SHI QING XUAN

[aubins]

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[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.

[shiftingwinds]

...right... it would only work if that was the only death that week.

[and considering they've had an extra body every week... yeah. good luck with that, gang.

she sighs.]

I wouldn't want to vote for someone innocent on purpose, anyway. [although last week has demonstrated that she probably could rally enough people into voting for anyone. what the heckie.]

[aubins]

Even then, we've got enough killers we've missed now that there's a chance they'll vote just to avoid getting belatedly caught themselves.

... It was never going to be simple, but now I don't know if not voting is the right option going forward. But without being sure, I don't necessarily like condemning someone. Not unless I know they're already guilty of something here.

[ sqx is powerful. ]

[shiftingwinds]

...I agree with you on that.

[the past is... well, it's not necessarily all just in the past, but -

it's not necessarily an indication that they're going to do something awful here, either.]

[aubins]

[ plus so many of them would be bunged in that execution room if past crimes mattered. ]

I think we forget that, sometimes.

[shiftingwinds]

...

[she nods one]

...yesterday was... an example of that, I think.

[although, like. his attitude hadn't really helped.]

[aubins]

...

It was.

[ ... ] It was also an example of our failings to sort through all these trials and find an answer. It's an example of how high our emotions run during these trials. And it's an example of how easily influenced we can all be.

[shiftingwinds]

[she's quiet for a few long moments, and then she nods at that, too.]

...I'm sorry we weren't able to figure out what happened to Luca.

[she'd really wanted to do that.

but really, the only thing she'd managed to do was make sure ming yi was safe. she doesn't regret it, but she does regret not finding the truth of what happened.]

[aubins]

I might as well apologise to you for the same thing. We both wanted to figure it out, and we both couldn't.

[ and now they're none the wiser to any of it. ]

[shiftingwinds]

...we'll keep looking, though.

[who cares if the evidence vanished? they'll figure it out, one way or another.]

[aubins]

Right. There's no harm in that.

[shiftingwinds]

I think there'd be more harm in letting it go unsolved.

[aubins]

... Don't get so wrapped in it you can't focus on any future cases though. It's not fair to the people who suffer those, if you do.

[shiftingwinds]

[she nods]

When we have trials, we should be focused on those cases. But - outside of the trials...

[...she just really wants to get to the bottom of this.]

[aubins]

What we do outside of trials is up to us. Solving these trials is probably an indulgence somewhere, if you really want to get technical and make things fit in the guidelines.

But it's for you too. So it's important.

[shiftingwinds]

...that's what they keep saying, right? Our choices matter.

[aubins]

[ he nods. ]

Literally the choice between life and death, as it turns out.