AUDIENCE FOR: su jiuqing

[saturations]

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[saturations]

Right back at you.

[they look up at her with a smile. there's a little more definition to the face, making it look oddly inhuman and gaunt.]

Help with weeding? [as they walk towards the garden, though.] So, tell me how you're getting along with everybody?

[countermeasures]

Of course.

[oddly inhuman and gaunt, huh? me looking at art of who i think shale is and nodding to myself.]

Umm... well enough, I think. Most people here have been very kind.

[saturations]

[don't be a coward tell me.]

I think so too, but more specific? Who are you getting along with?

[countermeasures]

[i'll be embarrassed if im wrong]

...that's a pretty long list...! But I spend a lot of time with Percy and Vin, if I had to name just a few.

[saturations]

[ew]

Aww. [they nod, happy.] I like Vin.

[countermeasures]

[tch]

I do, too. She's very sweet - much sweeter than she gives herself credit for.

[saturations]

[lol]

We've had some nice talks.

[countermeasures]

[don't lol at me!!! i was nervous about telling you!!!]

Really? I'm glad to hear you've been getting along with her! ...I hope you've had a lot of nice talks with many of us.

[saturations]

[l o l]

I try. A lot of you are pretty willing, now that you've been here a while. It's nice.

[countermeasures]

Is there anyone you've been wanting to talk with that hasn't come by? Maybe I could bring them along with me next time...

[saturations]

[hmm...]

I've talked to most of you. But I'd say your friend Percy owes a conversation.

[countermeasures]

Oh, I think I can manage that.

[rip percy. he's getting dragged along for a tea party once audiences are open again after the next murder.]

[saturations]

[the real victim will be percy...

anyway who says there's going to be another murder paranoid tbh]

Good. I like talking to people, but I don't generally mind if it's me they talk to or not. But ... all of that stuff about the prism, the Dreamer stuff, I don't like it still lingering.

[countermeasures]

[you can't gaslight me we are in a MURDERgame]

I'm sure it must be more than a little unsettling that it keeps coming up...

[saturations]

It's pretty weird.

[a sigh.]

I wish you guys would talk to us about these things. We could set your mind at ease, maybe.

[countermeasures]

[she tilts her head to one side, curious]

Maybe... but you said it was just the four of you here for quite a while, didn't you? I had imagined this would have been as new to you as it is to the rest of us.

[saturations]

That's right.

[they hum, tilting their head slightly.]

It is new to us, and we don't have answers for you, exactly. But we know what the prism is. If you tell us what's going on with you guys, maybe there will be something we can say to help. Instead of finding something that casts things in the worst light and listening to it without trying to talk to us.

[countermeasures]

...what do you think of it, then? About... what was found last week, involving the "Dreamer," and then what happened after that with Sir Naruhodo and Sir Asogi...

[unfortunately jiuqing doesn't get more dreamer deets from vin until thursday and this thread is on wednesday. rip.]

It's... very unsettling. Something affected the two of them, unless we all just read them wrong and they were the type to attack each other out of the blue...

[saturations]

Yeah.

[they're willing to talk about this.]

It is unsettling. And I think you're right, I don't get that sense about them. I think something was wrong with them. But... [hmm.] The Dreamer thing, I don't trust it. There's not some malevolent force at the center of all this. I don't believe that.

[countermeasures]

...then, what do you think left that note?

[if it wasn't one of the residents, and it wasn't one of the newcomers...]

[saturations]

[a sigh. they turn, looking up at the sky, even though it's always cloudy here. just sort of contemplating, looking very much like a real statue while they do it.]

...I don't know. It had to be somebody, right? I think. [hmm.] The prism makes things sometimes, things where none of us know what it came from. But this doesn't feel quite like that.

That's what worries me most about it. We don't know.

[countermeasures]

...then we should try to find more about it, shouldn't we? That way... you can try to understand what's going on with it, too. Maybe it will help you to find out, even though you don't know now.

[saturations]

[for some reason, although this sounds very reasonable, they seem hesitant.]

And if you dig up more pieces that tell you to hate the prism, destroy it? And if you start to believe it?

Didn't all of this start getting worse after that first one? I don't...I don't like it.

[countermeasures]

Do you suggest that we ignore it entirely, then...?

[jiuqing feels - a little surprised, although maybe she shouldn't be. the residents have been pro-prism from the very beginning, and they'd certainly seemed agitated after the first note had been found. maybe that wasn't just because of the "brain scrambled" comments.]

This... "Dreamer" seemed to be trying to get our attention, with the note. And then there was also that hallucination that Miss Hiyama, Sir Naruhodo, and Sir Asogi had... they saw it while looking around for clues, but it didn't seem as though they had any choice but to see it. If we ignore it for too long, might it escalate to something unavoidable?

[saturations]

I think you should all...stop digging up graves and dragging things out of them. Metaphorically and literally.

[cemetery defacers...]

If it becomes unavoidable, then that'll be our sign we have to do something about it, but until then... [but they seem to stop themself, despite their frustration and obvious discomfort.]

I don't want you guys to think you can't talk to us, or we'll get angry at you if you do what you're gonna do. I'm glad we're having the conversation, that's just...my opinion on it. Nothing good is going to come from digging things up.