Suite Dreams - Bradley

[aono]

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w4: Sunday

[battling]

[He can be found in the lobby, stretched out over one of the couches.

It's been a Fucking Week.]

[aono]

[It has been a Fucking Week to be sure.

Rin is supposed to be resting today but he is out and about, so he'll come across Bradley in the lobby. He pauses when he sees the other man, and he debates walking right on by, but decides against it and goes over to join him. He'll take up one of the other couches, thanks.]

[battling]

[ That's the mood, kiddo! Bradley continues laying on the couch. ]

How're ya holdin' up?

[aono]

Not too well.

[For. A lot of reasons. But he's not going to go into those right now because some of them are touchy subjects.]

What about you?

[battling]

Had better weeks.

[Like... week 1 where nobody in his game died! Just that week.

can you believe we all just went "kill the seasons."]

Did ya get anythin' interestin' for fighting the moon?

[aono]

[Maybe I should have apped Lalli so he could finally die.]

Yeah, I got this letter that was on hotel stationary? It said...

[Give him a minute, he actually has the paper with him! He'll pull it out and read it out loud.]

"Ha-" er, the word's longer than that but it's scribbled out.

"Oh shit, you're gonna kill me. I'm sorry" and then some more scribbles, and then "ok?"

"And stay alive. Please." And then more scribbles.

[A pause.]

I don't know what it's really about, but I thought it sounded like a dead person writing to a living person maybe?

[battling]

[Huh.]

Wonder if it's somethin' from one of the staff.

[aono]

It could be. We got another paper that's definitely from a staff member. One of 'em thinks Orion is hot.

[battling]

[Squints a little]

Are they?

[aono]

I dunno, they all cover up with their uniforms and veils.

[battling]

Who d'ya think wrote it?

[aono]

Not sure. Maybe another staff member? I was gonna ask Aquarius about it to see if they'd spill the beans.

[battling]

Pretty sure we got Aquarius's diary from the dungeon.

[aono]

Yeah? What'd it say?

[battling]

[He'll pull out his copy and hand it over for Rin to read.]

[aono]

[Fascinating :o]

They really shouldn't leave this shit laying around like this.

But 'fifth verse, same as the first'? I wonder what that means.

[battling]

Coulda gotten stolen from 'em. Y'know how these places get.

Dunno. Really hopin' this one didn't go through five different murder games.

[aono]

For how much of a setup this is and how there's contracts and everything, it might be. It feels like it's running too smoothly to be a first time, yeah?

[battling]

That's true.

Think there's a reason we couldn't see the cemetery at first?

[aono]

If you had asked me before yesterday I would have said 'no', but all those missing bodies tell me it's important.

[battling]

[Looks up at the ceiling.]

This shit could've be goin' for a long time. Each round it "resets" to work with whoever's here.

[aono]

It sounds like it. It also sounds like they expect us to tear each other apart too.

[Which. Honestly there's already rifts, so it could still happen.]

[battling]

'n if we don't tear each other apart, there's the shadows to make us.

[aono]

...huh. You know, the diary didn't mention those, I don't think. I wonder if they were a surprise to the staff members too. You'd think they would know all about the process, if it happened five times before.

[battling]

Some people're more bloodthirsty than others. Could be they didn't need the coercion.

It's all speculation right now.