Ah. You did seem a little... disoriented, but given all the effects we've been experiencing this week, I don't think it made for a terribly convincing reason for suspicion.
[ maybe you just lost your sense of balance? ]
Anyway, I think it was always going to come back around to the ones who actually fit the prints in the end. They were just being especially annoying about trying to force everyone to comply with their requests today, whether there was reason for it or not.
Humans tend to be very quick to discount any evidence that points to an answer they don't like in general, and even more so when strong emotions are involved.
At this point, it'll just get worse. We barely knew each other the first week, and now everyone's attached. We're likely to get more people torn up than not.
That's true! As time progresses they'll feel more pain and anger over the losses of people they've grown to care about, and as the suspect pool gets smaller, they'll get more defensive of their suspected friends. Sounds like something of a recipe for disaster, doesn't it?
...Though, of course, we could just stop killing each other in the first place. This week may have been an accident, but it was still a display of exceedingly poor judgment.
Mm. I spoke to Lavi, and it sounds like it all could have been avoided if they simply stayed where they were or just separated if they were suspicious of each other.
[ instead of deciding to wander around together as a group while not knowing if the other was lying or not about his intentions. ]
But the fact it, they were both awake when apparently neither wanted to kill. So I wonder if no matter what it's going to pick two people and hope the paranoia do them in?
Hm. What do you think it is? What reason would it have for wanting to permanently delete someone who's been assigned to the Recycle Bin of eternal suffering?
And do we know for a fact that it's always only two people who are awake?
At this point, no. I suppose the only way we could test that out is if two separate people wanted to kill the same week, but I don't think people are going to openly volunteer to test that theory out. We could always just ask the demons too, but there's a good chance they'd say they don't know unless it happens.
[ since they are very firm that the killing has nothing to do with them and it's all this group. ]
Apparently there's another group of demons that deal with the double dead though. I have no idea what that means, since they wouldn't elaborate other than dealing with it isn't this group's job.
[ the second part of that gets an eyebrow raise. ]
They have said something along those lines, for the record. [ because of course they did. ] ...But I'm curious where you heard about another demon group.
There's apparently a lot of them. I don't mean that the setups are the same as exactly this one or anything, they just said dealing with them isn't the job of the demons we know, which is why they know nothing about it.
[ so, he isn't saying that the dead are hanging out with other npcs or anything, just that dealing with double death is someone else's job and the only people with jobs here are demons. ]
Yes, I've heard about the other "departments" and everything, but not about any that dealt with our former companions... or that they even needed to be dealt with. When I brought up one of the deceased before, it sounded as if they wanted to say he no longer existed in any capacity.
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[ maybe you just lost your sense of balance? ]
Anyway, I think it was always going to come back around to the ones who actually fit the prints in the end. They were just being especially annoying about trying to force everyone to comply with their requests today, whether there was reason for it or not.
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[ a pause. ]
And all of the people who were saying the hand print or the shoes could have been faked had reasons to. People they cared about were being implicated.
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Humans tend to be very quick to discount any evidence that points to an answer they don't like in general, and even more so when strong emotions are involved.
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At this point, it'll just get worse. We barely knew each other the first week, and now everyone's attached. We're likely to get more people torn up than not.
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...Though, of course, we could just stop killing each other in the first place. This week may have been an accident, but it was still a display of exceedingly poor judgment.
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[ instead of deciding to wander around together as a group while not knowing if the other was lying or not about his intentions. ]
But the fact it, they were both awake when apparently neither wanted to kill. So I wonder if no matter what it's going to pick two people and hope the paranoia do them in?
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And do we know for a fact that it's always only two people who are awake?
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[ since they are very firm that the killing has nothing to do with them and it's all this group. ]
Apparently there's another group of demons that deal with the double dead though. I have no idea what that means, since they wouldn't elaborate other than dealing with it isn't this group's job.
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They have said something along those lines, for the record. [ because of course they did. ] ...But I'm curious where you heard about another demon group.
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[ so, he isn't saying that the dead are hanging out with other npcs or anything, just that dealing with double death is someone else's job and the only people with jobs here are demons. ]
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So, that's interesting.
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I suppose the options are either that they know what happens and are screwing with us, or they actually have no idea and are wildly guessing.
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Hopefully, we can find out which one it is without having to die ourselves.