SHI QING XUAN

[aubins]

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[aubins]

... [ huh. ] Sure. Show me around your fancy god palace, Shi. I want to see how the other half live.

[ gee i wonder. ]

We've had a number of substitutes for going outside -- the garden, the sim room, here and that... park with all the dogs in? -- but still no sign of the outside itself. I wonder why.

[ ... a mystery ]

[shiftingwinds]

[okay! they'll head there next. but for now, contemplating the mysteries of the airport.]

Maybe we just... can't go outside?

[aubins]

... I mean. I figured we're locked in, but... even in Abyss we could go outside and look at the sun if we really wanted to?

[shiftingwinds]

Perhaps it's not safe for us to do that here...?

[the


the stares in the observing room, you two. please. i'm crying. just acknowledge you're in space.]

[aubins]

But why wouldn't it be safe?

[



can't acknowledge you're in space when you don't know what space is ]

[shiftingwinds]

I'm really not sure, but I can't think of any other reason why they wouldn't let us out. Most of the Avatars don't seem like unreasonable people.

[aubins]

[ maybe these losers should just go to the OBSERVATION ROOM ]

No, most of them are fine. But there's definitely some kind of laws they're adhering too that we aren't aware of. Or... I'm sure that must be the case. Otherwise the things they keep secret, they'd probably tell us.

[shiftingwinds]

[THEY REALLY SHOULD.

anyway, she nods at that.]

I agree - I don't think they really like keeping things secret from us all that much.

[aubins]

[ guess who needs a pc in the observatory room on tuesday? these two. ]

Most of them -- most of them -- are pretty apologetic when they can't answer or do something, so I think that's a fair assessment. And then there's... well....

[ ... ]

Shi, have you seen any of them with their hoods off?

[shiftingwinds]

[she nods]

One of them, yes. Have you?

[aubins]

Yes, one of them. Although I know what two of them look like if you want to be technical.

[ ... ]

Did they look different, to you? [ hm ] Maybe that's not the right way of putting it. Did they look influenced to you?

[shiftingwinds]

Influenced...

[she thinks about it for a moment, then nods. yeah, she could buy that.]

Well... perhaps. Their appearance wasn't the most unusual thing I've ever seen, but admittedly, I come from a world of gods and ghosts. But they seemed to look like something almost... in-between?

[gods look mostly human, as do ghosts of a higher caliber; weaker ghosts and demons look obviously inhuman.

the avatar she saw seemed to be a bit of both.]

[aubins]

Another way of putting it would be, did you share memories with that avatar? Because what I saw in the memory I saw, and when I saw the same Avatar, they were different.

[ not... offputting, or scary, or anything like that. beautiful, honestly. but still different. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[she shakes her head]

No... I didn't share memories with any of them. [her brow furrows with concern] ...if they have been influenced by something...

[...what does that mean? it probably explains why they can't just tell them everything, but...]

[aubins]

[ he just sort of... rubs his forehead. ]

I can't really say more than that then. It's not my place to. But... keep it in mind? I think when you see it, if it's a common thing amoung all of them you might realise what I mean.

... But it would lend weight to the idea they have their own things they're dealing with here, other than just watching us run around all day.

[shiftingwinds]

[she nods]

I'll definitely remember that.

[a pause, and then - ]

...I know we've got our own situations to deal with, but - do you think it's something we might be able to help them with...? If they're in some kind of trouble, I don't want to just leave them to it.

[aubins]

If they're trapped here as well, I'd feel like an asshole leaving them behind. But again -- they get cagey talking about it. We'd have to stumble across something on our own and I'm not sure where to begin.

...

Maybe take a closer look in one of the rooms and see it we find anything?

[shiftingwinds]

That's somewhere to start.

[or maybe if they get spirited away for a cyoa...?]

[aubins]

[ slams hands on desk CYOA CYOA CYOA ]

The rooms don't feel... I don't know. Random? I mean, I can't place why we got a jail cell that we're never going to use and a chapel last week, when we're all from different worlds and worship different things...

But it doesn't feel like it's all purposeless. I just don't know what that purpose is.

[shiftingwinds]

[ @ mods please love us]

Maybe if we could manage a week without voting, we could make use of it, but I see what you mean. [...] Everything feels like a part of some kind of puzzle, but it's all scattered enough that I can't quite make out the big picture yet.

[aubins]

We just keep finding random pieces and have no where to fit them to.

[ mooooddddssssssss wuvwuv ]

... I think I might ask Greed about voting numbers. Chances are I'll just get a [ (edgeworth voice) and i can make this joke mods because britt and i have both perceived you ] "Leclerc that is not relevant, you should be focus on improving the overall poor performance at the trial itself" ... but it would be helpful to know how many people are voting and how many aren't.

Especially going forward.

[shiftingwinds]

[if greed isn't edgeworth i'll eat my hat]

I was thinking about that, too. As our numbers go down, the margins will get narrower and narrower - so that's something we really need to know, if "skipping the vote" is a thing we actually want to try doing.

[she frowns slightly]

...I wonder if it's what we should be doing.

[aubins]

[ i will eat your hat too ]

... I haven't voted since we got here. [ might as well be honest. ] Ultimately, the killers will have a reason to vote each week. So hoping for no vote is a lot, really.

But whether we need to actually vote or not was another one of those things the Avatars got rather cagey about.

[shiftingwinds]

...last week was the first time I voted.

[she, uh, may have panicked a little. a lot. (yuri knows this firsthand.)]

To be honest, the best chance we'd have of making it through a week without a vote would probably be if someone killed in self-defense and admitted it right away.

[aubins]

[ he shrugs. ] I think a lot of people did.

...

But the killers would probably vote for that person if there was more than one murder and only the person admitting to a crime of self defence was caught.

You'd need at least three or four people with an agreement, a person and a plan to vote for someone else to balance it, and you'd be potentially sacrificing someone innocent of any crimes here anyway.