[not again] catchall for ump45

[fishingforcompliments]

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[recrypt]

[ if that's all, she'll put her collar back up, but... ]

Where did you hear of this at all, if not from observation?

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...

[she holds out a piece of paper. it looks blank.]

I saw it on this?

[why does that sound like a question.]

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[ is there, uh, any weird fuzzy annoying dizziness effect on this paper, or. because 45 is glancing at it, but. ]

... Ah. Another one.

What does it say?

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[it literally just looks like a normal piece of paper]

It says to...

[...]

I am sorry. That was untrue. [...] The truth is, when I look at mine, they look gold. But I am not sure why, and I want to find out.

[recrypt]

... Who can say, with such a limited amount of data.

It could mean a number of things. It could simply be an indicator that you've killed, here, though I'd presume you tried finding someone else who's had to share that responsibility and asked them first.

It could also relate to those numbers we keep seeing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you are one of the last three remaining from where you came, are you not?

[ ... ]

When did it turn gold?

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[for a second i forgot about the fucking execution and was like "flayn killed a man?"]

...it is true that there are only three of us left. But I am not certain if that is it.

[...]

There must be something else. I wonder what it is that you and I do not have in common, 45, to account for the difference.

[...]

Mine changed yesterday.

[recrypt]

[ sldkfsdh yea yasu just yeeted himself into the gy on his own, it's fine ]

Haha. Shall we start listing out traits blindly and see if that sparks any ideas?

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Do you think that might work?

[does this make "gullible" flayn's trait]

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... No, I doubt it, unless we know what we're looking for and are trying to target a specific category of trait to begin with.

[ which well, they wouldn't be doing this if they knew what they were looking for.

flayn, unfortunately, is too nice for peak gremlin 45 hours. ]

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[WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS EVERYONE NICE TO FLAYN]

...hmm... well, I must confess that there are not many things I know. And the ones I do know, I do not always understand. [...] Is there something that you know that I do not?

[recrypt]

[ britt I've already told you 45 is soft on people who genuinely stay nice despite shit happening to them

well

so long as they aren't going to [redacted] anyway ]

I suspect I might, but how relevant any of it might be is another thing entirely. Besides, I would hardly know what you might or might not know.

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[if redacted means kill that ship has already sailed she executed yams!!!]

Well, there is only one way to find out, is there not? On the count of three, we blurt out something we know that we think the other does not. How does that sound?

[recrypt]

[ hahahaha no.

that is not even remotely close to what [redacted] is. ]

That's.

Certainly one way to get the second task done.

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Well? Shall we try it?

[no]

[recrypt]

[ lmao ]

Well. What could the harm be, hm?

[ lmaaaaao ]

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Very well! On the count of three... one, too, three!

[SHOOT.]

[recrypt]

I was told who killed Yu weeks ago.

[ no one ever said this would have to be relevant. ]

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[at the same time:]

I— [wait. that derails what she was going to say.] Someone told me the same thing! Did that information come from you?

[recrypt]

I don't know, did it? It might depend on when that happened.

Anyway. Go on, continue what you were going to say. ♪

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...oh, yes! Well, I must admit, I feel a bit silly. I was going to say that I was aware of who killed him.

[...]

It appears we knew the same thing after all.

[recrypt]

The timing might be the more important indicator here, frankly. News travels fast in camp when it's nothing that will injure someone.

Besides. Perhaps I was a source of that information. Who could say.

[ this is still valid on a technicality. ]

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...hmm, well. I suppose if you were the source of that information, you would not be able to confirm it, would you?

[recrypt]

Haha. Why would I not? I could simply be choosing not to. Or perhaps I couldn't confirm for sure.

After all, what if two different parties came across the same information by different means? Even if I were the source, I wouldn't be able to guarantee that no one else managed to stumble into the same answer completely independently of myself.

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Do you think that is likely? There are so many questions that have been left unanswered in this place - to have two people independently stumble across the same answer seems like a bit too large a coincidence.

[recrypt]

We all asked the Directors the same questions enough that they had to formally release a bulletin addressing the most common queries. I wouldn't put it past us, if people are actually trying.