[SEASONALITY] WEEK 5: TOWN HALL ROUND 2

[ambiography]

[the mingle post is so dangerously close to captcha and i have GOT to remember to turn notifs off for this post. anyway.

everyone will get this message early thursday morning, after the little investigation lucretia and kon have gone on!]

Please meet in the same classroom as before. I believe we have more to discuss.

[and in that classroom, they will find a series of notes written up on the board! everyone is free to look these over, take their own notes, so on.

lucretia is sitting on top of the desk in this room. one arm's still in a sling, her voice still sounds terrible. she has purple streaks in her hair now though and it's cute i just needed you to know.]

All right. So-- I spoke with Sieghart yesterday, and we only had a couple of minutes to speak, but... this is what I was able to get. Some of the things we need to know, they weren't fully aware of either, and some of the questions... he needed to dodge, I think. We couldn't get very direct answers on some of this. I worked in as many of the questions I was given as I could, I compiled some notes as you can see here, but if you have further questions... I'll do my best to answer. Let's see if this helps with anything.

Additionally-- Kon, go ahead and tell them what happened this morning. That's going to give us... some idea of where to go too, I think, but it's not going to be great.

[

she pushes a pen holder off the desk, where it clatters to the floor and pens spill out, then just stares down at it like why did i do this. fuck.

anyway, discuss.]

Comments

[ghoststrums]

It'll go for someone that'll draw hatred, but that could either mean someone it thinks is disliked enough for it or someone well-liked enough we'd hate it the most. And the latter is...

[ honestly it's a lot of people they're a good group ]

[goalsides]

[...just. frowning at him.]

Homeostasis?

[apparently that's all he's going to say about it.]

[ghoststrums]

...You think it might also be about who it can reach?

[goalsides]

It's possible. We don't know much about it, so...it's not like we can totally rule it out. Can we?

[ghoststrums]

No, but there's not much we can rule out, is there?

[goalsides]

Right. If we're thinking about it that way, don't you think it's likely it would go after someone this place already had a pretty good grip on?

[you know. like the dorm heads?]

[steelo]

...that's what I'm thinking, too.

[ the dorm heads. bad! ]

[goalsides]

[bad!]

But then again, what if that's too obvious and this stupid thing goes and takes somebody we're not expecting? We're gonna have to keep an eye on everybody going forward.

[steelo]

...yeah.

[ jitters unhappily ] So, what. We've had a choice between good and bad this whole time, haven't we? The extra credits we get vary from "give someone a hug for too long" to "frame someone for murder". Most of us found ways around it. Even people who are cursed here end up just cursed to - what, have more school spirit? Play along?

[ or like fall in love with each other but whatever ] All those directors notes said they wanted more mess.

[goalsides]

Then to finish the story it's going to be the thing that hurts the most and provides the most exciting and dramatic climax. The extra credits are gonna keep escalating, and the curses might get even worse.

If they want a mess, then...there has to be a way around this, too. Isn't being an antihero a thing?

[ghoststrums]

It's what makes the most sense, but... if we know someone's going to be controlled, than what we need to figure out is an ending where we can stop that successfully without any loss. Isn't it?

[goalsides]

I'm not doing another reboot. [just to clarify.] But yeah. If we can figure out...what, someone becoming the villain and we defeat them without costing any more lives? Something like that?

[ghoststrums]

[ oh right taichi doesn't even know about second reboot. yamato just. grimaces. ]

Something like that. Like... a redemption, maybe?

[ we ken ichijouji someone ]

[goalsides]

[please tell him the rest of the plot yamato.]

Someone with villainous intentions that we bring over to the side of good? [it's a thought.]

Maybe.

[momming]

... I was thinking maybe it might be linked to...

... [ she frowns because hm. Can't say that probably. ]

People it might already have some degree of influence over?

[katzepaw]

Something like the Teacher's Pets? Or something more like, um, our friend Rupert, who was found guilty?

[momming]

I believe Rupert when he said he chose to do it... so there shouldn't have been any influence there, at least not like what we've talked about.

[katzepaw]

Ah. So maybe something else. There was a theory going around that Rupert and any others were killing people who had come under some sort of influence.

[momming]

... Mm.

[ She pauses.

Then grimaces. ]

I guess I can't say it isn't possible.

[katzepaw]

No, I guess you can't.

[Get it. Because she can't say anything without a lesbian dying. Anyway, he sighs. He thinks this response means he wasn't on the money, but even that he's not sure about.]

Well, I'm not certain, but either way if what you're saying is true there could be a way to predict who it will target.

[momming]

[ wow wouldn't things be great if she could say things without people dying for it.

But she nods. ]

The problem there is that it could still be a veritable pool of candidates.

[katzepaw]

Mm. Not so easy to just find them, and even if we do find them, not so easy to know what to do about it.

[ghoststrums]

The people who have been under its influence the most are the Dorm Heads, aren't they?

[momming]

Yes. Or some of the students or professors. Anyone on the cast list.

[ghoststrums]

At this point, there's some people it's more likely be, but it could be anybody. I don't know that there's anything we can do with the "who".