WEEK 2

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WEEK 2

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The first week is over, and two of your number are gone. Everything related to the case has been cleaned up, with nary a knife left at the Main Square nor a trace of the mud shapes that once painted the clock tower walls, although some stray graffiti still dots some storefronts.

However you may feel about the entire debacle on Friday, there’s no doubt that something has changed about the atmosphere, although whether it’s something tangible or just a trick of the mind is hard to say. Maybe it’s nothing. Either way, there are more palpable changes to the city, with some of the fog retreating away from a few of the surrounding areas, uncovering new buildings and streets along the way. The night, however, remains unchanged as always save for the slow waxing of the moon, leaving it bright and full as early as Thursday night. Regardless of if you take it as an omen or not, at least that means the streets will be lit up fairly well for the week, provided some inconvenient cloud cover doesn’t slide right in.

[[Welcome to Week 2! Note that new areas have been added, and can be found under the Week 2 tab on our Locations page. Once again, feel free to make top levels at your discretion, and remember to note it in your header if you plan on investigating any locations. You can also privately contact The Lady or Rembrandt.]]

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[notbymyside]

That, and she probably wants to make people dislike me. She wants us to kill one-another, remember?

[ordealia]

She’s a complete monster, is what she is.

[notbymyside]

As terrible as this is, it's probably best not to paint her as a callous villain. No person is a complete monster, and we need to recognize that in order to find the weak points to get at her with.

[ordealia]

Some people are complete monsters. Maybe you haven’t known any, but I have.

[Said with insistence.]

People who experiment like that...there’s no calling them anything else.

[notbymyside]

...

[The next words he says are spoken gently.]

When we call others complete monsters, we start to forget how easy it is to become a monster. And when we forget that, it is easy to make the same mistakes and try to find justification in them instead of recognizing them as immoral choices.

[ordealia]

...I see what your point is, but this isn’t the kind of thing I can just let go. Bad prior experience with that kind of thing.

[No more actual words come out around the lump in her throat. She finally manages a nod, turning away in an effort to not actually cry in front of everyone.]

[notbymyside]

...

[He will leave her be, then.]

[indulgently]

I think based on this we can only assume that it will be safest to tread carefully with this lady. Unfortunately it seems she is the unpredictable sort that will twist a situation in her favor by whatever means necessary.

[notbymyside]

She certainly likes to twist words. And with that, she could make us turn on each other very easily.

[indulgently]

I can't speak for everyone, but as it stands-- if my options are listening to her words or listening to yours, I feel far more confident in the latter.

[Neither is a guarantee but at least one of them didn't kidnap him to play a murder game.]

[notbymyside]

[Those words are actually kind of touching, and they make Ango feel better.]

Thank you for that vote of confidence.

[baitless]

I agree, personally.

...

Though, it may be for the best that we never actually speak to the Lady ever again.

[notbymyside]

I think we can't avoid that. She's in charge of this place. If we ignore her, she will start coming around and bothering us.

[baitless]

There's no rule against telling her to leave and refusing to acknowledge her existence if she doesn't.

[notbymyside]

I suppose there isn't, no. But do you really think she would leave it at that?

[baitless]

Likely not, but perhaps we'd feel some petty satisfaction if it annoyed her.

[p_q]

Creatures like her find the means to amuse themselves.

[Agreement of some stripe, he seems to be... inviting... you to imagine what else would happen if the Lady were bored enough. Please imagine it. Please enjoy it. Especially you, Ango.]

[notbymyside]

[No thank you, he could do without those images.]

[drydrown]

She's not that horrible to talk to, on the whole.

[...just saying]

BEEN A WHILE SINCE I'VE WRONG JOURNALED...

[baitless]

...

I suspect our personalities would be entirely incompatible.

[indulgently]

I can't imagine she'd like that.

[She seems petty like that.]

...although that does make it sound all the more tempting to try.

[baitless]

...

It certainly does, actually. We cannot reward people for bad behavior, after all.