15strangers | WEEK 1

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*round 3,
*week 1

WEEK 1

WEEK 1

[Well, this is...happening. This is a thing. This is your life now. The Commander is expecting you to just up and kill one another, and then try to get away with it. No big deal, right? You guys can handle this. You won't fall for what she has. She's clearly an idiot. A loud idiot, but still an idiot. She's not going to get one over you.

...Right?

In any case, the Commander's quarters are now open for anyone who decides they can actually stand to be in the same room as her, but beware - any favor you might ask of her is going to come at a price, and who knows what she'll ask you to do if you decide to gain a boon from her. Unless you're a suck-up like Baku - then she'll apparently be flattered. Maybe that's a good tactic to use?

Whatever you do, try not to murder the bread again. The Bread Did Nothing Wrong.

There are fifteen strangers in this place.]

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Why do you think we've been given these powers? Likely to facilitate such death in the first place.

... Miss Napoli, I think you have trouble with viewing human action realistically. Or perhaps you've never seen human cruelty firsthand.

Oh, yeah, Christian's going to just strangle someone with his two seconds of extra arm? People get musicked to death? What does that have to do with ANYTHING!!!!!

Edited 2018-07-19 04:44 (UTC)

Magic grows stronger with time, milady.

[ With use. ]

OK, don't we have a whole room of knives and junk anyway? Focus on those. If there's such a big risk of us killing each other, let's do something about that weapon crap.

I've been documenting everything, milady. So that's a little less worry, I hope?

Uhhhh... I don't really get it? That sounds like it'd help a ton after the fact, but I'm hoping we do something about before... Too...

...If we removed them all, I feel Commander Marie would just put new ones in their place.

Oh, no, bothering Marie, who would ever want to do that?

She'd have to transport them in from somewhere else too, right? Another way we can try to figure out how she comes and goes whenever she wants!

Assuming there aren't more in storage elsewhere and we simply can't reach it.

Well, even going just that far would probably help. We're stuck in such a little space for now.

Mm, fair. But there's not really anywhere to store those weapons she can't get to...

Okay, then how about breaking the weapons?

That'll be time consuming and she'll just add a new rule about breaking weapons.

OK, so we're left with the same amount of weapons as before. But... Now there's a rule against destroying some kinds of evidence? Look, we gotta stay positive.

If you want to stay positive, hm... Let me present a scenario that's about practicality.

You have a bunch of sharks and a bunch of fish in a small enough tank that it's inevitable some of them attack each other. The sharks are intelligent enough, as are the fish, that they realize they have a choice: the sharks can kill all the fish, leaving behind all of the dangerous other sharks in that small space. Or... They can kill other sharks, leaving the harmless fish behind with them.

[ What the fuck, Baku. ]

Now, wouldn't it be more practical for the sharks to kill each other? The other sharks are, after all, threats. Active ones, at that. I don't mean to say anything insulting, but you'd be a fish, Milady Angela. The people who should watch their backs are, above all, the "sharks" of our group. They're more likely to clash against each other.

...

.........

OK, but at some point aren't you going to run out of sharks?

Depends on how long it lasts. Sir Akira only mentioned a few motives. So, logically, we might run out of sharks before the fish become a choice target.

He also didn't make Torri sound like a shark.

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fashionfever - 2018-07-22 01:53 (UTC) - Expand

Actually, at high enough frequencies, some sounds can kill. It depends.

[ ... Was that the point? Maybe not but. ]

Th-... Yeah.

[ He looks Concerned at the very thought. ]

Or maybe, like how some of these seem, it could be intended to be used as a distraction?

[ Although... ]

Back in the mall, our powers evolved, every week.

They... evolved?

[ He sounds very curious. ]

... I would very much like to Observe our powers here, in that case. We should document them.

[ Mmmmm... wait. He frowns a little. ]

Actually... it was only until the third week. In the second week, my vortex lasted only up to twenty seconds. In the third, it evolved to last thirty seconds.

I... can't remember how long it lasted in the first week, but I know it wasn't as long as the second.

....Rosenkreuz, if you must.

[Really, he goes by Seto, but he has a hunch she'll somehow mispronounce that more than a name that at least has 'rose' in it.]

Oh! S-sorry... Rosenkreuz...

[The final "ts" softens into a "ss", but otherwise she's doing alright. It's like his authoritative voice has filled a switch.]

[Eh... good enough for now. He nods]

Thank you.

[He appreciates the respect! Especially when in comparison there are people drawing cartoons of him holding stacks of arms on their door.]

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