WEEK SIX

[killerwaves]

WEEK SIX

16 Vacationers

Throughout your time on the island, there's been a steady rhythm; the murders, the trials, the executions, the clean-up afterwards that leave just up remnants for you to remember what was lost. This Monday morning though, things are different. The debris and any biohazards are cleared, but no effort has been made to repair the games at the arcade, or to restock the chemicals and damaged equipment at the laboratory.

Odd.

If you cast your eyes to the sky, you'll also notice that the distortion is also lingering—there's certainly less of it at least, a haze still lingering over the go-karts, one whirlpool lingering out in the sea. It could be worse, surely.

Though there's no new locations for you to take your mind off of all these oddities either. In fact, looking at your device to access the resort map area and scrolling past Kakapo's Nest triggers an error.

There’s one more, slightly more eclectic change: the kittybots, instead of having cute kitty ears and faces, are now without exception round-headed. This would make them look like ordinary robots, but their heads actually now look like a bowl of fish swimming, which occasionally form up into expressions. A change of pace for everything, it seems.

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WEATHER ALERT:

Bulletin:
The current barometric pressure is 29.90 inHg, and is expected to steadily decline over the coming days. Rain and storms are likely in the latter half of the week.

(( OOC: Welcome to endgame week everyone. We'll be running an endgame investigation Friday during our typical investigation timeslot, and Saturday will be endgame proper.

This week your admins can be contacted Monday and Tuesday only, after that they'll be incommunicado. ))

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[butcherspice]

[Billy lowers his crowbar but keeps it held on.]

Won't hold it against me being armed, will ya? Man needs to be prepared when surrounded by a gaggle of angry supes and demigods.

[A sardonic joyless smirk makes its way onto his face, as if it's already defending him from the tidal wave of hatred that's about to drown him.

It was going to turn out this way from the start. But hey, he did say whatever it takes.]

I'll save the effort of giving you porkies. I'm a bastard, but not a complete twit.

That bug you got two weeks ago was from me. You just happened to draw the short straw of takin' the drink I spiked.

I gave the same thing to Xiao last week and Psyche just now. No clue why it turned Xiao into an overgrown lizard, but Psyche should be fine if this shite does its job properly.

[diabolizes]

Should be fine? What are you gonna do if she isn’t?

[ He feels anger welling up within him, but the lack of resentful energy he’s so used to allowing to course through his body keeps his temper from rising much higher, so he huffs rather than makes a move to attack him.

He’ll let other people ask the other relevant questions. ]

[butcherspice]

Well. If she ain't, what I do comes down to which one of you lot takes a swing first, don't it?

[He shrugs. He's got no illusions about what's most likely to happen to him.]

But you're right as rain now, ain't you? Willing to bet Xiao was a special case.

[diabolizes]

[ At least Billy is fully aware of what’ll happen, and that oddly gives Wei Wuxian a small sense of peace… at least, enough so that he doesn’t make a move to lunge at Billy. That can wait should the worst come to happen. ]

Why? Was it her specific power, or did you fuck up the dosage?

[chosenwang]

[ Time to just stay between the two of them. He doesn't want Billy touching him or Psyche again in case he decides to be stupid. ]

[butcherspice]

Dosage was the same as you and Psyche. Figure it was somethin' to do with her power. Had no clue she could turn into a dragon.

Well, that or one of those birds gave me a bad batch because they wanted her gone.

[diabolizes]

…So, were they just giving these to you so you could go around injecting whoever you wanted? Did you ask for that stuff specifically?

[butcherspice]

Well, yes and no. They'd give the final product to me if I took the liberty of testin' it.

What I specifically asked for was a way to kill any Supe no matter how powerful.

[microtransactions]

Not all that fussed about what happens though, are you? It's one thing if you were figuring out the correct dose, but...

[ the same one each time... ]

You don't know how it works, if it would even do what they told you it'd do, whether they'd go crazy and blow up the island or just drop dead right then and there...

But you wouldn't care either way, would you?

