pop back up suddenly.
Is it "suddenly" when they found the guy locked in a closet?
[ he is wondering the possibility of the staff locking him there on purpose. ]
... But like I said, there's another new, non-cannibal one down there. So maybe. They're in some kind of manor with a garage? And a graveyard that's identical to ours. Connection between both must be there, but how we get them to connect back so we can get them back to the lobby...
[ considering burying the sword didn't work. hrm. ]
I mean our Virgo. While Aquarius was in the cemetery sending someone Mickey D fries.
[He's thoughtful for a long moment which means he's thankfully quiet.]
I mean, have they not tried burying themselves? [A joke.] To get into the penthouse, I went through one of the hotel's very fun, annoying doors in the hallway. I went through a portal, came out through one too. Maybe there has to be a portal. I don't know.
The contract says no mass murder, but the up in danger is making things unstable. I'm not saying I want to go on a killing spree, so I'm hoping pulling an island isn't going to be the case here to overload the system. We want people on this side, not that side.
[ rip to virgo. also, jason says that and cloud frowns. both in thought and that jason just went into a room while leaving him waiting up there!! jason!!!! ]
Nightman would be thrilled if we were all stuck on the side without the lobby. But you might be right about the portal. If the dead are alive enough to get injured, then they should be good enough to go through a portal. We sort of ... had to do that in the Realm. Open a pathway between both layers.
[ but, uh. hm. he frowns because that wasn't exactly ... easy... or safe... he does not say that ]
Yeah, they did. I just mean I'm agreeing. I think the cemetery is our connection point unless we open another one.
[He rocks forward a bit and hefts himself up to his feet in a fluid roll. He turns around and offers Cloud his hand.]
Come on. Let's get the hell out of the lobby before some shadowy fuck busts through the floor to get us. [He doesn't sound worried.] Still think you're not getting paid enough to do this?
Let me scribble those papers in my notebook as a fail-safe. We can let everyone know tomorrow.
There's no paycheck high enough to justify even half this shit.
[ he takes the hand to lift himself up. and then keeps hold of it because why not, at this point. ]
Sure. I'll keep the originals. I doubt there's a big issue with showing this to the group at large. Nightman's got to know we took them already. And I bet it's a big laugh for him how "bad" his choice of staff is.
[That makes him crack a smile even if he doesn't have it in him to laugh right now. Also sure, he will keep holding Cloud's hand and being gay.]
He'll know if he looks.
[He uses the hand to bring Cloud close to him. His other hand lifts to rest on Cloud's neck where it meets the shoulder. Not the hurt side, dammit. He puts their foreheads together and lowers his voice.]
[ oh. cloud blinks up at him, and then there's a light frown ]
I should be the one saying that. [ between running off into that hallway door and what he tried to pull before they got thrown out-- he leans into the touch, squeezing jason's hand ] I'll tell you what a friend told me. You gotta be better than that if you're gonna play the hero.
[Cloud being affectionate and kissing him a lot... very cute. If they weren't arguing about being heroes, or just coming out of the damn penthouse, maybe he'd tease.]
We agree on something. [They agree a lot actually which is funny.] I trust you.
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[ considering. the contract. on top of everything else. Yikes. he looks at jason with a frown ]
... Tsurumaru said Dimitri was convinced Aquarius was someone who was in that camp with them, based on what they saw. And I know Gemini 1.0 is from the station. [ he curls up his good leg against him as he thinks ] The way Harrow talked, I think she might know Aquila. Not sure which. Emet-Selch recognized some handwriting. And...
[ he shakes his head and doesn't add to it; ]
It's not that surprising, but both sets were in places like this before. And it looks like the Nightman made a more personal deal with eight of them. Though how willing they were seems to vary.
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Lup knows Aquila too. They must be from the station. She said some things in the room didn't match what she knew of them. The feathers? Lup said they weren't right. This Aquila must be someone they know.
[His brows furrow. His voice has been pretty low this whole time.]
He was curating the best assholes he could for the job, but probably had to take his pickings with a few.
