I always put myself in destructive situations [W5, Friday]

[hydrokinetics]

[It took time. Everything took time as it always did. It took time for them to all calm down, it took time to heal physical wounds, it took time to properly remove the evidence of obscene crimes...but in the evening they were able to gather in one place away from everyone else. It hadn't been easy coordinating everything, but it was necessary.

And so here they were. All seven of them.]

...I don't really know where to start. [His voice is tight, but determined.] But we need everybody on the same page. Who wants to go first?

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[robitussin]

...I was talking to Will the other day when he was in the saloon. I don't know if any of you saw him, he was super drunk. Anyways, I asked him if he wanted me to get Hannibal to bring him back to his room, and he started going off about how Hannibal was the worst person here.

He started going off on this thing about how we're all cows, and you can't eat a drunk cow, it would ruin the meat? And then he said that if anyone here was a serial killer, it's Hannibal, and that his face screams manipulative bastard?

[screams.]

But he was just kind of babbling, right? I mean, that happens when you've had a lot to drink...

[thatsthespirit]

[UM]

[. . .]

[OKAY NOW THE IMPLICATIONS ARE COMING IN, LOUD AND CLEAR???]

. . .





[and she has nothing to say, just. horrified staring. like. she can't??? believe this is where their initial concern for Xion brought them???]

[robitussin]

I'm wrong, right? I'm wrong. There's no way. I'm just being paranoid, right?

[thatsthespirit]

[she. isn't. answering that]

I believe the Madame should possibly look into Dr. Lecter before Xion.

[impulsiveness]

[........ regardless of what Natalie may say next, he nods to Milla.

Noted.]

[insincerely]

... Agreed.

[He's biased, but.]

[elemancy]

[absolutely.]

[robitussin]

...Yeah. Yeah.

[she's going to puke again oh my god]

[hydrokinetics]

There's more. [Ohgodsohgodsohgods.]

...Dr. Lecter is who told me about the roles' jobs. He came to me and said that his surgeries on us have earned him enough merit to learn these things. He already knew about the Bounties when I spoke to him.

I told him I wished it was easier to figure out the roles and who they belonged to. And he said that he could imagine Hal picking the Bounties based on what he finds the most amusing. So...I asked him who the most amusing Bounties would be. And he said he initially thought it'd be people with a tendency toward violence, but now knowing everybody here he'd say it's people that're the opposite. People who want to do good. People who won't kill.

Hal told me that the Deputy is the "good guy" role. The Bounty Leader is the "bad guy." He said not to take character into account for the people filling the roles.

So I said it was unfair and that it was messing with morals, which...it is. And he said "that's why I think he'd find it amusing." So I asked how we'd figure out what Hal found funny. Dr. Lecter said...we'd have to put ourselves in Hal's frame of mind. Watch everything like it was a game. Said it was a dangerous frame to be in, but that being a little sociopathic is how you could predict what Hal's doing.

This was a week ago.

[elemancy]

[]

That's...

[incriminating.]

[hydrokinetics]

I know. [Fuuuuuck.]

[elemancy]

Looks like everything's piling up to give us a good lead to... solving this.

[assuming they're not wrong, but noct can't really see how they could be that far off the mark with how things are adding up.]

[impulsiveness]

[JUST

A SMALL

KEENING SOUND OVER HERE.

EVERYTHING IS FIND IN THE TOWN OF WHOLE ASS.]

[hydrokinetics]

[YEAH. YEAH BASICALLY. Just a helpless look???]

[robitussin]

...He's a psychiatrist. He told me that after he saved me. So... He would know how people think. How to make sure people trust him.

[Until his boyfriend gets drunk and starts rambling about cows?? I guess. THANKS, WILL.]

[hydrokinetics]

See? This is why I don't like counselors. [MMMMM...] ...he's done more than just surgery and psychiatry though. I...[He looks a little shaken.]

...he told me how he and Will met.

[robitussin]

...How?

[insincerely]

[Well, to add onto the incriminating signs:]

... When Xion and I were talking about the Doctor role, she said that it seemed like it pointed to Dr. Lecter, but that also seemed too obvious.

Seeing as how she actually knew all along who the Doctor was... I have to wonder if she was trying to make him appear less suspicious.

[hydrokinetics]

I said the same thing to Dr. Lecter myself, that the Doctor role being himself would be really obvious.

He may have borrowed that to tell her to send her out to find information. I don't know. I really don't know.

[insincerely]

Yeah... it might just be bias talking now that we've got a new suspect, but Xion doesn't seem... all that people savvy—which is unsurprising, considering what her world's like. Dunno if she mentioned the details about her home to anyone else.

But anyway, if Dr. Lecter's telling her how to manipulate people...

[impulsiveness]

[................]

Ever hear of in vino veritas?

[robitussin]

He said being in love with Hannibal was like being in love with the devil.

[SHE'SSSS SCREAMING INSIDE]

[impulsiveness]

Maybe it's less the ramblings of a drunk man, and more the tired grumbling of someone who knows that truth is stranger than fiction.
Anyone can pretend to be a good person if it suits their goals. Make it seem like they're kind and anyone who believes otherwise is lying through their teeth.

[JOINING??? IN THAT INTERNAL SCREAMING.]

[robitussin]

[This?? Is fucking horrifying??]

...I told him he was freaking me out, and he said that was good because maybe all of us would leave both of them alone. Otherwise, cows. That's what he said.

[LOOK SHE CAN BUY THE MANIPULATIVE BASTARD PART BUT PLEASE DON'T LET THE FOOD IMPLICATIONS BE A THING???]

[impulsiveness]

[....................................

someone has to say it]

Does that mean he likes his snacks MAN SIZED