[ in the rec room in front of the tv, scrolling carefully through the list of available media on his i.r.i.s. with his multitool out on the coffee table, appearing to be taking this very seriously ]
[ i hope he’s looking for something like love island. shu just stops in the doorway for a moment — and then curiosity gets the better of him and he wanders over. ]
[ not at this moment but it's absolutely next on his list ]
A couple of anime series they had on Cr*nchyroll... Anyway, it doesn't seem like they have the ones I'm looking for! Licensing issues, I guess. Too bad!
[ he did! unfortunately it wasn't like, a lot, because there was a line for the thing. he's at least back in his own clothes instead of the dress (rip), and the cuts on his face and hands aren't bleeding anymore. there's a set of crutches leaning against the wall next to his seat.
his eyes are still very red when he looks up, and he's a little dazed. ]
[ oof. i love when we all get super beat up and then there’s a line for the healing pods if we have them. we always go harder when there’s a healing pod. ]
You look like you need another round in the medbay, when there’s some space for it. [ just say it like it is, shu. ]
[ sighs, which then turns into some pretty rough coughing for a moment. he covers his mouth and pauses for a few seconds afterward before speaking again. ]
They really should have more than two for a crew this big. Stupid.
Well, these extra missions are a little more than transport and delivery, as it turns out. So if they're going to bring four people on them, they should at least have four pods in case something goes wrong.
[ he doesn't look especially eager to answer that, and crosses his arms, looking off to the side. ]
We were supposed to infiltrate this fancy event and retrieve some item from it. Underestimated what violent assholes the plants were going to be, unfortunately.
[ unfortunately i forgot to specifically give him a black eye on cyoa but i'll make it happen again one of these days when he pisses off the wrong person
shakes his head... ]
Mm, the plants killed most of them too.
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That was one of their favorite things to do, though. The event was like, if the Met Gala livestreamed mass executions.
[ from hot twink to greyscale in 24 hours it has been a day. ]
... Are you asking rhetorically, about how we tied? Because I can guess. As for how it keeps getting worse... I don't know. I hope it's not the ship or whatever's causing this escalating, just because it can.
Well, I know how math works, so yeah, I can guess too. It's just insane that we managed to get a perfect split when we wanted to do the opposite of that!
[ if they'd TRIED to coordinate he's sure someone would have fucked it up. ]
You think the ship's some kind of advanced AI that evolved to become a sadist or something, or that someone programmed shit to happen this way?
It probably wasn't difficult. Did you throw your vote?
[ somewhere along the line we will try to coordinate and mess up immensely and i look forward to that day. ]
Dunno. I'm not a techy person -- I do know they don't have brains of their own, no matter what it seems like. If something's gone wrong, it's in the programming, and it might not have been intentional.
It's not like a protest vote would help anyone — aside from in this one particular instance, apparently. At worst we could end up on some random person who had nothing to do with it.
[ like him, lmao. he kind of wishes he'd done that this time, though. ]
...I know some AIs, and they, like... even if it's supposedly all algorithms, it can get weird. But this kind of feels more like a deliberate human thing, I think. Especially since the company could just stop insisting on this trial shit even if they couldn't stop the actual murders.
That's what I mean though. If people had issues voting for Sheba or Shouxue, they'd have thrown the vote elsewhere, which means tying the vote might've come down to say, four people'c choices. I get it? But if it ends up with someone innocent being thrown into the holding cells, that doesn't help anyone.
[ blunt, but not incorrect. ]
Dunno. The algorithm might've decided that this was a logical course of action, and it's just acting based on that. In which case, we need to figure out how to fix it.
but yeah fuck that if you trick him into helping you fuck up the votes when he THINKS you're asking him to help you get a confession out of the real killer you're dead to him ]
Yeah, thank god... I think Adrastea-san said they were probably going to be able to get a fourth one too, so that'll be a huge help.
They mentioned it to me as well -- sounds like by the next time this happens we should have four avaliable, so it should make things a lot easier next time people come back.
[ well. okay then, that's a bigger reveal than he expected to get here. he blinks, but doesn't look terribly disconcerted by this. there's a big difference between a guy who goes after other murderers and a serial killer, after all. ]
Huh.
[ pulls up shu's profile to read his skills again... ]
No, but she did teach me most things I know, so she's Teach.
[ she probably did also teach him school stuff too, which makes this even funnier. ]
... I'd rather it wasn't, and that I don't have to use it. [ truly. ] Then again, none of us really expected to be here so anything we have to our advantage is more useful than we'd expected.
