[newlydead r2] day 8 - santa

[unexpectedboner]

[another morning in the murderstudio. announcements happen? probably? junpei's still holed up in his dressing room tho whoops]

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MUCH LATER ON

[jinglebros]

[ At Santa's dressing room, Junpei and Santa bust in and Santa lets go of Junpei's arm so he can stagger over to one of the piles of clothes on the floor and sink down to sit. ]

Sit wherever, I don't care.

[unexpectedboner]

[he sits against the wall next to him, still fiddling with the discarded vodka bottle]

So what's the other shoe that needs dropping?

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Lotus decided it'd be a great idea [ Can you sense the sarcasm in those words? ] to set up a meeting with Ene and her and me. Except she totally ambushed me with it. Invited me to some place and some time and didn't say Ene was gonna be there.

[unexpectedboner]

Shit. What'd you do?

[jinglebros]

What was I supposed to do? I tried to calm the situation, but they ended up ganging up on me a little with their body language. Which is priceless, considering Lotus had it against Ene in the first place.

[unexpectedboner]

So they beat you up?

[jinglebros]

Noooo. Look, I'm just saying, they clearly agreed with each other that they think I'm an asshole. And Ene thinks the entire group is pathetic now.

[unexpectedboner]

Since we wouldn't kill her in her really weird request that she apparently dropped pretty quick?

[jinglebros]

She's claiming it was a 'misunderstanding' where she 'balked' and 'decided she didn't want to die so quickly'.

[unexpectedboner]

That doesn't sound like much of a misunderstanding. Misunderstood what death was supposed to mean, maybe... Anyway, what'd she want?

[jinglebros]

She's going to try to get a hotel vote, she says. And wants none of us to vote for her.

[unexpectedboner]

Okay. ...Were any of us gonna vote for her anyway? Especially after last time.

[jinglebros]

Right?

[unexpectedboner]

[shrugs]

Weird... Well, hopefully it'll end here. If someone saves her, it won't have to be us.

[jinglebros]

Yeah.

This is symptomatic about other things to worry about, though.

[unexpectedboner]

People freaking out and deciding they don't want to be dead? Since that kinda makes sense to me?

[jinglebros]

I'm talking about the meeting. And the fact Lotus decided to spring a dangerous thing on one of us without warning again.

[unexpectedboner]

You didn't ask her what she was after? Just doing it for shits and giggles?

[jinglebros]

She didn't exactly give me the chance. I want to confront her, but I've got to be careful about it.

Which is why I've got a proposition.

[unexpectedboner]

What is it?

[jinglebros]

Let's bring June in on this. Not the meetings, just... just take her aside, talk to her about Lotus and find out what she thinks should be done. She'll know how to play this the right way.

[unexpectedboner]

Huh... Maybe not today, though? The fire and everything was pretty jarring already...

[jinglebros]

Actually, she'd kill us if she finds out we waited because we thought she needed time to recover.

[unexpectedboner]

Not literally. ...Right?

[jinglebros]

You know what? After the talk she gave me last time, it's possible.