Week 1, Sunday Evening; Noctis

[alcobrawlic]

[ She's pretty much been parked at the saloon after dinner. Not only is it way cleaner than how it'd been over the past couple of days, but it's been fairly quiet, with the occasional visitor and not just people slamming in en masse to get horrendously drunk.

Not yet, anyway. For now, Sara's once again behind the counter, although it's not to drink so much as it's to check and make sure she got all of the glass picked up.

It's just something else to focus on. ]

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[elemancy]

[he gets it—and really, it's not like she's wrong. a guy like him is someone most may not be able to tell that with unless they take a few minutes to talk to him.

he's not cold or very brooding in a lot of ways, but it does shake him when innocent people lose their lives.]

Guess you're not wrong there. Still... pretty big assumption to make, isn't it? [it's... spoken a little lighter.

he knows it's not really an assumption so much as an assessment, which is why he'll follow it up with a question.] How many of us do you think are like that? Able... to shrug off a death, I mean.

[alcobrawlic]

Mm... [ she straightens, stretching her arms behind her, and then slowly shakes her head. ]

I couldn't say for sure. For now, at least one. Likely more than that, if that's any consideration on why we were brought here.

[ There are some bleeding hearts, yes. And there are some who have taken a more pragmatic approach to it. And some who absolutely don't care... yeah, she can believe that. ]

[elemancy]

[it's not entirely the response he wants to hear, but he lets out a sigh—there's probably not too much to be done about it.]

"At least one." Sounds... promising. The ones like that, probably the ones we have to be pretty careful of, though.

[of course, he's considered that the kind people may turn too, if they have motives of their own.

but the ones who don't care at all when another dies—they can't be ignored either.]

[alcobrawlic]

Well-- give me another few days, I'll do some investigating.

[ Although chances are they'll out themselves sooner or later anyway. ]

[elemancy]

It'd be nice if we can catch it early. Maybe stop someone from doing something too stupid.

[he sighs, and after a minute of thought, he ponders something else while he sips at his drink.]

Those... roles. I wonder what they're going to mean in all this. [it's something nobody's really talking about—maybe because nobody even knows what to say about them at this point.]

[alcobrawlic]

Well, if they're calling it a game... probably there are going to be people who are going to try and help end it, and people who are going to make it difficult to 'win'.

[ Oh, joy. ]

[elemancy]

...Wonder if we'll find out who's who. The quicker we can side with whoever's on our side, the better off we might be.

[he thinks.]

Guess it'd help if we actually knew anything about them at all, though.

[alcobrawlic]

Yeah, it would... I imagine people with roles are probably still trying to feel out who they can trust in the first place.

... So I guess, look as trustworthy as you can?

[elemancy]

Kind of sounds like a tall order here. But... I guess I'll see what I can do. You should probably do the same.

[he guesses? one can never really tell what sara is all about anyway.]

[alcobrawlic]

Don't worry about me, I'll be radiating goodness alllll day.

[ uh-huh. ]

[elemancy]

That... sounds convincing.

[sara............]