[ gu yun looks pretty cloudy after that whole fiasco. an hour or so afterwards, he's at the table in the little room, a tall drink in front of him, head resting on his fist.
hearing the door click up, he glances up, tense, frowning, but gives a jerk of his chin up in greeting. ]
[ law will have his own moment of "manpain" somewhere in the biome before coming back to the room and catching sight of gu yun. hahaha... as if the whole ordeal couldn't be worst, another innocent was convicted? he'll half-heartedly raise a hand to his roomie before crossing the room. ]
[ i mean it's also indulgence in despair in the purest form but let's not go there because i've hit max ac bonus like five times over not including memshares. ]
[ law will take the cup because he's going to be a responsible drinker for this one time. or, well, more than one time but you know. he spent an entire week being constantly low-key drunk so let's not go any deeper. ]
Yesterday wasn't exactly great either and tomorrow is bound to be just as bad.
Why do you think I drink every day? [ lmao.... he takes a sip from the bottle, with that, lifting it in a mock cheers. ] 's how war works. Day in, day out - you must only take it as it comes.
[ ... ]
...Steven and I got on well. He reminded me a bit of my second in command. [ a huff, as gu yun sets the bottle back down. ] In a lot of ways. I wanted to put the pieces together.
Most pirates drink a lot as well. [ wry and sardonic. ] It's easier to carry alcohol or wine on a boat than it is with water. Also the easiest way to handle the things you see when you're at sea.
[ which is a perfect cue for law to take a sip from his cup. he won't be pounding away the whiskey tonight. ]
But did he? [ he...does not offer his stance on where he stands with steven, unfortunately. some of it he wears on his skin so he hopes that's enough. ] Well, compared to the previous two times, there was a far more focused effort to figure out with what went wrong.
Pirates and soldiers aren't really that different, in the end. [ haha. gu yun picks up on that wry tone easily, his mouth sliding into a curl of a smile of his own. ] Just depends on who you're serving.
[ self, others, nations. it all comes with the same sort of trauma, doesn't it? ]
Mm. There was a lot to deal with - a lot of evidence that crisscrossed in strange ways. We're getting better. That, and it seems like we're doing a lot of catching of people who are very likely to murder the rest of us. So. I suppose there's that.
[ he'll listen to gy speak while sipping on his the whiskey and only speaking up a moment later. ]
Then won't that make it worse the longer this goes on? We'll have people who we've deemed "too good to kill" to decide the fates of.
[ since, you know, there's not much going for them in terms of being able to figure out who the murderers are. they are actually 0/3 right now and it's amazing. COULDN'T EVEN GET THE TUTORIAL RIGHT. ]
Because there's something happening between the rules, the avatars, and the indulgences we need to keep doing and I'm sure until we figure out what that is, we're only going to find more bodies.
[ which are going to suddenly get harder but it'll be fine?? maybe??? he doesn't have to do pride ones.......... ]
The "adventure" from the previous week and then what happened to you. Those don't really fit in with what we were brought in to do, right?
Oh, certainly. Each footstep towards knowing this place feels quite small, when our weeks end with bodies and unsolved mysteries. [ there's a little dryness to that statement, but, it is the truth. ] Truthfully, we don't even know how long we'll be here, short of "when you've indulged enough", particularly when there's no metric of what that even looks like. Imagine that it was just until our numbers dwindled down to a number considered plausible for 'granting desires'.
[ that certainly seems to be what's being implied, anyway, as the weeks continue to move on. ]
But you're correct - they don't. I have reason to believe that my own was based off of someone's memories.
I've asked Pride a few times if there have been any changes in the threshold or the information to help us better understand what's going on here but haven't been met with much of anything.
[ he sighs and looks down at the table. is this better than mourning? definitely because it's "productive". ]
Do you think that what might be happening? A larger than necessary amount of people arrived here and only those who remain will get their wish granted? [ now there's a spin he hadn't quite gotten to. ] ...and if those are memories of someone—who?
