...Jin Ling is afraid to lose him, I think. They're from the same world. Losing someone familiar in a place like this... it scares me, too, so I'll grant him that.
But Nie HuaiSang shouldn't be excused on fear alone - not when it could have meant allowing someone else to die instead. But I don't know what else we could do to change his mind about speaking up, if something happens again in the future.
I'd be more sympathetic if he wasn't a brat about it and literally everything all the damn time. [ ... maybe. Still, is it better to have someone here and risk losing them, or not have anyone here at all and know they're probably already lost in the likely event you don't make it home?
Ash doesn't know. But it's an old wound, an old feeling, and he doesn't let it rear up to smother him for more than a moment. ]
Dunno. Can we really guarantee safety if someone kills in self-defence? If we're down to the wire, are people gonna vote for a random person who might have done nothing, or someone who killed even if it was to defend themselves?
Unless we figure out a failsafe, I'm not sure how we work that out. We might not always have something to help them with.
...It's probably better to vote for someone who killed, even in self-defense, than to choose someone innocent, if we have no other choice.
[ brilith hates that they're in the position to have to make that choice. but if it can't be helped... ]
Babo Kim would have taken the fall, if it came to it. I... [ would have been heartbroken, would have cried, would have held an even bigger grudge against nhs-- ] I would have supported him, if that's what he wanted. But we should always prioritize finding the monsters, and knowing who else killed that wasn't one of them is paramount to that task.
If we miss the monster, they get to kill again next week. Which makes it harder to try and stop it, and prevent a murder.
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That sounds like a load of bullshit. No one would be happy about that happening -- it's a waste of a vote and a life, in the grand scheme of all this shit. It'd be easier if we had something that let us pinpoint the monsters in play before it got to the whole killing and trials part.
What would you propose we do, if we can't find the monster in or out of the trials? The girls said there was no way to find them before they transform, didn't they? Assuming they aren't lying, of course. And even if we speak with Master Blue, there's no guarantee we'll get anything different out of him.
We'd have to figure that out, if the time came. Dunno, maybe we're figuring some things out this week that we wouldn't have before. Maybe I'm feeling cautiousy optimistic.
[ Hm. ]
I wonder when we'll he'll deign to grace us with his presence.
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People do that shit because there's no one who can touch them if they do.
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But Nie HuaiSang shouldn't be excused on fear alone - not when it could have meant allowing someone else to die instead. But I don't know what else we could do to change his mind about speaking up, if something happens again in the future.
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Ash doesn't know. But it's an old wound, an old feeling, and he doesn't let it rear up to smother him for more than a moment. ]
Dunno. Can we really guarantee safety if someone kills in self-defence? If we're down to the wire, are people gonna vote for a random person who might have done nothing, or someone who killed even if it was to defend themselves?
Unless we figure out a failsafe, I'm not sure how we work that out. We might not always have something to help them with.
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[ brilith hates that they're in the position to have to make that choice. but if it can't be helped... ]
Babo Kim would have taken the fall, if it came to it. I... [ would have been heartbroken, would have cried, would have held an even bigger grudge against nhs-- ] I would have supported him, if that's what he wanted. But we should always prioritize finding the monsters, and knowing who else killed that wasn't one of them is paramount to that task.
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[ ... ]
That sounds like a load of bullshit. No one would be happy about that happening -- it's a waste of a vote and a life, in the grand scheme of all this shit. It'd be easier if we had something that let us pinpoint the monsters in play before it got to the whole killing and trials part.
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[ which part is she replying to...? ]
What would you propose we do, if we can't find the monster in or out of the trials? The girls said there was no way to find them before they transform, didn't they? Assuming they aren't lying, of course. And even if we speak with Master Blue, there's no guarantee we'll get anything different out of him.
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We'd have to figure that out, if the time came. Dunno, maybe we're figuring some things out this week that we wouldn't have before. Maybe I'm feeling cautiousy optimistic.
[ Hm. ]
I wonder when we'll he'll deign to grace us with his presence.
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It sounds as if he isn't planning to at all. But he did give us the option to ask for him ourselves.
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