give your friends a surprise

[closewithnewintown]

Who: EVERYONE
What: FAMILY MEETING
When: 8/4, right after school closes.
Where: Student council room
Warnings: Eventually, probably.

["If my friends back home were acting like this, I would've already locked them in a room and forced them to figure out their feelings."

the job puts all of her considerable superspy skills to the test. she knows where every normal kid's locker is; it's easy enough to slip the note into each that morning. if it's someone who she knows would be unable to read the note, she tells them its contents, but keeps her own involvement out of it. lies of omission don't count.

the note reads:]

I have very important information about this place. Please come to the student council room after school ends today.

- Nao Sato

[and if the text looks just a bit girlier than you'd think she'd write, hey, you don't know her. she's got layers.

either way, it's a pretty interesting proposition: the student council room door is, for the first time in seemingly ever, wide open. anyone can walk inside - and, hopefully, most everyone should. because it's only when Stephanie thinks that she's got enough of them inside that she actually enters the room, shutting the door behind her.

click.

it locks. she grins, spins the key on her finger, and slips it into her pocket.

"How are you supposed to do that with grownups?"

the exact same way, she's decided.]

We haven't had any meetings since, um. Well. The last one. But, I'm pretty sure nobody has no more murders to report, so it shouldn't be too bad, and we can all just focus on the most important task: Getting along! All of us are on the same team, but most of us barely even know each other; some of us even hate some of the others! [SHE SAYS, LIKE SHE DOESN'T ACTIVELY DESPISE KOKICHI] So, I figured we could spend the evening fixing that problem. Play some games, talk about stuff we've discovered since the last time...

And, maybe, if everybody does a really good job, I'll unlock the door!

[smiles]

Comments

[subtract]

Oho? That's a good answer. Whether you're a real human or a sum of one's experiences... if a being is capable of thought and choice, it's a valid existence. Most wouldn't understand the difference anyway.

Still, it'd be troublesome if you turned out to be a mole planted by those in charge of this place... eliminating a potential threat would be the wiser action.

[compendiem]

The same can be said of anyone... Will you eliminate everybody in this school?

[elevelvetor]

( why must you harass her doomed-world guest..............

Liz, very casually as they're talking, will just pull Minato's cheeks into a smile as if this is going to prove he's a Real Person. )

Nobody will be eliminating anyone, Minato, and if they try, I and Thanatos shall take care of them swiftly.

[compendiem]

[ bwuhh—-

Elizabeth: only I get to kill ]

...even if they have a good reason?

[ gestures to Add ]

[elevelvetor]

Even then. You... ( "didn't achieve your goals by killing anyone" but actually, never mind—

hold on. Ahem. ) You've never met him, but there is another wildcard user I've met on my travels... He is the guest of my older sister, Margaret, and he saved quite a number of people without murdering anyone.

( so. )

Besides... There are much worse things than dying.

[compendiem]

[ He killed just one guy and he'll never live it down, huh? ]

...like seeing your friends suffer.

[ It's why he did what he did, being told that they would all die before spring, but the choice he has to make is whether that would be in pain and suffering, or ignorance and bliss. ]

[elevelvetor]

( Minato did what he thought was best. She's not allowed to judge him for his actions, as an attendant of the Velvet Room.

Now, as someone on her own journey and a fellow wildcard on the other hand— )

Correct... Or experiencing suffering yourself.

[compendiem]

It's the same, though...?

[ For him, at least, seeing his friends suffer is suffering himself. For somebody who had toyed with the concept of death for so long, the fear of death has no grip on him. Physical suffering, emotional turmoil, it doesn't matter if it's his and him alone, as long as everybody else is okay. ]

[elevelvetor]

( ...She folds her hands in front of her, thoughtful. She still has much to learn from him, whether or not he's her guest (proper) or not. )

I meant more in the way of the techniques once employed by the Spanish Inquisition, among other zealous organizations, but... ( Mmmm... ) Yes, I suppose that it is, for some.

[compendiem]

Oh. But that sort of suffering will end.

[ Either you run out of teeth and fingernails, or you die. But there is an end to look forward to. ]

...guess it doesn't matter, if no one's dying.

[ him looking at Add and Stephanie, when will Steph snap ]

[subtract]

No. Not everyone here came from that place... that makes you uniquely suspicious, don't you agree?

Kukukuku... but I don't really care enough to intervene. Still... if one was concerned about escaping from this place, wouldn't it be better to remove such suspicious wildcards...?

[compendiem]

Yes.

[ On both accounts, yes. It would make sense to eliminate Minato, he can't argue that. ]