pc w/ shu

[applebough]

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w3, saturday

[roseoftexas]

[ post trial stress tea? yeah let's go.



shu will has something without all the frills, bells and whistles and is just staring at the ice in the cup slowly melting. he's not sure he has the brain power to do much else after that. ]

[applebough]

[ Yuri sits across the table from Shu and lifts his cup to try and put it to his lips when he sees him without brain power. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ just


blinks and ?!?!??!?s when there's suddenly a cup at his mouth. hello. ]

[applebough]

[ hi ]

... You did well today, Shu.

[ She puts the cup down so that it doesn't spill though. ]

Good work. You certainly worked hard today.

[ remembers him struggling against the shadow ]

[roseoftexas]

[ (spoon voice) i thought you'd recognise it, you're an ffxvi fan. unfortunately for spoon i am also stupid. ]

I think people worked harder. A lot was happening.

[applebough]

We were certainly more focused this trial than the previous ones. It really helped to have some more evidence and have the investigation team feed us some information to theorize during our downtime.

[ ... ]

Shu, are you glad that we didn't catch the second person?

[roseoftexas]

Sadly, we had some practice from last week having multiple cases. But there was so much overlap, we had less places to check.

[ ... ]

I think, from what we know, it's likely that Sora was the attacker that night. So-- maybe I am, a little. Didn't really want the other case to be Dion though, so it's not like there was ever going to be a good outcome.

[applebough]

[ Yuri nods. ]

I don't think we ever want someone to be the culprit... but we still have to choose someone. That's probably the most unfortunate thing about this.

[roseoftexas]

I don't really want to know what happens if we vote and get it wrong, either. [ me like i wonder how close we got today thanks sae. ]

[applebough]

Then it'll just be... the wrong person that is executed the day after, isn't it?

[ Since they just straight up said it's an execution now. ]

I don't understand why this is happening... They should be staying inside the brig and wait until they're ushered into their court. Is the one who's behind this not actually the head of Eudora, but only acts like it?

[roseoftexas]

Probably. There’s not an easy solution at all.

[ every option! sucks! ]

I asked why they didn’t just put culprits in a pod until we made it to the hub. But there’s not guarantee of safety there either. The stasis pods could be used to just— [ he snaps his fingers ] Get rid of the people in there.

We still don’t really know who’s behind all this. That’s what we need to figure out, and soon.

1/2

[applebough]

[ Oh, she... looks a little devastated by that. ]

... I told Eunhyuk that he could try asking the senior members to put him into cryosleep inside one of the pods until we got to the hub, and...

[ ...

Yuri closes her eye tightly and tries to shake off his incredibly bad feeling, shaking her head. ]

[applebough]

[ She looks down at her own tea, frowning a little before looking back up at Shu. ]

... Shu, do you have all the discovered files so far? I can send them over to you by IRIS.

[roseoftexas]

I had a similar idea. Couldn’t understand why they wouldn’t just do that, but it sounds like it’s truly out of their hands. And trying to do otherwise might be seen as an unnecessary intervention.

[ it really sucks, honestly. he thought it sounded like a good idea. ]

… As far as I’m aware? Shoma brought them to me the other day. A few logs, the roster, that stuff about the lockers and the one that’s really encrypted and ominous.

[applebough]

There has been an update on that video. Let me send them to you.

[ And so, Shu will receive them all by IRIS transfer.

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A note to Throne:

That night, Scien was overcome by a violence not his own, driving his thoughts and actions beyond his control. The onset was quick and the cause unknown.

It could be anyone.

A note to Charles:

a printout of a newspaper digital clipping that shows Europa, Callisto, and a blond boy with red-copper eyes with the local police of that planet under the headline “UNDERGROUND COKIE RING THWARTED BY OFF THE CLOCK COURIER SERVICE WORKERS.”, with text reading "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BOY?" under them.

(yay) ]

[roseoftexas]

[ he flicks through them, pausing at the first one and looking a little amused for a moment. ] This one's new.

[ drink choices.... ]

Ah. The newspaper. I wondered about this -- Clock Courier Service Workers?

[applebough]

Perhaps that was what they used to mainly transport instead of it being an all-rounder delivery ship.

[ Clocks. ]

[roseoftexas]

Potentially then, Nut & Bolt is the more recent name, and it was Clock Courier Service Workers before then.

[applebough]

"Nut & Bolt" is still stated on the same newspaper file... A branch, maybe?

[roseoftexas]

Like a sub-division? [ hmmm. ] Or a branch, yeah.

[applebough]

... It's a lot to think about, isn't it? I'm more concerned about the updated multiplex video. The behavior is similar to the weekly culprits.

[roseoftexas]

The yelling? [ he nods. ]

There's another few logs that show people being weirdly angry -- the guy getting mad at Callisto, and the person who walked in on two crew members kissing. This might've happened before.

[applebough]

It was one of my theories, but it's unfortunate that there's evidence about it repeating...

[ Wasn't one round of experiments enough? ]

[roseoftexas]

And that the senior crew don’t remember it happening.

[ hmmm. ] It seems purposeful now, doesn’t it?

[applebough]

[ Yuri nods. ]

Even if remote nanite control exists, I feel that... there would have to be at least one person to witness it all closely. Since there is repetition, I'm assuming that they want to find something out about our influenced states that they haven't seen yet...