alchemenace | catchall for the scooby gang

[ dang i sure hope there aren't any ghosts following them around listening in or anything. ha ha. but ion's gaze just. slowly slides over to her like.

this might as well be happening, all right. ]

... Fair enough. Well, if we're exchanging news, my own offering seems quite pale in comparison.

[ he doesn't look overmuch bothered by that. ]

The Lord El-Melloi II may apparently be a Historian, it turns out.

[Hm. Just giving Steph a look, considering.]

Wow. [DEADPAN.] Stephanie Brown, shame on you.

[It's a joke. She's joking. It's fine, probably.]

I don't know what's worse. That she [points at Steph] has to deal with Mr. Emotional Constipation, or— That Waver's a Historian? Who the hell made those choices?

[LIKE. AKECHI? NOW WAVER? Save the Historians, tbh.]

[ varian looks stressed out for some reason. maybe it's the possibility of running into ghost rapunzel??? who knows. either way, he's petting a raccoon. as usual. ]

... Akechi, Lord El-Melloi, Sousei. [ ... ] Hey, Stephie, have either you and Belph checked out Miss Bunch, Cardia or Natsuo?

[ he's just skipping right past pretending she didn't tell him before this because listen he got a heads up so he wouldn't cry in public let's all be honest ]

Rebecca and Natsuo are Historians, too. We found out about Rebecca yesterday at our meeting.

[ she... chooses not to mention that it's because belph refused to check zelos because he's petty. ]

And apparently he just walked up and asked Natsuo if he's one earlier today? I have no idea how he didn't get outed earlier.

[ so. the historians are a mess, y'all. ]

Hiding in plain sight, of course; we were so willing to write off any intelligence he had, after all.

[ still, he sets his now-omnipresent teacup down, scratching idly behind scott's ears as something else occurs to him. ]

... But then that means they should be aware of our objective counts. What faction did we decide they were on, again? [ He's coming up with Heroes. Please let him be remembering wrong, for once in his life. ]

... I can't believe that Akechi being their representative makes so much more sense now. Holy shit.

[GOD. She drags a hand down her face, weary.]

Do they know that we have to keep a balance between the factions? I know we do, but do they? Because... Akechi's completed one objective. Natsuo's going through his, I think. And Rebecca's on her fourth objective, minimum.

... Last count he told me, heroes had done eleven that the Historians were aware of. [ he makes a face ] I'm not even sure that telling them we should strive for balance would help. The Historians get rewarded for each objective they help complete.

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Can't they help like... villains? Instead of everyone else?

[ do your jobs properly you fucks??? ]

I don't care what rewards they're getting, they're worthless if they screw over the rest of us.

What do you suggest? That we confront the Historians and press them into not--

[ he has to press a hand into his temple, his other arm folding over his front to support it. this is terrible. the historians are useless. his voice comes out in something of a snap, with more of his authority apparent in it than usual. ]

--Continuing to sabotage us all? Do you think it's at all possible that they know something we don't, or should we simply assume that they are well-meaning but very, very misguided?

Fuck. I'd rather think that they're idiots, than assume they know something we're missing. We can't afford to sit back and let them screw everything up for everyone else, based off an assumption.

[This is bad. This is so bad. Historians, you fuckers.]

There's no way that the six [counting natsuo, hm.] Villians we have left are going to catch up with the Heroes. Akechi told me two days ago that the Villains have only gotten five objectives done. Three of which, by the way, were mine.

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[ ... oh. right. varian clears his throat awkwardly ]

Um. About Natsuo. This can't leave the room because Akechi said he would "make my life a living hell" if I shared it, [ quote unquote ] but he, uh, kind of came back not a Villain. He's Snow White now. A Hero. So, we're, um. At five.

...

[ she's just going to flop down on her bed and die. ]

Varian, the mirror. Please.

[ flatly and completely seriously, i don't have an icon for how done he is this is how bad it is: ]

If this mirror switches factions, I'm willing to switch.

[ he'd rather bail before hero faction becomes a battle royale, and also this is hilarious for oldass pc reasons. ]

Ideally it'd convert my previous objectives as well, considering that we certainly don't need any more hero objectives, but... -- I just told Natsuo my title yesterday, too. He said he needed it for an objective, but now I actually wonder if that was the truth.

[ why are historians like this. ]

[...]

Well, that's it. We're screwed. [SHE'S ASCENDING.] People are going to leave Natsuo alone because they think he's a Villain. Hell, I had Belph come up to me yesterday thinking we were planning to have Natsuo as part of our last three Villains. If others get the same bright idea in their heads—

[She's so tired. She's so done. She just wants this to be over. Still, she looks at Varian and then at Steph, pursing her lips.]

... The mirror was pretty cracked the last time I saw it. Does it still work? Souji and Evan stole something from Tiger that'll work as a replacement if it doesn't.

It's slightly horrifying that Belph thought we'd planned that far ahead when we're still trying to convince people not to kill Villains in the first place?

[ THEY'RE NOT THERE YET, BELPH. LET THEM LIVE. anyway ]

I'll, I'll ask Fane, I'll beg him if I have to. It-- you're sure Dragon will be able to repair it?

Belph is just-- him thinking that bad more to do with him than not trusting you guys.

[ and that's all she will say on that matter before moving on. ]

The mirror should do it. Dragon can fix it completely if we get it to her, and she can also fix it from afar but we'd have no idea just how much it'll work there. Either way, we'd still need to get it from Fane... what's the item they have?

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