...good point. Then...I don't know. Maybe the real demon is that giant eyeball that's ominously watching us from somewhere we haven't found. [He shucks off the boxers and gets into the shower, kind of closing the curtain/door/whatever the fuck.
There's also a slight squeak of water slipping like he's moving around and followed by two gentle thuds of something being set down.]
Still can't picture what they're all for though either.
Wow, leave the eye of providence alone, it just wants to see us naked and dying. Only maybe not at the same time.
[ dick's voice is. so dry. at that joke. anyway, he hums ]
Maybe... Summoning circle the same way we do the current one, but instead of the items we've got it's those. Knife for killing it? [ dick dries some of junpei's dirty stuff and sighs, muttering a bit to himself: ] If we make it out of here, I'm training Tim for exorcisms.
[There's another light thud, followed by a long pause of consideration.]
Maybe tell the eye of providence to stop being a goddamn perv. [Grumbling. His tail moves to hang out of the side of the tub.] ...we know the knife works to kill the demons. The pendant I have no clue about. The dildo I have extra no clue about, or the butt plug. Like are we supposed to summon a different demon, fuck it and kill it? That wouldn't even surprise me anymore.
[Dry away. He'll just be here, sitting in the bottom of the shower and staring at the ceiling.]
[ dick can see junpei's silhouette in the bath, so, first off: ]
Seriously, actually wash yourself or I'll do it for you. Water's not gonna cut it. [ anyway, mother hen mode aside-- ] If they're all things we have to wear while we stand in a circle, I call not it on the sparkly dildo.
[ he did not call not it on the butt plug, the fool ]
Yeah. [That's either an agreement or it's a shut the fuck up, but he seems to be busy letting himself think about something else.] You can take the butt plug then.
[Yeah. He'll say it for him. However...] Candlesticks, candle holders, a pendant full of dust, a dildo-shaped gun, chalk, a dagger, a lighter, holy water, and that demonic summoning book. Those were all the prizes we got that very first week. What do those things half in common with what we have now?
The demon tears could be tied to the holy water. The sparkly dildo could be like a candle, and the butt plug a "holder", in theory. The shoes have holy water in them...the dagger and knife have pretty obvious tie-ins, same with the pendants. And the heart...maybe the lighter. The thing that starts everything.
[ call out post to junpei for immediately going for it. anyway, junpei tries to step out without soaping up and he will hose him down, but dick will let it go for now. ]
I don't know that it's a direct 1 to 1 with everything, but something like that might be possible. Or we just stand all of the rest around in a circle, shove the heart in the middle and stab it like in a movie.
[ dick is obviously taking this conversation as seriously as junpei and isn't just like, too exhausted to speculate as he leans against the counter and thinks ]
[ ah. dick scrubs a hand over his face and tables his jokes for now, then. ]
The... corpses you found, right? [ dick hasn't directly spoken to junpei about it, but he was around to hear what he told others while he, you know, suffering performing first aid on a bunch of people again. ] Not sure. The previous group didn't make it, remember? There's no telling how much of what happened to them applies to us, too.
Yeah, them. Enough of what's happened here so far has synced up. Someone was around long enough to know that they died and that whatever was keeping them alive wore off. That was before the group failed.
We found Polly in a bottle yesterday. Whatever's keeping them alive right now seems to be holding strong. There hasn't been any visible sign of cell decay in any of the hosts. And...
[ he sighs a bit ]
And you've got those bottles in case they do show signs of it.
[ to delay it. ]
If whatever we're doing is meant to bring back everyone we've lost, I don't know why that wouldn't happen to all four of our hosts. They weren't any less murdered.
I brought them back because of Higekiri, but I guess we can stick the hosts if we have to. Do we even know why Polly was in a bottle? Did she say?
[The shower's still on but this is something to consider. He almost asks "how do we know it's really supposed to bring them back" because it's possible they're fucking things up, but he says nothing.] ...I know you're right but I don't want to assume anything when it comes to the four of them.
The way she was acting? That was her punishment for breaking the rules last weekend and telling Tamamo about her role early to help out.
[ which is. a thing to consider, yeah. either way. Dick sighs. ]
I might be right. We don't exactly know for certain what it is we're doing. What happened to the previous hosts is something to keep in mind still. We keep an eye on ours as time goes on, see what happens. Hope the answer to that is nothing. Best we can do right now.
