percy

[vigilantics]

meme

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week 0, sunday

[vigilantics]

[ well.

it's some time after evan's last hurrah (i hate you mods), and stephanie is... wandering around camp. she is both mentally and physically exhausted, and everything is terrible.

but when she sees percy, she'll wave. ]

[hydrogenetic]

[Likewise, he'll wave back and just fall right into step with her. They can keep walking. It's probably better than being idle.]

...you okay? [He hasn't quite figured things out, but he can guess that Evan was important to Steph.]

[vigilantics]

Not really.

[ it's the most honest thing she can say. ]

But I will be, eventually.

[hydrogenetic]

[He nods at that, stopping like he's unsure if he wants to continue but charging on ahead anyway.]

Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm sort of glad to hear that.

[vigilantics]

[ she tilts her head. ]

Really?

[hydrogenetic]

Really. It's an honest answer and probably better than trying to say you're fine. [It's a trustworthy answer is what he means.]

...but I'm still sorry it happened.

[vigilantics]

... me too.

[ it's funny, how an accidental murder is more infuriating than an intentional one. ]

But we'll fix this.

[hydrogenetic]

Any ideas so far? Everything I've been thinking of seems to kinda stop making sense because of the mechanics here.

[vigilantics]

I feel like the trend is that nothing makes sense until a few weeks in.

[ ... ]

But I don't want to wait that long.

[hydrogenetic]

Me either. Your game lasted about as long as ours did, didn't it? We were seven weeks, and we didn't learn the full conditions until almost the last one.

[vigilantics]

[ she nods ]

Pretty much. We got like, bits and pieces? But we didn't really know everything we had to do until the end.

[hydrogenetic]

Anybody ever ask the hosts why they love doing that?

[vigilantics]

The intrigue? To raise our blood pressure?

[hydrogenetic]

Well now you're just being generous.

[vigilantics]

Sometimes it's nice to not immediately leap to the obvious answer.

[hydrogenetic]

At least it opens up the options to maybe find a different solution.

[vigilantics]

... yeah.

[ they'll really need that, especially while here. ]

[hydrogenetic]

...the good thing is we've all done this before and I don't think people are just going to take it laying down. But the bad news is some people are a little too intense.

[Himself included but he won't say so.]

[vigilantics]

... yeah.

[ she will also not doxx herself either. ]

But, at least we have people around us to help.

[hydrogenetic]

As long as everybody's willing to work together, but...you know people are going to stick with their friends. What if that comes back and, I dunno, bites us in the ass?

[vigilantics]

Then everyone needs to make new friends and then it won't be a problem.

[ be more social, punks ]

[hydrogenetic]

Have you met half of the people here? Some of them don't seem that interested in making friends or...you know. Being helpful.

[vigilantics]

Well... they're going to have to learn to at least cooperate.

[hydrogenetic]

[Give him a moment to puzzle that out.]

How'd you get people to cooperate in your game?

[vigilantics]

... I'll be honest, there weren't any like, grand speeches about how we'll destroy the place or anything like that. We all basically did our own thing, and then at the end when we realized what had to happen, we just agreed.