[butcherspice]

Different chemical composition each time in order to perfect it. Wei Wuxian's didn't quite cancel everything out, Xiao's was a whole fucking mess, and...well, Psyche's still standin', so maybe I've got it now.

[He gives a weak breath out of his nose.]

The world ain't like your sugar-sweet little planet where I'm from. Folks can't always save each other, and no one comes to stop you from fallin' down a pit no matter how loud you scream. So had to do whatever it took here even if it could kill me.

[plunges]

[ A bad batch. That's all it is, is it.

...

He took her from you. He could have taken your brother away from you, too. And Psyche–

No. Do not. This is what they want. You understand loss, you know grief. This isn't you, Xiao–

He wants silence. He wants peace. But everyone keeps going, Billy has been aiding the birds, his thoughts are completely muddled now.

There's a moment in which Xiao appears to be wrestling himself, as he has been for the past few days.

But, at some point, his glare turns sharp. His teeth are clenched. His hand very shakily lifts itself, holding his spear, and his grip tightens around the hilt. The dark aura surrounding him seems to pick up.

He's very clearly trying to hold himself back, but another force at play seems to be wanting to break free. ]

[dupiety]

[Oh?

Temenos turns his head away from the interrogation playing out and looks toward the direction of the sudden ominous spike in the air.]

...Xiao?

[chosenwang]

[ how u doing there son do you need a snickers ]

[diabolizes]

[ Well, this is enough to actually pull him out of his anger! ]

…Xiao.

[microtransactions]

Pretty weighty if, isn't it?

[chosenwang]

[ turns out Wang Lu's theory of russian roulette with drinks wasn't so far fetched and he hates it ]

I don't know, it sounds like you're a complete twit to me. What is it supposed to do? Amplify powers?

[necrotiem]

The opposite!

[She laughs, because she never considered it, even once, not after the others.]

As if we couldn't take his throat out with our teeth because he thought he tamed us.

[chosenwang]

Ah. He was going on some stupid tirade about powers with Kanon's case. Was he jealous? That's pretty midboss of him.

[chrysaline]

[ Medea is having the most annoying day of her life right now, but this gets her to laugh in earnest. Thank you, Waltaquin. ]

Ah... I think I see what she saw in us after all. No one ever did accuse me of being beloved by god.

[ Get her her sword again and she'll show that powers have nothing to do with it! ]

[necrotiem]

[If no one has gathered it back up by now, Waltaquin will resume stewardship of the sword like she had last week. Luckily stewardship really does seem to be all she has in mind, even if the thing is sharp enough to get blood from a tree.]

Just a m̷̢͒o̷͚̓ṋ̷̌s̴̝͗t̶̰̚e̶͗ͅr̵̺̔ that gorges itself on power... [Blood is the only language understood by meat.]

Magic or not, Medea, we share a language! I don't think even you can deny it! Next time, I'll give you the gift.

[chrysaline]

Oh...? I'm touched. Why don't you tell her that I'd like a chance for us to meet again. In quieter circumstances.

[ Really, it's so hard to get quality time like this. This time, she's the one who reaches out for Waltaquin, pausing with her fingertips hovering over her cheek to see if she'll allow it. ]

If I'm a monster, I won't apologize for being what I was made. I hope we'll speak again.

[butcherspice]

Opposite, actually. Once it kicks in, she shouldn't be able to use her powers at all. Would be better if it kicked in right away without the stutters in between, but I can't be picky.

[chosenwang]

Why would you want to eliminate people's powers in a place like this? I thought you would have had some braincells in there with how you approach cases but turns out I missed the mark. [ Clicking his tongue. ] It's a shame I overlooked and overestimated you.

[butcherspice]

It ain't about here. Honestly, I didn't care much about which one of you did what with your powers long as I made sure this worked.

It's about what's outside of here. I got bigger fish to cut the heads off of back home.

[chosenwang]

So you didn't care about what you did to us here so long as you got to take back a souvenir to use against... heroes? Sounds like you have an inflated sense of your own significance to play with people lives like that. Let me guess... people with powers stole your girlfriend or ran over your dog back at home? Maybe they killed someone you loved?