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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[drydrown]

Oh, come now, why did you have to go and tell him? Now he's actually going to think before he does it.

[inordertobelieve]

[ Why is he 27 and suddenly getting bullied again. Why's that a thing. ]

You're disgusting.

[drydrown]

You're going to have to try a little harder than that, Teru Mikami.

[because cumore could have been anything in life and he chose to be regina george, tbh]

Don't be angry just because I'm not the one who was willing to mutilate myself without even knowing what would happen.

[inordertobelieve]

[ Okay, deep breaths, Mikami. He can just ignore this. It's cool. He'll just glare and let it be. It's FINE. ]

[bawcock]

[ Why is he 19 and vaguely defending a 27-year-old. Why's that a thing. ]

[p_q]

That doesn't seem to be a denial, Mikami Teru.

[And from out of left field-- No really, he isn't all that invested, but he was sort of quietly rooting for near-future lawzard?? Sighs, some people ruin all the fun even for the people who don't know what fun is. Rude.]

[inordertobelieve]

A denial of what? Thinking twice before throwing away my whole life?

[ Even he isn't going to deny that, sheesh. ]

I'm not exactly inclined to do that, yes. But all it means is that we have to work even harder at preventing future cases - or at solving them.

[p_q]

A denial that you'd throw it away after thinking twice.

[Somehow said extremely mildly but extremely judgmentally all at once.

He really wouldn't put it past this dude at this point, all things considered. What exactly is he, anyway, some sort of weird justicebot. And this is coming from Ulquiorra "I have exactly 3 expressions" Cifer here.]

There is no 'we'. There is only you, and your strange crusade and stranger fixation on whatever meaning it is you've created here on this playground that was made for you.

[inordertobelieve]

[ Oh. Well, that Mikami really can't deny. For all he wants to get out of here, there is a nagging voice at the back of his head that knows he has nowhere to go back to. Nothing to do, no hope. The meaning he finds here is possibly the last meaning he'll ever have.

But that's not something he can say. ]

Morality is not dependent on your location. Even within completely lawless land, one's own choices make a difference.

[p_q]

[The non-answer is more eloquent than any answer he could have pulled out, anyway.

Some things are consistent, it seems, as absurd as they are. That being said, discussing meaning with Ulquiorra is quite possibly either a fool's errand or a masochist's quest, either or. Mikami is wise to keep his mouth shut here.]

That is mere arrogance. To believe your morality can reach anywhere, or that you can affect anything. The view of someone who cannot see very far.

[inordertobelieve]

Doing right by your own conscience is the first step to a proper life.

What would you even suggest as an alternative? Your defeatist attitude for sure won't affect anything. With a point of view like that, why would anybody even try?

[p_q]

A proper life matters little in the long run. Death treats many the same -- death here even more so, in some ways.

[It seems doubtful now that any sort of shinigami jurisdiction reaches this place; it's too isolated and a thing unto itself for that, and he's sure that even without his Pesquisa nor any sort of spiritual sense, traces of their presence would have made itself known by now. You can't escape the pests, after all.

And then there's the matter of those blue creatures. But that's neither here nor there.]

... How human, to call knowing your limits defeatist. Perhaps, once you are no longer human, you will have a more useful perspective.

[bawcock]

[ Just sighing. ]

Do you really wanna see someone turn into one of those things?

[drydrown]

Not particularly? If it were just the Lady inflicting it on someone for the sake of it, then of course not. But someone so insipid as to take the offer without knowing what it entails would absolutely deserve whatever they got, and that horrid prosecutor certainly seemed like a prime candidate for getting what's coming to him.

[baitless]

...I wouldn't wish that fate on someone even if they were the most uselessly awful person I knew, but I'm not exactly surprised you're saying this...

[drydrown]

If you have something to say to me, you're welcome to it.

[I mean it looks like Mikami isn't going to, poor lamb.]

[baitless]

I am simply saying, as someone who has seen similar things happen, it is deeply unpleasant to observe.

[bawcock]

In other words, he'd bring it on himself so it's okay. [ Shaking his head lightly. ] Sorry, but I just don't get that. I know her warning was enough for most of us to realize it was a bad deal and we shouldn't take it, but some people aren't so practical.

They need more information before they can actually make a decision. And if I hid something that I knew, or at least something I suspected, then I'd feel at least partially responsible for what happened to them.

[ More than partially but, whatever. Nobody needs to know that last part. ]

[drydrown]

My, that does sound like a truly personal problem and I'm almost sorry for your lot.

Teru Mikami's lack of self-preservation and inability to utilize common sense are hardly my cross to bear. If he chooses to mutilate or otherwise destroy himself in the pursuit of an ideal that can't exist here, then that isn't my problem, and I won't be convinced to feel like it should be.

[bawcock]

Geez, you really are a piece of work. I'm starting to think we need to put you and him in separate corners.

[ But there's no point in arguing any of this, much less in doing it during a meeting. Momentarily putting his hands on his hips before glancing away and crossing them instead. ] I'm not interested in telling you what to do or how to feel here. You asked me a question, I answered it. What you do after that is up to you.

[drydrown]

Your answer involved asking me to take into consideration that some people are stupid and need their hands held. To which I restate, if our little scion of justice can't tell the difference between hot coals and candy, it's not my job to tell him what to put in his mouth.

Either way, it's not as though I'm explicitly interested in seeing anything happen to him. If something does, I won't be heartbroken, but that holds true for most here.

[...mikami s2g if you die on friday he's going to take it as a personal slight]

[bawcock]

[ This is a whole lot of things, tbh. Also at this rate, it feels like they're gonna get stuck in a loop. ]

If you're not interested in seeing anything happen to him, then maybe you can lay off him for a while. Or at least during meetings.

[drydrown]

Somehow I doubt anything I say is going to cause the man to fall over dead, you know.

[but fine, fine. have a dismissive handwave, you.]

[bawcock]

Maybe not, though it is awfully distracting.

[ He'll take it!! Again, not super interested in arguing but if Cumore wants to chat normally they can do that. ]