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

[robitussin]

I mean... It's been a few weeks, right? Maybe they've gotten closer to you since then and felt bad about it.

[hydrokinetics]

If we're going with that logic...all of you guys, obviously, but we know that none of us are the Deputy. Right now that list is..Dr. Lecter, Will, Papika, Xion, and Mr. Barnham. [And then, almost bitterly:] Everyone else is gone.

[robitussin]

Papika and Barnham are comparatively less shady based on what we talked about last meeting, but...

[She gives him a sympathetic glance, hearing the bitterness in his voice.]

[hydrokinetics]

[He nodding, but he doesn't know what to do with that glance. It's been a weird day.]

I trust Mr. Barnham completely. And Papika already knows about Damian and hasn't done anything about it. So...that brings us to Dr. Lecter, Will, or Xion.

Or someone totally unrelated that's just been watching me, and that's also weird.

[thatsthespirit]

I also trust Barnham completely. And, for what it's worth, I told him about the conditions to end the game.

[killing the Deputy, that there might be a way to end it without killing the Deputy, etc etc]

I asked him to let me know if he heard anything about the Deputy. He may not be a part of this group, but I thought it'd be helpful to have someone else out there helping us.

I also didn't name any names.

[don't worry she protecting everyone's anonymity]

[impulsiveness]

We saw what Will did to Eliot yesterday. I don't buy him stopping at putting Russell in the stocks, if doing it to make up for Annabeth was his reasoning.
Guy's fucking VICIOUS.

[hydrokinetics]

But Will also doesn't really care about people? Also he knows everything, so he'd already know about Damian and he'd just end the stupid ga--

--unless he's just drawing it out because he doesn't care about what people are doing. [Oh for fucks sake.]

[elemancy]

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[hydrokinetics]

[Somewhere, Squee is probably mocking us again.]

[elemancy]

[SQUEE WHAT THE FUCK

WE CAN'T EVEN KILL WILL UNLESS WE WANT TO BECOME DINNER?]

[insincerely]

I might've remembered wrong, but didn't he say to Ash last trial something about how he was in no rush to get back home?

[hydrokinetics]

It was something like that, yeah. I'm not really sure what that would even mean though. Why wouldn't you want to go back?

[insincerely]

Maybe his life sucks back in his world? Or whatever.

[hydrokinetics]

But there's also no guarantee that this will be better so...

[insincerely]

He probably just doesn't care about anything anymore. There are guys like that.

[impulsiveness]

Or he's dead.
Not much to go back to if your home is a coffin.

[He relates.]

[hydrokinetics]

[Jason...there's just a little frown.]

Okay, I didn't consider that but...you're right. There's that possibility, too, but there's not really a good way to ask somebody that.

[robitussin]

...Will did say "after I killed us" once when he was talking about Hannibal, so.

[impulsiveness]

[Take that frown somewhere else, Percy.]

Just ask "are you dead," dude. It's not like it's a slur.

[robitussin]

The longer he didn't do anything, though, the more risk there would be that either he or Hannibal would get killed. You think he'd be willing to chance that, even if he doesn't care about the rest of us?

[hydrokinetics]

Maybe if he thought that he and Dr. Lecter could take anybody on that tried to threaten them.

[...a pause.] Or if he's hanging out with the people who're killing other people and just not doing anything about it. Didn't Hal say that Chane was a Bandit in the past? And that she killed Lust? And we know Will was friends with her.

[robitussin]

He'd be pretty stupid to think that at this point.

[She shakes her head.]

Hanging out with murderers wouldn't necessarily make them any less at risk, would it?

[hydrokinetics]

I don't know, I've apparently avoided the stocks for this long because our Deputy gives a shit about me. What does that tell you?

[impulsiveness]

He did. And remember how Will acted? It's like he had a sixth sense for murder.
Looks like "just not doing anything about it" is the more likely option.

[Thanks, Will.]

[hydrokinetics]

A murderous sixth sense...that's something. [It's weird, but maybe.] If he's not doing anything about it then maybe he really is working with our Deputy. Or he is our Deputy. Now it's hard to say.