[After talking with Yams, Chuuya is going to go looking for Magnus. Where is he right now? Chuuya will limp there regardless but how long it takes to find Magnus will determine his mood once he gets there.]
[Oh good, it's not far then! Chuuya is going to take a seat by the fire, because he's tired of walking everywhere.]
Hey.
For the record, I'm not mad at you, and I'm not here to lecture you or anything. I'm just trying to track down who messed up my body, and I was wondering if you can talk about Thursday night at all or if you're still on a "ohhhh I didn't get voted out so I can't say shit" lockdown or not.
[Oh. Huh. He actually kind of smiles at that? Like, amused. What a preamble.]
So. Here's the thing. I think I probably can't help you 'cause I don't know what happened or who killed Sanji? But talk to me on Monday and I'll give you my power, and you can see that I wasn't targeting you with knee curses or anything.
Fair enough. I figured you would've picked a different target to hit with these shitty injuries, but I wanted to check. Just in case you knew anything that might help point me in the right direction of who to punch.
[He sounds pretty casual - unconcerned, but Chuuya is going to get his honest answer.]
My power is, once a week, I can pass on any curses or injuries I have. And a random person will get them - I got no control over who it goes to, so it's pretty hard to use.
[On the one hand, he's glad he got an honest answer, even if the truth sucks.
On the other, ]
So you got all of THIS from fighting- [Oh right, he can't say.] -er. 'Sparring with someone who will remain nameless'. Damn. he really did a number on you.
[He seems to accept that it was random, though. Every useful power has to have a downside, right?]
What's this thing about then?
[He holds up his left hand and indicates to the cut on it.]
I dunno! I didn't kill Sanji or anybody, and I didn't use my power last week, so I couldn't tell ya. Look, I can prove it.
[Holding out the identical hand, though. There's a fresh cut from Reaper's Game on that same finger.]
Oh. [He seems a little unsure? Because it's just an open cut, which he definitely didn't have at trial last week.] That's too bad, you can't see the old injury 'cause of this fresh cut over it from Reaper's Game. But I did have a cut on that finger from the trial where 3PO died. I stuck my hand in his head. If I'd used my power, you'd definitely have noticed the shape of it, 'cause it was pretty distinctive!
Right? As long as I don't use it during the week, then I'm pretty safe on Thursdays. Of course, being on Purple has made me hold onto it on purpose, just in case.
[Since, you know. Purple wasn't doing so well there for a bit.]
Honestly? I don't care much about winning. But all it takes is one asshole who does, and suddenly members from the other two teams start dropping like flies.
Yeah. [He nods, serious.] That's true. It's a real worry, right? There's things going on here that I don't like the sound of. There's people I don't necessarily trust. But in the end, all we can do is try to all play for the same team, right?
Yeah. That's why I wanna figure out what's been happening, you know? I get that there has to be one killing a week, but look at these last two weeks. It makes me feel like I'm missing something important here, because otherwise why would four and five people be dying in one night?
And for the record, if someone killed in self-defense, then I wouldn't be complaining about that. But the fact that someone else was one of those four groups in one night to go 'oh hey, let's kill tonight'? That's what I'm talking about here.
You know, I hadn't even considered that time might be a factor. I thought the game would keep going until we either found a way out or until one team was left.
[He would vastly prefer the former.]
What do you think will happen if we run out of time without finding a solution?
I don't got any kind of special insight. I just know that if we are gonna make it, we need to try to work together, right?
[He goes quiet for a long minute, and then he'll say.]
The Chuuya I knew - I mean, I haven't told you one true thing about him so far. But what's true is he did a pretty good job of figuring things out. He pretty much had the major players in the game pinned a week or so in.
But what he did with that information. . . I think he regretted it, after.
He killed some people. Some people we, uh, both thought were pretty bad. I wasn't judging him for it -- I was more impressed he'd found them out the way he had.
Because it's more complicated than 'good' or 'bad', right?
[Chuuya at age 15 can understand that much, at least. He still has some growing to go before he's the same Chuuya Magnus knew, but there's the start of that kind of growth in him.]
It's really easy to just say 'this person is bad, let's kill them' or 'this person would kill me, so I'll kill them first.' But that's how we get five deaths in one week, yeah?
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Week 4, post-trial
Date: 2020-07-12 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-12 03:43 am (UTC)Hey there.
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Date: 2020-07-12 03:52 am (UTC)Hey.
For the record, I'm not mad at you, and I'm not here to lecture you or anything. I'm just trying to track down who messed up my body, and I was wondering if you can talk about Thursday night at all or if you're still on a "ohhhh I didn't get voted out so I can't say shit" lockdown or not.
