widenessofthesea

hope: poor public reaction to the sabotage, generally
hope: someone responds to a button grab with a gunshot, that’s too much escalation to do it again.

Accomplice: I see.
Accomplice: Hm.
Accomplice: Is revenge sevenfold what your unit wants?

hope: It’s traditional where Miss Hellfire comes from, you see.hope: heavens no, though.
hope: at least what _I_ want is for it to be understood that we will protect our own if no one else will.

Accomplice: Ah, I see.
Accomplice: I agree fully with that. I simply found myself wondering if there needs to be something else to be done to avoid a cycle of revenge, as it were.
Accomplice: I do still have my worries that Hellfire's actions will be seen as those of BAD END by my unit, should she choose to target us to pay it back.
Accomplice: If such is the case, I'd be willing to let her take it out on myself. As long as we can avoid purposefully targeting one another in games.

hope: I believe our Serenity rendered an apology to BARiTONES, but in general, I am not given to hold grudges so long as there are no repeats.
hope: In any case your unitmate was quite clear on the fact that he would in fact do nearly anything for survival and considers us to be a fair target and that we should consider you to be the same
hope: Which maybe is a thing you should speak with young Jason about. I think he was trying to make me angry and he wouldn’t like me when I am really angry.
hope: I don’t know what she will consider appropriate vengeance on your unit although I do know she spoke with Jason to repair her face after the game; however, my intention (so much as that intention is just one part of BAD END), is to ensure our defense. It just so happens that this time defense was taking the offense.
hope: Don’t offer yourself up for the slaughter so easily, friend. Why are you all like this?

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Accomplice: If you do consider me your friend still... I'm quite relieved and thankful, really. But I understand that may just be a figure of speech.
Accomplice: And it is not that I particularly wish to offer myself. But after today, well...
Accomplice: I thought about what would have happened if she had gone for our unit first. I'm quite certain it would cause no end of anger and hurt on Sho and Duality's part, and likely Jason's, too. It would likely escalate into full-blown hatred between our units. What is the point of that?
Accomplice: So my purpose in asking about this was to prevent more damage than necessary. Though in truth I am against the idea of revenge, nor would I take joy in volunteering myself like this.
Accomplice: But needs must, as they say, though I'm not certain what it is they must.

hope: Jason I think would rather enjoy being hated which is why I refuse to do so. I am petty in that way. He is in fact encouraging us to target future is now, which perhaps should be a group discussion on your end rather than one young man shitting around because he hates himself.
hope: Furthermore I admit that I am reluctant to do harm to Angel on account of she is a kind girl who wants to believe in a better world and I'd like not to tarnish that.
hope: The point, in this instance, is that we were able to rescue our unitmate unharmed. It is perhaps a selfish act of protecting our own hearts in being loathe to see her suffer again, but while Serenity believes herself to be an acceptable sacrifice we do not.
hope: If we had not done so, then we may have been in the lower half of the rankings.
hope: Furthermore, Hellfire is very enthusiastic about vengeance, but one should not confuse that for hatred. She does in fact love everyone regardless, under her very firm philosophy. I get the sense that sevenfold vengeance is in fact an actual legal code where she comes from that you are required to complete.

Accomplice: I certainly do plan to speak with Jason, once I finally track him down. He hates himself rather strongly, and I wouldn't be surprised if he simply finds it easier to be hated. Less chances of being hurt, et cetera.
Accomplice: But I see. I was not aware that it affected the winning conditions... in this case, I do understand. Though I suppose it is BARiTONES you will have to deal with now... if Serenity has spoken with them, I am certain they will be receptive and likely come to like her - Cosmo and Alexander would, I'm sure. But I doubt it will be a way to ensure a ceasefire, though I will not make their decisions for them.
Accomplice: And I confess, I know that we all try to live our lives here according to the principles we were raised with and we all likely think them the best, but I really would much rather that more people embraced my world's way of doing things. But it's probably just not exciting enough.

