It is, there are, and I won't be surprised if it takes until they blow up in people's faces for us to actually realize that on a wider scale.
[ like. more than they already have. ogata didn't have many friends in the first place, but the drama, for example, if it was... fuck i don't know, who's popular. yeets dart akira vs lili. ]
I want to say there's a chance that won't happen, but... we already messed up two weeks in. And usually after a screwup, the next week people become even more frantic to get it right.
Expect the worst, hope for the best. With a group this big and unorganized, the only thing you can really expect is a mess until we get our acts together. Preferably sooner rather than later.
... But everything that we don't know also isn't helping. What's enforcing the kills, what might enable it, any other factors possibly playing a larger role in things.
[ she sounds... actually almost frustrated. no smiley here. ]
If we caught the killer, we could have potentially asked, but that... obviously won't be a thing for at least another week now. If they would even be able to tell us anything.
[ considering they know for a fact that they can, in fact, be blocked from saying certain things, given what happened to evan. ]
Wow, imagine if luck ever landed in our favor like that.
... but there definitely has to be something to get people to kill. Especially since it seems like the general consensus is that people think the competition is bullshit, so there would have to be a failsafe.
Again, it could be as simple as "if no one dies, then everyone dies"... but that's correct. Even if any of us actually bought into the idea of the competition, they'd be a minority. If it's voluntary, then you don't need to be able to read the room to know that going out and killing someone of your own volition is a stupid idea, considering the risk if they were found out and lack of would-be support from even supposed 'teammates.'
[ she absolutely airquotes teammates, because that only matters when they're actually playing the game. ]
But the Directors keep insisting no coercion, no corruption, no demons, no possession...
Yeah... from what it sounded like, no one really got all the information right away. It trickled in, with the majority of the important bits happening at the end.
So, if that's following the same trend, we can't really expect to get these answers right away.
Some of the time we got the wrong information early, too. Spread information as far as we can, but remind people we do have to take things with a grain of salt.
[ ... ]
That said... I wonder if they know everything there is to know about the situation either.
If it's the second case... Who can say? They seemed blindsided by affairs on Sunday, but who knows what's changed since then...
[ plenty of questions and no answers at all. ]
... They just keep piling up. Still, I have to wonder which of these questions is the most important one to focus on. Or is there something else we're missing?
As this point, it might be too early to say... but we also can only keep saying that for so long until it's obviously not true anymore.
I think we need to figure out how to talk to them. From what it sounds like, they're just getting the same questions over and over, so we need to approach this differently.
Having a partial amount wouldn't be an issue, unless it's possible for us to have pooled them, though I'd like to hope someone would have at least questioned it if another asked. As of this point it should only have been possible to get three vouchers, one per task. Exactly the amount needed to purchase any of the pink items in the shop.
[ it won't be valid anymore after rewards go out for this week, but for w1 alone... ]
... I don't know. The knife is nagging at me. Why put it back? If we already knew who had the kitchen knives I'd like to think one of us would have said something. But we didn't, so more than likely we don't know who has them, so keeping it shouldn't have implicated whoever our culprit was. With Yu's injuries, we would never have been aware a knife was involved at all if they didn't put back an obviously bloodied knife to be found.
[ and if they'd stopped by the lake they would have had time to clean it. ]
It could have just been to get us to waste time examining it. Which we did, I guess, but... that could also backfire since you might end up leaving unneeded evidence behind by making that extra stop there.
[ hmm. ]
Maybe Yu wasn't killed by being stabbed? Like... maybe there was some other method, but he was just stabbed to get the attention of any wildlife that might be in the area. In that case, it wouldn't matter to leave the knife out in the open like that.
Maybe they smashed him on his eaten side with a pink baseball bat to knock him out and stabbed him with a knife to attract a predator.
[ boredly, flatly. they're spitballing here with only some degree of seriousness at this point. for some reason i don't have an icon that better conveys her expression here than this one, which unfortunately doesn't apply to the rest of this tag because she resumes looking neutral but vaguely thoughtful a moment later. ]
But right, that's what I'm getting at. Another weapon might have been used at some point, and even if the shop is the most obvious source of them, it's still a potential source.
[ maybe someone got really creative with an umbrella even if they didn't buy the obvious pinks. ]
It's rather amazing that the same kill can seem so incredibly sloppy and so incredibly obfuscated at the same time. Are they simply lucky or, or was it actually that well-planned?
[ but like... feets. ughhh. ]
You mentioned fake evidence powers earlier. How did they work?
