WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? OUR TALES RIVAL JUST TURNED INTO A ZOMBIE!

[bloodisthicker]

[...so, uh, that was a thing that happened. Tarrlok was completely ready to do the politician thing and come up with a speech or something for most of whatever the hell that excuse for a trial was, but everything got all confusing, baffling, and horrifying and completely inexplicably, he can't find the words.

Maybe he just... needs a day. Tomorrow will probably be fine. For now, though, Misa volunteered to make brownies, and he was going to make a Northern Water Tribe comfort food specialty.

...even if they only had shortening and not actual animal fat and it'd been a while since he'd made it, but it tasted... alright? Definitely not as good as the stuff back home, but it was hard to get that good, anyway.

...there's also the matter of setting things up in a location other than the dining hall, because even though that's cleaned up, it still feels pretty tasteless to hold a wake literal feet from the place you found someone's bloody corpse.

So, a little later on in the day, a lovingly personalized note will be slid under everyone's doors:



And if the Survivors choose to head to the library, they'll find a... well, okay, it's a bunch of boxes from the storage room of comparable size stacked up on each other to kind of resemble a table. The dining hall ones don't even seem like they'd fit in the library, so Team Afterparty clearly had to improvise. One side is filled with plates, bowls, and spoons, and the other is filled with brownies, cookies, and a big bowl of berry aqutak. There are also chairs dotted throughout the room in a sort of vague circle --- close enough together that if people want to talk, they can, but far enough apart that it'd be easy to drag it off for some privacy.]

Comments

[amygdalae]

If there is a way in, then there has to be a way out of it as well.

[notjustawriter]

Right.

I doubt it's anywhere on the floor we've seen, though. We need to find some kind of basement entrance.

It won't be easy, but it's not impossible.

[amygdalae]

Right. [A small nod.] ...it'll take time, but we'll find it. Along with everything else.

[notjustawriter]

I'll keep lookin'.

It's not gonna be out in the open, and the Kingmaker will sure as hell make sure it's hidden away, but all that really means is that we need to find it as soon as possible.

[amygdalae]

You and me both.

[Bruce certainly will keep an eye out himself as well - especially with all the books in the library. He's not going to wave them off as useless just yet.]

At least we have a better understanding of what the Kingmaker is playing at now. That will help.

[notjustawriter]

[He nods.]

What a terrible game he's playing.... Wantin' to hurt people... I'll never understand it.

[amygdalae]

I can't say I know what his intentions are either.

[Bruce won't say he can't understand the reasons behind wanting to hurt people, but in this case he can't see the logic behind this at all. Why does the Kingmaker truly get out of this?]

[notjustawriter]

Usually there's a point to it, y'know?

Beyond just killin' people for fun. There's a reason he's doing this, it's just a matter of understanding his motivations.

Is it just rulin' by fear, or is there more to it than that?

[amygdalae]

[Bruce gives a nod to that - he more or less is thinking the same thing that Gabriel just voiced out.]

I suppose in a way 'just for fun' is a motivation by itself, but...

[Well, the Kingmaker is a bit too... normal sounding for that. Then again, who is he to say about normality?]

[notjustawriter]

"Just for fun".... I'm not so sure.

He seems too calculating for that.

[amygdalae]

I agree.

[That's another way to put it.]

He seems rational enough in his own right to have a reason like that.

[notjustawriter]

...There must be somethin' we're missing.

[amygdalae]

There's probably a lot of 'somethings' that we are missing.

[Very, very wryly.]