[ this is a sad child. this is a sad nahida, and jonas happens to run into her probably on his way back to his own warehouse. they kind of knew this would happen eventually, and jonas has been...a little more pragmatic about it with most people.
but this is nahida who has been nothing but kind to him and who lost a teammate already. so he softens his approach just a little. ]
Nahida? [ he just says her name to get her attention and mostly to gauge if she's willing to talk to him at all. ]
[she looks up at the sound of his voice and seems to be trying to pull herself together, because she tries to school her expression so it's not quite so sad. she isn't entirely successful.]
Jonas...
[she sighs.]
...I really thought people would wait at least a week to see how quickly we could earn points through missions before resorting to this.
[ OUR SAD NAHIDA...she is not entirely successful, and it's touch week, so she gets a hand on her head for a moment. ]
...I would be lying if I said I thought the same. [ this was always inevitable. ] But it makes you wonder what their motivation is to try and wrack up points this fast this early.
Maybe they won't, but won't their team? [ there's the idea that maybe they acted for the whole, but...that seems a little too altruistic for him, too. ] And that's if we catch them. The Reapers will be at the trial with us tomorrow, but we don't know how things are going to go until we get there either.
[ but she sounds convinced, so he's curious why. ]
[she is just being stubborn, honestly. she's trying to convince herself of it.]
I refuse to let them get away with this. If we don't catch them, anyone else who is considering doing this for the points will be more likely to do so. If we catch them, then anyone who is thinking about it will have to think twice if they don't want to risk their own lives.
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...their team might keep the points, but I'm not sure... any of the teams are close enough for someone to be willing to give up their life that way. Not so early, when there's not a guarantee that they'll win.
No. No, okay, yes, that's a good point, too. It's like...like a warning? "Hey, if you erase someone, you risk over thirty people coming after you to make you pay for it." But even then they might have their own reasons to try in the first place.
[ he doesn't quite agree with the sentiment about the teams not being close enough to be willing to give up their lives, but. he already figures he's an anomaly when it comes to some stuff and some people. he won't say it, at least. ]
...the good thing is when we catch them, we'll know what team they were on and we can figure out how many points erasing someone counts for. If it's really not that much...I dunno. Might make people think twice about the risks.
...then they had best be sure that their reasons are worth their own lives.
[there are some things worth giving your life up for. nahida just isn't sure erasing someone for points is one of them, at least not yet. maybe at the end of the game, if your team was in second place and you could be sure that the point increase would allow your teammates would get home even if you couldn't, she could understand someone else making that choice - but now? now, you could earn more points by staying alive for the remaining seven weeks' worth of missions, couldn't you??]
But we should do our best to make it very, very clear that taking the "easier" way of earning points quickly comes at a very high risk. Perhaps enough people will think that the risk outweighs the potential reward... [...] With this as a precedent, it may not, but if we can slow the rate at which people are Erased, it gives us more time to figure something out.
[ it's all very smart and logical is the thing. what nahida is saying makes perfect sense, and it's a good way to make sure people aren't too rash and aren't causing more problems than necessary.
it's sort of why he thinks it won't work, ultimately, but he knows that's just his own outlook on things shadowing his thoughts. ]
We'll have to see how tomorrow goes. If someone sees even a little room for error, we might have some trouble getting people to take things more seriously. [ there's a pause. ] Are there trials and stuff like that in Sumeru?
[sometimes being smart and logical is just in your nature and you miss the emotional and irrational aspects of things... at least she's not an asshole with her logic like (kaveh voice) alhaitham.]
...the Matra usually investigate wrongdoing and will hand offenders over to the Corps of Thirty for holding, or vice versa. Punishment is generally decided by whoever has jurisdiction in the area where the wrongdoing was committed. The Sages of the Akademiya are often involved in that process as well. I don't think their process is going to be all that similar to what we'll be doing tomorrow, though.
Since we don't know who the offender is yet, maybe not quite. But we'll probably have to investigate the clues people found today and check the evidence to build a case for the court. And once we review it we should be able to apply it to a person and...whatever happens to them after that happens.