[ be=de: making baritones ever get to eat shit as a service ]

hope: I don't know the principles you were raised with, although I hope they were not reflected in how you played wed/bed/behead.
hope: that said, I direly wish that our setting was distinctly more boring such that we might turn our efforts to the improvement of ourselves and the world, but the producers seem rather intent on not giving us that room to breathe.
hope: If we must deal with BARiTONES, then perhaps it must be so. It's not as if not troubling them before—or even having some of their members fond of ours—saved us, after all.

Accomplice: No, they were definitely not reflected in that. In fact, I would say the games are a grand perversion of my people's philosophy.
Accomplice: We did not know strife and violence against one another. Whatever conflicts or grievances we had were resolved through debate and compromise and understanding. We... had a great feeling of unity. Adjusting to being alone, not part of a whole anymore, has been quite hard for me, truthfully. I would go as far as to say it is terrifying and the only way I've found to deal with it is not to think about it, but I don't know if it's a feeling shared by others here.
Accomplice: I do find some solace in the relationships I've forged, but it's not the same. We are all still quite disjointed, and forced to be so by these games.

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Accomplice: I am sorry that things turned out like this. I do wish I could offer some manner of promise of protection, but I too am only one member of our unit, and such promises would only ring hollow, not to mention likely be broken the second it's not easy to uphold them.
Accomplice: I don't know how much this helps, but I think the best I can say is that we do not and would not target you out of malice. And there is no unit I can guarantee my protection at all times, either. I've told Cosmo as much as well. I think being open about it, at least, is something that can be done.

hope: The life of your people is one that my world knows only how to reach toward, imperfectly. I believe it is worth striving for, regardless.
hope: I know no one can offer us protection except perhaps LiliS due to our arrangement. Everyone has people here important to them, and we cannot always come first. That is a reality of our situation.
hope: I pray that we may yet find some way to change it, but so far there are precious few solutions.

Accomplice: A thought I had was what it would perhaps be useful to be able to communicate during such games, especially ones where we have to make wild guesses as to how other units will play and adjust our own actions accordingly. But then I come to realize that it would likely only lead to more bickering about who should get the short end of the stick. Even if we had spread the damage evenly during that game, one unit had to die. I assume they would have prepared some kind of a horrific tie-breaker, or killed all of us, or simply chosen randomly had the points tally been equal for all of us.

hope: If we had managed to pull such a thing off, I'd be satisfied with being able to at least stymie the entities in charge of this place.
hope: For spite and for justice, I will gladly stake my life.
hope: It seems though, that your unit—or at least certain members—would rather avoid temporary death if at all possible.

Accomplice: I... cannot say I blame him.
Accomplice: I've gone through his past in his heart and his nightmares.
Accomplice: I died in quite a few ways that night, but I think what happened in Jason's heart was even worse than in Absinthe's, and I had to amateurishly kill myself there.

hope: I'm beginning to think you need to be wrapped in bubble wrap, Levity.

hope: I respect why he wants to protect himself. But that means you are in for slightly different difficult conversations with him and your unit. I am sure you are aware of this.

Accomplice: Why bubble wrap?.. I did not get turned to glass.

Accomplice: I do know it will be hard, yes. But I want us all to be open with one another. We already start off games discussing what each one of us wants to avoid and how to achieve that. Surely we can do that outside games, too.

hope: Consider it a figure of speech. You just seem to me to be the sort of person that gets into trouble.
hope: I hope you get your own conundrums sorted out. Jason strikes me as the sort of person who cares a whole lot but has to bury it under twenty layers of dirt first, but I hope he can maybe get that down to, oh, fifteen.

Accomplice: Who doesn't get into trouble here?
Accomplice: You're quite right about Jason. Speaking of--have you seen him after the game?

hope: Not since he fixed Kiri Hellfire's face. Did he abscond?
hope: I'll keep an eye out.

Accomplice: He hasn't been back yet, and I know there was some conflict during the game. And given the way he is, well, I have my worries that he'll brood himself into oblivion. I would like to drag him back before that happens.
Accomplice: So if you happen to spot him or know that someone else has, please let me know.

hope: He does seem the type. I'll let you know right away if I run into him.

Accomplice: 👍

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