[Game 11] Infosharing

[arsgoetia]

[Team Orchid, when you get back to the car, Zoey lets you know that Lucia wants to meet back up to share information and findings.]

[Team House Exploration, shortly after you read the papers, you get a call from Lucia that she wants to meet up back up to share information and findings. A Crow definitely tries to come back with you and you might as well take him since you all just know he'll just follow overhead if you don't.]

[Team Lucia House IS ALREADY HERE]

[Team Office Exploration is... gonna get a call but is still investigating so yes]


[WHEN EVERYONE IS HERE:]

So. First, let's all tell everyone what we've learned and discuss it. Then let's put out any theories we have and try to figure out what we can learn from it.

Comments

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

....Ah....

[I am so rarely on this end of these conversations. Kind of a little, dazed looking still, so no immediate answer, just staring at Hunter.]

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

[Waits.]

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

[I could stare at you with derpy kicked puppy face?]

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

[mad enough to be mostly immune.

MOSTLY.

so yeah, softens a bit.]

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

[Looks down again.]

[How about I offer no explanation and instead:]

Sorry.

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

That's not going to cut it, Shark!

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

Eh...

[Startled, leaning back into the chair, wide-eyed.]

What do you want me to say...?

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

What were you thinking?!

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

.........

[What was he thinking? That was a huge risk, wasn't it? And in the end it was pointless.... He had a reason, but...]

I guess.... Mostly that he was pissing me off...

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

..........

I was afraid of that.

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

[Rakes a hand through his hair, giving Hunter a sideways looks.]

And that an angelic artifact that strong, that made him back away from me and put his own safety on the line for wasn't something I wanted to hand over.

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

Well he has it now! That isn't how you tell a demon no, Shark! You don't bait him and refuse to back down until he looks about ready to eat you alive! You make another offer, idiot!

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

[Oh no, no more puppy stares, only bosskado now.]

Like you were?

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

Oh? Are you begrudging me for trying to save your sorry ass, now?

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

"Anything within reason"? Are you stupid, Hunter?

[Voice entirely calm and cold.]

Who wants to be saved by words that damn the person speaking them? Please keep that kind of thoughtless heroism to bad fiction.

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

Frankly? I don't care how or whether you want to be saved, I'm going to do what it takes. Stupid or not, damning or not. We were both lucky Kazuki was able to do what he did, but I was not going to let that bastard hurt you.

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

.........

[Has to break eye contact.]

I'm not entirely sure he could have. More than that, I was likely endangering the rest of you far more.

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

You were. But he was after you.

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

[Which is more terrifying in retrospect than it was at the time and it was still scary then. But being cold and angry kind of negates that.]

So you'd have bargained with him?

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

I would have.

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

[A slap is too girly and my punches are useless so grabbing the nearest heavy book and starting to beat Hunter with it if he can.]

[Congrats on inducing incoherent rage and violence this does not happen often.]

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

[he gets in one, two blows before Hunter grabs his wrists and hauls him back into his chair.

then breaks his grip on the book and tosses it across the room, for good measure.]

What the fuck?

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

[Not like. He can do anything about that. So. Back in his chair I guess.]

Just like that? A deal with a demon without thinking about it just to bail me out, you didn't even set real limits on your offer, you just... Walked into it! Self-sacrificing! What if he'd taken you up on it?

[Does not actually raise his voice, instead goes lower and colder, not hissing, but a chilly, frozen sort of anger.]

Re: The Last Group

[deathandtaxes]

Just. Like. That. And if he'd taken me up on it, it would have been exactly that. A deal with a demon.

And you know? I think I've done the same for worse reasons.

Re: The Last Group

[digitalemperor]

That right then would have been worse reasons.