[ you know. erasure. ]
Back home it's similar to Sumeru though. The cops usually investigate crimes and if you're caught you get arrested and taken to holding. Depending on what you did, you may go before a judge and jury, or maybe just a judge, or maybe just the police themselves. And then depending on how serious it is and how things work in your trial you can either walk, pay a fine, or they lock you up for a while.
[ too bad it's probably not going to be that simple. ]
...I didn't even think about that. [ he should have, maybe, since he's the one who brought it up, but it hadn't occurred to him. ] Maybe for some reason they can't keep us imprisoned somewhere because of what we are.
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but this is nahida who has been nothing but kind to him and who lost a teammate already. so he softens his approach just a little. ]
Nahida? [ he just says her name to get her attention and mostly to gauge if she's willing to talk to him at all. ]
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Jonas...
[she sighs.]
...I really thought people would wait at least a week to see how quickly we could earn points through missions before resorting to this.
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...I would be lying if I said I thought the same. [ this was always inevitable. ] But it makes you wonder what their motivation is to try and wrack up points this fast this early.
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[she crosses her arms.]
...doing it this early was unwise. We're going to catch them tomorrow, and they won't benefit from the points they've earned at all.
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[ but she sounds convinced, so he's curious why. ]
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[she is just being stubborn, honestly. she's trying to convince herself of it.]
I refuse to let them get away with this. If we don't catch them, anyone else who is considering doing this for the points will be more likely to do so. If we catch them, then anyone who is thinking about it will have to think twice if they don't want to risk their own lives.
[...]
...their team might keep the points, but I'm not sure... any of the teams are close enough for someone to be willing to give up their life that way. Not so early, when there's not a guarantee that they'll win.
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[ he doesn't quite agree with the sentiment about the teams not being close enough to be willing to give up their lives, but. he already figures he's an anomaly when it comes to some stuff and some people. he won't say it, at least. ]
...the good thing is when we catch them, we'll know what team they were on and we can figure out how many points erasing someone counts for. If it's really not that much...I dunno. Might make people think twice about the risks.
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[there are some things worth giving your life up for. nahida just isn't sure erasing someone for points is one of them, at least not yet. maybe at the end of the game, if your team was in second place and you could be sure that the point increase would allow your teammates would get home even if you couldn't, she could understand someone else making that choice - but now? now, you could earn more points by staying alive for the remaining seven weeks' worth of missions, couldn't you??]
But we should do our best to make it very, very clear that taking the "easier" way of earning points quickly comes at a very high risk. Perhaps enough people will think that the risk outweighs the potential reward... [...] With this as a precedent, it may not, but if we can slow the rate at which people are Erased, it gives us more time to figure something out.
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it's sort of why he thinks it won't work, ultimately, but he knows that's just his own outlook on things shadowing his thoughts. ]
We'll have to see how tomorrow goes. If someone sees even a little room for error, we might have some trouble getting people to take things more seriously. [ there's a pause. ] Are there trials and stuff like that in Sumeru?
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...the Matra usually investigate wrongdoing and will hand offenders over to the Corps of Thirty for holding, or vice versa. Punishment is generally decided by whoever has jurisdiction in the area where the wrongdoing was committed. The Sages of the Akademiya are often involved in that process as well. I don't think their process is going to be all that similar to what we'll be doing tomorrow, though.
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[ you know. erasure. ]
Back home it's similar to Sumeru though. The cops usually investigate crimes and if you're caught you get arrested and taken to holding. Depending on what you did, you may go before a judge and jury, or maybe just a judge, or maybe just the police themselves. And then depending on how serious it is and how things work in your trial you can either walk, pay a fine, or they lock you up for a while.
[ too bad it's probably not going to be that simple. ]
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[she's looking at her phone now, and has the rulebook app pulled up.]
There's no option to imprison someone or let them pay a fine... just Erasure.
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[she frowns.]
Though they're doing a good enough job keeping us contained to one space with those barriers...
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That's a good plan.
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...this is going to probably be a dumb question, but...are you okay?
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[it's the closest she can get to saying "i'm okay"]
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[she sighs.]
It's... disappointing. But it's what we have to work with, so... we'll get to work, tomorrow.
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[ i.e. she can be sad if she wants. or do whatever she wants to process it. ]
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[lol.]