[ what a mood, yomiel. also rameel confirmed for nun nonsense, i guess. ]
Will you take much offense if I ask you what it is you value, and why you agreed to participate as a Watcher? And, knowing what you do now, if you still would have made the same decision?
[ is he going to have to ask every watcher this like the shittiest personality quiz. ]
I guess you could say it would have been treated like a prize?
[ an uncomfortable thought, considering it's about an actual person. nearby, there's a small puff of dust as their daemon sneezes and a marbled polecat falls from the sky.
...they catch it, of course. ]
They worded it more like protection for our worlds, but finding that person was part of the deal for me.
Oh, so there are upsides to it after all. [ also dryly. ]
You believe them to have enough power to grant what they promised? Because if they're not impressed with us for Qi Rong's actio... [ wait.
he makes a face. ]
Shouldn't they have been aware of who it was they were involving, since it obviously wasn't you? Why, then, does it sound like they're surprised by this?
You're asking the wrong person. For all I know, they expected that outcome all along, and didn't tell us because they didn't want us to give you any kind of warning or something.
because roxis' rope is fairly frayed by this point too, despite his best efforts at keeping his temper in check. ]
It would be much easier to solve whatever dispute your higher ups have with each other if we knew what they wanted from us. All that I've gathered is that apparently we're supposed to be trying to find something, but with no idea of what that something is.
[ it's now 'bitch about the higher ups' hour ig. what is this, a social experiment? ]
And now we're apparently supposed to be doing that while being prepared for more of this.
Not as such. If you want the definition our professor gave us, it's more like logical reasoning and observation with an emphasis on future decision making.
[ maybe it was just there because alchemists as a group tend to be a little... glances at ulrika, glances at roxis. anyway. ]
I'm not giving up. I am, however, readying myself to expect the worst so that we can maybe be pleasantly surprised in the future. That said, is 'test' really the best thing to call it?
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It's given the higher ups a wonderful opinion of us, because it was definitely his own choice.
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[ why a cannibal. an idiot of one, at that. ]
May I ask what criterion decided our alignments, in that case?
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[ who's bitter! not yomiel! ]
Believe me, I would have fought against having an actual cannibal involved if we'd had anything to do with it.
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[ what a mood, yomiel. also rameel confirmed for nun nonsense, i guess. ]
Will you take much offense if I ask you what it is you value, and why you agreed to participate as a Watcher? And, knowing what you do now, if you still would have made the same decision?
[ is he going to have to ask every watcher this like the shittiest personality quiz. ]
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I agreed because I'm trying to find someone. But if we'd known this from the start, I wouldn't have agreed. It's... not worth this.
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And agreeing to observe would have helped you do this somehow? [ not judging, just curious.
because vague elevator pitch or not, it feels like a fairly big responsibility to take on for so personal a goal. ]
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[ an uncomfortable thought, considering it's about an actual person. nearby, there's a small puff of dust as their daemon sneezes and a marbled polecat falls from the sky.
...they catch it, of course. ]
They worded it more like protection for our worlds, but finding that person was part of the deal for me.
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[ he tracks the motion of the polecat, Vos scrambling out of his pocket and onto the ground before they have a repeat of earlier in the week. ]
... Why is it that your daemons seem to be able to travel further from you than ours?
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You believe them to have enough power to grant what they promised? Because if they're not impressed with us for Qi Rong's actio... [ wait.
he makes a face. ]
Shouldn't they have been aware of who it was they were involving, since it obviously wasn't you? Why, then, does it sound like they're surprised by this?
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[ shakes their head. ]
You're asking the wrong person. For all I know, they expected that outcome all along, and didn't tell us because they didn't want us to give you any kind of warning or something.
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[ especially by way of tarring them with the same brush as a cannibal? ]
Well then. Do we know what it is we're supposed to do from here? Surely we shouldn't... expect more of this, should we?
[ the amount of spectacle around the whole murder trial thing is a bit unreassuring, though. a lot of effort in setting that up... ]
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[ maybe tone down the bitterness, yomiel, those are your employers. ]
As much as I'd like to say no, it's one of those things we can't confirm either way. Be prepared for it, maybe, but don't expect it.
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because roxis' rope is fairly frayed by this point too, despite his best efforts at keeping his temper in check. ]
It would be much easier to solve whatever dispute your higher ups have with each other if we knew what they wanted from us. All that I've gathered is that apparently we're supposed to be trying to find something, but with no idea of what that something is.
[ it's now 'bitch about the higher ups' hour ig. what is this, a social experiment? ]
And now we're apparently supposed to be doing that while being prepared for more of this.
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We're going to try to find out if it will happen again or not. Until then, it's better to be prepared, either way. Keep your eyes open, and all that.
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[ blandly. nevermind that the subject is a little soured for him now for. reasons. ]
From the sounds of things it's too much to hope that it won't. That's... rather unfortunate, I suppose.
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Don't go giving up on the whole thing when it's barely just started. For all we know, they could have some entirely different "test" for us next week.
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[ maybe it was just there because alchemists as a group tend to be a little... glances at ulrika, glances at roxis. anyway. ]
I'm not giving up. I am, however, readying myself to expect the worst so that we can maybe be pleasantly surprised in the future. That said, is 'test' really the best thing to call it?
[ pop quiz, everyone: whodunnit. ]