catchall for girl squad

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w1, monday night?

[densely]

[i'm choosing to make this a catchall in the hopes that the game will not tpk the girls and we'll be able to have more girl squad pcs.

anyway! ryan and jin have been banished for the evening, so the girls have fruitcake room to themselves. there are snacks! there are drinks! there are games katarina definitely "borrowed" from the game room! also there's a whole bunch of blankets because it's so cold.

anyway, katarina looks excited to be having a sleepover.]

Sooo... how are we all holding up so far?

[seradotwav]

I'm cold and I miss twitter.

[mustbepurged]

[Estelle just kind of looks at everyone's faces to see if she's the only one who has no idea what a twitter is.]

I'm fine! I mean, with all things considered...

[seradotwav]

All things considered is a reason not to be fine...

[ urgh, she's trying to be optimistic, though! ]

But I know what you mean.

[mustbepurged]

Eheh... At least we're safe and comfortable, and we have each other! If we stay calm and look out for one another, I'm sure we'll come out of this just fine.

[densely]

[Katarina, who doesn't look confused about twitter, offers Estelle some candy. She also eats a piece of it herself.]

...it's definitely strange, but at least there's a group of us, right? It'd be pretty eerie if we were up here on this lodge all alone. I feel a lot better having you guys here.

[fisherwoman]

[x 2 on not knowing what Twitter is, based on the way Endorsi is looking at Seraphine.]

Do you keep birds?

[seradotwav]

No? I...

[ wait. she figures this confusion out pretty quickly. ]

It's a website. Do you have the internet where you're from?

[densely]

She didn't mention birds, but she has a cat!

[#helping]

[densely]

I can't do anything about Twitter, but... here, take this!

[throws a blanket at her face]

[seradotwav]

[ she laughs when it smacks her in the face and tosses a spare pillow at katarina back!! then wraps the blanket around herself. ]

w1, sunday

[fisherwoman]

[Well, Endorsi might not have been too distressed by all of that, but she imagines the rest of the girls trapped here were. She doesn't quite have a handle on how to give assurances or provide emotional comfort, but she can provide one thing! Cocoa, and even that's solely because this place magically prevents bad food from being made. Still, wherever they've decided to gather today, she has a sizable amount of it for the other three.

Instead of broaching the huge, huge elephant in the room:]

...I'm not going to drink any, so you can have some if you want.

[She's great at friendship.]

[densely]

[...well, yeah. honestly, that whole thing was distressing. katarina has never cursed her lack of a braincell more than she did when she realized one of the two people going up into that gondola was going to die and there was nothing they could do about it.

she's looking a little down as she stairs at the cocoa endorsi has provided, but when she looks up, she's smiling.

everything sucks and people are dying, but at least they have friends.]

Thanks. [sips at the cocoa...] Mm, this is yummy!

[fisherwoman]

It wasn't hard.

[She looks - maybe a little bit relieved at that smile, though.]

It's nice that it's warm, at least, though.

[densely]

[...*stares. fml.]

Chocolate makes people happier, and it's nice to be warm, so hot chocolate is just the best.

[mustbepurged]

[Estelle has been fairly miserable since the trial, and even more so since the execution. She's calmed down a bit now, and is somber as she cradles a cup of cocoa in her hands, staring down at it.]

I wonder if there was something we could have done... There had to be a better way.

[densely]

I couldn't think of anything at all. I tried, but...

[she has zero braincells]

[mustbepurged]

Me, too...

[zero braincell squad /o/]

Maybe if we did a better job of solving the other murders, we wouldn't have had to sacrifice Bedivere...

[fisherwoman]

I doubt it.

[It sounds blunt enough to almost be harsh, but it's sincere, too. She's not trying to be rude, for once.]

You shouldn't blame yourself for this. You're not the one who brought demons into our number, at least, or who forced those two to fight to the death. Awful things happen, but that doesn't mean you caused them.

[mustbepurged]

I know... It's the demon's fault.

But even if so, it feels like we played right into their hands.

[seradotwav]

[ Seraphine takes some cocoa!! ]

It... doesn't seem fair that we get to sit around like this. Not that it's fair for us to be trapped either, but...

[ people are dying! ]

What a weird middle ground of good and bad luck.

[mustbepurged]

I think I know how you feel.

--I mean, I'm really glad that all of us are still alive!

But to some extent... it really was just luck, wasn't it...?

[and that is super scary]

[seradotwav]

He said that he did it because he had to. So I keep wondering...

Would you? If it was your only way to survive?

[fisherwoman]

...Why wouldn't it be fair?

[seradotwav]

Because it just... Feels like we're only still here because of good luck, you know?