catch-all: daamn daaniel.

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W3, friday

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[ I am spending more time thinking about how to make a non-verbal starter more interesting than I am actually writing these starters. Anyway Daan has probably briefly retired to the cabin. He's got no words, just needs a moment to fucking collect himself because you think 'wow every week is bad' and then somehow it continues to get worse. ]

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[it's fine...... asa will be looking for him and she won't be expecting him to be in a talkative mood, anyway. when she finds him in the cabin, she just stares at him for a moment before quietly approaching him.

and then, after a beat:]

I'm sorry.

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No need to be, Miss Mitaka. Though I'm sure you were expecting something of that sort of answer.

...

It's... diffcult for anybody.

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You can probably claim it's a little harder for you than for anybody else, considering...

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We didn't know each other as much as some of you think. Not to the level of say, Karlach's group, or either of the exorcist pairs.

[ He rubs his face tiredly. ]

... I just don't feel like sympathy-fishing. It's already hard enough...

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No, I get it. [she sighs.] I just wish things would stop getting worse every week.

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Apparently, that's a really hard ask.

[ I am in misery . gif for the cabin... and also the rest of the game. ]

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It's more like they're taking it as a challenge.

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If the ending goal is a total massacre... well, I don't know if that'd actually be better or worse right up at the end.

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Well, they're definitely working their way towards it. [...] But I wonder if there isn't more we can't do to sabotage their ritual, though.

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So we've thought and tried, but... have any of us learned or found a real method? Only conjecture, as far as I'm aware.

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Not that I know of. Though... Um. Actually, have you been talking to the people who've gone through the fog? I mean, obviously you have, but about the places they went and things they might've brought back with them.

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Thursdays?

Sure, I've asked around, but unless you're telling me burlap dolls and tongues in boxes are actually useful to us...

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I don't know yet. Some of the people who got those items have been asking around, and it sounds like they're components for some kind of... spell? Or a ritual? They don't know what kind, but it reminded me of what Rondo shared with us. So if we get more items like that, we should hang onto them.

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...I see...

What of the people who've passed? Do we still have theirs...?

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[she shakes her head.]

I only found out about them this week, so I don't know. I haven't asked.

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...Given the overseers seem to be handling their bodies, maybe it would be pertinent to pry their minds and thoughts a little bit then.

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Yeah... Maybe. War was the one who thought it could be a spell component, apparently. So I'd ask them.

Will you let me know if you learn anything else?

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Sure.

[ He sighs a little. ]

If I do.

[ Rattles tin... ]

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... It's okay if you don't. All we can do is try anyway. [try or die, maybe.] I'll let you know if I learn anything else about it, too.

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The more hands and minds that still have the capacity to work on this, the better...

Though, I'd advise you don't push yourself too hard. I know the stakes are high, but.

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I know how to pace myself. [firmly. she pauses to look him over, though.] ... Make sure you're following your own advice, okay?

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...Where I can, anyway.

[ Believe him, he hates the feeling of being burnt out, but he'd also like to be alive too. So, he'll try his best. ]

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[she sighs.]

Good enough, I guess.