Alarming, given we don't exactly know much else about how to get around these rules yet. We're whittling our own time down... [A sigh. Then:] What do you think the more specific prompts may be, then? If there are any, overall motive aside.
I can only guess, but...maybe something they want. Everyone has something like that. An object, a person, even something abstract like power...I don't know.
He hums a little at that, though, like he's thinking it over.]
It's not exactly the most unreasonable possibility. I think we all have something or someone we'd kill for. [Like at this point in murdertown would anyone even lie about that, damn.] But why did things change so suddenly, then? Not enough people were dying and the directors were forced to step in to offer more incentives or threats? The difference between the first three weeks and these last two is stark, to say the least.
What if they're being told something about the nature of this world? A drastic truth. For example, "killing people will free people, since this world is actually fake". And then they're provided proof, somehow.
Hah, you're not the first person to suggest that this world isn't real! [A TERRIBLE FIRST DIP INTO VR, IF SO.] So I suppose it wouldn't be impossible, either.
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[He just squints at him.]
Is you being overly helpful an effect, Wei Wuxian?
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[HIS DOTING AND HELPFUL NATURE, AMPLIFIED.]
--Though I do hope you'd let me know if there was anything I could do to help. Things certainly aren't getting easier.
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[How does tap-dancing related to anything in the entertainment center? God.]
Well, I'm just glad for your company! So that's that for now. [A beat.] I can't believe we have four bodies this week, though...
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But yeah he sighs at that, just a big ol' heave of a sigh.]
I know... I was hoping last week would be a fluke, but I worried it might be something like this, too.
[Opening the murder floodgates, as it were.]
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[And yet he's still here. Why is he still here? But Yin Yu..Minako...]
And we still have no idea what exactly is prompting this to happen, besides the overall motive.
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He makes a little sound, frustrated.]
Alarming, given we don't exactly know much else about how to get around these rules yet. We're whittling our own time down... [A sigh. Then:] What do you think the more specific prompts may be, then? If there are any, overall motive aside.
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[NO. ANAIDO MADE FOR DEATH. He shakes his head.]
I can only guess, but...maybe something they want. Everyone has something like that. An object, a person, even something abstract like power...I don't know.
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He hums a little at that, though, like he's thinking it over.]
It's not exactly the most unreasonable possibility. I think we all have something or someone we'd kill for. [Like at this point in murdertown would anyone even lie about that, damn.] But why did things change so suddenly, then? Not enough people were dying and the directors were forced to step in to offer more incentives or threats? The difference between the first three weeks and these last two is stark, to say the least.
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What if they're being told something about the nature of this world? A drastic truth. For example, "killing people will free people, since this world is actually fake". And then they're provided proof, somehow.
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