if i divine your meaning, would you come back?;

[recrypt]

wide load wuxian is a curse

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[givethemhell]

Not particularly, but that's what happens when you're dealing with people who have no control over their own actions.

[A gentle, sloping shrug. Those demons sure had a fun time just doing demony shit while wearing other people's faces but he WON'T GET INTO THAT...]

Hah - for all of the strange similarities our "games" share, there are quite a few notable differences, hm? Though I doubt we'll be lucky- [The audible airquotes here, damn.] -enough to end up with another accidental murder. What's that about coercion, though? I've heard a little bit of it.

[recrypt]

Suffice to say that the mansion didn't think we were killing each other fast enough even with the monsters, so every week it also imposed another condition on us. "Kill, or else your secrets will be revealed to everyone here." Or the week where none of us could sleep, or when it threatened the lives of those close to us from home. There was one week where it promised escape to anyone who killed, or the chance to enact a trade- one of the living, for the life of one of our dead.

[ it's a bit different from the apparent "do this or you die" blackmail she's been hearing about some of the other places. ]

The spider-horse covered one of those, though I'm fairly sure he didn't do it with any of us in mind, and putting down a monster who'd been outed but not executed accounted for another. Other than that, they weren't really acted upon that much. It had to be a kill performed willingly, rather than by possession.

[givethemhell]

[He makes a face at the spider-horse mention because what the fuck yall. He heard parts of that in trial and he doesn't want to know more.]

Hm... I was talking earlier to Flayn about the possibility of something like that happening here, too. If there really is no involvement from demons or possessing forces, they'll have to find another way to "motivate" us. I'd assume we wouldn't fall for the usual tactics, especially knowing now that even beating one of these games won't necessarily mean escape. But if we're dealing with something that knows us well, it goes without say that they'd know how to target us, too.

[So it's going to be like, a game of willpower chicken??]

[recrypt]

[ she makes a faintly annoyed sounding sort of 'tsk' nose, which coming from her is about the equivalent of screaming into the void at how well and truly fucked they are. ]

It has at least eight different settings' worth of experiences to draw upon if it knows us the way the Directors do- technically more, if any of us also come from places that have been going through this for a while.

Of course, I suppose an easy method to make us fall in line is to impose just a single threat: if no one dies, then everyone does.

[givethemhell]

[She is an entire mood and a half, honestly. Wei Wuxian moves to grab something to plate his very spicy meal with, making a face.]

I'd imagine they may turn to that, or start upping the ante if we don't take the bait they shove at us in these first few weeks. They've already shown a penchant for changing and adding to the rules at their leisure, anyway.

[He huffs out a little sigh, and then gestures toward the dish.]

--You can help yourself, if you'd like any. It's a little on the spicy side, though.

[recrypt]

So you're saying I should stop giving them ideas, right~? Hehe.

[ let's be real if they hadn't come up with that idea already she'd eat flayn's cooking.

speaking of, she peers over at what he's making. is it recognizable as anything in particular... ]

... I wonder how much the Directors can still do to direct the game.

[givethemhell]

[YEAH HONESTLY he just waves a hand, laughing.]

I doubt we could give them any ideas that they haven't thought of already, for better or worse as that may be.

[The food he's cooking looks like some sort of curried meat! There are some lotus root and carrot pieces thrown in, too.]

Mm, I wonder, too. We'll likely see it tomorrow, if they actually manage to keep their word to Evan.

[recrypt]

[ HAHA ABOUT THAT, EVAN, YEAH... tagging this from the future what a time ]

... I don't know if they don't realize how far this has spiraled out of their control, or whether they do and are just trying to keep up appearances.

[ because 'it's not that bad, they can still sort things out' is very much not a feasible thing to hope for. ]

I don't know which is worse.

[givethemhell]

[YEEHAW WE HAVE THE POWER AND KNOW EVAN'S FUCKIN DEADZOS.]

Willful ignorance is always much more dangerous, at the very least.