I mean, I think I'm the one person who came out of that looking like a reasonable human being, so I'm okay with it. [ ... ] Just forget those other guys were related to me.
I mean, you'd hope so, but. I think almost everyone's planning to stay at the hotel tonight instead of on this shiphole, so who knows how desperate it might get if it doesn't get its weekly murder trial fix.
I'm saying it because it's more likely you'd be banned from doing it, because they'd rather you voted someone innocent incorrectly. It'd be an unwinnable situation if we were counted as needing investigating -- no evidence, the culprits for our injuries are dead...
Yeah, that's what it seems like. For both the planned and unplanned ones. [ ... ] When it happened to us that first week, we didn't know that was a thing. Kazuki-kun and I didn't really have any reason not to think what we were all seeing was real.
Yeah, it realllly does. It'd be great if we could harness whatever power's doing that and use it for fun VR experiences instead of for emotionally tormenting a bunch of jerks on a spaceship.
Kinda like they were doing on Rodin? [ he tilts his head. ] Yeah. It doesn't have a practical purpose, but not everything needs to be practical and improving something, other than your sense of fun.
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w1, monday
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Looking for something?
[ he moves pretty quietly. hello. ]
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A-ah... yeah, I just wanted to see if they had... um, some stuff from home.
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… Like?
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A couple of anime series they had on Cr*nchyroll... Anyway, it doesn't seem like they have the ones I'm looking for! Licensing issues, I guess. Too bad!
[ he seems pretty relieved by it, actually. ]
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Like the cartoons? [ shu. ] Does licensing even count in space?
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[ shrugs ]
Probably? Though I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be getting any royalties out of this.
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I'm pretty sure you can't just charge likeness fees to the Eudora because they picked you up.
w1, thursday
BONES? ]
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yeah the medbay he's probably there to peek in and see if y'all got healed. ]
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his eyes are still very red when he looks up, and he's a little dazed. ]
...What?
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You look like you need another round in the medbay, when there’s some space for it. [ just say it like it is, shu. ]
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[ sighs, which then turns into some pretty rough coughing for a moment. he covers his mouth and pauses for a few seconds afterward before speaking again. ]
They really should have more than two for a crew this big. Stupid.
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… I’m not sure they expected this many to be injured at one time. For a transport and delivery ship, injuries are probably minor and few.
[ … ]
Doesn’t help us now though. [ you’re all so beaten up. put through the blender. ] What happened?
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[ he doesn't look especially eager to answer that, and crosses his arms, looking off to the side. ]
We were supposed to infiltrate this fancy event and retrieve some item from it. Underestimated what violent assholes the plants were going to be, unfortunately.
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[ everyone hopped in and hopped out so fast. ]
… Ah. [ wait ] The plants were violent assholes, not the people?
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The people. Did they just sit back and watch or something?
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shakes his head... ]
Mm, the plants killed most of them too.
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That was one of their favorite things to do, though. The event was like, if the Met Gala livestreamed mass executions.
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oh.
he gets that reference and pulls SUCH a face. ]
Rich people entertainment?
w2, friday
he blinks when he sees todomatsu, but tilts his head in a greeting. ]
Same idea?
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he glances to shu with a slight nod. ]
Looks like it.
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If there was ever a time to drink, it's now.
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[ takes a drink... ]
It's like, the fifth time I've told myself that since we've been here. The shit experiences really keep one-upping themselves.
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I think we've earned it at this point.
w2, saturday
he's just handing totty a drink as soon as he sees him. for today and for the dude who was hot and lost it. ]
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Thanks.
[ sits down and just. immediately takes the biggest fucking drink. ]
How does it keep getting so much worse?? I mean, how the— we fucking tied?!
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... Are you asking rhetorically, about how we tied? Because I can guess. As for how it keeps getting worse... I don't know. I hope it's not the ship or whatever's causing this escalating, just because it can.
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[ if they'd TRIED to coordinate he's sure someone would have fucked it up. ]
You think the ship's some kind of advanced AI that evolved to become a sadist or something, or that someone programmed shit to happen this way?
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[ somewhere along the line we will try to coordinate and mess up immensely and i look forward to that day. ]
Dunno. I'm not a techy person -- I do know they don't have brains of their own, no matter what it seems like. If something's gone wrong, it's in the programming, and it might not have been intentional.
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It's not like a protest vote would help anyone — aside from in this one particular instance, apparently. At worst we could end up on some random person who had nothing to do with it.
