“Things that seem out of place” is a pretty vague guide to begin with. Maybe I should talk to Phoenix again and see if I can’t wrangle more out of them.
[ bleeeeh. ]
But…. you’re not wrong. There’s always someone who knows more.
You might have more luck than me. I've told Phoenix everything I know, so they should be up to date as much as I am. Maybe more, depending who else has spoken to them.
[ he nods slowly. ]
...what bothers me still about yesterday is that note Will found in that bento. About what Norma's wonderball did and when it would be used.
Right. We assumed it was Chiemi’s because we had no handwriting to compare it to, but— do you think someone saw what was going on, but couldn’t intervene?
It must have been. Where else do you think it would come from? [ but he's thinking this over slowly. ] I wonder how they saw things happen. Or why they couldn't intervene at all. What was stopping them?
The rest of us are limited, so that probably makes sense. [ thinking, thinking. ] You think it's like an aftermath then and that's why they can't tell us? Because it's too suspicious otherwise.
Yeah. I'm mostly impressed that the note wasn't burned with the rest of the stuff in that store, but it makes me think either they placed it somewhere that wouldn't get burned, or...somehow they circumvented the fire. I don't know. We all looked everywhere on Friday after we put out the flames. Knowing that something like this is possible now, we're going to have to look at everything even closer. What if we'd missed it?
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Not that it really helped us solve much of anything, but the effort was there I think.
[ we haven’t had them for so long i completely blanked the idea there was a role doing their thing in trial ]
Knowing it’s there is half the battle, really. The person who left the note probably saw that it didn’t work out the way they’d hoped, so maybe they’ll try something else and see how that goes.
Ultimately, we solved what happened. Or— we think we did. [ stares at francy who i just called norma, and jan ] So it wasn’t useless.
I hope you're right. Other people besides us are bound to be talking about the possibility, so they'll probably hear about it and get new ideas. If it's something meant to help us, they'll find a way.
[ there's a sigh. ]
Completely right answer in a wrong direction? I'll take what I can get.
For now we're going to have to assume that's what happened. If something comes up later that says otherwise...well, we'll have to ask Chiemi for forgiveness later. I think it's easier for people to draw that conclusion though instead of thinking we let a different culprit walk away.
Right. Getting too caught up in the small details is just going to trip us up further. [ he shakes his head. ] So what is forward today? Just regrouping?
The most we can do right now is track the changes and see if there's any sort of...common factor or something as to when they change and what they are. See if they match the other rules, stuff like that.
Maybe that’s some of the abnormalities we need to be tracking. Things that are out of place — like rules popping up out of nowhere. After the game’s already started.
It’s not subtle, but then maybe we need to ask more about the who, where and why these things changed.
Think it's something the leaders might actually have an answer to? Or should we be doing our asking amongst ourselves? [ this is always a valid question. ]
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[ bleeeeh. ]
But…. you’re not wrong. There’s always someone who knows more.
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[ he nods slowly. ]
...what bothers me still about yesterday is that note Will found in that bento. About what Norma's wonderball did and when it would be used.
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Right. We assumed it was Chiemi’s because we had no handwriting to compare it to, but— do you think someone saw what was going on, but couldn’t intervene?
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Doesn't that suggest that someone is trying to intervene however they can?
[ i also, truly, forgot we had roles. ]
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Yeah. I'm mostly impressed that the note wasn't burned with the rest of the stuff in that store, but it makes me think either they placed it somewhere that wouldn't get burned, or...somehow they circumvented the fire. I don't know. We all looked everywhere on Friday after we put out the flames. Knowing that something like this is possible now, we're going to have to look at everything even closer. What if we'd missed it?
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Not that it really helped us solve much of anything, but the effort was there I think.
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Knowing it’s there is half the battle, really. The person who left the note probably saw that it didn’t work out the way they’d hoped, so maybe they’ll try something else and see how that goes.
Ultimately, we solved what happened. Or— we think we did. [ stares at francy who i just called norma, and jan ] So it wasn’t useless.
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[ there's a sigh. ]
Completely right answer in a wrong direction? I'll take what I can get.
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[ hmm. ]
Well, we did figure out what happened to Chiemi. But we’re assuming what happened to Norma — it adds up, but we’re not going to know for sure.
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Yeah… there’s always a chance more will come out later. But we shouldn’t let it distract us going forward.
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[ ✨ depression? ✨ ]
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...it's hard when we all want to fix things right away, but that's probably the right answer for now. We just have to remember to be kind of patient.
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I wonder if we can hijack it and rewrite the rules.
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It’s not subtle, but then maybe we need to ask more about the who, where and why these things changed.
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