[ it's fine he has brothers who are bigger drunks than he is. alcoholism is relative, probably. ]

Yeah, no kidding. [ takes a sip of whatever drink he ended up with and sighs. ] Kind of amazing how it just kept getting worse.

Mm. I don't think anyone expected it to jump to two, and then to actually catch the both of them, and then for the votes to tie...

[ everyone was. so confident. that would not happen. ]

[ definitely flickers over to black and white for a while longer... ]

Ugh... it didn't have to happen that way, if they'd just given us more time to talk about it once we figured out. I mean, what's the point of that hard deadline? It's completely arbitrary!

A lot of things are. The fact that we can't look at anything until Saturday, how we have to wait in line to go investigate...

[ there are ooc reasons for this but, alas, they do not know this. ]

It is perfectly designed to make it stressful.