AKIRA

[voidbreaker]

awww shit here they go again

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[voidbreaker]

[ drily: ]

Sure, we'll all just sit back and get murdered so they can avoid physical injury.

[survivaltricks]

[pointed look]

Ash. . .

[that's not fair and you know it]

[voidbreaker]

[ he just stares at him.

no, actually. he doesn't think it is, really. ]

I know you're really into making friends with the locals, and sure, you do you. But people here are gonna be suspicious of them and see the parts that don't add up. Whether that's malicious or not.

[survivaltricks]

That's not what I'm talking about.

[he doesn't mind if people aren't suspicious, it's just. . .]

We're not getting murdered just so they can avoid physical injury. You think something worse won't happen to them-- or one of us-- if they open up too quickly?

You don't have to trust them, but it's unfair to say they're refusing to talk just to avoid getting their hands stabbed.

[when they have already seen that it's way more than that]

[voidbreaker]

[ flash forward to them writing something along those lines on the board later that day. ]

No, you're right. I don't have to trust them.

[ so he doesn't think he will. ]

[survivaltricks]

Then don't.

[reaching into his pocket to pull out ??? a piece of paper??]

But at least trust me.

[voidbreaker]

[ squints. ]

You've got a whole other game behind you, you're fine.

[survivaltricks]

I don't care about that. I care about you.

[doofus!! anyway, he hands him the paper]

You don't know anyone passing around anonymous notes, do you?

[voidbreaker]

... [ he doesn't really know what to say to that, other than deflect. ] Probably a poor decision.

[ he takes the paper! ]

No.

Do you mean as a special job like your girl and the detective did?

[survivaltricks]

[snorts]

It's my poor decision, thanks.

[SO TAKE THAT. anyway the paper is a note! on it is written: You're heading in the right direction. there are also some little blob bunny doodles hopping in a row beneath the words]

And I don't know. It could be? I just don't know what it's referring to.

[voidbreaker]

[ huh.

bnuny. ]

When did you get this?

[survivaltricks]

Earlier this morning.

. . . I wish people passing around notes could just do so without being vague.

[voidbreaker]

Nah, I'm pretty sure that's how they gain their power.

[ .... ]

Have you been kinda... not openly, but looking into what you mentioned to me the other day?

[survivaltricks]

Ah-- you mean the thing about Lili?

[forward-dated PCs actually kill that theory, but unfortunately this is Tuesday, so. . .]

Mmm. I've talked to a few other people about it, but. . . I've heard a counter-theory that makes way more sense. And I don't think anyone I've talked to about it would send me a note if I was right.

[voidbreaker]

[ i am deeply depressed we didn't cuck dana. ]

What sort of counter-theory?

...

Maybe it's just telling you to keep cosying up to the NPCs so they'll share more stuff with you?

[survivaltricks]

I-- [HE CAN'T. EVEN DENY THAT????]

Is my friendship with them that obvious. . . [ANYWAY]

Anyway, I can't say too much about the reasoning behind this theory, but. . . someone thinks a member of Black Shadows killed Yu.

[voidbreaker]

You're pretty much wearing a fanclub t-shirt, Akira.

[ ANYWAY INDEED. ]

... Which means Lili's not on that team then. You have some idea of who is, or is it just a case of narrowing it down now?

[survivaltricks]

It's a case of narrowing it down. I wish that I had a more specific person in mind. I don't even know anyone on Shadows' team.

[he admits with a slightly wrinkled expression, but anyway]

But someone believes that several members of Shadows' team may have had a way to fake the footprints we thought belonged to Ogata.

[voidbreaker]

Me neither. [ he knows one person's team -- his own. ]

So... basically, we can't trust anything. Especially not footprints.

[survivaltricks]

Especially not footprints.

[TRUST NONE FOOTPRINT]

[voidbreaker]

Annoying, ‘cause those can be useful.

[ sigh ]

[survivaltricks]

Extremely annoying. But we weren't completely without evidence even without the footprints, right?

[they had. . . the dagger? the marks in the kitchen? the shoes. . .?]

[voidbreaker]

...

We didn't do a great job of piecing it together though, huh? Might work in our favour if we assume the footprints are fake and don't focus on them with tunnel vision for six hours.

[survivaltricks]

[ugh]

Yeah. We'll have to shift our focus elsewhere.

. . . at any rate, this note is definitely not talking about my theories for who killed Yu.

[but he still has no idea what it is talking about?? help]

[voidbreaker]

What else have you been running around in the background, in overdrive, trying to do in the past week or so?

[ he knows you, akira. he knows you. ]