endorsi catchall

[fergalicious]

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week 0; saturday

[fergalicious]

[ It's after someone cursed the common room with cheese whiz.

Medb's in the common room, and she's staring at the cheese mess like she can't believe it's not butter—

Haha, no. She absolutely hates it, and it shows. ]

Doesn't whatever criminal who did this know there are other people here?

[ Other, better people, her tone indicates. ]

[fisherwoman]

Awful, isn't it? This room was one of the nicer ones! Now we can't even use the tub!

[She wants to fight the person who did this!!]

[fergalicious]

That's the worst part of it! The bar is there, too.

[ The far reach of this HEINOUS CRIME is terrible! Medb would also stomp on the person who did this. ]

They need to pay for their crimes.

[fisherwoman]

I wonder if we could just move all the bottles to the recreation room... Still, it's not the same! Besides, that stain will never come out of the couch.

[Ruined!!]

I wonder if the people who wrote us that welcome note will be able to fix it...

[fergalicious]

I don't want to give into the ones that did this.

[ Moving the bottles means losing somehow in her mind, and she doesn't like that. ]

Do you think they'd be able to? —No. If they took away all our powers, they should be able to.

[fisherwoman]

[She hadn't thought of it that way, but now that Medb has said it, her pride will also not allow it. She sighs.]

Then I wonder why they haven't yet! If we're supposed to be indulging, shouldn't they be trying to keep us happy?

[fergalicious]

They should! If they're here to help us, that should be part of it.

[ There's no room for argument because it's just obvious.

If she takes a moment to think, maybe it's because the people in the welcome note aren't omniscient, but eh, that's not important. ]

They're shaping up to be terrible at their jobs.

[fisherwoman]

It's bad enough they kept ladies like us waiting, but not to address this...

[They also clearly need adult supervision as a whole, judging by the locations page.]

The administrators back home would be much better at this.

[fergalicious]

[ This base is going to be wrecked before a murder happens, and that's this game's clown fate.

How curious, though. ]

Administrator? Were you in a similar situation back home?

[fisherwoman]

[She nods.]

Well, a more complicated one, based on what we've been told about this place so far... But where I'm from, we got closer to our wishes by competing in tests of strength and strategy, not just indulging in whatever we wanted.

[fergalicious]

So is this place a better place for you to be?

[ No wonder Endorsi agreed, if so. ]

[fisherwoman]

Better? Well, it seems softer, certainly.

[She frowns, though.]

But doesn't that seem suspicious to you? What kind of place gives you everything you wanted through indulgence and not hard work?

[fergalicious]

The note they gave us mentioned that people can die. I think that's the catch.

[ Killing can be an indulgence to some. After all, they don't know if there are sociopaths here. ]

Because who knows? Maybe the person who covered the room cheese would also cover it in blood some other day?

[fisherwoman]

...That's not much of a catch. You just have to be strong enough not to get killed.

[That's definitely how it works. She pauses, though, with a laugh.]

Well, I think we'll probably be fine for a while. It mentioned something about justice in those instructions, right? I think most people would at least want to hold off on killing anyone until they know what kind of form that "justice" takes.

[fergalicious]

[ Oooh. That confidence, Endorsi.

Medb smiles. ]

Justice? We'll see how long that takes, but I guess they also didn't mention how long we're supposed to be here or how much we're supposed to indulge.... or well, I'm sure there are other fine print things that'll come up, if you're looking for things to be suspicious about.

[fisherwoman]

I don't need to look too hard! This whole thing is suspicious. You read the part where they said they won't even show their faces when they come find us, right?

[fergalicious]

Cowardice or regulated, if they don't have something to hide. Either way, it's not a good look.

That they know more about us than we do about them, too.

[fisherwoman]

Oh, interesting! Regulated by who, in that case? Do you think there's a ninth that's above the other eight?

[fergalicious]

[ She shrugs. ]

Who even powers this whole thing? What's going to give us the power to get what we want? There has to be something, doesn't there?

It doesn't have to be a who.

[fisherwoman]

[She blinks.]

Not a person? Do you know something else that would be able to do all this?

[fergalicious]

Yeah. Anything or anyone with access to a wish granting device could. In my world, anyone who could grab hold of a Holy Grail could.

Or anything that could operate like it, I guess.

[fisherwoman]

[She blinks.]

How interesting! It must have been difficult to grab hold of. Harder than what they're putting us through here?

[fergalicious]

It depends! Usually, it's a battle to the death, but sometimes, you can show up somewhere and it's right there.

[ Casually, like a battle royale isn't much. ]

[fisherwoman]

[She doesn't have any visible reaction to the battle to the death part, but she does seem surprised at what Medb says next.]

Really? Isn't that way too lucky? Does that happen often?

[fergalicious]

[ Used to death, is she?

Medb makes a dismissive gesture with her hand. ]

Seven times when someone's trying to destroy humanity. Or something.