dendroculi | [homophonic] catchall for livio

...I don't mind taking a look.

[maybe it will be better if she has something else to focus on.]

[ he will show her on his sad, cracked phone ]

it looks like they're really going for world erasure. they're really stubborn that way, aren't they? at least the winner can use their points to also bring others back to the realground, but i'm afraid i don't really think they'd be able to save too many unless they really work for it with how much it costs. what a shame, isn't it? i hope this group won't be anti-violence.

[she reads over it, then sighs.]

...it's the same as the one Shu received. So it's consistent, at least. Still...

[BAD VIBES.]

Yeah, I'd bet that every person that went on these trips each week got the exact same message.

[ he figured shu would have shown her, but still. she showed him hers ]

I'm wonderin' if this is the reason we have two bodies. [ not this message specifically, but the idea behind it, that they have to shed blood for points to save everyone ]

...you mean, someone who knew about the stakes before your group received this message?

[...hm. that makes her frown a little.]

I did hear that D and Libby might have been forced to do it. [ he has no confirmation, really, but... this does make him wonder ]

Dunno for sure, of course. I'm plannin' on asking the Reapers soon as I can get a hold of them. But it was just a thought I had, especially after last week's message.

[ worlds being erased...... ]

...but there weren't that many people who knew about last week's message, were there? Everyone I spoke with who knew about it mentioned that they weren't planning to spread it very far, because they were worried about exactly this sort of thing happening.

[ nodding!! ]

Yeah, but it's hard to say how far it spread. Or... I dunno.... who forced Libby and D to kill? Maybe it's the person sending these messages....

...it's possible. We don't really know enough about the identity of whoever is sending the messages and whoever was responsible for pushing the two of them to act to say for sure.

Yeah, it's.... well, I'm just thinkin' out loud. But it wouldn't be a surprise ta me if there were more than one killer, because of something like this. This behind the scenes shit.