[He just gives Cloud an exasperated LOOK at the expression. HE KNOWS WHAT YOU’RE THINKING, ASSHOLE.]
Rupert…? Shit. [He has grown a tad more serious.] That’s two then. There should maybe be a third one, I’m assuming.
Aikawa said Sebastian had the same dream, but didn’t know where he stayed. I promised them cheeseburgers if they were alive, so that’s where I just was. Did all of us really have the same dream…? How many people had the same dream last week?
People thought someone turned a guy into a Toblerone and ate him in my game, Cloud, don't underestimate people when they panic. [grumbles.] There were three last week, right? Claude, and...
[she gives a heavy sigh, rubbing her temples.]
It has to be based on location, right? Because Harrow, me, Cloud, Molly, and Emet-Selch all had it. And we were in Simulations... I guess I didn't ask Zuko.
It was location based the first week. Flayn and Sieghart went around the lobby and the gift shop before ending in the butterfly garden. No one was staying the latter, I was alone in the lobby, and Rupert and Zuko were in the gift shop. I don't... know for last week. [ he grimaces a little. sorry his brain is still soup when trying to remember details he was only half aware of ] But if you guys had the dream, that means he must've met his murderer in the library, too.
[He squints at Lup at the bit about the cannibalism and then he squints at CLOUD about the cannibalism.
Okay.]
Great.
[He gives them both that awkward look that says HE was in the library with the victim, so this doesn’t look good for him or anyone else.]
Aikawa has been getting Bradley to bind him every Thursday. If we get down to the wire, might be a lead to check up on. Rather like Aikawa, so hope it isn’t him.
Then again, could be me, huh? Or Sheila, or Futaba. Why was I in the room with two people who got buried again? I swear it’s a coincidence. An annoying one.
I hope it wasn't Aikawa either. [she says quietly.]
... Hey, Jason, do you know if any of the people who got buried last week had different dreams than the rest? I know Claude had a weird dream about mechanical shit attacking him, but I didn't hear anything about any others. I was only half-listening because I was digging a bullet out of Cloud's face.
Killer wasn't the one burying people last week. Clementine didn't have the time or the body strength for it. Whoever or whatever is doing it isn't doing it to kill them.
[ outside of that cloud doesn't know jack shit about fuck when it comes to last week and he is busy grimacing and putting a hand over the scar on his face when lup says that. thanks. he has nothing to contribute. ]
[He frowns at the two of them. Stop that, Jesus. He hates them both.]
They had different dreams, I'm pretty sure. Except for the two things they had in common: the ink and things being machines. Not sure what that had to do with Clementine and Cloud, so maybe it's a bigger clue. Dunno.
[A shrug.]
I agree with Cloud. [SHOCKING] I don't think it's being done to kill anyone.
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I agree with you both, amazingly enough. Rupert's had to do with uh, running, feeling like someone was waiting for him ahead, and getting attacked before being back where he started.
Maybe it is a bigger clue to the whole thing and not just the murders. Something outside of the case. Did it happen with Flayn's? [... glances at cloud, and then:] Sorry.
[His brows furrow as he thinks about the explanation of Rupert's dream. His eyes flick back up between the two of them before he looks away. His head drops gently against the frame he's leaning on.]
Bound to get people who happen to be in the right place, yeah. Might be easier to get them if they're together, too. A little weird, but... maybe they're trying to keep some people hidden, or maybe they're trying to stop a killer.
It has to be entertainment and murder here, right? Putting them in the ground fits the shitty aesthetic.
[she frowns a little at cloud ignoring her but doesn't say anything...]
Maybe they're trying to keep people hidden. [she says, frowning.] Maybe it's this place taunting us. These are the people that could've been dead last night, but only one got picked.
I have no idea. We probably need more pieces. [...] Oh, speaking of, with that stupid fuckin' hangman puzzle - still has gone nowhere. The staff told me some of them were probably fucking around during a meeting and were dodgy about the rest.
[ he's ignoring apologies because he is not fucked up about anything thank you. ]
At least we can be pretty sure that whatever the answer to those burials are, it doesn't have to do with the murderer themselves. No wasting time trying to find a deeper meaning.
[ the hangman makes him want to die. he hates word puzzles. ]
So either we need to find the exact staff who wrote it to get something, or it doesn't mean anything. [ a beat ] Or both. [ he shakes his head ] I don't know if the other group got anything, but Estelle and Bucky didn't mention getting jack from their adventure this week.
[He closes his eyes and looks disgruntled about the GOD DAMN WORD PUZZLE. Jason Todd is very smart, but I am not. Kill me.]
Guess we can toss that one out the window too until we maybe find or learn something else. [His huff of an exhale is basically "Christ" really.] Aikawa told Bradley in the library they didn't get anything, but I'm not sure if he was bullshitting just because there were so many of us in there, or not.
...Maybe they were being messed with. We're used to finding stuff on these adventures that's relevant-- maybe the entertainment in this case is watching us focus on dead ends.
[ maybe our brains are so smooth we shouldn't be playing people theorizing at all. he shakes his head ]
Estelle told me they got a similar deal we did. Got turned against each other at some point. Most of their injuries were from that.
