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]

Started off simple. All they wanted at first was blood samples from whoever kicked it that week. Got a bit leery meself when that fucking monster showed up, but that ain't got nothin' to do with me. Those two got a lot of fuckin' pet projects to try and take out Supes from their world.

[dancing_flames]

On that, I actually believe you. The abilities it demonstrated didn't match any of the powers on the profiles here.

[dupiety]

My, how fortuitous it must have felt for your goals to line up with the administrators'.

[Temenos doesn't understand it himself. There are people in Solistia who fear those who have come to learn the ways of magic, but he hasn't heard of anything quite on this level.]

What came next, then?

[butcherspice]

Got lucky, yeah. If they were so confident about their little battle royale, figured they'd have the means to kill even the worst of Supes.

After the shite with Lobelia Overhaul and Shigaraki told me they were cobblin' together a serum to cancel out powers, and I could bring it home if I got it tested.

[He wipes some of the blood off of his chin before speaking again.]

See, things are different where guys like me and those two are from. There, folks with powers use the fact that they're called 'superheroes' to get themselves worshipped like gods. But the shite they get up to behind closed doors? You'd be clutching your prayer beads if you still wore 'em.

[dakicover]

[ why does literally everyone except him and sion get treated well for being heroes what the actual fuck thank god he switched to a job where he's still treated like shit but doesn't have to be nice. ]

[dupiety]

I've never worn prayer beads.

[Because that is totally a correction that he needed to make.]

I see where you're going with this, though. I assume no one really looks into their private affairs due to their godlike status. Aside from yourself, apparently, and your intent is to have them answer for their sins.

[butcherspice]

Someone's gotta take the bastards off their high horses. I ain't the only bloke back home who does this, just one of a handful of folks who want more justice than the corpos wanna give us, and a bit of payback.

Net boon for the world I'm from if I get the most dangerous sadistic bastard in the Supe game without his powers long enough to smash his brains out.

[dupiety]

Hmm.

[Ultimately, he shrugs.]

If it's for a bit of revenge, I can hardly fault you. Sometimes, terrible people reach places of power that make them nigh-untouchable. Someone has to drag their truth into the light, so it may as well be you.

But now that you've been caught in the middle of one of your little odd jobs, I hope you'll have the sense to resign. You may have your ticket out of here punched already, but we could still use your insight and no-nonsense demeanor as we work our way through these mysteries.

[He figures that part was always genuine.]

[butcherspice]

[Billy is a bit surprised by how in stride Temenos seems to be taking his underhanded tactics, so much so that he kind of laughs.]

No wonder you're resignin' from the priesthood.

I ain't dense enough to keep jabbin' people left and right after this one, can swear on that much. Besides, if this one worked on Psyche, it'll work on Homelander. Won't need another test here.

Kinda funny that you're askin' me to help on behalf of folks who hate my guts now. Can't be that desperate, can you?

[It's half a joke, half an admittance of how little Billy has trusted most people since the beginning. Why would he, when he's given no reason to trust him?]

[dupiety]

[He laughs at that.]

Well, it certainly makes you more useful than us hogtying you in the cave for the remainder of our time here as repentance, doesn't it?

But, ah, forgive old habits. I have resigned from priesthood.

[No need for talk of repentance anymore. That would just be plain old punishment.]

I can't speak for you, of course, but I am still very interested in learning who the killers walking among us are. You and I...well, we have a similar approach toward getting the information we need.

[butcherspice]

[Ok, the mental image of that whole thing is kind of funny. A small smirk remains on Billy's face as Temenos talks.]

I'm awful curious about it meself, gotta admit. Maybe I'll pitch in on the gumshoe work.

[One good thing about being established as a traitor is that knowing he has so little to lose in terms of the group's good graces will make his bad cop tactics have more legitimacy to them.]

[microtransactions]

[ oh, so basically a protection racket. yeah? ]

[butcherspice]

[More or less! Boys-verse kinda sucks!]

[chrysaline]

[ She's calmed down after the earlier everything, but she's not really saying anything to him, or this. Just absorbing it with her expression rather even.

People... aren't really different anywhere, probably. ]