Opinions without 3.1415 are just Onions (Week1 post trial)

[ghostricked]

After everything, the house seems almost too still and too mundane. At least as long as the doors to that room remain closed. One by one those covered in what was once their teammate are lead to the showers or change in silence. There is no warm meal waiting for them. No words of encouragement.

Life goes on, regardless.

Comments

[hitscans]

[ Jack wishes that he could say that that was the first time he was ever covered in the blood of a companion, but he'd be lying to himself if he did. Sho could say what he would like about machines not having souls, but seeing the new ways that omnics could come up to kill humans showed creativity that Jack would argue made them something more than machine. He stood to the side, letting everyone else out of that room before him. He schooled his face, not letting any emotions show, just trying to usher everyone else out. He waits until the very end to shower, letting the cold water run over him, clear his head.

Afterwards, he can be found in the Dining Room, sitting in a chair. He's sitting ramrod straight, looking at a wall. There's a hard look on his face, like he's trying to get some thoughts in order.

On Sunday, he's in the Armory. He's going through the supplies there and looks like he's taking inventory.

On both nights, he's in Room 4, though if anybody catches him in there, you might catch him lying in his bunk, looking right at the bunk that used to be Olympia's. ]

Dining Room

[cw_suicide]

[Dazai takes a seat right in front of Jack's line of sight. he's in a spare field agent uniform and has barely any bandages on because they're all getting washed but despite looking a little frazzled and tired, he's meeting Jack's stare with a small smile.]

[hitscans]

--Evening, Dazai. How you holding up?

[cw_suicide]

I'm doing all right, all things considered.

... thank you for listening and acting on my request earlier.

[hitscans]

[ nods ]

I figured you wouldn't have asked if you didn't have a good reason for it.

[cw_suicide]

That's right.

In the event that we ever get stuck in determining who's committed a crime, Ango will be our best bet with his ability.

To avoid needless casualties...

[hitscans]

[ taking that all in ]

An ability to help uncover the truth? Does it cost him a lot to use?

Or is there another reason? [ LIKE PERHAPS PEOPLE WOULD WANT To SILENCE HIM? ]

[cw_suicide]

Both reasons are why I made the request.

[BOY HOWDY, A MURDERER MIGHT JUST GO AT HIM DURING A TRIAL.]

Ango's a fairly sturdy individual himself, but we're dealing with extreme violence with extreme emotions being influenced by the miasma. He's also being affected by the miasma like everyone else here, so compounding that is...

[rough, to say the least.]

[hitscans]

[ A BIG FUCKING YIKES ]

There's a lot of uncertainties going on here. Not a lot in what we can predict. But, I'll be here to help you out, whenever you need it.

[cw_suicide]

I really do appreciate that, Jack-san.

It was really a relief, if I'm honest. I thought I'd only helped botch things for a moment there.

[hitscans]

No, you're not the only one to think that way.

I've been doing some thinking myself, trying to see if there was anything that could have been done differently.

[cw_suicide]

That's really the trouble after these sorts of things...

The "what if"s.

[hitscans]

They can drive you mad if you're not careful.

[cw_suicide]

Oh, that's already a point I know well enough.

[hitscans]

Heh, I thought as much.

[cw_suicide]

What about you, Jack-san?

[hitscans]

Something I had to learn the hard way.

[cw_suicide]

Sounds unpleasant.

Armory

[boardreversal]

[Battler is...doing better, but when he sees Jack tooling around in there...]

...Morrison-san?

[He gives a short knock on the doorway.]

Romani-sensei told me what you did for me at the trial, so I just want to thank you.

[hitscans]

No need to thank me, Battler. Just doing what needed to be done.

[ he pauses his inventory and walks towards him ]

How are you feeling? Everything feel... alright?

gmail hid this from me

[boardreversal]

Huh? Ah, yeah - you can't even see where the cut was!

[He pauses.]

...Actually, could I see the container for what you used? I'm pretty interested in that kind of thing, and Sensei said it was something about speeding up my natural healing...?

[hitscans]

Heh, that's good.

[ but he nods and takes out this, except his is blue and gray ]

Biotic field, state of the art nanobiology technology that our Chief of Medicine, Dr. Ziegler, helped develop.

[boardreversal]

Nanobiology...? Does that mean it runs on nanomachines?

[STILL ONLY STUFF HE'S READ ABOUT.]

That's incredible, though...I can't believe technology got this advanced in only 60 years from now!