SHI QING XUAN

[aubins]

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[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.

[shiftingwinds]

Right. Whether it's true or not, we need to keep it in mind - either to figure out how to deal with it, or to better understand why you would have been told that if it's not true.

[aubins]

I wonder if "eat" is more of a ... metaphorical thing. Like energy wise? But speculating too much without confirmation is a little dangerous.

[shiftingwinds]

...we can always look around more, next week. See what we can do.

[...]

The trick I pulled in the simulation room probably won't work twice, will it?

[DON'T TRY TO CONJURE UP ANSWERS ABOUT THIS PLACE EATING PEOPLE, SQX.]

[aubins]

If you pull those simulation room shenanigans again, I will personally march you straight to Molly and Gu Yun and leave you at their mother hen mercy.

[shiftingwinds]

[as kindly as possible: ]

You're so talented at being a tattletale, Yuri!

[aubins]

I do it out of love, and concern for you and your wellbeing, Shi.

[ the kindest two people in the room. ]