I thought it was a little weird that Polly told her so soon. Roles don't usually shift until around the time they meet with the hosts, I think.
[There's another lull of silence. ] I hate that keeping an eye out is our only option because stuff happens and it's usually too late to prevent it. Murders on Thursdays, room break-ins, Polly in a bottle...I'm not sure if there even is a way to avoid these things or not. The hosts still can't tell us much either. Library's useless and has, like, nothing to help us. I don't know.
[Ugh.] Waiting isn't good enough anymore. That's all.
Was it ever? [ dick's been restless (reckless) for weeks now, because he can't handle how little he can actually do, so it's not like he doesn't get it. but. there's nothing they can do about that, is the thing. they're stuck. ]
No. [He's well-aware he's preaching to a choir here, but it still sucks. There's a lingering pause.]
...that night after the first trial when we voted for Polly, Carlos knew he was going to die. He told me that whatever Polly did bound both of them together. "But some things need to happen before we fix this, and I get the feeling this is one of them." He made Beck and I promise just to let it happen instead of trying to stop it. Said he could feel the extra guidance in his head already but he didn't understand what it meant or why.
Maybe I'm just worried that they'll understand too late and it'll be something bad. Like we're just setting it up to be the opposite of what we really want.
[ he listens to junpei quietly as he talks. he'd heard it from beck, but...
if junpei wasn't sitting while taking a shower dick would probably pat him but as it is this is just awkward silence before he admits: ]
You and me both. We've been following the writing on the wall from a group that died, and we still don't even know exactly what happened there. Feels like we're running in blind straight into either disaster or salvation with no way to know which until it happens.
[Fair. But at least he's eventually hauling himself to his feet. He should maybe be less gross.]
Exactly. People want to be optimistic that this is the right way and I'm trying to be optimistic, too, but I don't know if we can be. Maybe we're going to have to just guess right at the last minute but the waiting around part is really pissing me off.
[A silence.] But salvation has to exist, doesn't it?
[ please? dick meant it when he said he would hose him down himself if he didn't wash ]
Yeah. It does. [ he sounds confident in that, at least, though the follow-up is a little bit of a joke: ] I didn't bring down an alien invasion to get beaten by a particularly stubborn set of sex demons.
[...he just sticks his head out of the shower now to give him the most incredulous look.]
...I keep forgetting that you're like this. [JUST. SAYING SHIT ABOUT ALIENS. But back into the water he goes. God where did they even get bath supplies. Whatever!! TBH if Dick wasn't here he would've just straight-up taken a bath but here we are.] Likewise, I didn't jump several histories to live just to die here. Not really my thing.
Isn't that how we've been doing literally everything here? [At least he sounds a little more okay even if he's busy stressing out about the hosts and zombies and everything in between.] I don't think a single person on this ship can count as passive.
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There's also a slight squeak of water slipping like he's moving around and followed by two gentle thuds of something being set down.]
Still can't picture what they're all for though either.
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[ dick's voice is. so dry. at that joke. anyway, he hums ]
Maybe... Summoning circle the same way we do the current one, but instead of the items we've got it's those. Knife for killing it? [ dick dries some of junpei's dirty stuff and sighs, muttering a bit to himself: ] If we make it out of here, I'm training Tim for exorcisms.
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Maybe tell the eye of providence to stop being a goddamn perv. [Grumbling. His tail moves to hang out of the side of the tub.] ...we know the knife works to kill the demons. The pendant I have no clue about. The dildo I have extra no clue about, or the butt plug. Like are we supposed to summon a different demon, fuck it and kill it? That wouldn't even surprise me anymore.
[Dry away. He'll just be here, sitting in the bottom of the shower and staring at the ceiling.]
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Seriously, actually wash yourself or I'll do it for you. Water's not gonna cut it. [ anyway, mother hen mode aside-- ] If they're all things we have to wear while we stand in a circle, I call not it on the sparkly dildo.
[ he did not call not it on the butt plug, the fool ]
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[Yeah. He'll say it for him. However...] Candlesticks, candle holders, a pendant full of dust, a dildo-shaped gun, chalk, a dagger, a lighter, holy water, and that demonic summoning book. Those were all the prizes we got that very first week. What do those things half in common with what we have now?
