[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?

[nodo]

Don't know; I'm planning to ask one of the Avatars that question myself.

[ because might as well? seems like they vaguely want to be helpful. ]

[shiftingwinds]

Well, I hope you get an answer.

[nodo]

I'll let you know if I find anything out.

[ looks at my inbox and nods..... ]

How will things go for us if they find a way to dispose of him?

[shiftingwinds]

What?

mY ICON....

[nodo]

[ WEEPS IN TEARS ABOUT HIS PRIORITIES...but let him just. adjust them a bit. ]

Tomorrow, he and someone else will be pitted against one another.

[shiftingwinds]

...uh huh.

[...]

And it'll probably be someone who didn't have anything to do with what happened. There's... more of us who didn't do anything. [so the chances of an innocent person being picked are higher.] We could have three people who got away with murder out there still.

[nodo]

[ cha cha slides away from the previous point that he made and nyooms onto this. ]

We could and if we do, what would want to do about it? Even if we did catch one of them, the avatars mentioned that we could only truly convict one of them.

[ didn't they? i, naru, have a small brain about this actually. ]

Of the crimes that are convicted, which one deserves to be tried and then punished the most?

[shiftingwinds]

Don't ask me that when I'm drunk. I could probably barely have a good answer to that when I'm sober.

[nodo]

[ another pat on the shoulder. ]

Do you plan on drinking any water before the night is up?

[shiftingwinds]

I probably should...

[nodo]

I won't say anything ridiculous like "doctor's orders", but have some consideration.

[shiftingwinds]

[sips her drink]

...I'm not very good at following orders anyway.

[nodo]

[ he'll help himself to a drink and have a sip himself. ]

Really? I couldn't tell.

[shiftingwinds]

Ahaha, I was trying really hard because I wanted to help...

[that's. the only reason she tried obeying his orders last week.]

[nodo]

[ it was sarcasm!! but— ]

It's fine; I won't be trying that again. It's not enjoyable for me.

[shiftingwinds]

So have you told Aoi to stop calling you "Master" yet?

[nodo]

I will the next time I speak to her.

[ spare me britt. ]

[shiftingwinds]

You'd better. People are going to assume weird things about you if you let that continue.

[nodo]

I don't care what people assume about me—

[ so he says. ]

But I'll have her address me normally if only because it's a pain otherwise.

[shiftingwinds]

[s i g h s]

She seems like the type to agree to certain things a little too easily. Be careful about how you talk to her, okay?