fishingforcompliments | [not again] catchall for wei wuxian

[Haha! He's seen that look before! Very bad. He'll stop in his moseying too when he spots her, tucking a jar under his arm.]

You look like you could sleep for a good year or five, friend.

[well

that

that makes her freeze right in her tracks. sorry, wwx.]

[THAT'S sure not a reaction he expected!? He blinks, brow furrowing.]

—Are you alright? Did I say something...?

[breathe. it's fine. just breathe.]

Oh, ah... it is fine. But that would be a rather long time to be asleep.

[He's quiet for a second or two, but then offers a smile.]

Certainly so. Well - we probably won't be getting much of it from here out, anyway. And it looks like you won't need to take a risk by staying out at that cabin either, hm?

It appears not. Knowing now that the cabin was indeed involved with what happened, it is safe to assume that it was a result of Damian's staying there, and not a power...

Most likely, anyway.

And a good thing for us to keep in mind, too. If you really do experience effects by getting caught up in a location a murder has taken place in, it could help out in trial - at a risk, though.

[Maybe he'll reconsider his "stay in the cabin during curfew" plan.]

Some risks might be worth it.

[If they were in a situation when they didn't have much evidence to go on, anyway.]

...but we were lucky today. Even though he could not give us a clear answer, the evidence painted a mostly clear picture of what happened.

Hah... Yes, I do worry about clarity in the future. We kept getting lucky with incriminating footprints, shoe prints and trails on the boat, too.

[He's worried about that luck running out.]

Especially given the implication that murders will continue to happen without the influence of corruption, possession or anything of the sort. I can only imagine it'll be like the situations where the group or individuals within it were given ultimatums. I would hope that by now, we'd know better than to trust any promise or threat, but...

[Well. Like, humans are humans and all.]

I would hope so, too. I cannot fault anyone for believing it the first time, but...

[She sighs.]

Why would anyone play along, especially now that we have ended up in this situation? Our passage home could simply bring us to yet another place like this.

[A pause.]

Although... our hosts do seem genuine when they say they did not want for this to happen.

Hm... They do seem that way.

[SMILING. He just STILL DOESN'T TRUST THEM. He'll never not be wary. It'll be week 8 and the NPCs will be merrily sending them off and he'll still be pointing at his eyes and pointing at them.

Anyway, for the rest of that--]

That's why I hope we won't see anyone act rashly. Granted, whatever is running the show now probably knows that we won't cave so easily to the sort of promises other people faced the first time around.

[that's fair and valid honestly]

...yes. If they know what did and did not manage to compel people to act in the places we came from... [hmm. bad. it's potentially not just them that has experience with this.] At any rate, we must be on our guard.

Mmmhm. Not much we can do about guaranteeing other people won't kill.

[Honestly if what he's remembering from the boat is right, along with what he's heard from some other people, it's not like they can do much to protect people from being killed either... Still.]

If we do what we can on Thursday nights, we may stand a chance of pulling through with as few deaths as possible.

[She would prefer that there be no deaths whatsoever, rather than just seeking to minimize the numbers - but they've passed the point where that's possible, haven't they?]

Yes. I am not yet certain what it will be possible for us to do on those nights, but... we must do whatever we can. We must at least try.

[He's already asked for some place to pay respects to their dead so that ship sure has already sailed in his mind, yeehaw.]

I assume the structure won't change too much from what we experienced this week, if at all. We can build from that, at least.

It likely will not. Both our trials and the nights leading up to them were... similar to each other, I believe.

I'd say that's probably one of the most reliable similarities, mmhm.

[Thanks he hates it.]

Granted, they've been a little more hands-on with changing the rules this time around. Not by much, though.

...I must admit, actually having rules aside from "vote or suffer a fate worse than death" is new to me.

This all seems more... organized.

[Good lord the island crew really were out there playing Lord of the Flies. He gives her a sympathetic look.]

Was that the only rule you had at all?

Well... that, and that we needed to kill eleven people in order to escape.

[...]

Ah, we fell asleep at a certain time later on in the week, but that was simply something that happened rather than a rule that we were made to follow.

Ah. The "kill a certain number of people to live" motivator, mm.

[A nod... He's heard that as a recurring theme, yes, bad, thanks he hates it.]

Shows us one thing, at least! No matter how many or how few rules you have, it's a miserable situation.

...well, yes! But some were certainly, ah... more miserable than others.

[wwx your fuck boat,,,]

[DON'T TALK TO HIM ABOUT HIS FUCKBOAT]

Haha, even among the unlucky there are those with particularly poor fortune, hm? ...Let's hope we have fewer of those here.

Yes, let us hope so.

[honestly as long as none of next week's tasks are "go get laid" they're already doing pretty well.]

[britt do not tempt fate]

Take care in the meantime, yes? And-- [he almost said rest up but swerves at the last second with:] -don't forget to eat something, when you can.

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