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Date: 2020-07-12 03:55 am (UTC)So. Here's the thing. I think I probably can't help you 'cause I don't know what happened or who killed Sanji? But talk to me on Monday and I'll give you my power, and you can see that I wasn't targeting you with knee curses or anything.
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Date: 2020-07-12 04:05 am (UTC)[Just one punch. He's owed that much.]
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Date: 2020-07-12 04:11 am (UTC). . . How's it holding up? That knee?
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Date: 2020-07-12 04:15 am (UTC)monday; week 5
Date: 2020-07-14 01:50 am (UTC)[He's coming to find Chuuya, wherever he is.]
Still wanna hear my power?
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Date: 2020-07-14 01:51 am (UTC)You bet I do.
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Date: 2020-07-14 02:03 am (UTC)[He sounds pretty casual - unconcerned, but Chuuya is going to get his honest answer.]
My power is, once a week, I can pass on any curses or injuries I have. And a random person will get them - I got no control over who it goes to, so it's pretty hard to use.
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Date: 2020-07-14 02:16 am (UTC)On the other,
So you got all of THIS from fighting- [Oh right, he can't say.] -er. 'Sparring with someone who will remain nameless'. Damn. he really did a number on you.
[He seems to accept that it was random, though. Every useful power has to have a downside, right?]
What's this thing about then?
[He holds up his left hand and indicates to the cut on it.]
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Date: 2020-07-14 02:23 am (UTC)[Holding out the identical hand, though. There's a fresh cut from Reaper's Game on that same finger.]
Oh. [He seems a little unsure? Because it's just an open cut, which he definitely didn't have at trial last week.] That's too bad, you can't see the old injury 'cause of this fresh cut over it from Reaper's Game. But I did have a cut on that finger from the trial where 3PO died. I stuck my hand in his head. If I'd used my power, you'd definitely have noticed the shape of it, 'cause it was pretty distinctive!
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Date: 2020-07-14 02:51 am (UTC)['listen to what people aren't saying'. Right. He's got to remember that people have to talk in circles here to keep from getting punished.]
Alright, I believe you. You definitely didn't use your power last week.
But I should share my power with you too, yeah? A fair trade and all.
My power lets me hit punch someone really hard, way harder than I can do on my own. But I can only do it once a week.
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Date: 2020-07-14 03:45 am (UTC)[He grins at that?]
Amazingly good power.
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Date: 2020-07-14 04:03 am (UTC)[Since, you know. Purple wasn't doing so well there for a bit.]
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Date: 2020-07-14 04:21 am (UTC)[Shrugging.]
That is, if you care about teams and which one wins, which I don't!
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Date: 2020-07-14 04:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-14 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-14 04:45 am (UTC)And for the record, if someone killed in self-defense, then I wouldn't be complaining about that. But the fact that someone else was one of those four groups in one night to go 'oh hey, let's kill tonight'? That's what I'm talking about here.
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Date: 2020-07-14 04:47 am (UTC)[Just sort of watching Chuuya, casual.]
I think figuring that out might be pretty important. The more people who decide to be the one to kill tonight, the more danger we're in, huh?
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Date: 2020-07-14 04:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-14 12:08 pm (UTC)[At least, if the length of all their previous games is any indication.]
So the clock is ticking. But the more people who die, the faster that count down, don't you think?
Maybe it has to be one, so our job needs to be to solve why last week it was four and the week before was five.
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Date: 2020-07-14 03:08 pm (UTC)[He would vastly prefer the former.]
What do you think will happen if we run out of time without finding a solution?
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Date: 2020-07-14 04:42 pm (UTC)[Frowning.]
I don't got any kind of special insight. I just know that if we are gonna make it, we need to try to work together, right?
[He goes quiet for a long minute, and then he'll say.]
The Chuuya I knew - I mean, I haven't told you one true thing about him so far. But what's true is he did a pretty good job of figuring things out. He pretty much had the major players in the game pinned a week or so in.
But what he did with that information. . . I think he regretted it, after.
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Date: 2020-07-14 05:15 pm (UTC)What do you mean? Was it a "once he knew it, it changed how he looked at people" kind of thing?
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Date: 2020-07-14 05:39 pm (UTC)[But.]
But by the end, I think he wished he hadn't.
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Date: 2020-07-14 05:44 pm (UTC)[Chuuya at age 15 can understand that much, at least. He still has some growing to go before he's the same Chuuya Magnus knew, but there's the start of that kind of growth in him.]
It's really easy to just say 'this person is bad, let's kill them' or 'this person would kill me, so I'll kill them first.' But that's how we get five deaths in one week, yeah?