pc: sleep to frog communication..... 2

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[squirt]

we dont have much time to decide

id trust most teams to revive everyone else
everyone ive spoken to is a decent person hoping for the best of a bad game
if that werent true wed all be dead already

but even if were allies you guys have to decide for yourselves

[ohthehumanities]

I can't speak for Shu and Nahida, of course
But if this seems like our most viable option, I would be okay with it, depending on who the leading team is

[He. Does not want Sweet Theory to win but he won't say that]

But I don't know how we can figure out who that is besides guessing

[honkinbigteeth]

kaveh
promise not to be mad, okay?

[frogzoned]

ylfa its a ridiculous promise that no one can keep

[ohthehumanities]

[At the same time as Gerard, like an idiot:]

Of course, why?

[frogzoned]

KAVEH DON'T PROMISE THIS

[ohthehumanities]

[Too late I wanted Siz to say it haHA]

[honkinbigteeth]

ok you promised to never be mad

i think our team is probably the one in the lead right now

[frogzoned]

WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT THIS IN PERSON MAYBE AND NOT LEAVING A WRITTEN RECORD OF IT BUT THAT'S JUST MY OPINION

[squirt]

[ immediately: ]

meet us at our warehouse

[ohthehumanities]

[There is a very long delay

But, eventually:]

How can you be sure?

[honkinbigteeth]

well because aika told us we were
warehouse

[ohthehumanities]

[Another long delay]

Alright
Give me an hour to finish what I'm doing

[honkinbigteeth]

um
ok

[squirt]

[ whenever they get around, froggystyle will indeed be outside their warehouse, waiting. ]

[ohthehumanities]

[Okay well

SWEET BECKS IS ASLEEP BUT I ASSUME SHU IS HERE AND JUST SILENTLY LISTENING FOR NOW we can retcon Shu's reactions later,,, Nahida is almost certainly here too I'm sure I'm guessing Britt will jump in. Maybe. Or maybe it's just Kaveh getting T-posed at by a frog, a 12-year-old, and a dolphin.

EITHER WAY, Kaveh will indeed show up!! HE IS STILL EXHAUSTED AND HUNGOVER??? WE JUST WATCHED A SNAKE MAN GET VORED LIKE 8 HOURS AGO. WHY IS THIS THE WORST BIRTHDAY TO EVER HAVE

But at least he's not, like, nyooming at them in a rage, so probably he isn't going to. Idk. Healing aura them to death on a Sunday? Who knows. His expression is very tightly controlled, though, and he crosses his arms almost soon as he arrives, curling his fingers into the fabric of his shirt. His gaze flicks to each of them in turn, as if, even now, he's trying not to make them feel pressured.]

Go ahead.

[honkinbigteeth]

[the longer he takes the more convinced she is that he's mad, so by the time he gets there she's sort of shrinking back between gerard and haru, hiding under her cape.

but she'll speak up when he speaks first.]

Kaveh, um. You don't really have to promise not to be mad. But if we tell you about this, and you tell anyone else, then...we'll probably die.

If you don't think you can be okay with not telling anyone, then we can not tell you, and we can agree to not be an alliance anymore. And you can be mad. Just please don't get us erased, or it will all be for nothing.

[frogzoned]

[ he’s watching this all very carefully - and is stepping to least beside Ylfa. It’s not that he thinks Kaveh, Nahida and Shu are a danger or anything, but just. He wants to be there too. A little protective. ]

Even if you don’t want to hear about that, I’m more than happy to share what I’ve spoken with the Reapers about. It might help, or it might not.

[squirt]

[ haru stays put when ylfa turns herself extra small, his expression very still, like it's a very deliberate effort to be calm. he doesn't have anything to add right now. ]

[ohthehumanities]

[Don't you want to ask where he was, Ylfa :)

But--no, he doesn't look mad. If anything, his expression shifts into something just a little heartbroken at the clear wariness and fear they're showing, even though he does, of course, logically understand where it's coming from.

He has a feeling he already knows how this is going to go, if this is the way they're reacting. Rather--he has since Ylfa's first message. It was too late to walk away the moment the idea entered his head, and he can't leave without confirming one way or the other. No decent scholar walks away just because they don't like what they see.

And besides, his own failures aren't their fault.]

I want to know. All of it. [...] It's up to Nahida and Shu, what they want to do. But I don't want to get you erased.