[He says with a smile.]

[recrypt]

Harder to break through, is it?

[ She's smiling right back. ]

I wonder just how ready for all this they're going to be.

[givethemhell]

Another answer we'll have to wait to get a clear picture of, unfortunately.

[LIKE ALL OF THE ANSWERS THEY'RE COLLECTIVELY WAITING ON!! Thanks he hates it.]

--Thanks for earlier, by the way. The comparisons you drew for us between your house and this place helped.

[Other blues brought it up too but since she did the toplevel she gets the thumbs up.]

[recrypt]

Hm? You don't need to thank me for that. I just don't feel like wasting time when we can avoid it, you know?

[ wow look at all of these answers they're waiting to receive ]

[givethemhell]

Haha, yes - especially with the time crunch of having investigations and trial in the same day. Ah - though I suppose that's the way you did things at the house, isn't it?

[RIP in rest house fools y'all had it rough.]

[recrypt]

It was, unfortunately. But then again, we also didn't have to find out who was dead...?

[ which, apparently, at least one other group here did ]

[givethemhell]

Ah, the cowboys?

[He knows they didn't get any convenient announcements... To be fair neither did the boat squad they just all had to congregate and yell.]

[recrypt]

I think it might have been the castle? Don't quote me on it, though.

[ grimm: where you got death announcements only after some poor fool digs up a dead body with their bare hands. ]

[givethemhell]

Oh, goodness - more than one, then. I've heard the ones with Hal got nothing at all. Couldn't even examine the bodies or the crime scenes after Friday. We had to find the bodies ourselves too, but at least we were able to look them over more properly during trial.

[Honestly this weird death announcement without stumbling across a corpse thing is new and wild.]

[recrypt]

With us, we watched the very first death happen right before us. They were sick, and fell over the railing... It was just one floor. But the body was taken away before any of us could do anything.

I remember several people were upset about that. We had ,.. medical personnel on site. They thought they might have been able to do something... Failing that, try to figure out what happened before any decomposition set in, I suppose.

[givethemhell]

[YIKES. That's a particularly cruel way to go about it, especially since they all know by now that if someone's meant to die in these places, they're gonna die no matter what.]

Hah... Can't blame them for being upset over something like that. Especially when it was your very first experience with what that place was really like, I assume.

[recrypt]

Mmm, yes. Up to that point the only thing they would tell us is that we were there for a dinner party.

[ dang think about the games out there where you actually got told what was going on up front. ]

And then for most people to find nothing out of place in the mansion... It was an interesting, to say the least.

[givethemhell]

[If only they could all be so lucky.]

I can imagine! I don't like that way of doing things at all. It's a little... [Bad for the crime scenes? Bad for people who don't like thinking about walking through crime scenes accidentally? Bad for people who like sticking their nose into everyone else's business and don't like not knowing what's happening??]

--Mm, well. At least it isn't anything none of us have experienced.

[recrypt]

At least the other deaths weren't quite so, ah, immediate.

[ is this really better or worse, though... ]

Did it ever turn out that you couldn't find someone? You were on a boat, weren't you? What stopped a demon from just... throwing the body overboard?

[givethemhell]

[IS THAT BETTER OR WORSE INDEED... He just hums.]

No, we found all of our bodies. I think the demons enjoyed watching us come across the disgustingly slaughtered remains of people we'd come to view as friends. [A gentle, sloping shrug. He's not bitter or anything.]

But on top of that, the ocean spat back up anything and anyone that was tossed over.

[recrypt]

Ah. They wanted a spectacle. So it wasn't about the killing, for them, just the... Entertainment, I'd suppose?

[ a bit different from how the house ultimately just wanted food, but was also making a point. ]

Hm. How distasteful.

[givethemhell]

They're the most distasteful creatures I've ever come across, which is saying a lot.

[Considering he's the grandmaster of demonic cultivation and all.]

But yes, everything they did was for their own entertainment, and what entertained them the most was sex and murder.