Well, we have that in common. [ PRIDE IS SO UNHELPFUL!!! THEIR TSUNTSUN!!! it's fine, gu yun's very fond of pride even if they're Like That, and completely useless in terms of digging out information and trying to understand this place. he has other sources. ]
I think so, sure. It's not a complete theory, but it makes sense, based on what we've been told. How many of us here would kill for no reason? [ certainly some of them, but enough to have as many bodies as they've had recently...? who knows. ]
The memories were White's. He didn't have any knowledge that we were experiencing them, though.
[ law is also fond of pride and pride gives law plenty of Rights but sometimes that still isn't enough. ]
But do you think White's memories being projected in such a way was aligned with what is happening to everyone? [ he squints. ] Only just on a wider and more deadly scale.
[ does that mean things in the future might end up that way? no, that wouldn't make any kind of sense with the first excursion to come back. ...but it was a gluttonous memory, wasn't it? or. ""memory"".]
And I'm not paranoid enough to think that there are people here who would kill without reason—the robot aside.
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hearing the door click up, he glances up, tense, frowning, but gives a jerk of his chin up in greeting. ]
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Just me.
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Are you much of a drinker, Law?
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No, but I'll make an exception.
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Today's a day for it.
[ he's only got the one cup, so. he'll nudge that across, if he wants. or he can just take the bottle. ]
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Yesterday wasn't exactly great either and tomorrow is bound to be just as bad.
[ closes eyes in execution. ]
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Why do you think I drink every day? [ lmao.... he takes a sip from the bottle, with that, lifting it in a mock cheers. ] 's how war works. Day in, day out - you must only take it as it comes.
[ ... ]
...Steven and I got on well. He reminded me a bit of my second in command. [ a huff, as gu yun sets the bottle back down. ] In a lot of ways. I wanted to put the pieces together.
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[ which is a perfect cue for law to take a sip from his cup. he won't be pounding away the whiskey tonight. ]
But did he? [ he...does not offer his stance on where he stands with steven, unfortunately. some of it he wears on his skin so he hopes that's enough. ] Well, compared to the previous two times, there was a far more focused effort to figure out with what went wrong.
[ and law even showed up to help!! ]
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[ self, others, nations. it all comes with the same sort of trauma, doesn't it? ]
Mm. There was a lot to deal with - a lot of evidence that crisscrossed in strange ways. We're getting better. That, and it seems like we're doing a lot of catching of people who are very likely to murder the rest of us. So. I suppose there's that.
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[ he'll listen to gy speak while sipping on his the whiskey and only speaking up a moment later. ]
Then won't that make it worse the longer this goes on? We'll have people who we've deemed "too good to kill" to decide the fates of.
[ since, you know, there's not much going for them in terms of being able to figure out who the murderers are. they are actually 0/3 right now and it's amazing. COULDN'T EVEN GET THE TUTORIAL RIGHT. ]
Have you learned more of this place, Gu Yun?
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to the question gu yun tilts his head. ]
A bit, though much of it has just led to more questions. My adventure on Thursday notwithstanding. Why do you ask?
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[ which are going to suddenly get harder but it'll be fine?? maybe??? he doesn't have to do pride ones.......... ]
The "adventure" from the previous week and then what happened to you. Those don't really fit in with what we were brought in to do, right?
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[ that certainly seems to be what's being implied, anyway, as the weeks continue to move on. ]
But you're correct - they don't. I have reason to believe that my own was based off of someone's memories.
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[ he sighs and looks down at the table. is this better than mourning? definitely because it's "productive". ]
Do you think that what might be happening? A larger than necessary amount of people arrived here and only those who remain will get their wish granted? [ now there's a spin he hadn't quite gotten to. ] ...and if those are memories of someone—who?
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I think so, sure. It's not a complete theory, but it makes sense, based on what we've been told. How many of us here would kill for no reason? [ certainly some of them, but enough to have as many bodies as they've had recently...? who knows. ]
The memories were White's. He didn't have any knowledge that we were experiencing them, though.
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But do you think White's memories being projected in such a way was aligned with what is happening to everyone? [ he squints. ] Only just on a wider and more deadly scale.
[ does that mean things in the future might end up that way? no, that wouldn't make any kind of sense with the first excursion to come back. ...but it was a gluttonous memory, wasn't it? or. ""memory"".]
And I'm not paranoid enough to think that there are people here who would kill without reason—the robot aside.
[ but are robot people?? ]