trustfell | Resistance Meeting 4: Live Free or Resist Hard

[ 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. ]

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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.

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.

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

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.

So you think he conscripts them.

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

What was the other thing you mentioned? Something military?

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

[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.

[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]

But why make that effort when there are so many others out there who are just ordinary?

To keep things interesting?

After what happened with Dio, I think he may have just not thought it all through.

It could be. Or you might be right -- that they need people like us.

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

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

Understandable.

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.

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.

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.

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?

[ ... Yeah, he doesn't even want to fight this battle right now. In fact, it's safe to say he doesn't care about fighting this battle. He knows it only takes one of them to decide the Conductor should be dead to make it happen, there's going to be no majority rules then. ]

Well, first things first and that involves actually getting out of this shithole.

Of course. It doesn't really matter now, does it?

[They can go back and forth about morality all day, but until they've got the man in their power it's worse than meaningless. It's a waste of time.]

It sounds like he plans to give us some kind of choice on his own. But we can't just leave it all up to him to decide.

Some kind of choice... what do you mean by that?

A chance to hold him accountable? Like he mentioned before.

Nah, no way, he'd probably be be totally hands-off so that it can fully sink in how fucked-up we all have gotten if-slash-when we freak out and, I don't know, become the law and set up some suitably ironic execution for him.

[ Enough of this verbal shitposting, though. ]

The fact that he thinks that we're going to have a chance to hold him accountable at all is weird, isn't it? Like it was planned for some of us to survive from the start.

What does he get out of this, if he thinks we're just going to kill him anyway?

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