GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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WEEK 6, FRIDAY

[divus]

[When Taka enters the game room, he'll find that Jack's...laying on his back on the billiard table, staring up at the ceiling.]

...you're safe? [He is. So Tired.]

[bakaomi]

... I wasn't involved this week with them. Guess I'm finally getting lucky.

[ he does not sound like he actually believes that though.

taka walks over to him, pausing at the table. ]

How are you?

[divus]

F...ine...? [Well. No. He's very stressed but that's fine.] We'll be fine tomorrow.

[bakaomi]

... I don't see how. If we manage to get through trial without them getting suspected, we can use Above Suspicion on whoever gets voted for so no one has to die.

[ thanks mizuki for being buds with ishi ]

But there aren't any other deaths to occupy people with. [ ... ] It's so fucking shitty to hope for another death.

[divus]

It is, but at the same time it's not like I didn't have the same thought earlier. [He always knows who dies, so...there's that. A hand comes up to run through his hair but he's not sitting up yet.] It's going to be a very long nine hours. Especially since they also broke a rule.

[bakaomi]

I'm guessing you can't tell me what happens when you break that particular rule, huh?

[divus]

'fraid not, kiddo. Wasn't one of our rules, so that's gonna be up to somebody else. But knowing that kind of rule...it's not going to be great.

[bakaomi]

Mm.

... you're going to be on the suspect list for the third time in the row. That's going to be suspicious no matter what.

[divus]

Yeah...it happened to Love and it worked out alright. [But he's definitely nervous.]

...I can't do much outside of the trial, so I hope you guys have some kind of plan.

[bakaomi]

... as long as Mizuki agrees to help us, no one should actually get executed.

It's just what happens during the trial itself that concerns me.

[ above suspicion won't do shit for a midtrial murder ]

[divus]

If they don't for some reason, send them my way. I'll make a deal with them, whatever they want.

[...] Guy was safe through the whole trial and the whole weekend. Guy wasn't even killed this week. I'm hoping the trial will go a little better than last week's.

[bakaomi]

[ he nods at the mizuki thing. ]

... at the very least, they didn't kill someone innocent, so there's that.

[divus]

Hopefully that'll be enough to get everyone to calm down tomorrow when they find out.

...you have nine hours still, Taka. What're you going to do with it?

[bakaomi]

Try not to die.

[ ... ]

Ray's letters confirmed that they were the one who got him, so if things look bad we'll probably reveal that. Senri wanted to do it right away, but that would just immediately place suspicion on Ray's friends.

[divus]

Yeah, bad idea! Don't do anything that's immediately going to draw attention to yourselves, any of you. I hope somebody talked him out of that...

[bakaomi]

Yeah. Hopefully, he'll only do it if either of them get outed.

... otherwise we can probably pretend that we received the letters next week, if we don't find a chance to do it this weekend. I dunno. We're still working on possible timing if people don't figure them out.

[divus]

[He slowly sits up at least.]

...as always, I trust you guys. [He fidgets a bit.] ...if we can get out of this with no execution, that's what I'd like best. I don't want to execute somebody innocent, but...I'm not ready to let any of you go yet either.

[bakaomi]

[ ... he wonders how it must be, from the gods' perspectives, to be witnesses all these deaths week after week of people they brought here and became close to. it must be a different kind of hurt. ]

We'll get through it.

[divus]

I know. It'll work out.

...how're Ishi and Sasuke?

[bakaomi]

... not that great.

Although I doubt they'll tell me anything more.

[divus]

They probably don't want you to worry is all. I thought about contacting them, too, but...same reason.

[bakaomi]

... yeah. They might tell you slightly more.

[ but he doesn't sound like he thinks it would be much more. ]

[divus]

Might. I'll be lucky if Sasuke says anything at all, and Ishikirimaru...[There's just a slow headshake.] Maybe it's better to leave it.

...I'm not sure what the best god thing would be at a time like this.

[bakaomi]

I don't even know what the best non-god thing is.

[ because everything sucks from on ends ]

[divus]

...[Hm.]

...Taka, can we go somewhere?