[7rings] catchall for douman

[shiftingwinds]

i'll make this pretty later

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[shiftingwinds]

I can't pay it no heed when a friend could get hurt.

[don't! break! your toe, douman! anyway, if they're going to stay here, she scoots over on the bench and gestures for them to sit down with her.]

...what a joke. It's like we're adding an extra victim every week. Should we expect four next time?

[commedia]

[After the urge passes, Douman moves over to the bench, rubbing at their foot woefully.]

And to think we solved things when we got rid of that murderous metal doll-! It seems someone wanted to prove they could do more...or its the two murderers from last week and an additional member. How horrible.

[shiftingwinds]

...I suppose we'll know if at least one of them is a repeat if we're missing a body.

[seriously what the FUCK happened to kaz.]

We need to be more organized this week. We can't just... hope to get lucky.

[commedia]

Well...you have a point.

[And a glance at the notebook.]

Is that what you are writing? Trying to stay organized?

[shiftingwinds]

[she nods]

I'm trying to get all my observations from today written down while they're fresh in my mind, so it's easier to go through them tomorrow.

[commedia]

Mm? And which observations are those? Did you see anything?

[shiftingwinds]

[she nods]

In the kitchen, there was water running in the sink, and it wouldn't turn off. It was the wrong color - it looked like rust...?

[a beat, and then -]

...um, it smelled and tasted kind of... stale, too.

[commedia]

Water...? Yes, Omi mentioned that, though when we looked at the sink, we didn't see anything. He mentioned that he could see the rec room was covered in coffee as well...

[A thoughtful noise.]

Qingxuan, though, you shouldn't taste random water, mmm... [Shakes head! No, no!] And you can write down that in the planetarium...well, last night, there were pretty little pink and blue stars falling that went through us...and this morning, they were on the ground, cracked in half and bleeding. How macabre.

[shiftingwinds]

[look...]

I know, I know... I just thought, if it didn't actually smell or taste like water, it might be a clue.

[if it had smelled like blood she probably wouldn't have tasted it, though!]

...I'll note that down. Thanks, Douman. [she sighs] That sounds sort of like what we saw the first week we were here. It was constellations that looked like heroes instead of pink and blue stars, but... they were bleeding when we woke up, too.

[commedia]

Constellations...yes, yes, I recall that was mentioned.

[Douman taps at their chin.]

Do you think these things are really tied to the murders, though? If HK-47 really was the one who murdered Tamaki the first week, then constellations doesn't fit in with that, thematically.

[shiftingwinds]

I don't know. It wouldn't seem to fit - unless there was something about him that we didn't know? Admittedly, he only really talked about... ah, murder.

[maybe he ran with heroes or something, she doesn't know. she drums her fingers on her leg, thinking.]

None of what we saw last week really seems to fit anyone else here, either, though... so maybe it is unrelated. But if we're discussing it and someone brings up something that doesn't fit with what everyone else experienced, that's worth examining too, don't you think?

[commedia]

Well, he had someone who worked with him, and gave him the orders to carry out their tasks...so maybe that's the one we're looking for.

[HK-47 said as much, during that execution.]

Oh, of course. Though...ah, I really hope with all my heart that we don't have another body that's up and disappeared.

[shiftingwinds]

I wouldn't be so sure about that... he's capable of lying. What he said at the execution didn't match up with what he said the night before, or at the trial. And he seemed to like the idea of all of us turning on each other...

[she just doesn't trust that robot as far as she can throw him anymore.]

...we better not. Once was bad enough.

[commedia]

What, it is? What an advanced metal doll. The fact that it could lie like any human...hm! And what did it say the night before?

[HK YOUR LYING???????]

...Mmm. If it happens again, though, it might give us clues as to what happened during Kaz's death. And it might be the same murderer. But I'm not eager for that.

[shiftingwinds]

When I asked about the first week, he said he hadn't been given any instructions to kill people. But he sure made it sound like he did at the execution, right?

[when she was too wounded to contradict him, even!]

...I'd like to figure out what happened to him, but I definitely don't want someone else to have to die for us to do it. I just wish there was some better way.

[commedia]

It did, yes. I certainly believed it.

[Probably others did, too.]

Have you asked the Avatars anything? All they tell me is that to look at the clues we have...

[shiftingwinds]

I might have believed him if he hadn't told me something different the night before. I... I think he's just trying to rile people up. Everything else so far, our indulgences and all, it's been about things we choose to do, right...?

[she sighs.]

That's what they keep telling me, too.

[commedia]

...

[Douman heaves a sigh, letting themselves slump back against the bench.]

In this mess of lies and indulgences, its any wonder we'll succeed.

[shiftingwinds]

I'm getting really tired of failing.

I don't want to fail again.

[commedia]

...

[A strange look crosses across Douman's face. Almost...bittersweet?]

I feel the same way.

[shiftingwinds]

[aND THEN THEY FAILED AGAIN.]

...then... this time for sure. We'll get it right.

[lol no they won't]