Alter Ego

[honkinbigteeth]

tbd

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week 0; friday

[honkinbigteeth]

[well, ylfa is pacing around, trying to search for more clues even though there's nothing to find. but at least she'll find lambda.]

...This was pretty fast.

[diluvian]

It was. Whoever it was didn't let the first Thursday pass peacefully.

[ she doesn't sound too surprised, though. ]

Someone wants to win.

[honkinbigteeth]

Guess you're not surprised.

[she doesn't sound like she's judging her, though.]

I didn't think there was much chance no one would, but I didn't think it'd be so soon.

[diluvian]

I didn't have a lot of hope when they told us we're already dead.

[ it's a logical conclusion for her. ]

It would have been nice to have more of the game part first, like the warehouse painting, but....

[ they can't have very many nice things, it seems. ]

[honkinbigteeth]

...Yeah.

[that sentiment makes her lower her ears a little.]

I knew it would be like this, but I wouldn't have minded a little more time to hang out with everyone without having to think of it as a competition.

[diluvian]

You'd like to be better friends with everyone.

[ is that it? ]

[honkinbigteeth]

...That seems like a bad idea if everyone but my team isn't going to make it. But I can't help it. It was a good time.

[diluvian]

There are people who are already talking about wanting to try for everyone.

[ as unrealistic as lambda thinks that is. ]

But you're reasonable even if your heart wants what it wants.

[honkinbigteeth]

I do want to try for everyone, too.

[she's just slightly pessimistic about that working out.]

I mean, we have to try. Sometimes you can change things that way. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to fight for my home, too. Just like I know you have to fight for yours.

[diluvian]

There's no easy deus ex machina for this.

[ or at least, lambda assumes there isn't, and she doesn't know how much she'd care even if there were. ]

It's fine to prioritize. There's nothing wrong with that.

[honkinbigteeth]

...Yeah. But I also think it's fine to see it another way.

[diluvian]

At the end of the day, people will operate in the way they feel is best, or they'll break their own wings in their indecision.

[honkinbigteeth]

[it's unfair to make your point in a way that sounds this cool.]

Indecision...that's definitely going to be a problem.

[diluvian]

[ lambda is here to be unfair. ]

In the beginning, waiting and seeing is not unwise, but how long do you wait and see? That's a question everyone should ponder.

[honkinbigteeth]

It's a good question. After all, there's a lot of us here, and if one team gets ahead early...

[diluvian]

Exactly. You must react to that scenario, and in that case, what would you choose to do, Ylfa?

[honkinbigteeth]

[a heavy sigh out.]

I'm thinking it through, I'm thinking it through. Because I also don't want to be the asshole that escalates things when they didn't have to be escalated.

[diluvian]

And maybe you won't have to. There's still six weeks left. If you want to find ways to make up point differences, you have that much time to figure it out.

But it's still only that much time.

[honkinbigteeth]

Mm. And we don't know how many points we're getting...

[diluvian]

Likely to prompt us to start Erasing out of uncertainty.

[ it's a good tactic. ]

[honkinbigteeth]

Plus, if we knew who was in first place, we'd know who was doing the erasing and we could target them.