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[goalsides]

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[goalsides]

It doesn't make any sense. Maybe they were just people picked at random, sure, fine, but the fact that it was twice in a row is what doesn't sit right with me.

[amain]

Personally, I'd think they chose people they weren't close to so it's easier.

[ It's definitely easier for him to consider killing people he barely knows. ]

[goalsides]

I don't know if Rupert knew either of his victims that well, so that's one way to look at it. But it still doesn't answer why it was back to back.

[amain]

... The only explanation I can make up is that whatever they're working towards can only be done by killing multiple people.

[goalsides]

...mm. Rupert seemed to be implying we're all still on the same side. Killers included. So what, this school's running on sacrifices?

[amain]

[ Plainly: ]

I don't like it.

[ Cause what the fuck? All of that is unsettling. Awful. Bad. ]

[goalsides]

Me either. [he pushes aside a banana costume, and then an apple.]

So what do we do next? At this rate it almost feels like you have to kill someone yourself to learn anything about it.

[amain]

[ Taichi... Why are you saying it like that. Who taught you this. Nier finds the grotesque grape outfit. ]

I'd say we should find the last maybe... Two? Killers, but they might not be able to tell us, either.

[ rip ]

[goalsides]

[he would prefer not to???? but look.]

That's my point. But it's not like we have leads on Sieghart so I have no idea where to start looking.

[amain]

Yeah... Sieghart's case was all over the place, but it seemed like we got everything we could?

[ He thinks. ]

[goalsides]

The problem is that people know what we're looking for now. It's going to be easier and easier for killers to hide clues if they know what we're expecting. I wonder if that's what happened here.

[amain]

If they know what we're looking for, then shouldn't that make it easier to figure out how they might try to hide those things?

[ Nier thinks about it some more and the Sieghart case. ]

Actually, that still seems difficult since it feels like there's so much you can do with vouchers.

[goalsides]

...do you think somebody could buy a way to hide certain evidence for the right price?

[maybe...maybe that's how they missed something else.]

[amain]

It’s possible. Though I don’t know how likely dorm heads would exchange things like that.

Speaking of which, did you find out what Rupert used his vouchers for?

[goalsides]

The dorm heads exchanged for a pole for Hanayagi didn't they? I don't know if they really get a choice if people are willing to pay vouchers.

[which isn't their fault. but wow. dorm wars bad.]

I didn't get around to asking, no. Have you heard anything?

[amain]

I thought they did, but a pole is different from some power that can make evidence vanish or obscure it.

[ them: do dorm heads have morals I guess they don’t need those ]

I haven’t. I know there was the six vouchers to Chad that weren’t accounted for unless I somehow missed it in the mess that Saturday.

[goalsides]

Unless someone phrased it in a totally different way. I don't know. I don't think the dorm heads would help cover up a murder since they don't know more about them than we do, but if somebody was smart enough they could lie to them.

[who's to say!]

I never found out either. But Saturday was so confusing to begin with...it was hard to know what to focus on at any time.

[amain]

That’s true. I don’t want to think people would lie to kill, but…

[ He thinks about Winter being like we stan Rupert in this house and then he ended up being a killer. Very funny. ]

It was the first weekend we had two bodies. I already found it hard to follow one case by itself.

[goalsides]

...and since that happened, there's a high chance it'll happen again if people start to get overly confident we won't know what to do next. We have to figure out a way to do better.