SHI QING XUAN

[aubins]

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[aubins]

... It's bad I keep thinking it'd be nice to get one right so we know we're not condemning someone uninvolved, when I really should be thinking "it'd be nice if no one died".

[shiftingwinds]

"It'd be nice if no one died" goes without saying. [she hesitates] But it also doesn't fit the reality of the situation we're in.

[aubins]

It doesn't, no. It's purely wishful thinking.

[shiftingwinds]

Admitting that feels a little like giving up, but... we won't be able to find a way out of this if we refuse to accept reality for what it is.

[aubins]

We can at least start solving cases and stop giving the killers a free pass to getting away with it.

[shiftingwinds]

Right.

[she grits her teeth]

...I'm so sick of doing that.

[aubins]

....


Think if we put a sign up -- "Please contain your murderous rampages to two rooms" -- they'd listen?

[shiftingwinds]

I doubt it. None of us seems all that inclined to read signs.

[aubins]

[ (7 rings voice) that sign can't stop us because we can't read ]

...

There's got to be a better way to organise where we look and how we figure out where we're looking.

[shiftingwinds]

We tend to start off asking what we noticed when we woke up, and when we go out to check around the base for clues...

[hmm]

It might be hard to get everyone around to share where they were when we fell asleep the day before, but for people who go to investigate the base, maybe we should make a habit of meeting up with each other to discuss what we found right away on Friday. Then, on Saturday, we have however many places that we know we can start looking at right away while the rest of us are discussing what happened when we slept and sorting out what might be significant.

[aubins]

Ask around, make a list and collaborate the information first thing? Or at the very least, some people could stay behind and catch up on any we've missed, while some go and explore places we are sure will have something.

[ it's... a thought. ]

[shiftingwinds]

Right, something like that. If we can get everyone to agree at the start of the week that anyone who investigates a room they didn't wake up in on Friday should meet up with each other at a designated place, we can make sure we have those details before we even walk into the conference room, and send someone to go look right away while the rest of us discuss.

Ideally, we should send people who spent the night with at least one other person, so while they're investigating the other person could share the details of what went on there before we fell asleep and when we woke up.

[aubins]

Actually do our groundwork rather than getting there and scrambling to get the basics done? It'd probably save us a good half hour at the very least.

So... double up at least, and then we use the numbers in each room to split the work load of curfew effects and visions, and room exploration.

[shiftingwinds]

[she nods]

We know the sorts of things we'll be looking for every single week - we can get that out of the way early, and try to stay as focused as possible so we can move on to finding new things.

[aubins]

What's the saying... fourth time's a charm? [ no, yuri. that is not the saying. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[well, she knows the actual saying, but - ]

Yes, let's go with that.

[aubins]

[ yup ]

We've already blown the third time part, might as well adapt.

[shiftingwinds]

Ahaha... that's true.

[aubins]

[ siiiiigh. ]

... We can't keep getting it wrong. Just in general, someone will slip up eventually.

[shiftingwinds]

Right. There's no such thing as a perfect crime. [even with the ones they didn't solve, if the evidence stuck around, they probably could figure it out eventually.] And there's no one who's perfect at keeping secrets, either.

We'll either catch someone at a trial, or after the fact. But they won't get away with it forever.

[aubins]

We're rushing through a lot in a short time. We're always going to miss things.

[ ... ]

Unfortunately, we might find ourselves improving the more these things happen. [ huff. ] Even if that will mean more death.

[shiftingwinds]

...there's going to be more death whether we improve or not, so - it's better that we do. At least that might help minimize some of it.

[aubins]

Or catch the people who are likely to try and repeat their actions on someone else.

[shiftingwinds]

[she nods]

I'd like to catch all of them, honestly - it's better to know the truth of what happened and why our friends are dying than to stay in the dark.

...but I absolutely want to catch the people who are likely to kill again.

[aubins]

We still don't even know what HK-47 did to Tamaki. Why was there a skull in the rec room?

I mean. We got the robot on a technicality, but still...

[ ... ]

Yes. Repeat offenders might get more over-confident and make more mistakes too.