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[420blazeit]

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

[ so that happened... ]

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[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.

[puzzlekeeper]

[ He snorts, bitter ]

Power-hungry is maybe easier to understand. Killing people to achieve power.

But what do you call it when you already have power, and use it to harm others?

[foolmetwice]

Bloodthirsty? Sadistic?

. . . no better than the demons who trap us here?

[is he one to judge when he takes solace in violence? although for Mars, it’s always been more about the fight and not the actual bloodshed]

[puzzlekeeper]

All of those things, yes.

[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?

[puzzlekeeper]

[ He certainly already has his mind made up about all that, but...

He sighs, deflating. ]

No. I don't think they are.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ listen that shit almost made her kiss pink of all people

so she's definitely not prepared to throw stones at the moment. ]

I'm so sorry. There was no reason for any of that to have had to have happened to them....

[ considers this-- ]

If you want to invite Corona over... he's always welcome here. .... I'm not comfortable with Maki right now, though.

[ so she's sorry but she also thinks if you want to go see her you should. probably go over there. ]

[puzzlekeeper]

[ He shakes his head. ]

Maki wouldn't want to be here anyway.

[ And she's probably with Intensity, besides. ]

But... I want to stay with Yugi, for now. I'll tell him to come.

Thank you, Hiryuu.

[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.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Worst thing we got was that dumb crown and some shared memories.

The crown was plenty.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Did it do much? It didn't seem to have an effect on me...

[crossmyheartandhope]

Made whoever was wearing the collar do whatever they said.

[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.