[ can you believe that we might or might not be down to uno plasma by tomorrow. but it's not clear whether or not she really expects an answer to that question, since while she does pause for a while, her next comment seems like a non-sequiteur. ]
Hm. There was more urgency this time, maybe, but to what end? Some people had decent ideas, doubling up on strip checks, actually verifying alibis.
Do you think we tried hard enough, this time, and our best just wasn't good enough?
[Part of him wonders if she's heard more. Had Yu talked to her? Asch, maybe? 45 is kind of a mystery party, one that he's not sure whether he can admire or be sceptical of within the same breath.
But she's intelligent. Her next response shows that much.
...]
I won't blame people for their efforts. But if we really tried hard enough, would we have been floundering so much when it counted?
I can only account for what I saw. Everything else is left to chance. Maybe we missed something. Maybe someone intentionally looked past something. Maybe we're giving the benefit of the doubt too easily.
Haha. ♪ I said the same thing last week to someone else. Can we really say that everyone is trying their best to find the culprit? We have very, very vocal individuals among our number who disavow the confines of the game entirely.
But that does mean that it's easier for quieter sorts who don't think the same to go under the radar.
[ maybe some of them are taking the game more seriously than others. maybe they're playing to win. ]
I saw plenty of angry, tired people. I saw some attempts at organization, like you said.
I also saw a lot of wounded bodies, and at least a couple people hesitant to remove their bandages. There was a second bullet, right? It has to be somewhere, and I saw at least some people being reluctant, though how that turned out was something I didn't catch. Akira had me under scrutiny for a while at that point.
So if the bullet was definitely shot... why didn't we find it?
Right, that second bullet... A lot of things about those bullets is questionable. Trajectory, where it was fired at...
The casings were right in that circle, right? Or close enough to it, anyway. But the one bullet we found was just on the ground. If the team who'd investigated mentioned anything about it looking like it was fired down into it versus otherwise I must have missed it... Either way, if Hikage had fired on his attacker, wouldn't the bullet have flown off--
[ gestures vaguely. ]
Somewhere. Into the distance. Whichever direction his aggressor had come from? The other explanation is that whoever killed him managed to get his gun.
But assuming that it wasn't Hikage firing the gun at that point, wouldn't there be very little reason to miss?
[ hikage would have been, presumably, eyeless and poked through in the stomach, most likely prone on the ground to some degree, so yeah, where was that second bullet? ]
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Date: 2020-06-28 04:48 am (UTC)[ can you believe that we might or might not be down to uno plasma by tomorrow. but it's not clear whether or not she really expects an answer to that question, since while she does pause for a while, her next comment seems like a non-sequiteur. ]
Hm. There was more urgency this time, maybe, but to what end? Some people had decent ideas, doubling up on strip checks, actually verifying alibis.
Do you think we tried hard enough, this time, and our best just wasn't good enough?
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Date: 2020-06-28 12:01 pm (UTC)[Part of him wonders if she's heard more. Had Yu talked to her? Asch, maybe? 45 is kind of a mystery party, one that he's not sure whether he can admire or be sceptical of within the same breath.
But she's intelligent. Her next response shows that much.
...]
I won't blame people for their efforts. But if we really tried hard enough, would we have been floundering so much when it counted?
I can only account for what I saw. Everything else is left to chance. Maybe we missed something. Maybe someone intentionally looked past something. Maybe we're giving the benefit of the doubt too easily.
It makes you wonder.
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Date: 2020-06-28 09:26 pm (UTC)But that does mean that it's easier for quieter sorts who don't think the same to go under the radar.
[ maybe some of them are taking the game more seriously than others. maybe they're playing to win. ]
So, Herr Cecil. What did you see?
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Date: 2020-06-29 01:17 am (UTC)I saw plenty of angry, tired people. I saw some attempts at organization, like you said.
I also saw a lot of wounded bodies, and at least a couple people hesitant to remove their bandages. There was a second bullet, right? It has to be somewhere, and I saw at least some people being reluctant, though how that turned out was something I didn't catch. Akira had me under scrutiny for a while at that point.
So if the bullet was definitely shot... why didn't we find it?
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Date: 2020-07-09 09:04 pm (UTC)The casings were right in that circle, right? Or close enough to it, anyway. But the one bullet we found was just on the ground. If the team who'd investigated mentioned anything about it looking like it was fired down into it versus otherwise I must have missed it... Either way, if Hikage had fired on his attacker, wouldn't the bullet have flown off--
[ gestures vaguely. ]
Somewhere. Into the distance. Whichever direction his aggressor had come from? The other explanation is that whoever killed him managed to get his gun.
But assuming that it wasn't Hikage firing the gun at that point, wouldn't there be very little reason to miss?
[ hikage would have been, presumably, eyeless and poked through in the stomach, most likely prone on the ground to some degree, so yeah, where was that second bullet? ]