[ canonmates who don't trust each other for shit babey ]

[usogi]

time to solve some MURDERS, taka


thanks jan

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[bakaomi]

[ sjfslgjslgjds;gds

taka quickly steps away from him, although when he sees that it's just fucking senri he makes a face ]

Obviously.

[usogi]

Of course the offering room would be part of Detective Takaomi-kun's great investigation....

[he sounds chipper enough about it but - ]

What did they tell you about the rules of the game?

[bakaomi]

Oi. You can't jut ask me that without saying anything yourself.

[ he doesn't trust senri to give him info ]

[usogi]

[for partners they sure do suck at this]

... mm, I met with my god. He told me two ways this game could be played.... One is easy, but the other -

[and he doesn't sound too happy about it]

I just - want to make sure that we're all being told the same thing.

[bakaomi]

Mine mostly talked about... reasonings, I guess.

[ he folds his arms over his chest. ]

How some of the gods want to make the world a better place, whatever their definition of that is.

[usogi]

Right. Mine too. So we have to pick the right god to make sure that we're giving the power to someone who won't build a bad world with it.

[and senri will just sigh and go to sit on the bed bc he can only have so much difficult conversation while standing up]

I think... everyone in the temple needs to choose the same god for the competition to be over.

[bakaomi]

That would mean everyone agreeing on which god should win.

[ which may be difficult considering they're all strangers and also don't know what the fuck conversations people are having with their gods. ]

... are you okay with yours?

[usogi]

He's nice! We get along well.

[ . . . ]

How about you and yours?

[bakaomi]

I don't have any reason to switch.

[ take that as you will. ]

[usogi]

.... that doesn't tell me anything.

[TAKA DEALT WITH SENRI'S BULLSHIT ALL SCHOOL YEAR]

[bakaomi]

They're not annoying.

[ unlike SOME people ]

[usogi]

Even if they were, that doesn't mean you'd switch!

[senri tried harder to get away from taka and they both know it]

[bakaomi]

It seems easier to switch your allegiance here than it is to get a new partner back home.

[ so shut up ]

[usogi]

[mmmmmph]

Maybe but -

[ . . . . ugh. there's something he wants to talk about more but he's not sure how to lead into it the way he wants.]

... You hear a lot of scary stuff, when you're doing your detective cases, right?

[bakaomi]

... yeah. It comes with the job.

[ senri doesn't usually ask about his work, so he's waiting to see where he's going with this. ]

[usogi]

Right - and I told you not to pick any fights with anybody here.

[he sounds unsure of himself, like he's not sure how to navigate this conversation.]

- because my god said there's two ways to play. Everyone chooses the same god, so one team completely absorbs all the others and if we do that, then no one has to get hurt. So if we can rally all... what, forty people? To follow the same person, we'll be okay.

[bakaomi]

[ he just looks at him, waiting for senri to finish. ]

[usogi]

[thanks taka, he hates this.

his fingers curl into the sheet of the bed and he turns his gaze to the floor.]

And some gods might not want to wait for all forty to come to a consensus - so they'll just try to kill people to reduce the numbers instead. Since if you're - not alive, you don't count as a follower anymore.

[bakaomi]

Gods are damn annoying.

[ there's a long pause after he says that. and when he talks again, he is trying to keep his voice even. ]

Patience said that if you say no to their requests, they can't do anything to physically harm you, but they might still curse you.

they're having this conversation in the hostel now bc dana's a dumb bitch

[usogi]

[ . . . ]

Even if it's not her week?

She said she's going away after this - and when I asked, we don't know if there'll be a way to reach her aside from offerings.

So I don't know if her 'No' rule will still count.

[bakaomi]

I think it should. All of the gods made a bunch of rules between them for how this is going to work, and they made some sort of divine promise on them so they can't break them. That's probably one of them.

[ senri stop trying to aggressively friendship the gods ]

[usogi]

[no]

Did your god tell you that?

[bakaomi]

Uh huh. I asked them a question about something, and when they tried to answer they were physically unable to. It would break one of their rules on giving out information.

[ which is annoying but whatever. ]

[usogi]

I didn't run into that...

[senri doesn't ask interesting questions]

What did you ask? I'll ask my god and see if we run into the same problem, just in case.

[bakaomi]

It was just about how long they've been gods.

... apparently they're new to the whole deity thing? Or a bunch of them are, anyway.