week 3, wednesday w/ steph

[alchemenace]

[ hi steph wherever you are wobbling there varian is, leading her (slowly.) away to the first secluded area he can find. where? fuck you i didn't think that far. He speaks fast and in a hushed tone as he leads her: ]

I know what the Other Side is!

Comments

[alchemenace]

[ hmmmmm ]

... Do you think that's why they were banished? Beauty tried to end things herself?

[vigilantics]

Maybe... well, it didn't work. She came back.

[ and while stephanie had no plans to attempt to murder the crafters, it is still good to know that if anyone did try, that it. apparently would not stick. ]

[alchemenace]

It wouldn't, they've been. They've been doing this for a really long time? They said it was their role in the story, and they didn't decide how it went. There's someone higher up than them, I just know it.

[vigilantics]

Stories are usually written by someone, aren't they?

[ authors exist. ]

[alchemenace]

Right. That's what I think, too. It has to be whoever created this narrative. I asked about it but... obviously, they wouldn't answer.

[vigilantics]

Of course they wouldn't.

[ they probably wouldn't be allowed to

or they just like being vague. who the fuck knows. ]

[alchemenace]

Well, lucky for us, we apparently don't need them to tell us this stuff.

[vigilantics]

Well... we should still try, since it seems like we're going to be spending most of our time trying to figure out what the heck these letters even say.

[alchemenace]

[ what the FUCk is this TEN LETTER WORD ]

No kidding.

[vigilantics]

If you guys got these letters, then other people might too. I guess we should try to figure out who those people are.

[alchemenace]

Yes, I believe there should be at least one more letter like this, but how do we figure it out? I doubt we can just go to people and randomly ask them if they've heard from the Beast likely. [ a beat ] I mean, we can, but we should not.

[vigilantics]

We definitely should not. I guess the best way would be to feed info to people, but even then that's... very dangerous to do if you're not careful?

[alchemenace]

Ha, yeah, no kidding. Especially if there are people dedicated to making Tiger's ending come true.

[ y...yeah ]

[vigilantics]

The problem with Tiger's is that, for the most part, people probably won't know what the title of the person they're killing is. People might end up making her thing a reality just by chance.

[alchemenace]

Right now, it's not so bad. Villains, heroes, civilians are all about equal. But if it gets to a point where it's obvious one might be losing... What do we do?

[vigilantics]

At that point the options really are not that great. People can always reveal what side they're on, which is messed up on a lot of levels? But it could also majorly backfire since people could use that information to target a specific group instead of trying to avoid finishing one off.

... I'm not sure if there really is a right answer.

[alchemenace]

... People need to fulfill their objectives, too. It does us no good to keep this going longer if we don't even get enough "ink" [ finger quote ] to do what we want to do.

[vigilantics]

We don't even know how much ink we even need for that to happen, too.

[ it's just. vague. ]

[alchemenace]

More than we've currently got. [ unhelpful. ] But it's... of the ones we know right now, it's the better outcome. So we should try to go for it, shouldn't we?

[vigilantics]

I think so. Hopefully everyone else will too.

[alchemenace]

... Yeah. Hopefully.

[ press x to doubt ]