week 3, sunday

[ninjay]

[ sometime sunday evening, jay goes and seeks out dipper. he'll take him to some secluded part of the motel to murder him



no it's just a chat. they gotta gossip. ]

I know we just talked a few days ago, but we need to catch up.

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[pinesfortruth]

Great. If I die before Light, I blame him.

[dipper what has he ever done to you. nothing. nothing is what.]

Lockpicking is not as hard as all these killers are making it out to be.

[ninjay]

I know. I suppose we should be grateful that they all seem to be very bad at it.

[ SMALL MERCIES, i guess ]

[pinesfortruth]

So far.

[ANYWAY]

Since three people are supposed to be the "survivors", it has to be that "Mother" has three people working for her. Right? So after Mira, we're down to two, but the disadvantage now is we don't know their roles.

[ninjay]

We're assuming one of them is the Soldier, I think. The problem there is that I doubt that person will be sharing their role with anyone, so I'm not sure exactly how we'd track them down without discovering every single person's role and figure it out by a process of elimination.

[ ... ]

Or we can get it right by chance, I guess.

[pinesfortruth]

It's gotta be, otherwise they would've spoken up when Mira said she was the one. Even if they just said "no, I know who the soldier is", we would've believed it. [hmmmm] There's gotta be a way to figure it out besides knowing literally everyone's roles.

[ninjay]

It would be easier if there really was a role to check other roles.

[ people has theorized that there was one, who helped mira out the first time, but that could have been mother. ]

[pinesfortruth]

If there is, they're probably not on our side. That'd be way too easy. [grumbling] Wish there was a way to check sides, too.

[ninjay]

That may be difficult. Because even if there is a set group, other people outside of it can also kill. Since... I don't think Kamui was part of it.

[ tbh kamui just seemed like he wanted to do it just because. ]

[pinesfortruth]

And we don't know for whoever killed Hibiki, either. Which was probably Tsurugi but whatever.

[ninjay]

I feel like we should probably actually talk to him directly to see what he's like.

[ jay has not said a single word to him so far. so. ]

[pinesfortruth]

........

I call not it.

[ninjay]

Somehow, I knew you would say that.

I'll deal with the possible murderer then.

[pinesfortruth]

It's my continuous wish to not get murdered that tipped you off, isn't it.

He's been keeping scarce, right? Like... I haven't seen him around that much.

[ninjay]

Pretty much. Which isn't surprising, since I'm sure most people are suspicious of him.

[ although probably even more since he's apparently keeping his head down. ]

[pinesfortruth]

It makes sense, but... I really wish we knew why he did it.

[ninjay]

Money, probably. I heard he said he'd do anything for it.

[ which... is admittedly a less impressive motive than mira's was, but eh. ]

[pinesfortruth]

That sounds like something Stan would say, but even he has his limits. [...] I mean, probably. He probably has his limits. [has stan ever killed a man. he's been in jail a lot.]

[ninjay]

Who's Stan?

[ dipper stop referencing people from your show ]

[pinesfortruth]

Oh, huh. My great-uncle. He's kind of a con artist.

[no, never]

[ninjay]

I see. Well, I would really hope that he would kill people for money.

[ that might be an awkward discovery to go back home to, if they do return home after this. ]

[pinesfortruth]

He wouldn't. Probably. [is he joking. it's hard to tell because he changes the subject]

Hey, why do you think Mira wanted us to try to vote for Craftly so bad?

[ninjay]

I don't know, but I don't trust her intentions. All that did was make us fight amongst ourselves and possibly create even more tension in an already understandably tense group.

[ but also, why would you listen to a serial killer. ]

[pinesfortruth]

Yeah... Mabel said Craftly told her his "contract" with this place was until death. With Mira... I think we've got two options. Either she really did want us to kill Craftly because it would mess with us and ruin everything, or she told us so we'd never do it because who'd listen to a serial killer?

I'm really hoping on the former.

[ninjay]

I don't think it's worth the risk to kill him. Even if he's dead, the game will just continue on. But what if we don't even get a replacement Innkeeper? I can't wait to try to figure out trials when we don't have anyone answer questions.

[ look jay just. does not think they should risk it why can't everyone chill ]

[pinesfortruth]

I'm not advocating we test it. I'm just... trying to get into her head. What would that give her? The ritual works whether we catch the killers or not.