What's rude about it...? [anyway, she holds up the book so he can see it - it's a book about forensics. she's trying to prepare for trial. (she doesn't understand half of what she's reading.)] It seems to be about solving crimes...? It uses a lot of words I'm not familiar with, though.
[mineo will walk forward at that and - he massages his temple in thought.]
.... got it. So this is definitely our effect.
Uh - I was in here last night with a few people. Today all the books look like they're... the ones meant to help people after they've gone through a great loss. And... they're kinda bloody. The one you're holding is, to me.
[and he sighs about it]
But ah - if you want to know about solving crimes... Well, let me know if I can help at all. I'm not with the force anymore, but...
[it is something he knows about, not that you'd guess based on everything here]
[wow that's mean, Powers That Be. her expression drops a little at that, and she looks down at hr book again.]
This just looks like a book, so... yes, that's likely the case. [...] I'm not sure what sorts of things I should be asking about, to solve them. I just - I hoped since this information is here, it might be of use somehow, tomorrow.
[ . . . . he'll just go to sit across from her then, keeping his gaze off the book on her. the blood unnerves him a bit, even moreso since he knows that it's not really there.]
.... I am, too. But... these aren't meant to be solved in nine hours. We're being set up to fail. And I don't know if that helps or not, because at least for me it just makes me want to punch the system.
But...
It's not because people aren't giving it their all, or because we're dumb. I mean, Takeru's here, so. [mineo has outsourced his thinking entirely]
So we just gotta keep doing that - and not giving up. Or at least... that's what I think.
Mmhm. Ming-xiong's here, too, and he's really smart. So it's not a matter of us being stupid.
[sqx has also outsourced her thinking]
...I talked about something like this with Greed at the start of the week. We just have to keep going. There's no way to tell when enough is enough until we get there, but - we're not going to get anywhere at all if we do give up, so...
We should get right to it tomorrow - send people to wherever anything odd was noticed first thing. I heard people found strange things in the tearoom and the observing room, even though they didn't spend the night there.
... I wonder where Ashiya-san went, if they weren't in the medbay....
Maybe they healed more after but - we don't even know how the pods really work after hours... We don't know if someone's safe in there. Hopefully we won't have to find out.
[because what kind of asshole just tries to go after someone already healing like that]
... maybe. But it'd be better if we even knew where to start with them.
For now, we can start thinking about if they had any powers.... I know Omi-san said that his was the ability to make someone consumed with something insatiably for twenty four hours.
Yeah. It means we have to be extra diligent today - to catch any possible healing pod effects, plus that power.
And Ashiya-san and I did... but it only lasts for thirty seconds. It boils someone's blood - I dunno if it's literally? But I don't know how we'd catch it.
If it's literally... that seems like it would hurt a lot. [...] Or maybe it would leave a burn? There'd probably be some sort of mark, right? Like how we see bruises even though the damage is under our skin.
...mm. Testing it isn't a bad idea, but - and I'm not saying this because I don't trust you, but because people are going to be suspicious because of what we're there for... if you use it on yourself, someone might say we don't know if you're lying about it or not.
Use it on me, if it comes to the point that we need to demonstrate it. I don't mind.
No. I mind. And I think Yi-kun would make use of his shovel again to bludgeon me if I did that.
[MINEO your BEEFLEAF]
If people really doubt me tomorrow, we'll figure it out. But I'd rather volunteer to suffer under my own power first than use it on anyone else, especially a woman who has already been rushed to the medbay.
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shiftingwinds) wrote2021-02-10 07:01 pm
w3, friday
here they are in the library! shi qingxuan is at one of the tables, poring over a book. she seems upset, but it's dieday, so that's probably why.]
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Shi-san...
That might be a little rude to ask but - can I ask what you see? In that book?
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she looks up]
What's rude about it...? [anyway, she holds up the book so he can see it - it's a book about forensics. she's trying to prepare for trial. (she doesn't understand half of what she's reading.)] It seems to be about solving crimes...? It uses a lot of words I'm not familiar with, though.