[But he'll let Nahida and Shu say their pieces, if they have any, because Kaveh knows he's too emotional for things like this. If there are any stipulations here, any conditions to this conversation, he won't be the one to say them.]

[dendroculi]

[nahida has had a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach since she started reading over some of the messages. maybe she just hadn't wanted to believe it - maybe that was why she hadn't addressed some of it.

(she didn't want to jump to conclusions. something about this week has left her severely questioning her own judgment, her own logic, and her own reasoning - so she hadn't pressed the matter.)

but now, there's not really anything to question. there are answers, if ylfa, gerard, and haru will give them - and in her heart, she does believe that they will.

...she's holding onto kaveh's and shu's hands, though, if they'll let her.]

I want to know, too. Just having heard what I have already... so many questions are buzzing in my mind. It's like a noise that I can't block out. [...] I can't promise about how I'll react. But I can promise that I don't want to see you erased. You're... you're my friends.

[roseoftexas]

[ sits up and staggers in like hoo boy.

anyway.

shu initially follows up behind the two of them — walking at a more sedate pace. he doesn’t looked stressed, or nervous, anything like that. he just looks calm. it’s not emotions week after all, so who knows how he’s feeling inside.

he’ll let nahida grip his hand, once he catches up with the others. but he does glance to one side at kaveh and nahida before he looks back at ylfa, gerard and haru. ]

Better to just get it out there.

1/3

[honkinbigteeth]

[she takes a deep breath as they gather, obviously kind of nervous, but eventually she'll just blurt out - ]

I didn't cut her head off to be a freak! My ax slipped out of my hands and went into a tornado! [a situation that could happen to anybody.] And I only put her in Selfie World because I thought she'd want to be remembered looking beautiful, but I couldn't get her head back on so it came across differently than I intended.

I'm sorry for doing something so horrible like a serial killer would. I promise I didn't take a photo with her dead body to keep as a trophy or anything, I promise! I picked her because she told me every week that the longer I waited, the harder it might be to catch up, and she was the only one smart enough to realize that. But I never wanted to make fun of her or desecrate her. I'm really, really sorry for being so gross!

2/3

[frogzoned]

[ he, uh, swallows hard before he starts because this one is probably going to be a lot worse, but they’d said they’d want to know (and had promised to never ever be mad). ]

I killed Shenhe.

[ he at least speaks steadily enough, even if he’s awkwardly moving his hands around like he’s not sure what to do with them. ]

There was a lot of reasons. I’m sure just as many of them as excuses as much as they are actual logic, but I think it’s only fair to say why. We … have to get back. Alive. It is not a question of maybe. If we don’t, then our world and probably every other world is going to be destroyed. Maybe even yours too. So we … always had to act. Hoping it would work— No one is coming to save us. I don’t know if there’s another way. Everything I’ve asked, everything you’ve asked, they know isn’t possible.

That said, I … knew Ylfa had the idea she had to do this. And I think I was afraid of making the decision for myself, but I couldn’t sit by and let her - make her do that for us. [ HE DOES CLOSE BOTH EYES FOR A SECOND. ] I really did think I’d beaten her to the punch, neither of us knew the other’s plans. But it made sense. If we had to win, get enough points, then I could be the one to do that. Because you, um, get more points. If you don’t wait for the text message to tell you to do it. If I was caught, I don’t think people would hurt Haru and Ylfa. I’m … expendable. So it made sense.

Shenhe and I. We spoke, before I did anything. I didn’t— She was my friend. I didn’t want to stab her in the back, and I wanted it to be as fair a fight as we could manage. So I didn’t know if I would be coming back. So I think she understood. I hope she did. She wanted the same things, and she was planning to kill for her team as well. She was from the same world as multiple people, so I wouldn’t be destroying her - well, your - world. That’s the last thing I want. So it felt … I don’t know. Even. She was playing the same game as us, understood the stakes.

We want to win, and we want to bring back as many as we can. I don’t know that everyone will be possible. I’ve been asking questions, trying to come up with solutions, and maybe there are some, but I think we’re just. Too late to bring everyone back to life. I promise we are going to bring back anyone who we’ve hurt.

[dendroculi]

I want to be able to trust them.

I have some reservations about... some of the other teams. But I would like it if they could be trusted.

[she's insecure in her own judgment because it's insecurity week though ayyooooo]