audience: aerith

[mygod]

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[residentflorist]

It's not. [she'll agree. vin made the decision and aerith still isn't entirely sure she's okay with it, even if it's what they had to do. but famine has a point that they should maybe consider acting on that suspicion before someone dies.

she tilts her head, a little curious. there had been the speculation that the monster might be more aggressive, but with people's powers...would they be able to tell?]

What would you consider worsening in this case?

[mygod]

[ they bring up a hand to their chin in thought ]

Blood thirst, snappiness, aggression. They'll become more and more monster-like over time, if not found.

[residentflorist]

[hm...she mirrors the pose.]

And that might be hard to find if people keep using their powers to make people hate each other. [she says, not entirely aware she currently hates someone because she is simply not thinking about people she hates. fucking gojo.] Easy to hide in plain sight that way or write it off as being cursed by someone.

[there's a pause.]

I'm not complaining. I'm thinking out loud. [before famine says anything about how they just have to look harder and decide for themselves.] There's nothing really stopping either side from attacking before the fog locks us in place on Thursdays, is there?

[mygod]

[ shakes head ]

No. If you choose to kill in public and broad daylight, so be it.

[ off schedule murder! ]

[residentflorist]

[cool!]

...I don't want to kill anyone without being sure. Doesn't that just help the cult's ritual in the first place?

[mygod]

I wouldn't say so. It's not as if you all dying is a boon to them when they need you for later.

[residentflorist]

Some people were concerned the bodies of the people we lost were being used for other ritualistic purposes. [asa.] So it's a timing thing then. People die, and that doesn't entirely matter to them as long as enough of us are alive when the time is right to perform the ritual to summon the god.

[mygod]

Yes, that's correct. Though if too many of you die too early, they'll just do another summoning to 'replenish the stock', you could say.

[residentflorist]

[great.]

And...what do you think our chances are of them summoning another chimera again? [doing the math here....]

[mygod]

High.

So you should proceed assuming that the vote isn't enough.

[residentflorist]

We have a few people willing to kill on sight. [thank you, kanda.] But we're still too scattered over those nine hours. We really only found Nona because of Vin, and people are still refusing to even submit to patdowns. [a pause.] Which, speaking of, if we're going to be doing this is there a way we could get some sort of changing booth or a privacy screen? Maybe that'll help people cooperate easier and we'll waste less time trying to negotiate.

[this is rich coming from her since she refused the first week, but she did it last week. it's fine.]

[mygod]

[ nods ]

That should be a doable request. It's true that plenty of you seem prudish, even when lives are on the line.

[residentflorist]

[clapping her hands together!]

Much appreciated! ...I keep thinking how we probably missed someone's injuries somewhere, especially with what we did figure out about Ichiban's murder. We can't afford to make that same mistake, prudish or not. And now we have a...healing...swamp?

[why is there a swamp.]

[mygod]

[ nods ]

You do. It's foreboding. Useful, but probably has its drawbacks.

[residentflorist]

Between the leeches, the items in the cavern, and now that, the swamp's becoming a murderer's paradise. [and there's nothing to stop that either.]

...speaking of those. Do they work like the wishes, too? You can use them as soon as you have them, whether you're able to return to your own world or not.

[mygod]

[ nods ]

Yes.

Though you do need to draw blood in your own right mind. It's not something a monster's possession can unlock.

[residentflorist]

So if someone found the third monster, and chose to slay them, they could come into possession of an item. I asked War about this before, if a ritual would be needed if someone chose to take matters into their own hand and they weren't afflicted. They thought the answer would be no, but do we know if that's still the case now that there's an...incentive, I guess?

[she's trying to figure out if they're going to have to really start worrying about rogue randos or not.]

[mygod]

Why would there need to be a ritual? It's not some paltry attempt at justice. It's to weaken the monsters so that they can be killed. It's simply more convenient if your votes are right and you actually kill the monster instead of an innocent.

[residentflorist]

Just checking. [things keep happening here and if the rules suddenly change she'd rather know.] I'd say it's more about saving them, too, but I wonder if you'd disagree with me.

[them being the monsters.]

[mygod]

About saving the people who are trapped inside their own minds?

I can think of no greater torture. If death is their only reprieve, it cannot come soon enough.

[residentflorist]

[...she seems a little surprised, but mostly relieved. she wasn't sure if that was too soft-hearted of a concept for them when it's really as simple as "eliminate the monster before it eliminates you." but then again, given what they've said before, maybe it's not so shocking.]

I understand why people hold on. And I understand how hard it is to kill someone even when they're suffering. But watching them struggle and not be themselves...

[anyway here we have shadows suddenly swarming in, and:] Shit.

[she's not unfamiliar with this, at least, but here is a thing until 08:07:09 and minus whatever's going on in the shinra helicopter. fuck off shinra.]

[mygod]

[ OKAY BYE SHINRA? BYE CLOUD AND AERITH? famine watches it, curious. interested. it's one thing to hear of all the insane magical troubles and another to see it for themselves ]

... something about watching someone struggle and not be themselves, was it?

[ cloud your brain problems ]

[residentflorist]

[the brain problems!! she's really standing here after all of that happens before she frowns off into space.]

I think you would have understood the point without a visual reference... [thank you, you useless shadows. but.] ...he's okay for now.

[mygod]

If you insist.

Is it a mind control based on proximity to... Sapphire, or whoever?

[ no ]

[residentflorist]

Sephiroth. [automatic correction.] To be honest, I haven't entirely figured out how Sephiroth is doing this. But I think so. Even though sometimes...it just happens to him. The temple had crumbled just before that because Cloud took the black materia from its pedestal and triggered the defense the temple had.