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[vicedirector]

Who: Miata and the moles
What: Group meeting because apparently we're doing those weekly now!
When: Week 3

[ She's fiddling with a record player, now. Where did that come from?

Mikazuki's sword and Kurisu's weird invention are now sitting on the table. ]

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[herbgrace]

[Lithuania is here! And she brought žagarėliai! Probably too much, since she's been trying to keep herself busy ever since the motive took effect. She pauses to look at Mikazuki's sword, taking on a more contemplative look as she places the plate of food on the table and then unsheathes the weapon for just a moment.

But then the look is gone, and she places the sword back where she found it.]

Good evening, everyone. ...Is the record player for a later motive? [Not that she's seen motive items show up early here...]

[princessantly]

[ God she hopes not, but she will take a... thing-she-cannot-pronounce to nibble on, nodding to the others and still looking fairly miserable.

... She also looks over the chalkboard. ]

Considering that... it seems that some people are virtues rather than vices, and that seemed to play a role in the last trial, do we know how many remaining are virtues instead? It may or may not be important for this week, but I think it's good to know for future reference.

[herbgrace]

[Lithuania nods.] I don't believe I ever spoke to Mikazuki before the trial, so I never realized he was patience instead. ...I believe Urashima is chastity, and not lust. [A sword of incorruptible pure pureness.]

[princessantly]

That's... far more fitting for him, I agree.

[vicedirector]

I can tell you guys that much, at least. You're Humility, Alisha. Ranulf is Temperance, Urashima is Chastity, Selena is Charity, and Lucy is Diligence.

[ ... ]

Siscua's Charity and Mikazuki's Patience, for the record.

[princessantly]

... [ Seven of them? ]

Is there a reason for it? Or at least one you'd be able to talk about?

[vicedirector]

Because you're not a sinful bunch. [ shrug ]

[muties]

You make the fanciest food, Lith.

[ Munching time. In a slightly soft, depressed manner but STILL MUNCH THE DELICIOUS ]

If it is, I hope it turns out to play shitty pop songs for a full week as it's motive.

NOT ACTUALLY A GAGTAG

[vicedirector]

[ Looks at Roxy. Looks at the record player.

Retrieves a record from the little table underneath.

What the fuck did you do, Roxy ]

[dereban]

... Okay, at least you didn't Rickroll us. [ INABA ]

[princessantly]

... What is a Rickroll?

[muties]

♪ Never gonna give you uuuup ♪

[ She'll just sing that line, at least. ]

[dereban]

It's— [ oh my god ] This is going to be hard to explain. But where I'm from, on the computer - you know, my laptop that I have - there's a website that's really famous for sharing videos. Well, there's two really big ones, depending where you're from. Nico Nico Douga, which is the huge streaming site for Japan, and then there's Youtube.

I'll... get back to that later. But "Rickrolling" is a prank when someone, out of nowhere, plays the song Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. It's basically a prank that many, many people played. Especially on April Fool's. Like, a bunch of people would think that the video is of something else— like, I don't know, kittens. They'd show the kittens for maybe a few seconds before switching to the video of the song. Does that make sense?

[ She likes teaching this kind of thing, it's a good distraction. ]

[princessantly]

[ What is a website. April Fool's??????

???????? ]

... So with the moving pictures that show you things, sometimes a song interrupts them?

[dereban]

Yeah. It would be the whole music video of the singer singing that exact song.

[muties]

[ I LIED ]

♪ Never gonna let you down ♪

[princessantly]

... [ CLASPING ROXY'S HANDS. ] I see now! Thank you for demonstrating!

[muties]

[ Sorry Alisha, she's not done. This is the key to battling the despair of this week, clearly. ]

♪ Never gonna run around and deseeert you ♪

[herbgrace]

[Lithuania is just going to watch this in blank-faced bafflement.]

[vicedirector]

Maybe. I was mainly feeling nostalgic, I guess.

[herbgrace]

Hmm... [Lithuania seems to be considering something, and finally she decides. Better to ask here, in relative privacy, than in front of the entire hotel's worth of people.] Do you, or did you, know anyone by the name of Marta?

[vicedirector]

[ her hand pauses in the middle of pulling a record out of its sleeve ]

...she's my sister. Where'd you hear that name?

[herbgrace]

Her name is in the records at the school. I noticed while I was looking around there.

[vicedirector]

Tch. Figures.

[ Miata puts the record on, it's...not exactly a happy song. ]

She's dead, before you ask.

[herbgrace]

I'm sorry. [Lithuania means it as more than just a condolence--Miata is her citizen, and so Marta naturally counts as well.] What happened, if I might ask? Or--if you'd rather not talk about it--well, I'm sure you'd have no difficulty saying so.

[Miata is very blunt, after all. But Lithuania sounds a bit fond when she says it.]