KARA

[voidbreaker]

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[voidbreaker]

[ oh.

right. he's got orders. ]

Hey, Chatterbox. I've been told I gotta tell you my name.

[unfriendliest]

[ ah. ]

...Lili talked to you.

[voidbreaker]

Yeah. I got my orders, pretty precisely.

[ he taps the axe against his shoulder. ]

It's Ash.

Can you feed some info back to her for me?

[unfriendliest]

Ookurikara.

[ he's not so rude as to not give his name when introduced. ]

You can't speak to her yourself?

[voidbreaker]

[ chatterbox. got it. ]

Could do, but I get the impression you're more likely to see her on any given day than I am.

[unfriendliest]

This camp isn't that big.

[ ...that said ]

What is it?

[voidbreaker]

Fine, fine. If I run into her I'll tell her. But if you get to her first then hey, she knows either way.

Haymaker-- [ uh. ........ shit. fine.] Beau said her power's versatile but she wouldn't use it offensively. She's gonna talk to Wright and I've lumbered her with talking to Asch too because I fuckin' won't.

45 says she's versatile, but doesn't think her power was combat oriented in the first place. And Chuuya says his is offensive. [ he's holding up fingies as he says this. ] Have you guys spoken to the big ol' crybaby and Zenitsu?

[unfriendliest]

That makes at least two explicitly offensive abilities, then.

[ and two more that could be used that way. fantastic. ]

I spoke to Zenitsu. Who's "the crybaby?"

[voidbreaker]

Huaisang.

... I mean they're both crybabies, but I can't call them both that.

[ ... ]

I'll give them this much -- if they were looking to have us fight it out, they aren't being quick to dish out offensive abilities.

[unfriendliest]

I don't know who that is.

[ kara doesn't read? ]

Anything can be a weapon if you use it right. Abilities that affect the mind can be even worse than the ones that are battle-oriented. [ so the npcs aren't getting the benefit of the doubt just yet. ] What would the point be in giving us abilities like these if they weren't meant to be used?

[voidbreaker]

That's a no then. Whatever, he said his powers are basically useless.

[ ... ] Then again he did cut a guy's throat in self-defence last time, so maybe take that one with a pinch of salt.

Dunno. Maybe we'll find out, or maybe we won't and we'll all get to go home with slightly less trauma than we think.

[unfriendliest]

You don't trust his word?

[ kara casually slotting nhs into the shady bitch column before they even say hello, ]

We have until the week's up to find out, one way or another. But I don't plan on putting too much trust in the hosts here until they've proven they deserve it.

[voidbreaker]

[ he looks like he’s thinking about it. ]

I don’t know him well enough to trust him either way, but my opinion ain’t sparkling. Beau trusts him, and she’s alright, but— [ eh ] I don’t know if he’s totally as useless as he seems. [ .... ] He is pretty useless? But maybe not that much.

I’d be more damn concerned if you trusted them without questioning anything?

[unfriendliest]

Is there anyone you know well enough to trust here?

[ shared games aside, it would be foolish to trust people just because they'd come from the same setting, before this. ]

Some of the people here want to believe them. That can cloud their judgment.

[voidbreaker]

[ he shrugs ] I trust Akira.

[ he trusted like two people fully and only one of them got dragged here, so now he’s down by one. It’s (genuinely) fine. ]

They’ll wake up if something does go wrong. Still, ours hosts turned out okay after a few weeks so watch this space for new developments.

[unfriendliest]

Akira... the one who kept asking questions.

[ he seems nosy? but he liked the bunnies, so maybe he's fine. ]

It would be easier to trust them if they wouldn't keep secrets, or ask us to do the same. If it's really just a game to them, then why bother with all of that?

[voidbreaker]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[ he's fine. serial smoocher, but fine. ]

Dunno. People kept secrets last time, and they were helping us, I guess? Technically? Maybe it's context dependant.

[unfriendliest]

We'll see.

But I don't think it will help us, in the long run. None of us can work together efficiently if we don't know what we're working with in the first place.

[voidbreaker]

There's gotta be some way to figure out or know what powers are in play.

There's no point in guessing wildly what powers might be used when we might be wasting time being really damn wrong the whole time.

[unfriendliest]

The best way is to come forward with it. We could ask the hosts, but I doubt they'll be forthcoming about it, since they're the ones encouraging secrecy in the first place.

[voidbreaker]

Not everyone’ll agree to it.

[ hm ] But, hey. It’s always gotta be overcomplicated, right?