WEEK 4 - MONDAY

[chaoticlootral]

[Well, Monika, you will find Dos Sad Boys . . . painting each other's nails. This is. Kinda pathetic. Taako is squinting, very concentrated on the task at hand. Get it? At hand? Do you get it?]

Hey, homie, if you don't stop squirming, you're gonna get it all over the place.

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[ruffboi]

[Magnus is holding out his right hand and letting Taako paint him.]

I'm not squirming, just - don't forget to save half the nail for gold.

[chr]

[ dos sad boys are entertaining enough on their own, but a pun in the bracket text? you shouldn't have. you're after monika's heart here. just here, in the bracket text. ]

If you think that's squirming, try paining Izaya's nails. Actually, I owe him a pink glitter manicure, come to think of it.

Besides, something imperfect is also completely unique.

[chaoticlootral]

Speaking as, uh, something perfect, I'd say that's also equally unique and great. Possibly even better.

[Saving half the nail for the whiniest baby on earth. Patting the seat next to himself for Monika.]

You got the hot goss, compadre?

[ruffboi]

Yeah, well, mine will be unique because they're going to be halvsies. Red and gold.

[Waiting for Monika to join them.]

You didn't write those notes, did you?

[chr]

Sounds pretty adorable. Me next?

[ monika slides in easily, but shakes her head. ]

No, but I am pretty sure I know who wrote them. Looks like we're getting desperate. I'm confirming it ASAP, but I've got a busy schedule.

[chaoticlootral]

What does this look like, Taako's Free Salon Where He Doesn't Charge for Shit? Five rips.

[Not pausing in his important task here, but raising an eyebrow.]

Drop the deets, sister.

[ruffboi]

No, come on. He can't charge you. It's all my nail polish, anyway. And I say you can use it, as long as you don't do the thing where you say you have information, but you don't tell us it yet because the DM wants to keep things mysterious. That's how people get ironically killed before we can find out the truth.

[chr]

I'd tell you, but squealing has gotten people in loads of trouble this past week. I'm working on fixing others' problems actually... you'd be surprised how many people need help navigating basic human connections. Anyway, once they agree, I will give you a name.

The notes are true, though. Trying to figure out how to handle the situation, still, though. Sounds like hitting the time limit is... not great.

[chaoticlootral]

Personally, I have no issues with human connections. If you make an awkward one, they die in, say, 50 years tops most times. Just a matter of outlasting them. And we're not squealers! We're, uh, frankly pretty good at this whole keeping our mouths shut thing. Well practiced, I'd say.

As for, uh, the notes, good guy group confirmed? I know we'd batted that one around. Dudes and dudettes awake at night, roamin' the streets, causin' a ruckus. But like, in the name of good. Maybe. Don't really know if there's a clear good or bad line here.

[ruffboi]

What color do you want? And sparkle, or no sparkle?

[Laying out his whole spread of pretty nail colors.]

Seemed like hitting the time limit was no big to me. Reapers get to live, maybe the rest of us, too? Am I missing something? Seems like the real risk is, if everyone dies, they're gonna pick just a handful of us.

As for the good guy Reapers, it's gotta be whoever iced Ranpo, right?

[chr]

Hmm... Let's say sparkle!

[ go big or go home tbh ]

The time limit means not everyone gets their chancen and the Erased don't come back. One of the Reapers tasked with keeping us alive went to a meeting with one of the Reapers slated to kill us. Apparently... One of them has to live, and if they're there at the end, then we're home clear for a golden ending. I'm not sure on the rest of the specifics at the moment.

... That said, yeah, neither of you have been anything but trustworthy - Setz might have written the note. I'm planning to ask over gelato, which we should totally partake in this week by the way.

[chaoticlootral]

Setz can't tell a joke, so he's clearly up to something.

[Pausing in his nail polish task though. Mostly so he can switch colors.]

. . . I mean, sure, I'm all for golden ending, but awfully convenient where the dudes who are supposed to kill us are claiming they have to be alive at the end.

[ruffboi]

[Grabbing the sparkle for Monika. Blowing dry his red nails first, though.]

Yeah. Hm. I mean, maybe, but I don't get what the point of any of this is. The Reapers are killing us, except some that are saving us, but if we leave the right number alive we all come back to life? What the fuck.

[chr]

[ monika crosses her legs - it's a clear tell she agrees with them, really. ]

That would make you and the informant I'm working with in the same camp. Honestly? I'm willing to let it play out for now, but if I have to, I will expose the remaining one at the trial myself.

[ dismissively, she waves a hand. ] As for who iced Ranpo, no, actually. We knew it was Ranpo pretty quickly, buuuuut... That was extremely lucky Players who helped us out. We're down to two because of them. With any luck, we'll be down to one because of them, as well.

[chaoticlootral]

They, uh, also said alive, and not necessarily happy, right? Could always, y'know, capture one. Keep 'em around. As a backup.

[That's kinda evil, but. Hm.]

You got confirmations on who else we should be lookin' out for?

[ruffboi]

Two? So, two more bad ones, and five of the ones who aren't trying to kill us, but we also lose if they win?

[Yuck. Well, he'll get started on the sparkle with a dark look.]

Yeah. Think Taako's got the right idea. I mean, come night they get to wake up and ask for favors, so we have to make the whole, uh, capturing really stick. Anyway, I don't really get the point of speculating about what the Compoodle wants. Seems like it ain't great! So let's just figure out who they are, and kill them.