Not to be depressing, but I'm reluctant to say things are going "well", given that people are dead—though from the Nightman's perspective, that's certainly a good thing. With that said, I don't think the rest of you are necessarily on a one-way path to disaster, either.
I meant by the standards of how these things go, mostly.
[she is distancing herself from the thought of all the dead people because if she focuses too hard on that, she spirals, and she's determined to not do that again today. in this conversation.]
It's about pleasing the Nightman, right? So, uh. You know. [...] I just wondered if there were like, quotas or anything. Stuff we're not hitting.
Mm... it's less about hitting specific numbers, and more about following the contract. There's wiggle room for how it must be followed, which is something both parties can take advantage of. For instance—
The contract doesn't stipulate a strict amount of blood that must be shed and so the Nightman won't necessarily demand that arbitrarily, though in a similar sense, the Nightman could retaliate if it's clear that you're consistently trying to limit the "entertainment".
The people who died without killing someone first. Both they and their hostages are screwed, right? Because they aren't alive and can't make it to the lobby at the end.
It... it just doesn't sit right with me to have to leave it like that. [but she knows she can't really talk about this with the staff, so she just goes quiet after, folding her arms.]
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guestservices) wrote2022-06-09 12:18 pm
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... Hey, question, again. What do you think about all of this? Do you think things are like... going well? Or.
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Not to be depressing, but I'm reluctant to say things are going "well", given that people are dead—though from the Nightman's perspective, that's certainly a good thing. With that said, I don't think the rest of you are necessarily on a one-way path to disaster, either.
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[she is distancing herself from the thought of all the dead people because if she focuses too hard on that, she spirals, and she's determined to not do that again today. in this conversation.]
It's about pleasing the Nightman, right? So, uh. You know. [...] I just wondered if there were like, quotas or anything. Stuff we're not hitting.
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The contract doesn't stipulate a strict amount of blood that must be shed and so the Nightman won't necessarily demand that arbitrarily, though in a similar sense, the Nightman could retaliate if it's clear that you're consistently trying to limit the "entertainment".
Does that make sense?
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... There's always wiggle room in contracts, I think.
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I wouldn't worry too much about the Nightman springing up major surprises that go against the contract, provided that none of you do it first.
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The people who died without killing someone first. Both they and their hostages are screwed, right? Because they aren't alive and can't make it to the lobby at the end.
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You're worried for them? [said softly.] Such is the criteria outlined in the contract, yes.
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Am I - yes. Obviously. Cetus. [please. her whole existence is agony over saving other people.]
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Please don't take me the wrong way. I'm not saying it's unexpected.
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It... it just doesn't sit right with me to have to leave it like that. [but she knows she can't really talk about this with the staff, so she just goes quiet after, folding her arms.]
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I don't usually let it sit, in general. [which is why she died and got trapped in an umbrella for ten years but we don't talk about that]
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[...] I like talking to you, did you know that?
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That's not something I hear everyday.
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Really? That's a ding-dang shame. You're calming.
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