One day we'll reach to emotions: unexplored, unprecedented

[matchbreaker]

[ Sometime shortly after the trial small notes will be folded underneath the doors of everyone still alive, and also posted to the staircase leading up to the upper floors. Not many of you have probably seen Elda's penmanship yet unless you checked that Penmanship check a while back, but it's impossibly impeccable fancy cursive script, to match with her old timey appearance. ... She also writes a lot more proper than she talks. ]

To My Fellows,

The half of you who didn't assist me in this are cordially invited to a celebration of our continued living, and to the memories of those who aren't. We are a mismatched group,
but it has become increasingly clear that we are together in this. Do not allow yourself to be alone.

We will be congregating in the ballroom for the rest of the night.

Better chefs than I will be providing food.

Sincerely,
Elda Marker

[ she's being somewhat facetious about half the group, but the fact does remain that she got more offers than she expected, when she set out to do this. She had expected that Sayaka would help, and indeed both her and Alex provide cookies and curry for the tables. Elda herself sets up the tables, dotting one longer central one made of smaller ones in the ballroom for things to sit on. The bulk of the food's provided by Tarrlok of all people, Chinese food by any other name. Susan, bless her, provides alcohol. Hibki, once she was clean, decided to run backup on preparing the food.

And then perhaps fittingly, Aligula provided the decorations. Steamers line the room, and little cut outs hang around. At Elda's instruction, it's a mix of cats, snakes, and bats. The majority of them have little faces on them. And finally, as and afterthought more than anything else, Elda makes some tea.

... Said tea is black tea and is impossibly dark and bitter because she can't taste it, but maybe that's what you want on a night like this. Who knows. ]

Comments

[notaccurate]

Mhmm.

I suppose all of us should take care of any unfinished business we have before that time comes, just in case. Leave nothing unsaid, no regrets, that sort of thing.

[If only that weren't so difficult to do. That's why Luca is struggling here.]

[hesperos]

I guess you mean before whatever happens will happen on Sunday.

[ Well, Yuri hadn't thought that far ahead into things, if that's the case. ]

Well, I'm planning on kind of seeing what's going to happen first. I hadn't thought of doing anything else before that.

[ Besides what he already planned to do tonight, anyway. ]

[notaccurate]

You're not worried about what could happen?

[Luca knows he shouldn't worry, but. Well. It's Luca.]

[hesperos]

I guess not. I don't think he's going to kill everyone single one of us on the spot, if that's what you're considering might happen.

[ Yuri figures there's enough to worry about; he'll just be concerned with it at the time whatever this thing happens. ]

[notaccurate]

I'm more worried about him doing something to make us all turn on each other, personally. That seems to be more of his style.

[hesperos]

Like announcing a motive early?

[ ... That's the first thing Yuri thinks of, but that's probaaaably not going to be it. ]

[notaccurate]

That...could be it actually.

[Oh wow it really could be.]

Maybe he does not like how we have previously had a few days to recover from the stress of motives and trials.

[hesperos]

Maybe.

[ He supposes it'd be hard to really tell what it was, but... ]

The guy seems to like it when we're pretty riled up, unless it's because someone's breaking the rules or whatever.

[notaccurate]

Well I think it's safe to say nobody has broken the rules, because they would have been punished by now.

[Boy that's kinda funny now isn't it?]

[hesperos]

[ Pretty much. Yuri thinks he's prepared to blow off whatever Jericho's about to announce.

Hah. ]

Yeah. They've been upfront about whenever any of that crap happens so far, so we shouldn't expect any of that to change, right?

[notaccurate]

Mmm, probably not. Though it begs the question, what are they going to do? And why wait until Sunday, instead of doing it now?

1/2

[hesperos]

Probably nearly bore us to death about how the rules are important and stuff needs to be followed because if you don't how can Jericho have fun if things aren't going as planned. If it's not the whole announcing motive thing early.

Maybe there's some practicing going on in preparation for that lengthy session on Sunday and that's why there's a buffer.

2/2

[hesperos]

[ He knows that's probably not the case but Yuri's Sarcasm Mobile™ came back from the war. So he'll continue talking... ]

Honestly speaking, I don't know what they're gonna do. Whatever it is I imagine the only reason they pushed it back to Sunday is because they need preparation. That and they probably don't wanna do it right after a trial.

[notaccurate]

[Well, Luca likes a man with a good sense of sarcasm, so.]

Alena might be drained too. Even if she didn't explode someone with light this time.

[hesperos]

[ Hahaha, well. ]

That's true. Every single execution's taken some energy from her and all that.

[notaccurate]

I wonder if it drains Jericho at all, or if the energy consumption is all on Alena's part.

[hesperos]

It might be for the both of them, actually. I can't imagine that it's not just Alena who is getting tired from whenever they do ... whatever it is when calling forth those abilities.

[ Hmm. ]

Also, I never thought about it much before. Maybe because Jericho doesn't show his face or anything, so of course we couldn't tell if the guy gets tired from the whole thing.

[notaccurate]

We might have to draw him out to find out for ourselves.

[hesperos]

...What a pain.

[ He sighs!! ]