The demon tears could be tied to the holy water. The sparkly dildo could be like a candle, and the butt plug a "holder", in theory. The shoes have holy water in them...the dagger and knife have pretty obvious tie-ins, same with the pendants. And the heart...maybe the lighter. The thing that starts everything.
...or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass.
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[ call out post to junpei for immediately going for it. anyway, junpei tries to step out without soaping up and he will hose him down, but dick will let it go for now. ]
I don't know that it's a direct 1 to 1 with everything, but something like that might be possible. Or we just stand all of the rest around in a circle, shove the heart in the middle and stab it like in a movie.
[ dick is obviously taking this conversation as seriously as junpei and isn't just like, too exhausted to speculate as he leans against the counter and thinks ]
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What do you think the likelihood is that our current hosts are gonna go the way of the old ones?
[Ah.]
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The... corpses you found, right? [ dick hasn't directly spoken to junpei about it, but he was around to hear what he told others while he, you know, suffering performing first aid on a bunch of people again. ] Not sure. The previous group didn't make it, remember? There's no telling how much of what happened to them applies to us, too.
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So how do we know?
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[ he sighs a bit ]
And you've got those bottles in case they do show signs of it.
[ to delay it. ]
If whatever we're doing is meant to bring back everyone we've lost, I don't know why that wouldn't happen to all four of our hosts. They weren't any less murdered.
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[The shower's still on but this is something to consider. He almost asks "how do we know it's really supposed to bring them back" because it's possible they're fucking things up, but he says nothing.] ...I know you're right but I don't want to assume anything when it comes to the four of them.
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[ which is. a thing to consider, yeah. either way. Dick sighs. ]
I might be right. We don't exactly know for certain what it is we're doing. What happened to the previous hosts is something to keep in mind still. We keep an eye on ours as time goes on, see what happens. Hope the answer to that is nothing. Best we can do right now.
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[There's another lull of silence. ] I hate that keeping an eye out is our only option because stuff happens and it's usually too late to prevent it. Murders on Thursdays, room break-ins, Polly in a bottle...I'm not sure if there even is a way to avoid these things or not. The hosts still can't tell us much either. Library's useless and has, like, nothing to help us. I don't know.
[Ugh.] Waiting isn't good enough anymore. That's all.
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Was it ever? [ dick's been restless (reckless) for weeks now, because he can't handle how little he can actually do, so it's not like he doesn't get it. but. there's nothing they can do about that, is the thing. they're stuck. ]
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...that night after the first trial when we voted for Polly, Carlos knew he was going to die. He told me that whatever Polly did bound both of them together. "But some things need to happen before we fix this, and I get the feeling this is one of them." He made Beck and I promise just to let it happen instead of trying to stop it. Said he could feel the extra guidance in his head already but he didn't understand what it meant or why.
Maybe I'm just worried that they'll understand too late and it'll be something bad. Like we're just setting it up to be the opposite of what we really want.
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if junpei wasn't sitting while taking a shower dick would probably pat him but as it is this is just awkward silence before he admits: ]
You and me both. We've been following the writing on the wall from a group that died, and we still don't even know exactly what happened there. Feels like we're running in blind straight into either disaster or salvation with no way to know which until it happens.
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Exactly. People want to be optimistic that this is the right way and I'm trying to be optimistic, too, but I don't know if we can be. Maybe we're going to have to just guess right at the last minute but the waiting around part is really pissing me off.
[A silence.] But salvation has to exist, doesn't it?
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Yeah. It does. [ he sounds confident in that, at least, though the follow-up is a little bit of a joke: ] I didn't bring down an alien invasion to get beaten by a particularly stubborn set of sex demons.
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...I keep forgetting that you're like this. [JUST. SAYING SHIT ABOUT ALIENS. But back into the water he goes. God where did they even get bath supplies. Whatever!! TBH if Dick wasn't here he would've just straight-up taken a bath but here we are.] Likewise, I didn't jump several histories to live just to die here. Not really my thing.
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[ is he serious? mystery ]
So there you go. Between everyone here, we can out-stubborn our way to victory.
[ he can't like. afford to think otherwise! ha ha!! ]
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