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[vigilantics]

meme

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[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.

[hydrogenetic]

That is way easier than how we approached things. Everyone did their own thing but at the end people started freaking out and planning without sharing anyway.

[vigilantics]

Huh.

I understand keeping things secret to a certain agree, but once you're that far into the game... [ she sighs. ] I dunno. It's always hard to guess how things would have gone if you did something differently.

[hydrogenetic]

Yeah, tell me about it. I've been thinking about that a lot lately...mostly because this sort of feels like a second chance. Not in a great way, but a redo of what we've already done with a new set of people.