Maddened

[shimmershimmer]

[You awaken from your dream, but you are still dreaming. This new, lucid dream brings a sudden clarity: You have power. You have it and you want to use it. You want that more than anything.

Of course, whoever you will use it on will be destroyed. But that's exciting too, isn't it? Yes... this is all fun and exciting, like climbing and falling and tasing people. You can't be blamed for wanting to try it out. Who could?

And... this is what the Shimmering Lady wants. Oh, she'll pretend otherwise, come the day - that's part of a game that just the two of you are playing. This is your little secret, you and her.]

((You have 12 hours to make your choice (until 1:30am PST). If you can't make that for whatever reason, please let me know.

In the case of this role, you're required to kill somebody every night. If you don't select anyone, someone will be selected at random.))

Comments

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

[goes to check Banjou while she does that, then gives her a "yep, we're done" nod]

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

[ let's head out then. casually and thoroughly erasing evidence of her break-in, more out of habit than any desire to actually avoid detection. ]


. . . that was weird.

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

[and then let's stroll back home together]

First time always is.

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

It was . . . easy. A hotel room safe is harder to break into than that. It's like . . . people were just designed to get broken.

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

That's why you got me to make sure that doesn't happen.

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

[ frowns, obviously chewing on a thought ]


But . . . I want it to . . . I want . . . to do this more.

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

I know, I feel it too. And it's what the Lady wants. But we gotta be patient.

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

[ her frown just kinda deepens, but she doesn't reply just yet ]

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

[keeps walking then, waiting for her response]

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

Hey, Eliot?

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

Mm?

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

We're . . . We're doing the right thing, aren't we? We're being good people?

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

We're doing what's necessary to protect the village.

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

[ thiiiinking about that ]


It feels like we're doing the right think, but Nate wouldn't do it this way.

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

Nah, he'd trick them into offing each other. Or themselves.

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

. . .


That doesn't sound better.

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

It isn't. It's just his way of making himself feel better about it.

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

[ nnnods, she's still trying to work through it ]


I want . . . to be doing the right thing. But I want to keep killing too. It keeps feeling like killing is the only right thing to do.

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

[frowns a little and doesn't respond immediately. Something about what she said bothers him briefly but eventually he seems to have worked through it to his satisfaction]

It's like this: if we were still out in the world, it wouldn't be right. It's never right out there, even when it's the only thing you can do. But this ain't the outside world and it's like... a special case. We got the Lady to guide us now, after all. She wouldn't ask us to do something that weren't right and good.

And that feeling you got, she gave you that too.

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

[ hhhfffff ]


Just because She says it, that changes all the rules . . . ? It's OK for you to be doing this again?

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

It's gotta be done, and no one else is prepared to do it.

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

. . . yeah. Yeah.


We can do it, because we're us.

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

That's right.

Re: Night 03

[thepawfectcrime]

[ then why do I still want to throw up ]


We should get home before the watch notices.

Re: Night 03

[defenceservice]

Yeah. See if we can catch a few hours' sleep.