Sylvain said they had to fight each other, yeah. He said it was... a school for exorcism? They had to kill demons. But one of them made them fight each other.
[He's so tired. Of all this worse than Gotham sounding bullshit.]
Aikawa said something... [He glances between the two of them.] ...made him drown himself in a forest. Maybe in the long run it doesn't matter. The place and what happened, I mean.
Gemini said it's not much different than what happens to us every week. "The will of the hotel" maybe.
[ there's a frown because don't ask for a one on one audience with the big bad wtf, but he doesn't comment otherwise. because it's also for the whole kill each other and yourself bit. everything sucks and he hates the murder hotel. ]
... From what the staff and the contract both said, the guy's observing at a distance the length of it. And they seem to like it better that way. [ tilts his head ] Can't blame them.
[Slowly, his head comes back up, and a look of recognition bleeds into his face a bit at what Lup says, but he doesn't say anything, and he refocuses on the two of them afterward.]
I tried too. [Listen, shut up. Cloud just has to deal with the both of them being this way.] Asked Gemini if I could dig up dirt on them, or speak to them. They said it wasn't possible "by their capabilities."
...I told them about how we checked Ivan on the island first thing. They said they didn't know if "others had thought of the same method," so I'm wondering if there's a similar role here, or if they were just saying shit to say it.
Yeah, I asked Lepus, but they uh. Well, they were a rude ass about it. [despite this, she still likes lepus. she is fond of dickheads, apparently.]
Judging by what I know about Gemini, they might have just been bullshitting you. They like to do the run around. [...] Anyway. It's a good thing the dude is all up in his tower or I'd have a strongly worded letter to give him.
I think there are roles, just... no idea what they can do. Housekeeping, maybe. [ it's dry. and then he's distracted thinking of nightman watching from afar and judging and hrmmmm his trigger ]
Isn't that how it goes? People in charge watching from afar while people suffer for their own gain? Even if all they want is entertainment, it's always the same thing.
[He seems strangely similarly annoyed at the topic judging by the look on his face. His feet shift, and he stands up off the frame of the bed, but doesn't uncross his arms.]
I've already had one bastard orchestrate my entire life for his own amusement, and I'm not going to put up with this one doing it too. Signed contract, or not. He better stay in his little hole because if I see him, I'm going to kill him.
[Whether he follows through with this if they learn more is up for debate, but right now? Jason is very much shoot first, ask questions later dude unfortunately.]
We have three things to keep an eye on so far: [he holds up the last three fingers of one hand] a fuck who keeps putting people in the ground, whoever or whatever kept boyscout here from eating it, and whatever fairy shit is going on in people's rooms on Thursdays.
Yeah, that. It's weird, somewhat of an annoyance, and I'm hoping it's as harmless as what the gravedigger is hopefully doing. Who knows. Maybe not something to worry about when it comes to murder, but probably something to keep our eyes on.
[Finally, he uncrosses his arms.]
Bradley said he got a mint and someone stole half of all his shoes. I think last week it was soda...? It sounds like there's giving and taking.
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Rupert…? Shit. [He has grown a tad more serious.] That’s two then. There should maybe be a third one, I’m assuming.
Aikawa said Sebastian had the same dream, but didn’t know where he stayed. I promised them cheeseburgers if they were alive, so that’s where I just was. Did all of us really have the same dream…? How many people had the same dream last week?
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[she gives a heavy sigh, rubbing her temples.]
It has to be based on location, right? Because Harrow, me, Cloud, Molly, and Emet-Selch all had it. And we were in Simulations... I guess I didn't ask Zuko.
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[ stop!! stop it!! moving on!!! ]
It was location based the first week. Flayn and Sieghart went around the lobby and the gift shop before ending in the butterfly garden. No one was staying the latter, I was alone in the lobby, and Rupert and Zuko were in the gift shop. I don't... know for last week. [ he grimaces a little. sorry his brain is still soup when trying to remember details he was only half aware of ] But if you guys had the dream, that means he must've met his murderer in the library, too.
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Okay.]
Great.
[He gives them both that awkward look that says HE was in the library with the victim, so this doesn’t look good for him or anyone else.]
Aikawa has been getting Bradley to bind him every Thursday. If we get down to the wire, might be a lead to check up on. Rather like Aikawa, so hope it isn’t him.
Then again, could be me, huh? Or Sheila, or Futaba. Why was I in the room with two people who got buried again? I swear it’s a coincidence. An annoying one.
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... Hey, Jason, do you know if any of the people who got buried last week had different dreams than the rest? I know Claude had a weird dream about mechanical shit attacking him, but I didn't hear anything about any others. I was only half-listening because I was digging a bullet out of Cloud's face.
[don't just SAY IT.]
I ask because Rupert's dream was different.
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[ outside of that cloud doesn't know jack shit about fuck when it comes to last week and he is busy grimacing and putting a hand over the scar on his face when lup says that. thanks. he has nothing to contribute. ]
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They had different dreams, I'm pretty sure. Except for the two things they had in common: the ink and things being machines. Not sure what that had to do with Clementine and Cloud, so maybe it's a bigger clue. Dunno.
