SHI QING XUAN

[aubins]

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[shiftingwinds]

[passes it back over to him... fine... she'll share...]

We've had trials in the heavens, but they're not like this. They only convene after we've had enough time to find enough evidence to justify having one.

[aubins]

[ thank u sqx you're a super star. she might be less hungover this way? win/win. ]

And presumably with a little more time to actually look at and gather evidence beforehand?

[shiftingwinds]

With much more time. This whole setup, it's...

It's just not enough time. It's rushed.

[aubins]

... it may be all they have to work with. As much as I don’t like it, and don’t care for the fact one big distraction can screw us over that badly [ TOBLEROOONNNNEEEE ], I do think they’d give us more to work with if they could.

Doesn’t help us now of course.

[shiftingwinds]

[i will never look at toblerones the same way again]

...we have to do better next time. We can't let this happen again, no matter how little we have to work with.

[aubins]

... We got really distracted, which didn't help us. [ HILARIOUS at the time though ]

Or at the very least, we need to be smarter about voting. Like, maybe not voting at all. Except I doubt that would actually happen.

[shiftingwinds]

Not only would it not happen, it would drastically increase the chances of us losing someone who wasn't a killer - because someone who had murdered would be motivated to ensure they didn't get the highest number of votes.

[aubins]

There's no incentive to get people to vote either. I mean, they claim indulgences are a factor, but the only way I can see it working is if you're intentionally voting wrong -- spite voting for Wrath, voting someone innocent if you're Despair?

[ ... ]

The more numbers we have though, the less likely we are to be skating past these things on snap voting.

[shiftingwinds]

[i'M GLAD YOU EDITED THIS BECAUSE I ONLY GOT THE EDIT NOTIF AND NOT THE TAG ONE]

You could argue that not voting could count as an indulgence for Sloth, too...

[aubins]

[ GMMMAAAAIIIILLLL... DREAMWIIIIDDDTTTTHHHHHH

also fuck ur right goes to add a sloth indulgence to my list ]

So, we're just stuck in a bit of a loop where we're always going to be stuck at a disadvantage. Spite voting's too risky, because if so few people vote then one vote either way could make all the difference.

I mean, look at that Vlad guy. [ annoying? maybe. a wrath hater and therefore not valid? yea. but probably doesn't actually deserve coming second twice. ]

[shiftingwinds]

Right. I won't say I agree with him, because I don't.

[actually, she kind of wanted to hit him? but at least he admitted he was probably wrong after they bickered a bit.]

...but he was pretty obviously not a killer, and he's come close to being voted out twice now. I can't say I like that at all.

[aubins]

Someone's got it in for him. Or thinks he's an acceptable target because he keeps doing things that rub people the wrong way.

[ like badmouthing wrath. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. ]

But I don't think he deserves to be voted as a murderer.

[ unlike the robot who, while i love and support iki being off the string and living his best life, keeps calling them meatbags and threatening murder. so. ]

[shiftingwinds]

I don't think he does either.

[...]

Yuri, can I tell you something? I... talked to HK-47 before I started drinking. [...she bites her lip.] If he somehow survives tomorrow, he needs to be killed before he can kill someone else. He has plans.

[aubins]

...

[ hoo boy. ]

.... I could take a wild guess, but what kind of plans?

[shiftingwinds]

Plans to kill people. He had a whole list of targets.

[aubins]

[ that seems about right. ]

Did he tell you the targets?

[shiftingwinds]

Some of them. I'm afraid he might change targets now that he's said them - but either way, I don't think any of us can afford to take any of his threats as simply a part of his... "programming" anymore.

They might have been idle chatter in the past, but I'd believe that he means any that he makes now.

[aubins]

Either way any target isn't a good thing for us.

[ ... ]

He's been asking a lot of questions of people, from what little I can remember talking to him. He was very interested in who had combat abilities and who didn't.

I don't know anything about robots or machines, but all the talk of killing wouldn't be a personality trait I would be happy with in a person.

[shiftingwinds]

Right.

...if he does somehow manage to make it out alive tomorrow... [and based on his abilities, she thinks... he might...] I'll, well...

[she'll


probably do a murder.]

[aubins]

...


Let's see what happens tomorrow. If he survives, then talk to me before you start working on something rash.

You're at a disadvantage immediately because he's mechanical. I'm assuming your knowledge of that is on a par with mine? [ aka: not much ]

[shiftingwinds]

...I'd imagine so. We seem to have a similar lack of knowledge of "modern" things.

[unfortunately she is so drunk right now she's not going to remember she told him she's planning to do a murder]

[aubins]

Yeah. Unless we can suddenly transplant tech knowledge into our brains we're always going to be at a disadvantage there.

For... well. General knowledge and item use as well.

[ * yuri leclerc will remember this ]

[shiftingwinds]

I wonder if it would be too obvious to start asking people about how to deal with robots.

[

probably.]

[aubins]

.... Shi, please don't start asking how to deal with robots. Don't put a sign over your head.

[shiftingwinds]

...

[but he's dangerous, is what her face says]