AKIRA

[voidbreaker]

awww shit here they go again

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[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. ]

[survivaltricks]

[EVERYONE KNOWS HIM]

Well, I've been talking to people about the camp itself, about Pinkie, about the directors. . . but I don't feel like any information I've shared with people is different than what the directors wrote for us on the whiteboard.

[voidbreaker]

...

Maybe cosying up to the directors is what you're doing great with then?

[survivaltricks]

. . . maybe.

[he wrinkles his nose]

I like them. Genuinely. They're. . . all nice people.

[glancing over at Ash, frowning a bit]

But I'm also not sure we can rely on them too much, so I'm focusing more on trying to get to know them.

[voidbreaker]

The relying part was kinda obvious. [ they all just wanted answers, but they can't get those, and that's the part that grinds him. ]

So what's the significance if that is the case? They suddenly spill their guts once you talk with them enough times like you earned some kind of top prize at a casino?

[survivaltricks]

[JUST SNORTS]

Heck if I know, and I don't know if I really like the idea of cozying up to them being some sort of prize to be earned.

[that seems insulting!!]

[voidbreaker]

[ he shrugs. ]

If it keeps people alive.

Wonder if something you've been talking about is more significant than you realise, then.

[survivaltricks]

[. . . mmm]

That's what I've been wondering, too. I remember Akechi used to send people notes as part of his role as the Professor.

But I don't know what I would've said to anyone to make them want to write me this note.