[week three - sunday, post-execution]

[hypertoxic]

Hey, Katara.

[ Vriska will catch up to the other girl once that ... uh ... really interesting execution is over and done with. She just really aggressively does not care about their drama and would have visibly rolled her eyes at the piano playing if she were, you know, able to. Instead she just spends the entire time with her arms folded over her chest, tapping a foot, waiting for it to end.

When it finally does and Prussia has the expected mental meltdown, Vriska will just kind of shrug and go searching for who she's looking for. As people start to disperse, she spots the other girl in the crowd, and will trot up to her. ]

Got time to talk? We should catch up!

[ uh ... well ... she seems sincere about that, for whatever it's worth. ]

Comments

[seaclipsed]

[ katara feels sorry for them. watching a loved one die is horrible, but having to be the one to kill them yourself? she hopes she never has to be in that position; katara doesn't think she'd be able to do it.

she feels sorry for them, but she still resents what austria did to the group as a whole. it makes her less sympathetic to her than she would have otherwise been. katara will probably feel terrible for feeling this way later, but she can't really change that about herself. her profile doesn't say "grudge holding" for nothing.

when she hears vriska calling out to her, she'll slow down for the other girl to reach her. ]

... yeah, I'm free. I don't really have any plans after... all that.

[hypertoxic]

[ yeah yeah whatever who cares

not vriska, anyway. be more like vriska, katara.

anyway, she'll snort. ]

Yeah, I don't think most people are going to. Ain't nobody going to be a great second act to ... uh, that! All of that. Yikes. [ Crooks a beckoning finger. ] Come on, let's head back to the huts. You okay?

[seaclipsed]

Not really.

[ she's not going to lie and say she is, since who would even believe that. she'll start walking in the direction that vriska suggested though. ]

I'm mostly angry though. I get that we're probably not going to get anywhere with this right away, but it's still frustrating.

[ too many suspects, not enough leads pointing to any of them. ]

[hypertoxic]

No kidding! Running around in circles every week is going to get old, fast. I still think we'll get better at figuring it out as we get to know each other better, but that requires waiting! And people dying, for that matter. Four at a time, now, thanks to Austria.

[seaclipsed]

... pretty much. And that's if there's only one person killed every time. The rules say that there has to be at least one murder, right?

[ which implies there can be more. SO. yeah. ]

[hypertoxic]

[ Smiles at her, sharp and humorless. ]

You've been paying attention! Yes, they do. Someone feeling especially productive could kill more than that! Assuming they could pull it off. Inevitably, we're going to start dealing with multiple killer murders. Can we even vote for more than one person? Knowing those Chiefs, I'd guess not.

[ She talks about it all very frankly, just like she did in the trial. ]

[seaclipsed]

We can't, no. Lief tried it the first trial, and it just changed both of his votes into a vote for me.

[ she frowns. ]

We could always attempt to split the votes and tie it, but that would depend on everyone agreeing on who to vote for.

[ which they have proven to be very very bad at. ]

[hypertoxic]

Figures Lief would try it. That's why he knew all the votes for Nino were actually votes cast for the robots. [ Vriska makes a sound, half-exasperated and half-amused. ] He's going to need someone to watch out for him. That noble nature of his might get him in trouble.

And actually, I agree with you that we should start to try and split the votes, if we need to. If we want to catch more than one killer, it's the only way. But if even one person decides they don't like the plan, it won't work. We'll actually have to be coordinated! And have the least fucking clue what we're doing, for once.

[seaclipsed]

[ she hums in agreement over lief. he's definitely all over the place with his concern. katara... actually cannot say anything about that though since she's the same exact way. ]

We might still be able to do it if we manage to just get a certain amount of people who'd definitely succeed with it. As long as those two people tie and get more votes than everyone else, it won't matter if one or two others protest it.

[ but they probably won't be able to manage it with the amount of people they have. it's terrible that a lot of their worse problems would be solved by having a lower number of people, since the way to solve that issue is the whole. murder thing. ugh. ]

[hypertoxic]

That's true. Past a certain majority, other votes wouldn't really influence the outcome. While that's possible, man, you might start seeing fistfights in the trials over that kind of thing! And while I think that's hilarious, nobody else will, probably. [ ... ] Nah, Laura would think it was funny. But anyway!

We should still be careful how we approach it, if that's what we decide to do. It will require a lot of diplomacy.

[seaclipsed]

I agree. Even with the two trials we've already done, there's still a lot of fighting about votes. And... so far, we've mostly been able to leave the fights at the trial?

[ there was the whole confusion about the nino votes, but that got resolved fairly quickly. ]

The problem would be if it continues out of them. If people voting for a particular person upsets someone else a lot, it could cause some major potential problems.

[hypertoxic]

Haha. Mostly! Yeah, tell that to Jaffar. Like, twice. Nino needs to put that guy on a leash.

[ yeah vriska knows who that was mostly about. can someone tell jaffar to chill. ]

Honestly, let's be real, that is pretty much inevitable. Leaving fights at the trial has been pretty easy while we've all been voting for partners! Because any sore feelings can be resolved later. But there won't be any of that shit once total innocents who weren't involved at all start fucking dying. You vote for somebody, they die and their partner dies, their partner was bestest friends in the whoooooooole wide world with some other person... I think eventually we will start seeing a cascade of revenge moves as everyone tries to get back at everyone else! What we will have to try to do is put a stop to things before all that.

[seaclipsed]

I know that the other group before us killed everyone until there was one person left to win, but... that doesn't necessarily mean that's what we have to do to beat the game, right?

[ the rules aren't exactly specific as to how they have to beat it. ]

[hypertoxic]

I don't believe so, [ Vriska says, with a faint smile. ] That is what I am looking to do, personally! Find another win condition. There is always more than one way to win. We just have to find it!

[seaclipsed]

Same here. The hard part is actually finding it and confirming that it's something we can do.

[ hard, but nothing about this has been easy.