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

[bloodisthicker]

...the whole thing's got to wear away at us in some way, I guess. If there was a way for us to get at the person making us go through all this, I'd be less pessimistic about our prospects, but...

[...the longer this goes on, the less likely it seems that they'll have any chance of that.]

[notjustawriter]

...it doesn't look like we've found a way to stop him yet.

[It's beginning to wear on Gabriel. He's trying to keep optimistic, but it's getting bleak.]

[bloodisthicker]

There has to be something we're missing, but I've got absolutely no idea what it could be.

[notjustawriter]

Maybe we're looking in the wrong places. Other than that, I'm not sure.

[bloodisthicker]

That could just be it. Where to even start, though, I wonder?

[notjustawriter]

Isn't that the million-dollar question. The only way to know for sure is probably to go overboard with the exploration, innit?

[bloodisthicker]

I would be surprised if it wasn't, quite honestly... we'll definitely have to pay extra attention to new floors.

[notjustawriter]

That we will.

I'm sure it's not impossible to keep track of what we find. It'll just involve more meetin's.

[bloodisthicker]

...you know, we probably should make those less predictable and regular, come to think of it.

[notjustawriter]

Probably a good idea. Who knows if the Kingmaker is spying on all of us or not.

[bloodisthicker]

...the only answer I can think of for that is "do we even have to ask."

[notjustawriter]

I wonder if there are any places he wouldn't listen in on.

[....]

Probably the bathrooms, for obvious reasons.

[bloodisthicker]

I don't know. I mean, I've been paranoid about that this entire time.