now listen good and listen straight, you're not the master of your fate

[bloodisthicker]

[Another week, another murder, another absolute shitshow. Tarrlok kind of just wants to lock himself in his room for a while, but... well, he volunteered. So... it's definitely going to be much later in the day before a note advising everyone to meet up in the bar for some comfort food is slipped under everyone's door.

At least Tarrlok didn't have to take care of everything alone, though; while he spent most of the time cooking by himself, Speedwagon and Yosuke helped take some delicious pork buns up to set them out across the bar so that everyone could drown their sorrows in stuffing their faces. And, you know, alcohol, maybe that too. There's also some vegetarian stir fry for people who don't like pork, too, of course.

There isn't an official bartender to start out with, but there is live entertainment courtesy of Yosuke, who's strumming his guitar over in the corner there.

Hopefully someone will step up, because lord knows everyone in the Vault needs a drink right now.]

Comments

[sleepingkogoro]

...

[Sigh]

Maybe I should have seen it coming. Two weeks ago, that guy...confessed to me he was covering murders for her mother.

I was planning to find some way to get her apprehended, but I never imagined... [The mother would be in Norman's body and therefore technically he was the one doing it. That is, if it wasn't a show]

[amygdalae]

There was no way for you to know. Or for anybody to even be able to guess the truth of the matter.

[Dual personalities, associative identity disorder... whatever it was, its certainly not the first thing that people would have guessed. Not even Bruce, despite his own experiences with... well, everything.]

Don't blame yourself, detective. A lot of this was already out of our hands from the very start.

[sleepingkogoro]

At least this time people seem to be more...enraged than depressed after the trial.

...

Not that it's any better.

[amygdalae]

What happened this time is a lot harder to swallow than the previous ones.

[And really, they still don't really quite know what happened--and now they never will.]

[sleepingkogoro]

At least it can't get worse than it did this week. I'm not saying nobody will die, but it is unlikely it'll ever reach the levels of craziness it did today.

[How bad are things if our worst scenario has gone from 'somebody dying' to 'the killer having their mother hijacking their brain']

[amygdalae]

[Pretty damn bad. Though it still could always be worse.]

...that's one way to look at it. [Perhaps not the best way, but... it's something.] Let's hope we won't need to encounter a situation like that again anytime soon.