anise [spacecoast]

[verminous]

anise can do anything she wants forever

Comments

[verminous]

Yeah.

...feels like it suits her, to have that be her record. Doesn't make it all any easier, but.

[sexyasmieu]

Yeah... it does.

... I really want to know what happened to her. I don't know if it'll be like the other times, but... still.

[ if they're going to find an answer that's painful to face. ]

[verminous]

Think we gotta know, yeah. Even if it's... the same as it has been.

[well.]

Maybe especially then.

[sexyasmieu]

I guess we don't know what happens if we don't catch someone... if whatever caused them to act irrationally would just get worse, or...

[ ... ]

[verminous]

Yeah. And... we're already losing people. The last thing I wanna do is both end up losing more of us and make someone live with having done it again.

[sexyasmieu]

I wonder if they really would... I mean, there has to be some answer other than sacrificing them.

... And I don't know if we can be sure that every murderer was acting irrationally...

[verminous]

Yeah. I mean, it... feels more likely that it'll be the case at this point, somebody'd have to be pretty damn good to hide being ready to murder somebody for no reason for a month before they do it, but I think we're better off not assuming.

...not impossible for somebody to lose a fight if they were acting irrationally either, but y'know, I wouldn't count that under murder.

[sexyasmieu]

[ she thinks a little, hesitating... ]

... Did you talk to the Dean much?

[verminous]

Some. She was, uh.

[struggling to think of how to phrase this,]

Well, she was always... pretty, uh, unflappable. Like, weirdly.

[...]

Also I don't think she was actually a person.

[sexyasmieu]

[ she nods... ]

We talked pretty regularly, but this week... she was different.

[verminous]

She was-?

[ah. wuh oh.]

...how so?

[sexyasmieu]

Like, she was pretty withdrawn with all this memory stuff going on, but when I did run into her...

...... I kinda got the feeling she was, um... unraveling?

[verminous]

...so, you're... thinking she might've had something goin' on, huh.

[`aaaaaaaa`]

[sexyasmieu]

I know it's too early to assume anything when we haven't looked at any evidence yet, but... I think we should consider it a possibility.

[verminous]

...yeah. Worth keeping it in mind.

[even if it's not the case, then-- they have to consider it.]

I'd like to think if anybody had to take her out, they'd just tell us so, though...

[sexyasmieu]

And risk getting voted for, when nobody's been convicted and lived?

[verminous]

...well, I'd also like to think it wouldn't come to that. If we figured out the other one it'd be fine.

[sexyasmieu]

Maybe... We do kinda keep figuring things out like, at the very last minute, though...

[verminous]

That's half the problem-!

[bro we are going to end up kneejerk convicting someone who didn't even mclose it.]

...did you mention that suspicion to anybody else?

[sexyasmieu]

Not yet. I'm not sure I wanna tell the whole ship, if it could lead to people making assumptions and missing things tomorrow...

[verminous]

Probably safer that way, just in case.

-just might want to, uh, also tell somebody who's actually good at working on these...

[like obviously he's going to help anise but

he's so not a detective type help him]

[sexyasmieu]

Hey, don't start getting down on yourself before we've even started investigating!

[verminous]

Huh? I mean, it's true, I don't have experience here...