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?

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[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 ]

[alchemenace]

That is ... most likely not it for us. [ but good try ] Or at least I'd hope they didn't just throw them in the basement.

[vigilantics]

...

There is probably a dungeon here somewhere, now that I think about it...

[alchemenace]

Well, yeah, it's a castle.

[ dungeons are normal things? ]

[vigilantics]

What do you think might be found in a dungeon in a place like this?

[alchemenace]

Well... Probably not people. They'd need guards. [ ... ] If this were a normal castle, at least. The, the locks there must work in a similar fashion to the rest of the doors in this place.

[vigilantics]

I bet there's weird monsters down there too.

[alchemenace]

... So long as it's not a house.

[ a chicken house. ]

[vigilantics]

I hope that hag gets termites.

[alchemenace]

I should look in the library to see if I can't figure out what exactly it is that attacked us. So we have a name to curse.

[ deadpan. it joke ]

[vigilantics]

It'll probably end up being from the stupidest story in the whole place.

[alchemenace]

I don't know, the library's version of Rapunzel is up there.