AUDIENCE: RABBITS.......2!

[retellers]

i'm sorry siz we have to kick you out now i'll make a related shitpost

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[antaressnipe]

[Well they're probably all in various stages of "kill me, I'm dying" still but business is business, so Chiron will try to look alive as he speaks.]

Do you remember anything relevant?

[retellers]

[ rabbit hands over a water bottle..... ]

Well... if a team goes down to zero, then there's no way to revive them. The Leader will lose all of their powers and become a regular participant. [ ... ] So, um, really make sure the ones with low numbers are fine next week.

[antaressnipe]

[Bless her, he takes it gratefully.

Even though he's frowning.]

I had heard others warn that a team member should not drop below a certain level, but it is good to have this verified.

[Just don't drop to zero, huh.]

... But if that is the case, I assume next week the teams with the most left alive will be considered safe to kill...

[infreefall]

...That's us, though.

[antaressnipe]

I know.

[Giving her a sad, meaningful look]

[chanteuser]

... I think we all need to expect the worst this week, and... whatever happens be prepared to do whatever needs to be done to avoid taking down someone with low team numbers.

[antaressnipe]

[A quiet nod of agreement]

However, neither do I want us to be senselessly targeted by the rest of the group.

... If there is any way to plan ahead for who will die, I would prefer that to waiting anxiously for half our group to be killed.

[chanteuser]

I'm not sure how we do that. I don't think we have to offer ourselves up to the slaughter, just because. [ ... there are still other teams who must have a decent number of people, right? ]

But... the risk is high as well.

[stillnot]

[ ... ]

The numbers are bad, Alex.

[chanteuser]

I know. I just... would like it if there was some other way around this. [ selfish, really. ]

But it's more than likely we will be targets, I know that.

[infreefall]

But how are we supposed to know that if we can't share our teams freely? I only know one person's team, outside of us - and the only team we know that's probably low is Goat-san or Fox-san's.

[ or should we just. be ready to accept death, if it comes for them. ]

[chanteuser]

... Do we know who's left that needs to pull of the two kills?

[axecessory]

...As far as I know, Rabbit, Tiger, Wolf, and Goat are done.

Someone on Fox's team really needs to talk to their leader and figure out what they have left to do. I haven't heard word on them either way.

[chanteuser]

... I know someone on Fox's team. I can speak to them.

[axecessory]

I think some of us have a general idea of what teams are low... And I think most of the teams have found each other.

And the other teams that still need kills—you could always talk to them directly.

[retellers]

[ rabbit just... looks around at everyone in the room. ]

... probably, yes.

[antaressnipe]

[... Sighing quietly.]

Then we must be prepared for that eventuality. We will likely be targeted.

[axecessory]

[ despite all the general good news, hilda's mood is still quick to turn melancholic, frowning as she looks seriously towards rabbit. ]

Hmm... at least four of the teams have two kills now. So... hopefully we won't have a repeat of—um. This weekend.

[ ... ]

Though it feels like we're getting more oddities, too.

[antaressnipe]

Oddities?

[axecessory]

[ her brow furrows. ]

Yona was splintering. But... I saw Mob, and I'm sure he was erratic and forgetting stuff on Thursday night too. And then he turns up dead.

[ that can't be a coincidence. ]

So that's two weird cases—in the first few weeks, I think there was just one. Meanwhile, Alyssa and Hikaru were odd too...

I'm not sure it means things are getting worse, but it's definitely weird.

[antaressnipe]

[... A thoughtful hum; he tries not to focus too much on hearing Yona's name for now]

Could it be because we have lost so many memories already? This is not verified -- [Glancing at their leader, and remember what the other NPCs said about being careful with theorizing] -- but I would not be surprised if we are in such fragile states that splintering is going to become a more common occurrence.

[...]

Regardless, we are almost at the end.

[axecessory]

Yeah, maybe that's it... If Hikaru's case was really something else—that's the only thing that still worries me. [ ... ] In case it's a good thing we're getting to the end of this.

[ theoretically. ]

—Bunny, have you guys seen any other sign of that monster? Any change in the Realm, or luck with reading its memories—?

[retellers]

[ crawls back here after finishing work ]

I think the reading thing may be a bust... it seems like the only way to get the memories is how we've been getting them so far. [ murder,, ] And it doesn't seem like it spotted us yet.

[infreefall]

Well... Riegan-san said he was splintering, too, when Cater did. When you guys described Shigeo-kun - it sounded a lot like what he experienced. It could have been the same thing.

[axecessory]

Claude was... a weird case. He got better, at least.

[ she doesn't like thinking about what could've happened. ]