[A shrug.]
I agree with Cloud. [SHOCKING] I don't think it's being done to kill anyone.
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Maybe it is a bigger clue to the whole thing and not just the murders. Something outside of the case. Did it happen with Flayn's? [... glances at cloud, and then:] Sorry.
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[ QUICKLY REMOVES HIS HAND LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED anyway ]
Last week, the people buried weren't anywhere near me. This week, they were in the same room as the victim. So that part might be random.
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Bound to get people who happen to be in the right place, yeah. Might be easier to get them if they're together, too. A little weird, but... maybe they're trying to keep some people hidden, or maybe they're trying to stop a killer.
It has to be entertainment and murder here, right? Putting them in the ground fits the shitty aesthetic.
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Maybe they're trying to keep people hidden. [she says, frowning.] Maybe it's this place taunting us. These are the people that could've been dead last night, but only one got picked.
I have no idea. We probably need more pieces. [...] Oh, speaking of, with that stupid fuckin' hangman puzzle - still has gone nowhere. The staff told me some of them were probably fucking around during a meeting and were dodgy about the rest.
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At least we can be pretty sure that whatever the answer to those burials are, it doesn't have to do with the murderer themselves. No wasting time trying to find a deeper meaning.
[ the hangman makes him want to die. he hates word puzzles. ]
So either we need to find the exact staff who wrote it to get something, or it doesn't mean anything. [ a beat ] Or both. [ he shakes his head ] I don't know if the other group got anything, but Estelle and Bucky didn't mention getting jack from their adventure this week.
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Guess we can toss that one out the window too until we maybe find or learn something else. [His huff of an exhale is basically "Christ" really.] Aikawa told Bradley in the library they didn't get anything, but I'm not sure if he was bullshitting just because there were so many of us in there, or not.
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I didn't hear anything from Estelle or Aikawa, no. And they were both... super vague with what happened. [a little shrug.] Understandable, I guess.
[she sprawls out on the bed.] We didn't get anything like that either. So it's weird that Emet's team did and nobody else got shit.
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[ maybe our brains are so smooth we shouldn't be playing people theorizing at all. he shakes his head ]
Estelle told me they got a similar deal we did. Got turned against each other at some point. Most of their injuries were from that.
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[He's so tired. Of all this worse than Gotham sounding bullshit.]
Aikawa said something... [He glances between the two of them.] ...made him drown himself in a forest. Maybe in the long run it doesn't matter. The place and what happened, I mean.
Gemini said it's not much different than what happens to us every week. "The will of the hotel" maybe.
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That's what I got from both of them, too. Aikawa and all them um, they all had to do loops, sort of. Like they'd die and start over.
[...] I'm sure it doesn't really matter. It's just to fuck with us and get entertainment, yeah. The will of the Nightman.
... I asked if I could get an audience with the guy. The staff said no.
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... From what the staff and the contract both said, the guy's observing at a distance the length of it. And they seem to like it better that way. [ tilts his head ] Can't blame them.
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I tried too. [Listen, shut up. Cloud just has to deal with the both of them being this way.] Asked Gemini if I could dig up dirt on them, or speak to them. They said it wasn't possible "by their capabilities."
...I told them about how we checked Ivan on the island first thing. They said they didn't know if "others had thought of the same method," so I'm wondering if there's a similar role here, or if they were just saying shit to say it.
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Yeah, I asked Lepus, but they uh. Well, they were a rude ass about it. [despite this, she still likes lepus. she is fond of dickheads, apparently.]
Judging by what I know about Gemini, they might have just been bullshitting you. They like to do the run around. [...] Anyway. It's a good thing the dude is all up in his tower or I'd have a strongly worded letter to give him.
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I think there are roles, just... no idea what they can do. Housekeeping, maybe. [ it's dry. and then he's distracted thinking of nightman watching from afar and judging and hrmmmm his trigger ]
Isn't that how it goes? People in charge watching from afar while people suffer for their own gain? Even if all they want is entertainment, it's always the same thing.
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I've already had one bastard orchestrate my entire life for his own amusement, and I'm not going to put up with this one doing it too. Signed contract, or not. He better stay in his little hole because if I see him, I'm going to kill him.
[Whether he follows through with this if they learn more is up for debate, but right now? Jason is very much shoot first, ask questions later dude unfortunately.]
We have three things to keep an eye on so far: [he holds up the last three fingers of one hand] a fuck who keeps putting people in the ground, whoever or whatever kept boyscout here from eating it, and whatever fairy shit is going on in people's rooms on Thursdays.
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Fairy shit? [???]
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there's the obligatory eyeroll at boyscout but; ]
People losing their stuff. Right? Bucky says his room's ransacked and someone stole his shoes. And... I think last week, too? Stuff was stolen.
[ please don't ask him what. be grateful he remembers this much ]
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[Finally, he uncrosses his arms.]
Bradley said he got a mint and someone stole half of all his shoes. I think last week it was soda...? It sounds like there's giving and taking.
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