It was the crystal room. [ gu yun's had a special interest in that place since day one, pretty much, so it stuck out. ] She said she saw something in the dark playing with a skull, if I recall correctly, when the door locked.
[ which is WEIRD ] I don't know what it means, or what it's for, but every other thing we saw on Thursday night was relevant.
As for Beauregard... that I'm not sure of, either. [ he sighs, scrubbing his face again. poor molly. ]
[ me looking back on all my 3am errors like “.....”. *Was it, not it was. ]
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She was on her own, if I remember right. But it would be such a strange thing to lie about, and she’d mentioned the skull long before we found it. [ ... ] But where did this skull even come from?
... there was also the kitchen and the music room where things happened, wasn’t there? But when you spoke to Greed, they only made reference to the common room and rec room. Either we need to settle down and focus faster [ they spent like two hours snapping mineo and fukuda in half, so. ] or maybe the rooms with people in just... show something relevant. Rather than as an indicator someone was actually in those rooms or killing there.
[ poor molly, indeed. ] Whatever the reason, we fell right for it.
...And she had those fragments, too. [ gu yun taps his hand against his arm, now, thinking. ] They stayed. The cherry blossoms on me were gone by Friday, but those fragments were likely the parts that were missing from the skull we found, and they remained.
[ there are so many moving parts to this - and so, so many unknowns. gu yun is not a big fan of unknowns. he listens to yuri's points, nodding along to each. ]
I think you're right - that it's just relevance. But there's something special about that skull, and I don't know what it is.
[ .... ugh. ] We've been utterly manipulated. Someone wanted us to put on a show, and we walked right into it.
[ it's fine sometimes i just forget to type correctly ever ]
So, what Vira heard was something actually happening, rather than referencing or alluding to something. [ so... someone out there just has a pocket full of teeth? oh i hate it. ]
Something sinister and cryptic, I'm sure. But powers and such aren't active here, from what I know. It couldn't have been someone casting a spell, at least as far we know, given how things have been working so far.
[ ... ] Yeah. Yeah that's pretty much what happened. Frustrating, isn't it?
That's the thing. 'Powers and such' - [ and yuri knows how much gu yun thinks magic is bullshit, really, so the fact that he's considering this angle means he's very serious about it ] - may not be around, but this place itself has them. After all, it's not normal for me to be able to wish for something and have it simply appear, even if it's off the mark.
The Avatars made it sound like this place manipulated itself in order to cater to someone's indulgence for that to even happen.
[ he's not entirely sure what manipulated it, but gu yun's theory is less that it was one of the participants in this little game, and more that someone used those indulgences to their advantage. ]
I think, depending on how far someone is willing to go, the limits of this place are boundless. We shouldn't be thinking of them so concretely. [ which, for someone who has never dealt in magic or anything like that? is kind of frustrating. yeah. ] The focus for now needs to be not on "why" Beauregard, but rather, "how" someone was able to do that.
Well, we established the ... sock things were probably wished for. I wonder if you can manipulate the interpretations this place will come up with. Although what you wish for to get a human skull to appear, I couldn't say.
[ ... ] That came up yesterday. It seems like... half of the people here semi-expected this, and the lengths people would go to for their wishes. And the other half just seemed baffled by the idea.
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Until we figure out the skull, I think we're at a dead end.
Mm. I don't think the skull necessarily came from that. I don't know what it came from, but I think it's something different.
[ the lack of teeth is still bothering him. the story vira gave is still bothering him. too many inconsistencies, too little information.
he sighs. ] Agreed. [ haha dead end. ] And, I think we need to see what tomorrow will bring, too, before anything - best not to pursue trivia and ignore the essentials.
[ putting the horse before the cart, and all that. ]
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[ clearly they never even had the right thread to begin with, let alone got it tangled along the way. ]
... For a brief moment I wondered if something had been done in self defence but even than doesn't add up.
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... I keep thinking about what she said, towards the end. That she couldn't think of why she would do it - that she lost her staff.
And we found it with that skull, for which we have no explanation.
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Why make Beauregard a scapegoat, though? Out of all the people here.
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[ which is WEIRD ] I don't know what it means, or what it's for, but every other thing we saw on Thursday night was relevant.
As for Beauregard... that I'm not sure of, either. [ he sighs, scrubbing his face again. poor molly. ]
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She was on her own, if I remember right. But it would be such a strange thing to lie about, and she’d mentioned the skull long before we found it. [ ... ] But where did this skull even come from?
... there was also the kitchen and the music room where things happened, wasn’t there? But when you spoke to Greed, they only made reference to the common room and rec room. Either we need to settle down and focus faster [ they spent like two hours snapping mineo and fukuda in half, so. ] or maybe the rooms with people in just... show something relevant. Rather than as an indicator someone was actually in those rooms or killing there.
[ poor molly, indeed. ] Whatever the reason, we fell right for it.
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...And she had those fragments, too. [ gu yun taps his hand against his arm, now, thinking. ] They stayed. The cherry blossoms on me were gone by Friday, but those fragments were likely the parts that were missing from the skull we found, and they remained.
[ there are so many moving parts to this - and so, so many unknowns. gu yun is not a big fan of unknowns. he listens to yuri's points, nodding along to each. ]
I think you're right - that it's just relevance. But there's something special about that skull, and I don't know what it is.
[ .... ugh. ] We've been utterly manipulated. Someone wanted us to put on a show, and we walked right into it.
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So, what Vira heard was something actually happening, rather than referencing or alluding to something. [ so... someone out there just has a pocket full of teeth? oh i hate it. ]
Something sinister and cryptic, I'm sure. But powers and such aren't active here, from what I know. It couldn't have been someone casting a spell, at least as far we know, given how things have been working so far.
[ ... ] Yeah. Yeah that's pretty much what happened. Frustrating, isn't it?
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The Avatars made it sound like this place manipulated itself in order to cater to someone's indulgence for that to even happen.
[ he's not entirely sure what manipulated it, but gu yun's theory is less that it was one of the participants in this little game, and more that someone used those indulgences to their advantage. ]
I think, depending on how far someone is willing to go, the limits of this place are boundless. We shouldn't be thinking of them so concretely. [ which, for someone who has never dealt in magic or anything like that? is kind of frustrating. yeah. ] The focus for now needs to be not on "why" Beauregard, but rather, "how" someone was able to do that.
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[ ... ] That came up yesterday. It seems like... half of the people here semi-expected this, and the lengths people would go to for their wishes. And the other half just seemed baffled by the idea.
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Until we figure out the skull, I think we're at a dead end.
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[ the lack of teeth is still bothering him. the story vira gave is still bothering him. too many inconsistencies, too little information.
he sighs. ] Agreed. [ haha dead end. ] And, I think we need to see what tomorrow will bring, too, before anything - best not to pursue trivia and ignore the essentials.
[ putting the horse before the cart, and all that. ]
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... Otherwise we'll end up forming a theory we won't deviate from and we'll miss the obvious things.