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week 3, saturday

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[after the trial, nahida goes to the park for some fresh air. being stuck in a mcdonald's for 9 hours while you're trying to solve a murder is a lot.]

...ugh.

[that's it! just ugh!]

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[ She does that thing she does every week where she's walking all over the place to get settled back in her skin. ]

... Yes. That's the sum of it.

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Kyoko, may I ask you who you voted for?

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[ She flinches at the thought. ]

I voted wrong. I thought it was Hot Mess.

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[ah... her ears droop a little.]

...because Gyuhyuk wasn't cooperating? Or for another reason?

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No, that wasn't it.

I thought ice and fire were both from Shenhe. The photokinesis was from Eiden. He already had access to healing aura from healing up Shen. Yakumo could've healed him up additionally, so no injuries would've been found.

[ She was following a thread of logic... It was just wrong. ]

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[oh, whew. that does make her feel a little better about it because she has been internally screaming about "what if my argument with him swung votes over to his team]

...that logic is sound. It's just that, in this case, it wasn't what happened. [...] Can I ask you another question? Which of your votes have been correct up until now?

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[ Kyoko isn't that emotional of a person. An argument is an argument, and the facts are the facts. ]

The first and second weeks I was correct.

May I ask you the same?

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The first time I was, the second time I was not, and the third time I was again. And I noticed something... when we've received money when a new week starts, I received the same amount of money after the first and third votes, but slightly less after the second vote.

...did you notice anything like that yourself?

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On the start of the third week [week 2 ooc], I received slightly less money. Given the Reaper's message on the network, I believed it was because I didn't properly engage with their prompt.

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[huh. she frowns a little, thinking about it.]

That would have been following a week you voted correctly, then... so there are probably other factors involved in it as well. I wish I knew what the baseline was, and the amounts each action is "worth".

I'm going to be asking others to compare notes. But if I'm able to find someone who has more or less engaged with aspects of the Reaper's Game in the same way that I did this week, and our only difference was in how we voted - that might give us some idea, if one of us has made more money than the other on Monday.

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I was also told that the special missions people participated in also rewarded money. I haven't gone on any, so I'm unable to confirm this for myself.

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If they do, that's strange. The week we were paid following my "special mission" was the week I was paid less. I'd have expected the payment for that to balance out voting incorrectly that week.

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Odd. When I asked Kiichi he said it didn't reward points, instead it was money.

It doesn't seem like there's a reason to lie about that.

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Maybe there's some other reason, then... but if so, I can't imagine what it is.

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I don't know either.

[And that's a little bit annoying.]

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...I think I know what I'll be asking a few different people on Monday, then.

Thank you for talking this over with me, Kyoko. I'll compare notes with others who have been involved in those missions, and compare notes with people whose votes I'm sure of, and see what we can infer from that. And I'll let you know if there's anything that seems significant.

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Thank you, Nahida. I appreciate it.

[ and the chance to think about something that isn't just this weekend. ]

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Of course.

[yeah, mood. there's a reason why nahida keeps going into work mode when she's depressed.]