Resistance Meeting 4: Live Free or Resist Hard

[clearasmud]

[ Early Saturday morning, long before the meeting could reasonably be expected to take place, there's a fresh note slipped under everyone's doors:

Please bring as many letters from the Conductor as you saved. Not only yours, but those of the deceased, if you have them/COULD find them. We NEED to compile what we know.

In the hopes of easing any understandable reluctance, every letter brought grants you the right to hear one of my secrets/embarrassing stories at your leisure.

Wow, that must have been a pain to write 10 times... let alone 26, just in case anyone else has been playing musical rooms. Or maybe Youko had insomnia last night. Who knows? What matters is that she'll be in the Conference Room from 9AM onwards, nursing a cup of that Anteiku Coffee and writing things sporadically into a notebook from time to time. She's... also still wearing Logan's spare goddamn clothes, because apparently that is going to be a thing.

But hey: at least there's two large plates piled with biscuits/cookies and the fancy candies from the kitchen! As well as 11 plates because we are not savages, oh my god. ]

Comments

[ninehundredlives]

Not much. The only thing that's left is the odd reference to appearance and abilities - there's one I'm sure is Dio, and this other is probably Tabby.

[There's some pretty indicative mentions of child soldiers too, but Jean is literally sitting right here. She leans forward, offering the blue book.] You can look at it if you like. There's enough there for at least one group besides ours.

[announcemyvictory]

[She takes it carefully and leafs through it.] I'll agree with you on that... but why are some of these entries entirely censored? Some of the indicators are just things like gender, height, hair colour. Those could apply to anybody.

[ninehundredlives]

I don't know. I tried to figure out who among us those might be, but there's not enough information in the other ones to really narrow it down.

And of course, they might be people we don't know at all.

[announcemyvictory]

Maybe people who would be very identifiable just with that? Though I can't imagine how, unless there are photos around the school.

[ninehundredlives]

If only someone had given a more helpful description of Lisbeth.

[THANKS REAVER]

[announcemyvictory]

Of whom?

[ninehundredlives]

The dead woman from the last group? [Were you not there for that?] She was one of the Conductor's coworkers.

[announcemyvictory]

[Elise noped out of the ghost thing early, okay, she was chicken.]

So he put his own associates through that. But I thought the creature was his "associate."

[ninehundredlives]

His new associate, maybe.

[announcemyvictory]

I'm starting to wonder... Maybe the torture in that other one was done on them, not us. To make them do something. Or maybe it was done on him.

[ninehundredlives]

That could be. A shame we can't ask, now. Although if someone were to give us some kind of sign, that could hardly be considered our fault.

[Just in case anybody's listening. Ahem.]

They could also be future plans. The Inspector and I had wondered if this whole thing weren't some way of finding...new recruits for that organization of his.

[announcemyvictory]

How so? Do you mean this is the torture to make people change their way of thinking?

[ninehundredlives]

No...I think this might be a little indirect. [Everything in the book was pretty full-on torture, not this kind of elaborate bullshit.] But I've never really believed he'd let any "winners" go, to be honest.

[announcemyvictory]

So you think he conscripts them.

[ninehundredlives]

I used to think he'd just kill them. At least that way he'd get some use out of us.

[announcemyvictory]

What was the other thing you mentioned? Something military?

[ninehundredlives]

I think so? [Susan hands over the green ledger.] I don't know what else would need that many weapons and supplies.

[announcemyvictory]

[Elise looks it over and frowns. She knows money, but she definitely doesn't know weapons.]

I wonder if that was used in... getting us.

[ninehundredlives]

[She's probably got more experience in handling large amounts of money than Susan has, honestly.]

Could be. Some of us would take a lot of effort to bring in. [DIO]

[blazeit]

Well, if it helps, the winner of the last round is dead.

... Because she tried to stab him in the face.

[ninehundredlives]

Understandable.

[blazeit]

Anyway, the main point... I don't think the point is killing us all. There's something else he wants out of all of this.

... He also told me this is probably going to be the last round of this exercise.

[ninehundredlives]

He did say he was going to let us all hold him accountable sooner or later. Going by his definitions, I doubt he's planning on leaving that alive.

[blazeit]

Yeah, he pretty much said as much that he expected us to kill him. Which I'm... I don't know. Kinda getting really tired of being surrounded by death at this point.

... Besides, I think he also expects this God guy to smite him either way.

[ninehundredlives]

If "God" wants to smite him, then by all means. But I don't think we should leave him here alive. Who's to say he won't just do this again if we give him the chance?