[He'll scoot over a little to give her room, sliding the packet over.]
Better than some of the guys here. [He liked Chinatsu a lot, and found Chang Geng sweet, but he's more capable of dealing with loss and gruesome twists than most.] But the goat was a surprise. What about you?
[Everyone's doing fine it's fine they're all fine.]
Yeah... If there's no way to predict how long it'll take a refracted person to end up like Malik, we'll never know how much wiggle room we got to try stopping it, either.
I still don't know why the hell Percy decided to confess when we'd barely started looking his way, but it's a good thing he did or we'd have caught no one this time.
Maybe...? Steel made it sound like we can't really tell when someone who's refracted is gonna go goat about it, but that might've been this place's way of keeping balance.
[They just trade one killer for another perhaps...]
Same, yeah. [It's easier to just know who to keep tabs on and who to help if they can.] I don't like taking gambles that'll cost lives unnecessarily, anyway.
[THE DEADLINE CLOSE-CUTTING IS LITERALLY SENDING HIM TO HELL EVERY SINGLE TIME.]
Yeah... I was talking to Hot Pants about that earlier. Like, about what might happen if no one confesses or we don't catch anyone. What the hell's gonna happen to the guy who gets voted for? Or what if there's no majority?
I mean... Kinda hard to say, y'know? But, um. Sage said earlier that we probably shouldn't look at the refractions and trial as coming from the same source. The trial might be the prism's attempts at helping or something, maybe...? So maybe nothing like that'll happen if we mess up.
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[ she will go to take the gloves. ]
How ya doing?
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Better than some of the guys here. [He liked Chinatsu a lot, and found Chang Geng sweet, but he's more capable of dealing with loss and gruesome twists than most.] But the goat was a surprise. What about you?
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[ keeping everyone ten feet away from you at all times means you are never sad in a murdergame. ]
The goat was definitely a surprise. Guess we know what's going around killing now.
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Yeah... Chinatsu especially. [Oh, to be well-liked but a squishy normie who is simply unprepared to deal with the world.]
...Mm. So. I think it's pretty safe to assume that in most cases, the person who ends up dead and whoever killed 'em are both refracted.
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It sounds like it... and if there are multiple deaths per week, whoever we don't catch is just going to end up that way.
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Yeah... If there's no way to predict how long it'll take a refracted person to end up like Malik, we'll never know how much wiggle room we got to try stopping it, either.
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We have not had that kind of luck.
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I still don't know why the hell Percy decided to confess when we'd barely started looking his way, but it's a good thing he did or we'd have caught no one this time.
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[ so there would be no reason for them to prolong it on purpose ]
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[He does not know the way the minds of these funky, funky people work after they've been refracted.]
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[He will never say "she's probably an outlier who just stabbed of her own volition" so clearly outside of brackets but he's thinking it.]
--Anyway, maybe Percy'll be able to answer questions like that now.
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[ there's a pause. ]
How did they both live, anyway? Did that have to do with the Malik thing...
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[They just trade one killer for another perhaps...]
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[ it's still so ??? though, so she just digs at the ground. ]
I guess one way to be sure is to test it, but I'd prefer to just catch all the killers...
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Same, yeah. [It's easier to just know who to keep tabs on and who to help if they can.] I don't like taking gambles that'll cost lives unnecessarily, anyway.
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[ all of their confessions happen within the last half hour help ]
I'm worried if we take a little too long...
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Yeah... I was talking to Hot Pants about that earlier. Like, about what might happen if no one confesses or we don't catch anyone. What the hell's gonna happen to the guy who gets voted for? Or what if there's no majority?
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[ hm. hmmmm. ]
You don't think they'd fight to the death or something?
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[He does not sound sure...]
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[ she is
not sure how they get out of that one ]
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also not sure.]
Yeah... And if they pick combat and there's, like, no refraction to cure... d'you think people'll still be saved?
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Since if they could, wouldn't people only pick combat every time? Why even give us a choice between the two otherwise?
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...Yeah, I guess. So we just really gotta be careful not to mess up, then.
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But how long do we have to keep doing this? There's not that many of us.
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