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[vicedirector]

Who: Miata (a lil bit) and the moles
What: Group meetings
When: Week 4

[ Miata will be here on Monday and Tuesday, but come Wednesday she's nowhere in sight

On Monday evening, Youko's shoes and the pieces of Zelos's crystal are sitting on the table. ]

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[jackhole]

Hey, hey.

[ snaps his fingers to get their attention! ]

Screw Envy. Don't care about your stupid teen crushes. Greed has been hit just as hard and I don't see you guys sympathizing with Lithuania and I. Selena's out there with no knowledge of what's going on and hell, wouldn't be surprised if she dies next.

[muties]

[ sticks tongue out ]

Speaking of Greed and Envy. I was just thinking-- it'd be safer for you and Lith if we did make the whole pact with Levi wouldn't it? Though then Selena would be alone on team Greed with the crazy dismemberer Mams.

[jackhole]

[ he just nods, he's been thinking about this. ]

Yeah. She'd die like, immediately then. But we can't bring her in here, can we? Can't give her the same deal? It... makes me feel a little sick, actually.

[herbgrace]

It may help us increase our group's chance of survival, however--which would ultimately be good for Selena, even if it meant focusing Mammon on her. [Lithuania would potentially be willing to maybe sacrifice Selena temporarily to a crazy greed demon, that's what she's saying.]

[jackhole]

[ !!! wow have a grimace ]

That... is a terrible thing to think, Lithuania. Kind of expected that from me, not you.

[ a pause ]

... Yeah, still couldn't do that to her. I don't want anyone to die because of something I did. We'd be responsible for her death then.

[muties]

Well, maybe not. Mams probs wouldn't know about the switch, would she? That'd kinda ruin Levi's plans, I'd think.

[jackhole]

Dunno. She might sense it. The demon -- Levi. Levi never explained it that far. We'd need to ask.

[muties]

Add it to the chalkboard. Make a section for "SHIT TO ASK LEVI BEFORE WE GIVE HER OUR SOULS" in case we come up with more shit we don't know.

[herbgrace]

I'm not a good person. [A good nation, yes, but that precludes being a good person. The way she says it, it's like she believes not being a good person is written into her DNA or something.]

Ignoring if we're already responsible here by virtue of voting for people to die, I believe in this situation we may have to be prepared to get some blood on our hands. ...Though if I can prevent the rest of you from having to do things like that, I will.

[jackhole]

[ he'll give her a wary look and there's quite a few things he could say to that but. he won't. he knows all about scales of morality and spitting on them. it's kind of what he does every day. ]

... Yeah. [ he thinks for a moment. ] I guess it is more important if we survive more than anyone else. If we survive, we can get everyone back. Taking the deal with Leviathan would secure the two of us for maybe a bit longer than we have already. It would be... a good thing.

[herbgrace]

If you don't feel alright doing it, I don't think anyone will judge you for refusing it. [She's not a good person, she's not--so she shouldn't feel bad about trying to lead others toward the most pragmatic solution, and yet she continues to provide other options for them, at least. Let her be the hypocrite. Let her be the villain. She hates that Inaba and Rhys often take the role from her.]

[jackhole]

I'm -- I'm not. I'm just... thinking about it, first.

[ it's weird for rhys. he doesn't want to be a bad guy. he wants to be a good guy! he wants to... well, he doesn't want to help people but he wants to live and he'd like it if other people lived too. being directly confronted with the ability to help other people live -- that's the problem. he's never sure what to do with that.

logically, pragmatically, this makes the most sense. he runs his fingers through his hair and sighs, looking up to the ceiling. ]

We have till Sunday, right? We decide Sunday.

[dereban]

Well, you don't see me complaining about how wrath was hit two weeks in a row.

[ Don't even start with that. ]

I'm just saying that this motive is more envy than anything.

[jackhole]

Well, your patron demon isn't also the one who wants to kill every single one of you off immediately. So.

[ do you really want to play the game of who has it worse!! because greed is definitely winning at the moment! ]

... Really? Because of regret?

[dereban]

We don't know that. [ Don't assume things, Rhys! ]

But if you two take the offer, you can at least alleviate her pain. If she doesn't die this week, we could always try asking Miata to give in a good word to protect her.

[ That sounds like a good plan, right?? ] Of course, the other option is to have one of is stay with her on Thursday. In any case, yes. Sometimes you can have regrets and be envious of others who don't have those regrets. Being jealous of each other.

I think it's even more possible because the monitor shows it on screen. Like, for example, my regrets that were shown were just me, alone in my room during middle school. It may be something regretful for me, but for others... It might be something they would have preferred having.

[jackhole]

[ he considers this, thinking of his own regret that he saw flash by on the screen. giving jack power, watching jack slaughter everyone using rhys' own body, wondering if he made the right choice even though he saved his friends in the end. he's still not sure if it was the right thing to do. ]

Okay, yeah. I'll ask Miata if she can make Selena a key player next week. That should help until we figure something else out.

[ he's still not entirely sold on the envy = regret thing though. so he talks it through, trying to consider. ]

Greed could be regretful too. Something you wanted a lot but didn't take, that kind of thing. Wrath, regretful over not letting someone feel your wrath. Lust, regretful over... I don't know, an ex-flame or something. I don't know. Might be a bit more base and I can't think of anything for Pride, Sloth, or Gluttony. But Greed feels right, not sure if that's just me though.

[dereban]

That's the best course of action for bow. Not the best, but something we can attempt to do. Optimizing things would be for the best, even if it isn't... What we would like. But we can't get everything we want in life.

[ She sighs, following it with a shrug. ]

Yeah, I want to say that it could also fit greed and lust as well. I mean, gluttony and sloth could have stupid regrets but if we are going on the motive alone, those three are the ones we should look at.

Also something to think about that's unrelated: since it's possible that one of us might die this week and we might be implementing the buddy system, I was thinking that maybe... We should have some sort of secret knock.

[muties]

[ inaba pls none of them are allowed to die ]

Oooh, or a secret code!

Like a, "Who's there?" and answer with "The unknowable truth from which all things come to be, the void of souls that we all return to in Death" or "Your mom".

[dereban]

The rooms are soundproof, even if you said "who's there" nobody would hear you.

But a code would be fine too if you immediately follow it up after the knock. We would change it every week, too.

[princessantly]

A secret knock?

[ Yes, go on. ]

[dereban]

Yeah, like instead of knocking normally all of us would have a special knock pattern that we'd recognize.

Just the five of us, of course. Like this.

[ knock knock knock-knock knock on the wall ]

[herbgrace]

Another secret knock... [More to herself than anything. Lithuania, do you already have a secret knock with someone...]

[dereban]

... Another?

[ You have one with Poland, don't you... ]

[jackhole]

[ ah, that's kind of awkward. for him, specifically. ]

I can't stay with any of you. Inaba and Roxy are teenage girls. Poland hates me. People might think Alisha and I are doing something weird.

[ a pause ]

... Maybe I'll be fine alone?

[ lmao this guy has dead man walking all over him. as if. ]

[muties]

Ugh, I'd have to make all kinds of jokes about you and Alisha if that happened.

[ and she ain't here for that

why did they kill off morrigan damn it ]

Are there any guys you trust?