week 3 ( monday );

[reidentify]

[Meeting in the longhouse is a go! Lief clears his throat, as a part of him wonders how he keeps ending up in this situation, but:]

Thank you all for gathering here. These past few weeks have been difficult, but I pray that none of us fall into despair. Now, more than ever, we need to keep our spirits up and put an end to this twisted game.

Vriska and Kirigiri have asked that we take advantage of our time now to discuss our next course of action, without an immediate deadline constraining us, driving us to ill temper. As we have struggled with how we should approach the trial, perhaps we should focus on the roles—the ones with the purpose to kill.

In particular, what sort of people would the Chiefs place in such a role? Not necessarily who would kill, normally, but who would be the Chiefs' "ideal" candidates. That is what we wish to figure out.

... Of course, we may not come to a complete agreement. But perhaps we will walk away from this with a better idea of how to go on from here, if nothing else.

[ooc: basically, a mingle post to discuss stuff! top-level and hijack away, etc.]

Comments

[dramatist]

[Any time lil nerd.]

That much is true... What do you think it might say about the partners, though? Miss Austria and Mr. Joshua weren't brought up in either of the last two, right?

[zerotohiro]

The first week it was Erhard, Shinjiro and Serph. Wanted for bio-terrorism, cutting class, illegal drug use, killing someone's mom, cannibalism, anarchy and insurgency. Last week it was Battler, Mera and Yona. Wanted for a massacre, broken promises, incompetence, being the queen of Atlantis that'll ruin it, refusing to listen to her dad and having poor taste in guys. In that order.

[...hmmm.] Okay, so maybe there isn't much. But then again Yona's profile was featured last week and she found Joshua's body. And I guess if you look at it, Joshua asked Neku to be the one to execute him if it ever came up, but since it didn't that's sort of a broken promise. It's all a stretch and I know it doesn't mean anything and looking at them too closely is too much of a waste of time right now, but it's better to explore possibilities now than waste time in a trial. Right?

[dramatist]

Right - that's the entire point of this, isn't it? To explore all of the little theories and possibilities that we won't have time to address when we're meant to be focusing on finding killers with very little to go on.

[HE DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT THIS THEORY IN PARTICULAR but the entire checkmark thing still seems Important.]

Do you recall if any of the first three found any of the body parts that first week?

[zerotohiro]

Exactly. We have all kinds of time to waste outside of the trials, so let's use it. [Thanks for at least entertaining the idea, Jack.]

Pretty sure Erhard was with Vriska and Alistair when they found one of her arms. So again, could just be coincidence but...[It is definitely coincidence but that's fine.]

[dramatist]

[He's here to entertain ideas okay it's what he does!!]

Goodness... It's something to keep an eye out for this week then, right? That shouldn't be difficult to do, at least.

[He hopes he doesn't lose the Jack Corpse Discovery Roulette.]

[zerotohiro]

I think it'll be easy to track and if it happens for a third week in a row? Then we might need to revisit the theory. Maybe if you guys stuck together on Friday it wouldn't hurt either. [Why would you put the three Jacks together though, that sounds like a mess.]

[dramatist]

[Jack doesn't mind Jack or Jack, so at least he'd be fine with that?!]

It may be a wise idea... I'll bring it up if I see either of them again. I'll try to an eye out for any other possible similarities between the three of us, too.

[zerotohiro]

Thanks, Jack. Even if this turns out to be a huge coincidence it's better to know than hate ourselves later for not looking more closely.

[dramatist]

Exactly so... In the meantime, though, I can't think of much else. At least not related to those marks, specifically.

[He's glad they're not related to the killings though?!]

[zerotohiro]

If we don't get an answer this week, we can also see if we get new profiles next week and what that might mean. But for now let's focus on the stuff we should worry about, like the roles.

[dramatist]

No one has managed to get any more information about them, correct? I overheard him saying that he'd give out a bit more once we kill one of them, but that doesn't leave me feeling reassured.

[zerotohiro]

Nope. Nothing. I don't like the idea that we'd only be getting information in exchange for a kill again, but they were pretty firm about that. I remember.

So...unless anybody in this room feels like speaking up, we're at a deadend on that, too.

[dramatist]

I wonder if they'll tell us anything useful, even then... It would be very like them to just say "they had a role" and leave it at that, don't you think?

[zerotohiro]

It would, which means we just have to be ready to fire back questions and get the information we want. They had a role, but the deal should be that we also know what the role was and how it worked. That shouldn't be so much to ask.

[dramatist]

It seems like our answers depend more on how Hal or Pal happen to be feeling, rather than whether or not something is too much to ask... Hopefully we'll catch them on a generous day.

[zerotohiro]

[...*said a role. Sorry Aki.]

That's also a good point. Pal seems to be in agreement with whatever Hal wants, and sometimes I'll ask him questions and he says it's more up to Hal to answer. So if we can get them in sync with each other and ask a question they have an answer to, that's our best bet.

[...sigh.] This is exhausting.

[dramatist]

[IT'S FINE I DIDN'T NOTICE like a fool]

They certainly like making things as difficult as possible... Though I suppose that's what they find most amusing.

[zerotohiro]

Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber at best. I still think we should maybe get them a new hobby. A sport? Beach volleyball might be nice or something.

[dramatist]

[HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS EITHER but--]

Or boat-building, perhaps.