voidbreaker | STEPH

Was the kidnapping, the layout, the general handing out of powers, the putting us into teams or the general secrecy and insistence everything was gonna be fine that made you suspicious?

[ it's all either super shady

or really, really unfortunate. ]

If you use that tone on me again I'm going to smack you.

Hey, I'm agreeing with you.

[ in a snarky way, but still. ]

[ SHE RAISES HER HAND

LIKE SHE'S GONNA SMACK

but lowers it. she's kidding. ]

I think we might have to find out if the list idea is toeing too close to the rule breaking. If it were just me, I wouldn't care, but I don't want to put everyone else at risk too.

[ to be fair

he doesn't flinch ]

We'll know what the consequences are... probably soon? Pretty sure Chatterbox and the Princess will get that info out, if they can, when it happens.

...

Think if we ask the directors if we're gonna get wrist slapped for doing an anonymous list, we'll get a straight answer now?

We might as well try. Even if they give us some vague answer, depending on what it is, it'll probably give us an idea.

[ ... ]

Fuck it, at this point if there's an advantage going, we need it.

[ there's a smile. ]

I was hoping you'd say that.

No point in trying to put ourselves at a disadvantage straight out the starting gate.

[ he’s tired. boo. ]

We just need to make sure this place’s not gonna be a tricky enough asshole that making the list and writing your power on it counts as “revealing it publicly”, whether you add a name to it or not.

Loopholes are definitely the worst...

Well, we'll see. Maybe if they don't give a clear answer, we could test it out in a much smaller scale, and if nothing happens, we can approach everyone about it?

This place probably runs on them. [ let's be flippin'frank. ]

Yeah. Once we know the consequences it'll be easier to work around them. Probably.

They said that it'll be something we won't expect, right?

... Not much point in throwing ideas around if it’s not something we’d think of in the first place. Unless it’s memory fuckery, then we wouldn’t know what we’d lost.