[7rings] catchall for law

[shiftingwinds]

weeps about the fact that we might lose our murderbot tomorrow

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w1, saturday

[shiftingwinds]

[i'm. you know what. i'm just going to reuse this toplevel for every bar pc tonight.

anyway! shi qingxuan is here. she does not look happy. in fact, she's drinking directly from a big jug of rice wine, despite her nerfed alcohol tolerance. tomorrow she's probably going to be hungover as fuck.]

...ugh.

[nodo]

[ OUR MURDER ROBOT!!!!!

but yeah, law figured she might be here and even though he had Quite A Time yesterday with his own hangover on a galactic level, he's here because....well. you know. he is. he's bad at comforting but he can be a drinking buddy??? ]

I can't say I'm too surprised.

[shiftingwinds]

We are so bad at this!

[she wails and then just puts her head on the bar. very gently. she doesn't want to bruise her face.]

[nodo]

[ he.

will gently (carefully??) place a hand on her shoulder as he takes a seat next to her. he hasn't grabbed a drink yet, though. ]

We are. [ guess he'll help himself to sake for the moment. ] I wonder if we're even supposed to solve these in the first place, now.

[shiftingwinds]

What's the point if it's not possible? Just to torment us?

w1, sunday

[nodo]

[ in the middle of all of the people coming to visit her, here will be law who is also here...or around. unlike some people though it won't exactly be that strange to spot law just chilling in the med bay for hours.

or...however long they're leaving her in the pod. he's fine? totally fine. it's just one of those "i'm not angry just disappointed" sort of moods for him, honestly. either way, he'll give her time to heal up and get with the program.

he broke a snack! or two. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[three hours and however much time it takes for ming yi to leave her unattended later, shi qingxuan, who looks uninjured (but is still sporting a yaoihand), looks over at law.]

...were you waiting?

[huh.]

[nodo]

[ her yaoihand..... but look, it's fine. law is a patient man all things considered. ]

I was. [ maybe not the whole time because of people but here's present and making his way towards her. ] I am a doctor regardless if these healing pods are here or not.

How are you feeling?

[shiftingwinds]

[don't cut her open, doc.



by now, she trusts him not enough to make that joke out loud.]

I don't hurt or anything. But it feels like there's... something pressing down on me?

[nodo]

[ i mean, she could have made the joke and law would have rolled with it. ...for the most part? nevertheless he's interested in hearing more about this side effect. ]

Pressing down on you? Is it on a particular part of you or all over?

w2, friday

[shiftingwinds]

[here they are at the bar! god, shi qingxuan is so tempted to drink, but she's being good and just sticking to water for now.]

Three bodies. Three. Why did it have to be three?! Are we just going to get an extra body every week?!

[nodo]

[ LAW IS NOT BEING GOOD....though he isn't being like he was the previous week either. it's just a glass of some sake in front of him as he looks more morose than normal. ]

Blood in the water is getting bloodier so maybe people are feeling brave.

[ you know, since they're fucking miserable at finding killers??? at the same time he'll just sigh. ]

We'll eventually run out of people if we keep adding one a week.

[shiftingwinds]

I will go back into that execution room and beat someone up next time if I have to, to scare people off from doing it again!

[UUUUUGH. she hates this.]

...we need to be more thorough this week.

[nodo]

Do you think being more thorough will be enough? We got distracted with the thinking that Kaz turned into a candy bar.

[ he supports but at the same time...??? ]

[shiftingwinds]

Because we didn't have anything else solid enough to focus our attention on.

[...]

I don't want that to happen again.

w3, tuesday

[shiftingwinds]

[rng gave me tuesday annnnd the research lab!

shi qingxuan seems a little puzzled by the locked computers, but when clicking on the screens doesn't do anything to get her past the password, she abandons them and goes to examining some of the other equipment instead.

she's peering through a microscope when she hears law's footsteps, and she abandons that to look up.]

Oh! Law, hello.

[nodo]

[ nerd stuff, nerd stuff!!!

but this isn't the kind of nerd stuff that he's used to. his speed is more what was already uncovered with the med bay. his chillzone. nevertheless, he nods at sqx when she greets him. ]

Shi Quingxuan.

[ a bit of a rhetorical question but, eh. ]

Find anything interesting?

[shiftingwinds]

Ahaha, well... I'm sure all of this is interesting.

[a beat.]

I don't really understand it, though.

[oh to be a ye olde in a high-tech environment.]

[nodo]

[ oh. well. ]

There's plenty in here that I don't recongize either but— [ he'll gesture to the microscope that she was looking at at the time. ] —that one is familiar to me.

Do you acknowledge microorganisms in your world as a god?

[ look he doesn't know what it's like to be a god when there are germs.... ]

[shiftingwinds]

Micro...what?

[she


just wanted to look through it because it was there.]

w3, saturday

[shiftingwinds]

[at some point aoi and sqx split up to do their own thing, and ... well, that makes it easier for her to remember the things she normally does after the trials. talking with whoever got the vote is one of those things.

...law, huh? she wouldn't have expected that of him, but. he admitted to it, and he's here in the jail now.

she knocks lightly on the wall of the simulation room to announce her arrival before she heads over.]

...Law?

[nodo]

[ he'll look at her and give a little nod. ]

Shi Qingxuan. [ a moment's pause. ] You shouldn't had to deal with my mess.

[ he means touching the clorpse. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[her face falls at that]

...the easiest way to have made it so no one had to deal with your mess was not to make one, but I'm sure I don't have to tell you that.

[nodo]

No, you don't, but I definitely make a mess.

[ ...

and rather sincerely: ]

Hopefully you won't have to deal with anyone else's mess from here on out.

[shiftingwinds]

As long as there are messes, I'm going to try to deal with them.

[...]

We need to know the truth of what's happening every week. How else are we supposed to be able to protect each other?