week 2, friday

[vigilantics]

[ sometime after natsuo's body was found, stephanie will make her way varian's room. she is really hoping he is in here because if she came all this way for nothing that'll be very unfortunate. ]

Hey. Varian?

Comments

[vigilantics]

[ ha ha how is akechi still alive. ]

Maybe three? Since the Crafters chose two people last time. [ ... ] Wait. So does the number of people they pick change every week, or did we completely miss someone during the first trial?

[alchemenace]

... It's hard to tell for certain after only two. We'll have to wait to see what they say tomorrow.

[vigilantics]

[ did anyone ask this im losing my shit ]

... I am really hoping we did not miss someone the first week.

[alchemenace]

[ they didnt but like we got 2 twice in a row im CALLING IT ]

... Me too.

[vigilantics]

Well. If we did, we'll just have to figure it out and make up for it.

[alchemenace]

... Make up for it how? We don't exactly have a prison to throw them into.

[vigilantics]

We're not just going to kill them.

[ if only she could predict how the trial would swerve in this exact direction.

[alchemenace]

I... didn't say that?

[ i mean he thought it but wow is he not gonna admit that now ]

[vigilantics]

It's what people are going to suggest.

[alchemenace]

I, I guess, but... Wouldn't that just make whoever killed them the culprit, anyway?

[ how does murder work in this place. it's not saturday this question hasnt been answered ]

[vigilantics]

I... guess?

[ ???????????? ]

[alchemenace]

This ... is probably something we should know.

[vigilantics]

No wonder we're all dying, we don't know anything.

[alchemenace]

I don't know about all, just ... most of us?

[ yike ]

[vigilantics]

A good 80%?

[alchemenace]

... That's a good approximate, if we assume people with "special roles" know more than we do.

[vigilantics]

Although I guess that depends on what's the heck they even are.

[alchemenace]

[ it's friday so they know jACK SHIT ]

I believe they might be related to the different divisions that were in the war previous to this. Dragon, Tiger... Beauty and Beast. There's got to be a reason there's four of them depicted in the tapestries, right?

[vigilantics]

Beauty and the Beast come from the same story though, don't they? Dragon and Tiger don't really match there.

[alchemenace]

But they didn't always work together. Beauty did something without Beast's knowledge and got them both punished.

[vigilantics]

... this Other Side.

Do you think we could somehow get there?

[alchemenace]

I... Maybe. We'd need to figure out who sent them there at all, and what it means. I doubt it's anything as straightforward as just a place.

[vigilantics]

Maybe it's another dimension?

[alchemenace]

Well. If it's another dimension, I'm not sure how we'd go there. Though... Should we be thinking of this more narratively? They were characters, right? Where would you send away "characters" who were misbehaving?

[vigilantics]

I dunno... the dungeon?

[ they usually die horribly in stories ]