week 2 monday - private convo (akane)

[perceptions]

[After she finishes working on her little project, she'll be going to look for Akane around Yuggoth. If only they had damn phones in this place. Where will she find her murder pal?]

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[18x0]

Little boy? There was a child in there too?

[It's bad enough that in the histories where they killed Q-team, a harmless old man died with them, but a child as well...?]

It's not going to be easy, but I have no intention of being murdered. If it's at all possible, I'll get myself and as many others as possible out of here alive.

[perceptions]

[She nods.]

Makes sense you didn't know about him. His name is Sean. He had a helmet that was stuck over his head, and had no idea how he got to DCom. He woke up with Q, Eric and I. Since Q couldn't move, Sean acted as "team leader" in his place and finalized our decisions. When I got out of DCom, he came with me.

[If that helps Akane feel any better...]

The rules say that only three will survive. That's significantly low odds. Guess I'm not being too optimistic about my chances personally.

[18x0]

[It doesn't make her feel any better. All of it is just a reminder of how little she still actually knows about what went on during the Decision Game.]

...You're not going to kill anyone, right?

[perceptions]

[She crosses her legs a little, pondering the question.]

Well... if someone attacks me I can't promise I won't fight back against them. I don't want to kill anyone, and especially not if I could be executed for self-defense.

[18x0]

[She nods, a little unhappy but understanding.]

That's fair. I just hope it doesn't come to that.

[perceptions]

I wish I could hope like you. [Mira doesn't have a very rosy outlook about how things are going here, given all that has happened so far.] What about you? Not thinking of taking a knife to anyone?

[18x0]

Of course not!

[She's thought about it a little.]

Even if I was willing to murder someone, doing so would just be giving our captors what they want!

[perceptions]

Yeah definitely. I mean though, it's weird. We don't really know what they want, do we? They want so many people dead, but why? Even Zero had some kind of bullshit to tell us about why we were trapped in DCom.

[18x0]

Presumably there's some kind of strange mystical reason behind it all. Some elder god that requires sacrifices, maybe.

[perceptions]

[She snorts.]

Yeah, maybe. And maybe a snail is actually responsible for killing six billion people, right?

[18x0]

No, not the snail. Zero is the one responsible for that.

[Though Mira did help, so there's that]

[perceptions]

I was being sarcastic, Akane. [she doesn't know if akane didn't get it, or if she did the sarcasm wrong. socializing is fuckin hard :/] Personally I think the elder god thing is bullshit, but I don't really believe in higher powers.

[18x0]

I'd assumed that beings like that were nothing but fiction, but everything we've seen here indicates otherwise.

[perceptions]

It's hard to be sure what to believe in. [She huffs.] Well if you're doing alright, I think I'll be on my way. I just wanted to make sure nothing bad has happened to you.

[18x0]

Well, you found out. Thank you, Mira.