Day 10 - Leo + Shijima

[selfsufficiency]

[So they've got some time before the trial starts, and since Leo's already talking to her, she'll grab his sleeve to keep him nearby should he try and hobble away. Once she spots Shijima, she'll wave her over, too.

Ideally, Alice would like to include Alfendi as well, but they're running low on time and she owes Shijima an explanation. To that end, she'll take full advantage of the fact that a lot of the others will be preoccupied with the investigation to talk to the two of them privately.]

...okay, first things first. Shijima, can I have my note back?

Comments

[liven]

Yes. I want to know what it says, though.

[ shijima pulls the note from her pocket and easily passes it over, however. she will casually give alice a once-over, making sure she's all right to be talking. ]

[adlucem]

It says that Rhys said Bigby was staff, and to convince you and Alfendi.

[It's in code, obviously, but Leo reads it easily enough.] It's musical notation. Of a sort.

[selfsufficiency]

...I guess it doesn't matter anymore now. I didn't think Elizabeth and Bigby were both going to die last night.

[She makes a face at the note.]

But if something happened to me, I wanted to make sure you guys knew what was going on.

[liven]

Why didn't you simply say so? I would have believed you.

[ that...easily? yes. because she sold her vote to alice already. bigby came after. so he ranked a hair lower. ]

Though I'm curious when Rhys had the time to say so.

[adlucem]

I'd like to know how he managed to tell you without it getting censored, too.

[Rhys? Good for something? Say it ain't so.]

Did you know you were going to be targeted?

[selfsufficiency]

It's a little complicated... and I had a feeling I might be. ...I was taking risks.

[Well. Clearly.

She doesn't answer Shijima's question in any more detail right away - instead, she holds a hand out to Leo expectantly. If he gets what she's going for and hands her something to write with, she'll take the note and turn it over to write on the back.]

i started getting notes the other day
supposedly judy can hear us when we speak
even if we're not in the courtroom

[adlucem]

[He does indeed hand it over. Oh, composers.

But as she writes, he'll talk to fill the quiet--if Judy is listening, the less suspicious they sound, the better.]

It seems like a lot of people were... I just hope it was worth it.

[liven]

Taking risks isn't generally a bad thing...so long as it's done properly. At least you did survive...I should have told you Guy approached me earlier. He didn't say what he was, but he didn't strike me as suspicious, either.

[ she'll idly snatch the pen from alice. ]

i never thought otherwise
is she not simply an observer

[selfsufficiency]

...if we end up catching the Overseer, it will be.

[Alice purses her lips as Shijima writes, but she'll keep talking to fill the silence.]

I didn't think Guy seemed suspicious, either, but he seemed like the kind of person who might be a threat in the future.

[She takes the pen back from Shijima to write a response.]

rhys was able to get around the censoring by doing it in a way she couldn't hear
she might not be able to see us all the time
he said he and i would talk more after this trial
so i'll try and get more information from him then
but i have to survive this to do that

[liven]

That reminds me...Elizabeth said "she" did this. It's possible Ava could be staff...

[ discounts rose lalonde entirely as a possibility because rose likes cats. ok shijima. ]

or she was referring to judy
at the least elizabeth did not want us to blame bigby
so i suppose i shant
since he at least didnt kill any of us
who are we to gun for this trial however

[adlucem]

[Instead of taking the pen from them, Leo pulls another one out of his pocket. LIKE MAGIC... nerd magic... he's only got these two, though, so don't steal them.]

do you have a plan for if you don't? [Not that he wants you to die, Alice, but they have to think about these things in a place like this.]

[selfsufficiency]

It's a possibility. It would be strange if all of the staff members were men... we had a pretty even split when we started out, I think.

[Leo can keep his pen, Alice will just share the pen with Shijima. She underlines Judy's name, then taps the word twice, before she starts to write.]

rhys might be willing to meet with alfendi
he sent him a note the other day too

[liven]

She's the only girl left I'm really suspicious of...Angel is obviously not an issue, and I don't believe you or I are, either.

[ she'll casually take her pen turn. ]

let's simply make sure it doesn't come to that
we can push the ava angle if you come under fire

[adlucem]

What's so suspicious about her?

Meet with? Physically?

[selfsufficiency]

It's the same thing that makes me suspicious of... most people around here. She toes the line between not getting involved and getting too involved a little too well.

i assume it was physically
he did promise i could kill him after all
i can't do that with a note

[liven]

Besides, Elizabeth said "she" and there aren't that many girls left. If we discount everyone whose character we can vouch for, that leaves exactly one girl.

take care and kill him before he tries anything on you
i don't trust him as far as either of us could throw him
even if he did share a piece of information

[adlucem]

[Shijima your version of "vouching for their character"...]

You'll need to come up with a better reason than that to clear your own name, though.

Rhys and promises. [Does he really need to write anything more than that... but anyway.]

Adam is there too. He said Luke was trying to help but I don't know if he's spoken to anyone the way Rhys has spoken to you. We should have more than one point of contact though in case something happens. [Er, again.]

[selfsufficiency]

I couldn't have killed Elizabeth and Bigby because I was sort of occupied getting attacked by someone else. [She grits her teeth.] If that's too difficult for the others to wrap their minds around, then...

[Well, they can just deal with the fallout themselves in that case.]

i can't say that i trust him
but the more sources of information we have, the better
it feels like we're running out of time

[adlucem]

Not you, stupid.

[This wouldn't be a conversation without some passive aggression!]

[selfsufficiency]

Ugh, why do I even talk to you?

[It was only a matter of time...]

[liven]

Why would I kill my own allies?

[ dryly. ]

The only people I like here were in my room, with two exceptions.

[adlucem]

[To Alice:] When you figure that out, let me know.

[To Shijima:] In trials that lead to people's deaths, you sold your vote for a chance to sleep in a bed. I doubt "I liked them" is going to convince a lot of people if Alice can't vouch for you. [Since she was, y'know, busy being attacked.] Not that there are many of us left, but... we should work in concretes as much as we can.

I don't trust any of them, but if they really are trying to share information, then we need to make use of that however we can. See if Rhys can get Luke to contact someone on our side. We need to find the Overseer.

[selfsufficiency]

[She sticks her tongue out at Leo, because she's totally mature.

...but then she narrows her eyes.]

Shijima wouldn't have killed either of them. I don't have to have been there to know that, so I'll vouch for her. Also, you found their bodies, didn't you, Shijima? ...if she had killed them and wanted to get away with it, she'd have just stalled for time until the trial started and tried to make it seem like Guy and I were the only people who were attacked last night.

[If they want more concrete "proof," Alice will talk in whatever circles she has to to provide it. She's one hundred percent certain that Shijima didn't kill them.]

i guess i'll try and get him to do that before i kill him
with bigby over there too now, we might be able to get him to help as well
or elizabeth

[liven]

I wouldn't harm anyone in my room. I promised that, and I don't go back on my word...and yes, Angel and I found them. It looked like something not-human might have been there. A robot? Something that could be pushed?

[ the treadmarks were weird. ]

they'll help us more than anyone else would
we can trust them more as well

[selfsufficiency]

...a robot?

[...Rhys? He'd been taken before he could be killed for a reason. Was this why? Had he had something to do with it...?

Oh, she's going to kill that bastard.]

i'd trust their word over anyone else's
but i guess we know how we'll proceed from here
push for judy, and if that doesn't work, push for ava
we can't let either of us become a target shijima