SHI QING XUAN

[aubins]

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[aubins]

[ britt stop trying to die there's already people who know. ]

Benefits to talking about it in the open though. If the possibility exists, then we can throw doubt on things. And if you haven't used your powers, you can prove that you're innocent.

It's all about weighing the risks and benefits.

[shiftingwinds]

[this hypothetical killer doesn't know that though! kill me! kill me! kill me!]

You're right. We have to think about what's best for the group as a whole, I think... if sharing or not sharing would help keep most of us alive, we should do that.

[aubins]

[ but britt you have to hit 10k and get your free paid from dana? you only have like 2.5k to go! ]

We can call it out if we need to. To the same end, I'd rather not use my power so I can straight up prove my innocence if need be. Puts me out of the running for accusation in the future, and at the time in question. It'd be quite obvious if I used it in the middle of trial.

[shiftingwinds]

[fucking stop]

What... does it do, anyway? [a beat] You don't have to tell me if you'd rather not, but - I wouldn't tell anyone else.

[aubins]

[ no? ]

... [ he rubs the back of his head. ] ... I'm trying to keep the number of people I tell down to as minimum a number as I can. Gojou knows, and so does Gu Yun, so it's fine to bring it up with them but no one else. Alright?

[shiftingwinds]

[she nods]

I understand.

[aubins]

It lets me change my appearance into other participant's for one hour. Notably, it doesn't specify living or dead.

[shiftingwinds]

...

[wow.]

I can see why you'd want to keep that quiet. [...] That name really has nothing to do with it, though.

[aubins]

Yeah, but at least it's an obvious one to prove or disprove whether you used it. And no, it doesn't. Maybe because we were nosing into ability names and trying to assign meaning last time?

[shiftingwinds]

That may be the case.

[aubins]

So, we need to try not to be too clever about it. Probably.

[shiftingwinds]

Or at least not in public, anyway.

[aubins]

I don't think I shouted my research into the rafers. Maybe they just Know these things.

[shiftingwinds]

...I mean, that would be in keeping with our profiles.

[just Knowing things.]

[aubins]

Actively, things that we're doing right here right now?

... Well, I guess they know things like who's sleeping with who so it's not such a stretch.

[shiftingwinds]

The alarms are meant to keep them from watching us, so, it stands to reason that they can quite easily see what we're up to the rest of the time.

...and they do know who killed each week, so it's not a stretch at all to say they can quite easily keep tabs on things we're doing right here right now.

[aubins]

Presumably, so can-- [ he does a little circle with his finger ]-- this place. I wonder if it's less them and more that throwing spanners in the works.

[shiftingwinds]

...that wouldn't surprise me much, either. Though with all the flesh we've found, it gives "the walls have ears" quite an unpleasant, literal meaning, doesn't it?

[aubins]

... Ugh. That's a lovely mental image there.

[shiftingwinds]

...ahaha, sorry.

[aubins]

[ he tweaks her nose. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[she makes a face at him]

[aubins]

Unpleasant imagery aside, the fleshy lumps can't be completely random. And I deeply, deeply hate that.

[shiftingwinds]

...especially with what you said about this place eating the dead...

[aubins]

I still need to run that past another Avatar and ask them about it too. Regardless of what the outcome is, it's not something I think we can ignore.