WEEK 2 MINGLE - ARTEMISIA

[foundationmods]

Things had changed so rapidly in the past few days.

The loss of two of them hung over like a shroud, made even worse by the fact that an innocent person had been executed.

Was this....how the rest of the game was going to go...?🗈

....Even if it was, there wasn't much they could do now. Yuuko herself hasn't shown up in public since the trial, and while some have talked to her, she's been...subdued.

Did the trial hurt her just as much as them?

Regardless, the island is still beautiful, if deadly. Summer continues, beaming down on all of them, the waves of the sea warm and inviting.

But even if things look bleak...

They have something in their hands that will soon lead to the Truth, and the heart of this matter.

And in the air...lies a heavy sense that everything is about to change.

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[anonnomnomnom]

[He snickers because the mental image is kind of great, actually? But also--]

Of course I can catch a cheetah. There's no animal on Earth faster than an Infernal!

[Normally, he's modest about skills, but this is just basic physical attributes, so there. He thinks for a moment longer.]

Hmm, but then I'd look like that weird code that they used for tapping out messages in the old days on Earth. Maybe I'd be covered in secret messages?

[He just becomes walking Morse code somehow.]

[sotoshini]

Morse code. If you walked around like that, people would think you were heralding the end of days or something.

[ Cause infernal. This is probably something he shouldn't find so amusing, but eh this is how Natsuno is. ]

[anonnomnomnom]

[Of course, he just grins the most shit-eating grin at that. He can't help it.]

Hahahaha, that sounds like fun, though -- maybe I really will look for a cheetah the next chance I get.

Maybe I can even ask the goats for a cheetah.

[Don't bring a cheetah to murder island oh my god.]

[sotoshini]

[ That grin is kinda contagious. Not enough to return one, but enough for Natsuno to stifle a laugh. This is terrible, someone help them. ]

If you do that, I wanna see. There's no obaasan to scare here but I can wait.

[anonnomnomnom]

[There's no help for people like this. Anon just looks increasingly pleased with his harebrained ideas, so really you shouldn't be encouraging him. RIP.]

Heheh. If that does happen, I think it'd turn into an interesting battle, because I don't know if the goats or the cheetah would win. (I would probably win, but.)

Besides, I think there's a whole bunch of interesting people here, so if I give them the cheetah test...

[Someone please stop him.]

[sotoshini]

[ There's no going back now. ]

The cheetah. [ His bias here is speaking because meh goats! ]

Does Wheatley really need another reason to scream? [ The answer here is yes, and his tone betrays this. Now he really wants to see this... ]

[anonnomnomnom]

[There's a snicker here, because yeah, he probably expected that answer. He also approves of that answer?? Regardless of the ensuing lack of goats and thus sustenance and laundry and whatnot.]

I think Wheatley pretty much screams for no reason anyway. So we might as well give him a reason.

Besides, I'm pretty sure Gebura would try to punch the cheetah, and there are people who would try to feed it, and other people who would try to ride it, and I would probably try punching it too, but only after all of that other stuff.

[Or in tandem with Gebura. The crinkly jacket is like providing a background soundtrack to this ongoing disaster and RIP why is he like this, we can't retcon a cheetah from Week 2!!!!]

[sotoshini]

[ Natsuno manages to not slip into a grin until the very end. Somehow the thought of Anon punching a cheetah after putting it through all that is just too much. His laugh is short but genuine and given everything this conversation is he kinda feels like the cheetah probably would. ]

You'd give the cheetah whiplash. [ Settling back into his usual stony expression, there's a lingering hint of amusement in his tone. ]

Glad you're enjoying the jacket. Now I'll be able to hear you even if I fall asleep in one of those trees again. And everyone can hear you here if they go blind from the puzzle, I guess.

[ Because there are still puzzles going on in the background and goats flirting but they've been too caught up in each other to pay much attention to everyone else. ]

[anonnomnomnom]

[Anon's grin back is really very cheeky by now, considering all the myriad things he's done to Natsuno's composure in this thread! Perhaps he's starting to get a little too good at this already, or maybe it's just that there's just no way for either of them to get out of this thread with any dignity.]

The cheetah should definitely be used to something like that.

[Whiplash, he probably means, not all of the terrible things that would happen to it at the hands of their cohort. He looks down and prods at the jacket a little again.]

Even if you fall asleep in another tree, I'm not going to wake you up! I think we did pretty okay with the puzzles, though, too bad.

[At this rate the puzzles are probably almost over?? There have been people wandering around mute and deaf and stuff and it's a mess but they're on their own at this point.]

[sotoshini]

Maybe. [ There's something mischievous in his reply, tucked away in something he doesn't even realize yet. Cheetahs are used to moving fast and dealing with all of the aftereffects, but they haven't met Anon who's a force to be reckoned with (read: special) of his own. ]

I'll survive, I'm good at that. [ He will forever refuse to admit how stupid sleeping in a poison oak tree was. He seems proud of it even, or it could just be the sound of the crinkling that he finds amusing. A beat as he looks around at the room and the somewhat organized chaos. ]

Hmn, are we done then? This wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

[ Wonder why. ]

[anonnomnomnom]

[Anon absolutely perks up at the sense of mischief, even if it's just slight and there and gone again; he's wired for catching this kind of thing, just like he's wired for catching Celestials and cheetahs and all kinds of other creatures. That's the interesting thing about dealing with Natsuno so far -- they're both good at forging forward and egging each other on even when it might not make sense or be advisable.

It's not like either of them are especially good about taking advice, anyway. He snorts a little because like, the tree thing is absolutely a case in point??]

Hahaha, you'd better not lose to a tree after kicking death so many times, even if there are some real crazy trees here.

[Anon stretches happily amid another round of crinkling and surveys the room also; they still have a bookventure to get through and all, but for the moment they're free. Ish.]

It was an interesting challenge. Maybe I'll do it properly next time!

[He doesn't seem too put out about spending most of his time blind this time, at least. He's been productive, he thinks. (maybe)]

[sotoshini]

I won't, it's a promise. [ Thrown out there but there's a weight to the sentence all the same. Dying to a tree really would be a lame way to go. Natsuno stretches himself into a yawn. Bookventures are probably gonna be a thing but he's pretty content right now. ]

You do that, I'll be here still. Or maybe next time I'll pick a different corner to haunt.

[ One last terrible joke for the night, why not. ]