Day 2: The Motives

[pandatrash]

[Your first "chillaxin day" comes and goes. No exits are found, no help has come, no real explanations are given. But all of a sudden, the tablets reboot and start showing... a spreadsheet. Well, that's something, at least.]

[Tycoon is out in full force today, dashing up to everyone he meets and handing each of them a cute envelope with their name written on the front in crayon. If they should look inside, they'll find their murder carrot written there, as well as, "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY." If your character is one of the ones who has no bribe for which they would kill an innocent person, they will instead find a picture of dickbutt, but with their own face crudely drawn on it, and helpful "DIS U" with an arrow, just in case the point was missed.]

((🔪 Setting
🔪 If you haven't filled out the character list and IC profiles yet, please do that. Until those are done, we have the aforementioned spreadsheet the raccoons are still fixing their tablet software, okay).
🔪 Trust sheets are due Sunday, 6pm PST
🔪If you decide to drop but would like to play out a death scene, you can comment here to volunteer to die.
🔪 We had two last-minute drops: Hiyoko, who did not intro, and Kaito, who would like to retcon having intro'd. The original sign still said 32... well, lbr, raccoons aren't that good at counting.

SOME THREAD LINKS:
McGonagall gives a speech
Oops the library is on fire))

Comments

[afailedmurder]

[flatly:]

It was a calculated risk.

[suppressthedark]

Calculated risk?! My ass it was a calculated risk! I don't know if you've noticed, but we don't exactly have windows or any ways for direct air circulation in this place! I don't care what you were trying to do, but don't try to nearly kill everyone else while you're doing it!

[He's mad, holy hell.]

[afailedmurder]

If they let us die to something like that, then they were just going to kill us anyway. But either way, I'm not interested in being yelled at for being the only one with the guts to do something.

[suppressthedark]

It's not guts to threaten everyone else's lives just because you felt like testing out a theory, jackass. That's stupidity.

[Man, it's almost like their amicable exchange in the kitchen yesterday never happened.]

[afailedmurder]

And what were you planning to do, hmm? Play their game? Make six friends in the dark?

[idk, this kind of violent tone shift seems pretty normal to Akechi]

[suppressthedark]

Yes, until we either get out of here or find a way to bring them down. Burning down the library isn't going to help with that because they're the ones who have our lives in their hands!

[He'd love nothing more to be impulsive and tear this place down with his bare hands, but he doesn't have his powers, and he's deeply aware he's nothing more than an ordinary human right now. Anything they do might have deeper consequences for them all down the road, and he doesn't want to threaten anyone else's lives with his actions.

Whatever he does, it should be on his head alone.]

What were you going to do if they decided to punish you over this? Just die?

[afailedmurder]

I'm not some weakling who would "just" die.

[Which isn't the same as saying he wouldn't die, but he's adamant about it all the same.]

[suppressthedark]

So you somehow know how to take out those raccoons, huh. Even without weapons or anything to use beyond 'lighting books on fire'?

[Because really, what was your gameplan here???]

[afailedmurder]

No, but at least I'm going to fight! If I die, so be it! But nobody is going to tell me what to do, not ever again!

[do you get the feeling this mmmight not entirely be about the raccoons?]

[suppressthedark]

[YEAH, HE'S GETTING THAT FEELING

Which makes him...a little less angry, actually. It's one thing if it's someone being a moron, but if it was him flipping out over the situation, then...]

...Fine. But don't do something like this again. If you want to challenge them, then do it in a way that doesn't threaten everyone here.

[afailedmurder]

[Akechi, on the other hand, is only getting more riled up]

You people are such goddamn sheep! Do you really think that doing what you're told is going to save you? We're all going to die anyway, so die with dignity!

[suppressthedark]

[When Ichigo speaks next, his voice is ice cold.]

And what good does dying with dignity do? I'd rather struggle for my life than just nobly let them kill us and preserve whatever sense of dignity I have.

[Because honestly, to Ichigo, who's so keenly aware of what the afterlife holds in his world? Dignity doesn't mean shit when you're dead.]

Because despite everything you're saying - you've already given up, and it's only been two days.

[afailedmurder]

Two days... right.

[laughs at some joke that is only funny to him... probably not even to him, if we're being honest]

At any rate, you should be lucky to have more people like me around. Mark my words, it's the others who are still struggling to survive that are going to stab you in the back.

[suppressthedark]

Sure. Whatever makes you feel better, Akechi.

[And he's going to turn around and start collecting some of the books, looking for whatever he can salvage.]

But I'll never consider myself lucky when I'm around people like you.

[afailedmurder]

No, of course not. Why would you be the first?

[not a super great comeback there, Akechi! and yet he still turns and starts walking off as if that shit was mic-drop-worthy]