Afterparty 5.0

[forcegalactic]

[There's not much that can be believed about that trial. Or that execution. Still, like before, two hours after everyone leaves, they'll find a note slipped underneath their doors.]

We have to stick together. The dining room is there for anyone that needs a quiet space, and I cooked dinner.

Hibiki made some coffee and dessert for all of us.

-Mordecai Benmont Jiminy and Hibiki Ganaha

[Today's selection includes potato pancakes and a light coffee cake. Hibiki has lit two more candles in the dining hall. It doesn't take long before Mordecai lights a third.]

Comments

[heymcfly]

Guy was a freak. Good riddance. [ He looks over to the little memorial, the candles that flicker. He's trying really, really hard not to cry, and not having much luck with it. ]

How old were they again? Why would you do that?

[announcemyvictory]

He must have had a reason, but I'm sure it wasn't a very good one. Spite against the Conductor seems to be the most of it.

[heymcfly]

What a sicko. [ He sniffs, itching his nose with the arm of his jacket sleeve. ] Screw him, then.

Maybe thing'll finally wind down.

[announcemyvictory]

When we're out of monsters?

[heymcfly]

I don't think anybody could be as bad as that guy, right? I mean, he took another guy's body, or whatever! Nobody here's that big of a nut, are they?

[announcemyvictory]

I'm certainly not! I have no idea how that even works.

[heymcfly]

See? There's nobody that's as crazy as Dio was. Maybe now that we got all the crazy people...ah, taken care of, things can wind down.

...Right?

[announcemyvictory]

I certainly hope so. ...I'm glad, though, that you're believing in it.

[heymcfly]

I'm tryin' to. Feels like things can't get any more worse than they are.

Even though you know they might.

[announcemyvictory]

Do you think it'll be another harsh incentive?

[heymcfly]

I...really hope not. We're all goin' crazy enough as it is.

How does he even know? The Conductor?

[announcemyvictory]

How does he know which?

[heymcfly]

Like, how does he know what pisses people off? Like with Chie, and Dio...

It just feels...I don't know. I mean...

I'm just kinda rambling. Sorry.

[announcemyvictory]

It's just as well. He does know a fair bit, doesn't he? Even I'm almost afraid to ask.

[heymcfly]

....hey, have you sent any letters? You were the one who told me to talk to the Conductor more...nicely, right?

Did any of yours go through?

[announcemyvictory]

To... people back home? I haven't. I don't know what I would say.

[heymcfly]

What about the Conductor? He wrote back to that letter I wrote.

The one you helped me write. I mean, it didn't help with anything, but still.

[announcemyvictory]

Ah, he did? What did he tell you?

[heymcfly]

Yeah.

...I think he just said to wait it out or something. There was a purpose for us being here and that we had to wait. Or something like that.

Kinda don't remember.

[announcemyvictory]

Wait? Do you think that means make it through a week without anyone succumbing to the incentive?