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Date: 2020-06-21 10:12 pm (UTC)[ like. more than they already have. ogata didn't have many friends in the first place, but the drama, for example, if it was... fuck i don't know, who's popular. yeets dart akira vs lili. ]
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Date: 2020-06-21 10:17 pm (UTC)Which might make us too hasty.
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Date: 2020-06-22 02:40 am (UTC)... But everything that we don't know also isn't helping. What's enforcing the kills, what might enable it, any other factors possibly playing a larger role in things.
[ she sounds... actually almost frustrated. no smiley here. ]
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Date: 2020-06-22 02:50 am (UTC)[ considering they know for a fact that they can, in fact, be blocked from saying certain things, given what happened to evan. ]
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Date: 2020-06-22 02:54 am (UTC)I don't suppose anyone got a crystal ball or magic eight ball as their reward from our misadventures in home decorating, did they?
[ haha no, it's way too soon for any useful items like that to be given out ]
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:01 am (UTC)... but there definitely has to be something to get people to kill. Especially since it seems like the general consensus is that people think the competition is bullshit, so there would have to be a failsafe.
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:06 am (UTC)[ she absolutely airquotes teammates, because that only matters when they're actually playing the game. ]
But the Directors keep insisting no coercion, no corruption, no demons, no possession...
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:10 am (UTC)Not sure how they can say no coercion when we're already being threatened just by being here.
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:14 am (UTC)[ ... ]
That, or we're collectively all too expectant of them not outright lying.
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:22 am (UTC)Ugh. There are so many 'buts' here.
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:30 am (UTC)But forcing them to lie is another way of keeping the information hidden, and more effective since we wouldn't think about it as much.
[ too many buts. ]
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:34 am (UTC)So, if that's following the same trend, we can't really expect to get these answers right away.
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:39 am (UTC)[ ... ]
That said... I wonder if they know everything there is to know about the situation either.
[ if this is double blind this is gonna suck ]
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:49 am (UTC)[ that's a good question, honestly. ]
If it's the second option, then I wonder when or how they get details?
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Date: 2020-06-22 02:21 pm (UTC)[ plenty of questions and no answers at all. ]
... They just keep piling up. Still, I have to wonder which of these questions is the most important one to focus on. Or is there something else we're missing?
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:41 pm (UTC)I think we need to figure out how to talk to them. From what it sounds like, they're just getting the same questions over and over, so we need to approach this differently.
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Date: 2020-06-22 03:59 pm (UTC)[ ... ]
I wonder...
Should we have done a voucher check? It's nearly useless, considering most of us don't bother bringing them to trial, but...
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Date: 2020-06-22 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-22 05:20 pm (UTC)[ it won't be valid anymore after rewards go out for this week, but for w1 alone... ]
... I don't know. The knife is nagging at me. Why put it back? If we already knew who had the kitchen knives I'd like to think one of us would have said something. But we didn't, so more than likely we don't know who has them, so keeping it shouldn't have implicated whoever our culprit was. With Yu's injuries, we would never have been aware a knife was involved at all if they didn't put back an obviously bloodied knife to be found.
[ and if they'd stopped by the lake they would have had time to clean it. ]
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Date: 2020-06-22 05:34 pm (UTC)[ hmm. ]
Maybe Yu wasn't killed by being stabbed? Like... maybe there was some other method, but he was just stabbed to get the attention of any wildlife that might be in the area. In that case, it wouldn't matter to leave the knife out in the open like that.
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Date: 2020-06-22 05:52 pm (UTC)[ boredly, flatly. they're spitballing here with only some degree of seriousness at this point. for some reason i don't have an icon that better conveys her expression here than this one, which unfortunately doesn't apply to the rest of this tag because she resumes looking neutral but vaguely thoughtful a moment later. ]
But right, that's what I'm getting at. Another weapon might have been used at some point, and even if the shop is the most obvious source of them, it's still a potential source.
[ maybe someone got really creative with an umbrella even if they didn't buy the obvious pinks. ]
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Date: 2020-06-22 06:18 pm (UTC)[ it's pretty frustrating how well done this kill was at throwing them off the trail. ]
And we can't reexamine, and any evidence is probably gone by now.
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Date: 2020-06-22 06:36 pm (UTC)[ but like... feets. ughhh. ]
You mentioned fake evidence powers earlier. How did they work?
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Date: 2020-06-22 06:45 pm (UTC)... we wasted so much time arguing about the shoe.
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Date: 2020-06-23 07:37 pm (UTC)[ please don't say that it was actually feasible to make a wholeass trail of footprints that went everywhere as fake evidence, i say
knowing full well what zia did in plasma ]
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