[ like him, lmao. he kind of wishes he'd done that this time, though. ]
...I know some AIs, and they, like... even if it's supposedly all algorithms, it can get weird. But this kind of feels more like a deliberate human thing, I think. Especially since the company could just stop insisting on this trial shit even if they couldn't stop the actual murders.
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[ blunt, but not incorrect. ]
Dunno. The algorithm might've decided that this was a logical course of action, and it's just acting based on that. In which case, we need to figure out how to fix it.
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[ he's so out of his genre here that it might not seem like it, but he is considered to be the calculating and pragmatic one in his own world. ]
It'd help if we had any idea where to start looking for what needs to be fixed in the first place.
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Yeah, we're just drawing a blank there. Unless we figure something out, we're just going to be repeating this pattern.
w3, sunday
shu’s probably sat outside the medbay, flicking through his iris a little tiredly. ]
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[ because woof that execution... ]
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Yeah. I figure they'll be in there for a while.
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Mm, probably so. Pretty messed up that they sent Yuri-san out there after what happened the other day.
[ nodd deserved to be there though. metis... he's just confused how they even ended up in there. ]
Hopefully it's not as bad as it looked.
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... yeah, Both of them, but especially her after she got that badly injured.
[ just adds in some nodd sympathy even though totty's a nodd anti now apparently. ]
I think it might've been but luckily they got that extra pod in time.
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but yeah fuck that if you trick him into helping you fuck up the votes when he THINKS you're asking him to help you get a confession out of the real killer you're dead to him ]
Yeah, thank god... I think Adrastea-san said they were probably going to be able to get a fourth one too, so that'll be a huge help.
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They mentioned it to me as well -- sounds like by the next time this happens we should have four avaliable, so it should make things a lot easier next time people come back.
[ ah. well. awkward time for a memshare ]
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Huh.
[ pulls up shu's profile to read his skills again... ]
...Yeah, I guess that kind of makes sense.
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A few people have been surprised.
[ he genuinely thought it was kind of a giveaway that he has ‘sniper’ in his profile, that’s so specific. ]
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[ it's pretty much soldier, cop, or this. ]
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[ in a way he's not surprised though. ] Most people probably assumed I'm ex-military or something.
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Seems like a pretty big volunteer gig, though.
[ is this like a batman thing or ]
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... I guess. It's something my Teacher started. Technically, I inherited it from her when she died.
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Well. That knowledge is probably more useful here than you thought it was going to be, huh? Unfortunately.
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[ she probably did also teach him school stuff too, which makes this even funnier. ]
... I'd rather it wasn't, and that I don't have to use it. [ truly. ] Then again, none of us really expected to be here so anything we have to our advantage is more useful than we'd expected.
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[ and back in the void so you can have one of the weirdest memories i have lmao... cw for like?? some weird cartoony body horror sort of??? idfk man ]
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what did i just watch ]
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[ YOU'RE SEXTUPLETS. ]
Yeah, unfortunately -- apart from the ones you were arguing with, you all look pretty similar. Strong family resemblence.
[ he's not going to tell him there was still a resemblence with the other ones though. he knows how to pick his battles. ]
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I'll do my best?
[ ever. ]
w4, thursday
Hey... you done being dead now?
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no he’s not. ]
Well, breathing’s not an issue and I ache all over so… probably.
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It would have really sucked if all of you had died off schedule. Can you imagine having a trial for three deaths that happened in a different world?
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[ would they be on trial? would the ship even care? ]
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[ they're sure going to find out!!!!!!! ]
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sure are! wow! ]
That'd be kind of a dick move, you'd have to vote for a dead person and I'm not even sure they let you do that.
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Nothing to vote for.
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I'm not sure what happened in there was related to anything that the Eudora is or isn't messing with.
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Yours wasn't a scheduled mission, was it?
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It does pull from people’s — memories? Experiences? Something like that. So it’s definitely using us for these non-planned missions at the very least.
[ hmmm. ] No, I didn’t get a message about it. I’d have let someone know if I was taking a mission, after what’s been happening the past few weeks.
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Yeah, that's what it seems like. For both the planned and unplanned ones. [ ... ] When it happened to us that first week, we didn't know that was a thing. Kazuki-kun and I didn't really have any reason not to think what we were all seeing was real.
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But now it keeps happening, so there must be some purpose behind it. Even if it’s just accidentally pulling from our memories.
… It sure felt real though.
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