Let's end this spiral down, pick ourselves off the ground [W5, Sunday]

[hydrokinetics]

[It's early evening when the Bounty group gathers again. There's more to discuss now that they've had time to cope and pick themselves up again, ready to get back to work. Time is still marching on and it's nothing that they can waste.

Together again, they settle. The room is quiet for a time as they all gather their thoughts. With everything that came up this weekend? They need a new plan of action.]

Comments

[elemancy]

...Who would write it like that. It's so...

[extra as fuck?

noct doesn't know people's handwritings but. wtf.]

[insincerely]

Out of our suspects? Probably not Miss "I've rarely read books in my life", aka Xion, unless she were mimicking something.

... But I could see Dr. Lecter writing like that.

[bittybat]

He's a doctor. Unless anyone else still remaining would have elaborate script writing, I am positive it's the doctor.

[insincerely]

Mr. Barnham might have fancy ass writing given his whole knight schtick, but some here are convinced it can't be him, so... yeah.

[elemancy]

[yeah, please don't even bring that up shinnosuke because noct will get entirely too defensive after the state barnham was in his weekend.]

[insincerely]

Hey, Noctis.

[Handing him his cellphone!]

Can you take a photo of the note, just in case? I'd ask Percy, but...

[He's kind of on the ground??]

[elemancy]

Oh. Yeah, sure thing.

[THANKS FOR HELPING, PERCY.

it's fine, noctis knows how to both use cellphones and take pictures, so.

he's got this? he's got this.]

[insincerely]

[Thanks, Noct, you're a pal!!]

[hydrokinetics]

Shut up, Shinnosuke. [He's...slowly getting up to get a closer look.]

This...helps, I guess.

[impulsiveness]

[Holding up his next page for Noctis to read:]

Shinnosuke, do you think Xion has seen handwriting like that?

[Since, uh. Hannibal.]

[insincerely]

Not sure. I can ask her tomorrow—try and discreetly bring up what kind of handwriting she's seen?

[hydrokinetics]

Are you sure that's a good idea when we also don't know whose side she's on yet?

[impulsiveness]

Maybe make the question less obvious, then. Asking her point blank about what kind of handwriting she's seen is kind of fishy.

[hydrokinetics]

Or we don't ask her at all and we focus on Natalie and me checking it out. Dr. Lecter and Will and I are still on okay terms.

[impulsiveness]

Aye aye, Captain. Just don't get yourselves killed, please.
We've tossed enough bodies into the fire as it is.

[Hah.]

[robitussin]

I am firmly anti-dying. No worries here.

[insincerely]

Well, I wouldn't flat-out ask her something like, "Hey, been looking at people's fancy script recently?" Believe me, no one's more aware of her ambiguous allegiances than me.

But if you think it's a bad idea either way, then I won't. At any rate, there's already a lot I'm going to be dancing around with her.