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[420blazeit]

Who: HSS
Where: HSS
When: 115, forward to evening / night.

[ so that happened... ]

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[puzzlekeeper]

[ hmmmmmm indeed

He- hesitates, but isn't about to lie, so, ]

Yes. At the game.

[foolmetwice]

[well, between that and Meka saying the last game was a "bad game" he sure is making a face]

Who died?

[RIGHT TO THE POINT]

[puzzlekeeper]

Yugi and Maki.

[ ALSO RIGHT TO THE POINT

Also explains his mood quite well, probably. ]

[foolmetwice]

[he looks surprised that the answer is just two individuals and not teams, but then his expression immediately hardens]

Fuck.

[STILL BLUNT]

Who did it?

[puzzlekeeper]

[ His tone goes flat and cold as he explains. ]

One of the newer girls on sensitIV, Sekhmet.

Due to the game, she had some kind of power of compulsion over Maki. So she ordered Maki to kill Yugi, and then herself.

[420blazeit]

[ she is going to do her best not to look as pissed as she is. she might be failing. miserably ]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Why bother? Pissed to the point of murder is the #mood ]

[420blazeit]

[ certainly is. ]

[foolmetwice]

[that isn't a name he knows, so he has very little issues with puffing up angrily, eyes flashing]

Well, screw her, then! Where the fuck does she get off doing that?

[he hasn't realized that the game sort of messed with Sekhmet's mind, though it's debatable on whether it'd make a difference. murder is one thing, but the power of compulsion, the ability to take away someone's free will, is something else entirely]

Is she too much of a coward to dirty her hands herself?

[puzzlekeeper]

Who knows?

My understanding of the game is limited, since I wasn't there. But it sounds like everyone wore items - in this case, a crown that bestowed power and a collar that bestowed subservience. But power by itself won't make you choose to have someone's throat slit, or open someone's scars until they die.

[ Did he even mention she also killed Absinthe? Whatever. Moving on. ]

It sounds to me like she merely showed her true colors.

[foolmetwice]

Her true colors of being power-hungry and willing to kill people for it?

[yeesh. . .]

At least Maki had good reasons for making the threats she made.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ fr.rowns. this is bad and like

she's not excusing anybody but she's gotta know, ]

And what about her? Do we know what sort of, if any, compulsion was on her to make her behave that way? Most everyone present in that game was acting unlike themselves.

[puzzlekeeper]

All I know is that she was wearing a crown, and Maki a collar.

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[dragonheartedgirl]

The collar made a person completely subservient. ... Among our group, I think it made everyone who wore it want to obey. But...

[ hmm. ]

I wore the crown, whatever effect it had--it seemed to have been delayed. Some of the items--like the bracelets, that created an emotional bond, and the perfume--that made our partner cough up flowers... were delayed.

[ that still doesn't answer how or why this was the result. and more importantly ]

[dragonheartedgirl]

... Obviously not everyone who wore the crown felt the need to order people to commit murder. And if that's all that it was she was wearing...

[ she shakes her head. that's disturbing.

BUT she, personally, will be refraining from judgment--having been made to kill people while out of her mind twice now. ]

Is Corona all right? And Maki?

[crossmyheartandhope]

You think she got pushed into it?

[dragonheartedgirl]

All of the items that we had to wear for the sake of trying to win that silly game had some kind of effect. At one point, I shared an emotional bond with a girl who was both in love with me and was compelled to do whatever I wanted while I wanted to kiss every other person present after several memories were shared against our wills. We didn't get through most of the items, either--so I can certainly imagine that with the right, or rather wrong, combination things could have gotten out of hand.

[inspiteful]

[ Just. He's staring dead eyed into the distance. ]

Amazing how it takes less than four or five days for another incident to happen.

[puzzlekeeper]

Hell really lives up to the name. Even when we're creating the trauma ourselves.

[inspiteful]

Hell is other people.

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Welp.]

[He'd heard, but he didn't have the details.]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ Yeah.

Yeahhhh. ]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Annnd he just heard the how.]


...jesus.

How's Yugi holding up?

[puzzlekeeper]

... Badly.

He died the same way he did in the battle royale game. I think it's going to bother him for a while.

[crossmyheartandhope]

...yeah. Yeah, I bet.

[Hesitates a beat. Then:]

Are you okay?