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.... got it. So this is definitely our effect.
Uh - I was in here last night with a few people. Today all the books look like they're... the ones meant to help people after they've gone through a great loss. And... they're kinda bloody. The one you're holding is, to me.
[and he sighs about it]
But ah - if you want to know about solving crimes... Well, let me know if I can help at all. I'm not with the force anymore, but...
[it is something he knows about, not that you'd guess based on everything here]
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This just looks like a book, so... yes, that's likely the case. [...] I'm not sure what sorts of things I should be asking about, to solve them. I just - I hoped since this information is here, it might be of use somehow, tomorrow.
I'm tired of not figuring out what's going on.
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.... I am, too. But... these aren't meant to be solved in nine hours. We're being set up to fail. And I don't know if that helps or not, because at least for me it just makes me want to punch the system.
But...
It's not because people aren't giving it their all, or because we're dumb. I mean, Takeru's here, so. [mineo has outsourced his thinking entirely]
So we just gotta keep doing that - and not giving up. Or at least... that's what I think.
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Mmhm. Ming-xiong's here, too, and he's really smart. So it's not a matter of us being stupid.
[sqx has also outsourced her thinking]
...I talked about something like this with Greed at the start of the week. We just have to keep going. There's no way to tell when enough is enough until we get there, but - we're not going to get anywhere at all if we do give up, so...
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[he snorts a little bit - an amused, if bittersweet noise]
Someone once told me that the only thing I had going for me was that I was a stubborn fool who didn't know how to let go of things once I got started.
So I figure I just gotta make good on that - and I don't plan on giving up on any of these murders.
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[she sets the book down long enough to hold out her hand to mineo]
Let's both do our best.
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Good to work with you, Shi-san.
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We should get right to it tomorrow - send people to wherever anything odd was noticed first thing. I heard people found strange things in the tearoom and the observing room, even though they didn't spend the night there.
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We should look there... and wherever Ashiya-san and Omi-san spent the night, but I don't know where that is.
Not to mention Ashiya-san might not even have been fully healed... When I went to check on them, one of their eyes still wasn't completely okay.
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[she sighs]
...really, why didn't they stay the night in one of the pods...
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... I wonder where Ashiya-san went, if they weren't in the medbay....
Maybe they healed more after but - we don't even know how the pods really work after hours... We don't know if someone's safe in there. Hopefully we won't have to find out.
[because what kind of asshole just tries to go after someone already healing like that]
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[it'd be
pretty hard to run away if you're starting off packed into a pod, honestly. where would you go? your killer would be between you and the door.]
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... maybe. But it'd be better if we even knew where to start with them.
For now, we can start thinking about if they had any powers.... I know Omi-san said that his was the ability to make someone consumed with something insatiably for twenty four hours.
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[since... they're within that 24 hour window.]
Douman said they had the same one as you, didn't they?
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And Ashiya-san and I did... but it only lasts for thirty seconds. It boils someone's blood - I dunno if it's literally? But I don't know how we'd catch it.
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... I haven't used mine.
So if we want to find out tomorrow, I can try to test it out so we know what to look for. But I'd probably just use it on myself.
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Use it on me, if it comes to the point that we need to demonstrate it. I don't mind.
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No. I mind. And I think Yi-kun would make use of his shovel again to bludgeon me if I did that.
[MINEO your BEEFLEAF]
If people really doubt me tomorrow, we'll figure it out. But I'd rather volunteer to suffer under my own power first than use it on anyone else, especially a woman who has already been rushed to the medbay.
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No, he wouldn't...
[mineo don't just say that shit what if someone decides ming yi's dangerous??]
Well, look at it this way - whatever it does, if you use it on me, I'm sure I can handle it! I've had worse! You all saw that.
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[gently frets!]
But ah.... it's okay. I know you're just trying to help Shi-san... but I really think you need to treasure yourself more.
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