If they don't, maybe they should form one. Although, I guess even if the buildings are sort of strange, the things inside of them are pretty interesting.
It's interesting! I had heard that there was a group of people developing something a little bit similar in my world, but... this is still pretty different from what I heard about.
[she smiles.]
...oh, by the way. I meant to check in with you, but... [the weekend sure was. crazy.] Did you end up getting one of those messages like I did?
Well... I did end up telling each of you that I had received something when I went, so you would know to keep an eye out for it, but...
[she shrugs]
I hadn't heard anything in a while. Of course, that's understandable since... we're all very busy on the weekends, so I thought it would be best if I followed up. Do you mind if I ask what it said?
[ honestly he's pissed that three other people also have this message so he can't just fucking lie about it like he wants to without easily getting found out. good thing it isn't emotionshare week anymore!!!! ]
Um... I can share it with you, but... I think it could be really dangerous if everyone knew what it said, so... can you maybe like, keep it to yourself? O-or at least be like, super careful about who you tell so it doesn't get spread around?
[ sighs and gets out his phone to go to his messages... aaaand shows her this super ominous text:
Bring them from different worlds. Erase worlds of those who fail to win. This will be a better system for the future. ]
I don't know if it's true or not... or how it'd even work when there are people from the same world on different teams, but... e-even if people just think it's true, that's like, a really big incentive to kill someone, isn't it?
[nahida's brow furrows a little as she reads that over.]
...yes, it's definitely the sort of thing that might push someone to act. But it also might caution them against it - we've caught the culprits each time so far... the numbers are against whoever does choose to act on their own. At a trial, even if we guess randomly, there is a one in nine chance of choosing the team a culprit belongs to and being guaranteed to be erased. There are enough of us that especially if we haven't made any enemies, the odds of being picked are lower...
[she frowns, though, thinking about it.]
But I wonder what this means for those of us who came from the same world, and are on different teams.
[...hmm, bad.]
Thank you for sharing this with me, Simon. I'll see if I can get any clarification on it from the Reapers, and if I happen to learn anything else on my own, I can let you know.
[ that's also true, but he doesn't trust people to think that far ahead and not just react out of fear first thing... and he doesn't want to be anyone's easy target or collateral damage if the rest of his team gets taken out. ]
...we'll probably also get further clarification from other messages, if there are more of us who end up in those sorts of situations.
[she would like it if people did not have to go through cyoas but... if it's going to happen anyway... might as well get the info.]
Hopefully this is just one piece of the puzzle. It's also... it looks like these were all sent before the game started. We don't know how many of these instructions were complied with, or if they received other instructions that would contradict them later on. So, hopefully no one will do anything rash.
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Do you think they have city planning committees here?
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If they don't, maybe they should form one. Although, I guess even if the buildings are sort of strange, the things inside of them are pretty interesting.
Have you tried out the "VR" things yet?
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[she smiles.]
...oh, by the way. I meant to check in with you, but... [the weekend sure was. crazy.] Did you end up getting one of those messages like I did?
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...Not that day, but I did eventually, yeah.
Did you talk to the others in the group about it?
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[she shrugs]
I hadn't heard anything in a while. Of course, that's understandable since... we're all very busy on the weekends, so I thought it would be best if I followed up. Do you mind if I ask what it said?
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Um... I can share it with you, but... I think it could be really dangerous if everyone knew what it said, so... can you maybe like, keep it to yourself? O-or at least be like, super careful about who you tell so it doesn't get spread around?
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Of course... is it really something that dangerous? The one I got seemed pretty benign...
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[ sighs and gets out his phone to go to his messages... aaaand shows her this super ominous text:
Bring them from different worlds. Erase worlds of those who fail to win. This will be a better system for the future. ]
I don't know if it's true or not... or how it'd even work when there are people from the same world on different teams, but... e-even if people just think it's true, that's like, a really big incentive to kill someone, isn't it?
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...yes, it's definitely the sort of thing that might push someone to act. But it also might caution them against it - we've caught the culprits each time so far... the numbers are against whoever does choose to act on their own. At a trial, even if we guess randomly, there is a one in nine chance of choosing the team a culprit belongs to and being guaranteed to be erased. There are enough of us that especially if we haven't made any enemies, the odds of being picked are lower...
[she frowns, though, thinking about it.]
But I wonder what this means for those of us who came from the same world, and are on different teams.
[...hmm, bad.]
Thank you for sharing this with me, Simon. I'll see if I can get any clarification on it from the Reapers, and if I happen to learn anything else on my own, I can let you know.
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Yeah... sure. Thanks.
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[she would like it if people did not have to go through cyoas but... if it's going to happen anyway... might as well get the info.]
Hopefully this is just one piece of the puzzle. It's also... it looks like these were all sent before the game started. We don't know how many of these instructions were complied with, or if they received other instructions that would contradict them later on. So, hopefully no one will do anything rash.