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sevenvices2016-04-04 05:28 pm
vicedirector) wrote in sevenvices2016-04-04 05:28 pm
week 8
 21 players remaining ♫ monday - thursday Monday morning begins just like the rest, slow and uneasy. At 12pm, every television will go off with its usual bout of static, followed by Katerina's calm, albeit disinterested, voice. "Please gather in the hotel lobby within the next hour." That's all that it says before the televisions turn off. Anyone not in their rooms will hear the voice echoing around them as if through a speaker system, although there are (still) no speakers present. After hearing the motive, characters who choose to explore will find that the void around the town has retracted a bit, and there is now boathouse and lake up North Anyone looking for them will also find that Alisha's spear and Sadie's earmuffs are now gone. >Mingle? This is Week 8's mingle log, covering Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday. Investigations will go up on Friday. When posting toplevels, specify the time and location. If you plan on having any private conversations between characters, remember to let us know in the post linked below. More plot elements will be introduced this week. Mod comments will be occasionally distributed to open toplevels, accordingly. setting rulebook profiles private conversations |
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[ He seems to pause, regarding her words. ]
Yet, why would someone's crime be simply being born a "satori", as it were? Might you be able to elucidate further?
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...I never hesitated to use it, so that made me especially disliked. I accepted that I would be hated, and lived my life in the way I wanted despite that. I've made many, many enemies, embarrassed people, cut them off in conversations to respond to their thoughts. I've rifled through their memories to find their most painful ones to see how they react. A goddess felt the need to go behind my back because I'm notoriously impossible to agree with. I'm a satori, but I'm also not a very good person. So I can understand why I'd be chosen for some sick killing game, sort of.
Koishi is different, though. She was never able to handle the thought that an ability she didn't even ask for would cause such hatred. Asking a satori not to read minds is like asking a human being to stop being able to taste food. It's how we interact with the world, and the surface dwellers and even most of the other underground youkai - even though they're undesirables too...they all hated her, because she was a satori. Even though she never did anything wrong.
She couldn't even pretend not to know about it, because even when they never said anything, she knew what they were thinking.
[That bitter tone is back in full force.]
They're garbage just like the rest of us, but they still thought to treat my sister like she was lower than them, even though she was the only good person in the entire underground...
[That's probably not actually true, but that's how Satori sees it.]
She doesn't deserve this. She doesn't deserve to be dragged into this just because I was. That's...
[Uncomfortably close to what's already happened once.]
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[ Dhaos made sure to listen to every piece of it, and his lips turned downwards into a frown whilst he did. It wasn't exactly too hard to assume or fathom, from her words only, that this could be all true. People who were different from others were naturally given a hard time-- this was proven to be a fact in history.
So he knew there was truth to it. ]
So that is why. I can understand why one would dislike someone using these abilities arbitrarily or whenever they should wish.
However, I do not think someone being born with those abilities is a good reason to dislike them or discriminate against them. I suppose it is only natural for many to be prejudiced against whomever sticks out in comparison. To them it may be a 'crime', but it is simply their foolishness at play in the end.
Hence why I do not think she deserves it either, and even though you may have done your own fair share of acts that could have been not kind, I doubt you deserve to have been brought into a killing game as well.
[ He doubted she did, as far as he knew, and even if there were darker things she may have done, Dhaos knew he had done his fair share of cruel things. So. ]
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[She pretty much is responsible for the revitalization of Former Hell, and it's one of her pets that maintains its relevance in the nuclear fusion reactor (it's a long story), so she certainly doesn't think she deserves to be here.]
...She probably hasn't even realized the gravity of the situation. Even if she's been there for a while, I'm sure she's still very interested in being outside the barrier...I doubt she understands how much is at stake here.
[Which is another reason why Satori is taking this so deathly seriously. Because she knows Koishi doesn't.]
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[ ... ]
So that is why she appears so very calm, in contrast to some of those who were kidnapped. Pardon my asking, but is she always like this? Being outside of the "barrier" or no.
[ It's rare to see someone kidnapped look like they're gazing around like it's some kind of playground. Indeed, no wonder Satori is so concerned...besides what will happen at the end of this week.
If they're not all fake or something. ]
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...When she was no longer able to handle the weight of being hated, she closed her eye. It was my motive, back when what we were offered was the chance to undo a mistake. By ensuring it couldn't work, she trapped herself in her own subconscious. She doesn't feel anything anymore. She left home, went to the surface, and spends all her time up there, looking for things that interest her. I'm not - I'm not sure the sister I had even exists anymore. I can't read her mind anymore. It's always just...silence.
The mistake I wanted to correct was not listening to her cries for help. I thought she would eventually get over it and come to the same conclusion that I did - if people hated us, it didn't matter what we did, and we could do as we wished. But to her, it mattered very much, and she hurt herself because I didn't offer her the support she needed.
[Because she's a terrible person, and a terrible sister. And every day she wakes up and sees the pendant that represents sloth, and she's reminded of how it feels to sit back and do nothing while the only family you have rips her psyche to pieces.]
So...yes. She's always like this. And it's all my fault.
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...Mm.
You did not have to tell me this, so I thank you for deciding to do so. As one of the few who still have a good head on their shoulders here, I do wish I could offer some words to make it easier to bear.
However, it seems listening will have to do for now. Although, by hearing your words, I feel as if I understand you a bit more, if that does not sound so presumptuous.
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Maybe a bit presumptuous. But you've certainly done much better than anyone else who's tried, so I'll let it slide.
[Except her family, but they don't count. Because they're family.
And, really, even trying to understand her is better than she gets from most people.]
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Then he blinks. ]
Ah... good. I was afraid I had possibly even done as much as to cross a line and ruin it all in one fell swoop. It appears I can sleep well knowing that it was an alright attempt.
[ Did he try to make a joke? Ugh he is still terrible at them but he Tried. Or at least, trying to be a bit lighthearted. ]