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... I know this Gemini. [ he says it lower than he's said anything, hesitant, and he looks off to the side ] Nightman wanted specific people to agree to help torture us. And they're playing as much as they can to keep up the rule of these contracts. And then there's that stuff you read in the room, too. His...thoughts? Diary?
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[This makes him frown. He glances over his shoulder at Cloud, but only for a few seconds worth of sympathy.]
Do you think we can find… whatever the boss has that’s screwing up? Is it just something we’re in, or is there, like, a control panel? A room or something. If we can disrupt it, maybe the other side can get back.
But it sounds like more danger is what’s fritzing it out.
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From what you read, the hotel's mostly automated, which means it still needs some help to run. Right?
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Yeah. You’re the big man with blowing up the shitty corporations, right?
[Don’t put this on Cloud when you do similar bullshit.]
If you were a control panel or vat brain behind a murder hotel, where would you be? And apparently not inside the boss’s room unless we missed some shit.
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[Not that they didn’t know about the eight weeks.]
Think the cemetery is the connection? It’s where we saw Virgo pop back up suddenly.
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[ he is wondering the possibility of the staff locking him there on purpose. ]
... But like I said, there's another new, non-cannibal one down there. So maybe. They're in some kind of manor with a garage? And a graveyard that's identical to ours. Connection between both must be there, but how we get them to connect back so we can get them back to the lobby...
[ considering burying the sword didn't work. hrm. ]
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[He's thoughtful for a long moment which means he's thankfully quiet.]
I mean, have they not tried burying themselves? [A joke.] To get into the penthouse, I went through one of the hotel's very fun, annoying doors in the hallway. I went through a portal, came out through one too. Maybe there has to be a portal. I don't know.
The contract says no mass murder, but the up in danger is making things unstable. I'm not saying I want to go on a killing spree, so I'm hoping pulling an island isn't going to be the case here to overload the system. We want people on this side, not that side.
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[ rip to virgo. also, jason says that and cloud frowns. both in thought and that jason just went into a room while leaving him waiting up there!! jason!!!! ]
Nightman would be thrilled if we were all stuck on the side without the lobby. But you might be right about the portal. If the dead are alive enough to get injured, then they should be good enough to go through a portal. We sort of ... had to do that in the Realm. Open a pathway between both layers.
[ but, uh. hm. he frowns because that wasn't exactly ... easy... or safe... he does not say that ]
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[He rocks forward a bit and hefts himself up to his feet in a fluid roll. He turns around and offers Cloud his hand.]
Come on. Let's get the hell out of the lobby before some shadowy fuck busts through the floor to get us. [He doesn't sound worried.] Still think you're not getting paid enough to do this?
Let me scribble those papers in my notebook as a fail-safe. We can let everyone know tomorrow.
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[ he takes the hand to lift himself up. and then keeps hold of it because why not, at this point. ]
Sure. I'll keep the originals. I doubt there's a big issue with showing this to the group at large. Nightman's got to know we took them already. And I bet it's a big laugh for him how "bad" his choice of staff is.
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He'll know if he looks.
[He uses the hand to bring Cloud close to him. His other hand lifts to rest on Cloud's neck where it meets the shoulder. Not the hurt side, dammit. He puts their foreheads together and lowers his voice.]
Cloud. Be careful, alright?
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I should be the one saying that. [ between running off into that hallway door and what he tried to pull before they got thrown out-- he leans into the touch, squeezing jason's hand ] I'll tell you what a friend told me. You gotta be better than that if you're gonna play the hero.
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Good thing I'm not the hero. [He's the bad boy of the family, Cloud.] I'll leave the hero-ing up to you.
[(cloud voice) im not a hero, dammit]
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Not really my kind of gig. Doesn't pay enough. [ tilts his head to kiss jason. gently. while he is there ] I'll be alright.
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We agree on something. [They agree a lot actually which is funny.] I trust you.
[Ignore him kissing him back really quick.]
Come on.
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[ don't tease him about affection this is him actively trying, ]