AUDIENCE FOR: Sebastian Debeste

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week 4, wednesday

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[sebastian rings the bell! and after a few seconds, shadows swirl and gemini steps out of them and approaches. they are eyeing the curry.]

Good evening, Mister Debeste. How may I assist you?

[unbested]

Oh, uh, I just wanted to report that I did the stuff you asked!

[ here with harrow, i feel like this apology probably counts given the context, and volunteering to help with the curry so he can learn from a master because his cooking skills are kind of sad!! ]

A-at least I think I did?

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Your examples, then? I will be the judge of that.

[reading over the threads you linked eric these are perfectly fine, thanks! gem is just an asshole and expects a report but you're cleared.]

[unbested]

[ crap he should have written an actual report like he did for valvatorez before... ]

Oh, uh. I... told Harrow she was good at helping me do better in trials and see things more clearly, since I... need help with that sometimes... and, um... I apologized to Claude for being wrong about accusing him last time, and I offered to help Futaba make her mom's curry so I could learn cooking stuff from her because I don't really know how make anything from scratch!

So... yeah.

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[they consider this...]

...acceptable. I will consider this a pass, especially given how Miss Nonagesimus is as a person. Admitting you were wrong is also an important skill one must learn eventually.

[unbested]

Thanks...? Have you talked to her a lot?

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I have. I consider her to be incredibly bright. [they say this rather confidently, actually.]

[unbested]

[ my sudden belated realization that the curry probably should have been a polaroid... but then that raises the question of whether you just have a bunch of polaroids in your bowels when you come back from eating food in one of the weekly locations ]

Huh, I didn't know people were talking to you guys that much... I guess I should come over here more often.

[ he wants someone to think he's incredibly bright too!! as if... spending more time listening to him will make someone more inclined to think that... ]

But yeah... she's pretty cool too. I thought she was going to be a lot meaner. There's kind of a lot of people like that here, actually? Like, that look really scary or shady or whatever but then aren't that bad.

[ probably. unless they were murderers last week. ]

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[i'm losing it we're just going to say it's the thought that counts.]

It has been several weeks, you realize. Naturally people would be inclined to speak with us, and therefore they would learn more about the operations of the hotel and we would learn about our guests. [they tilt their head.] While I normally would applaud you for your profiling skills, I feel as though there may have been a disconnect there...

...but you've since learned.

[unbested]

Yeah, but this is your job, so I figured you'd be busy! I didn't think anyone was coming over here just to hang out.

[ and he just blinks at the last part. ]

Huh?

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Of course we're busy, but if we were we wouldn't have provided means for you to communicate with us. Some of us tend to slack off slightly more than others.

[...they. fold their arms and kind of tilt their head. yes? what is it that you're questioning, exactly? you heard them.]

[unbested]

I mean— what disconnect? What did I learn?

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You've learned not to so quickly judge a book by its cover. Or so I should hope.

[unbested]

Oh. Well... yeah.

...But then on the other hand, in the last thing, there was this vampire who bit me on the very first day, and I kept telling everyone we needed to lock him up and no one would do anything, and then he killed someone both weeks!! So maybe judging by the cover isn't great, but judging by the first page is totally valid sometimes!

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[there's a moment of silence.]

...Sebastian are you now a vampire, too...?

[this is maybe not the point.]

[unbested]

No!!!

[ ... ]

I mean. I thought for a while that maybe that was going to happen [ and he wrote out a whole apology letter for someone to give his dad if he turned into one and couldn't go home... ], but that's not how that kind of vampire works, I guess?

A-and anyway, that whole thing turned out to be a simulation, so it never would have been an actual problem! I don't even have any of the scars I got there anymore!

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[there's a slow nod.]

Of course. Then, if it was a simulation, did those deaths really happen...? [this sounds extremely insensitive but they are really just wondering.]

[unbested]

[ no that's fair, he originally came out of it thinking "deaths in murdergames are fake so it's fine" until everyone here told him they usually weren't simulations...... ]

Well, not really... but as long as we were in there he was still guilty and still should have been in jail!

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How were your culprits actually punished anyhow?

[unbested]

Well, I mean, it was execution, but since it was only two weeks and everyone stopped being dead in the middle of the second trial, it only actually happened once...

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Doesn't that mean then that the experiment was terminated early if everyone came back in the middle of your trial?

[also why was it only two weeks, help.]

[unbested]

Not really, it was always only supposed to be two weeks.

...And the murder stuff wasn't supposed to be part of it, people just... did that.

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Uh. Why? What do you mean people just did it on their own?

[unbested]

The deal was supposed to be that if we participated in this study they'd grant us any wish we wanted. But then when we actually got there they said they didn't have enough resources to grant everyone's wish, so I think maybe two of them did it because they wanted to take out enough competition to make sure they'd get theirs? And one other I think might have just been a fear thing since other people were dying.

But I think the two the vampire did were just because he was a vampire and a jerk.

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While I should condone you about being prejudice against vampires, I suppose you have something of a reason to feel that way. It sounds rather foolish on your conductors' part to bring everyone there and not be able to follow through.