superhell pcs: date

[teufelshund]

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[psynchronise]

[ this is genuinely one of the worst things that's happened to him. he will not stop. ]

... [ uggggggh. he's looking at the menu too, fine. ]

Might just get the bartender to throw one at me at random and suffer the consequences.

[teufelshund]

At least none of these new ones are on fire.

[ his drink gacha luck...

hm. ]

Well, this one's [ pointing to liquid gold ] got "cupcake" in the description, I think I've got to go for that.

[ even if it's just the winery name and not a flavor description. ]

[psynchronise]

Yeah, yeah. The cupcake one could be worse.

[ he is truly leaving it up to the drink gods but i think it's gonna be the clown one or the one that makes him go around rating asses. coinflip time. ]

There's one that tastes like lollipops or something as well? [ that's mephisto's brand.

he's quiet for a little too long, and then he shrugs. ]

I mean go on, I don't think it's going to make any difference. [ ... aiba is already rolling out of his eye as he's saying this. without stopping she hamster runs over to the cocktail umbrellas, picks one up and also throws it at mephisto. ]

Hi-yah!

Oh sure just announce it, that's really going to make it subtle.

[teufelshund]

Oh, that one got added last week, actually! I'll confirm that it is pretty good, but I don't want to spoil the effects for you.

[ he had sad clown horns honking the tune to "my heart will go on" in the background at one point while he was moping over ryo.

...and okay, he's trying really hard not to laugh at that one, sorry aiba. ]

Honestly. I've always been a perfect gentleman to you.

[ slips a third umbrella behind his ear! probably the last one he's going to be able to manage without it looking too stupid, though. ]

[psynchronise]

I am obligated to try. Are you simply pausing time to stop the projectiles before they can hit you? Or are you moving faster than either of us are able to compute?

[ she is picking up another one, but using it like an actual umbrella instead of throwing it. polite. date is squinting at the menu again. ]

Seriously?

[ oh he's thinking about it. he is thinking about the clown drink. ]

[teufelshund]

Are you?

[ but he smiles! ]

The former! Pretty cool, right?

[psynchronise]

Certainly. I would not want to feel left out.

[ she looks like she’s thinking, while date is still look at drinks. after a moment he orders something. what? he has no clue. he’ll figure out when it gets here. ]

If this is an example of people’s natural abilities, I can see why they were locked off for as long as they were. Although I do not understand why I was prevented from coming out like this. The concept of controlling time and my autonomy are not one and the same. [ date gives her a look. ]

You’re a super computer artificial intelligence that lives in my head, and you think that’s not a little unfair in terms of secret abilities?

No.

[teufelshund]

It does seem like they could have at least let you move on your own if they kept your processing capabilities suppressed! Rather rude of them.

[ he gets his drink and takes a sip. hm. he'd still kind of been hoping there'd be an actual cupcake flavor in it somehow, but nope. lame. ]

...Not bad, but not one of my favorites. Though I suppose that could change depending on the effect.

[psynchronise]

I agree. Although there is no network for me to remotely connect to, so I am not sure how much assistance I would have been able to provide outside of access to local data.

[ date's drink arrives, and he takes a sip. ]

It's ambiguous how long it takes for these things to kick in anyway. I guess that's half the battle, figuring out what's an effect and what's not. [ ... there isn't any clown music for the moment. interesting. ]

[teufelshund]

Exactly why they didn't have much reason to keep you locked — socketed? — away!

[ sips. ]

I recall the biting one in particular did take a bit.

[psynchronise]

Luckily for everyone, it's not the biting one.

[ ... he looks at aiba. ] 2/10. In your other form.

What?

What.

[ what? ]

[teufelshund]

What?

[psynchronise]

What.

[ you get nothing from him. ]

What about my other form?

Don't worry about it.

[teufelshund]

You weren't rating her looks or something, were you?

[ 'cause damn???? 2/10?? ]

[psynchronise]

No, I'm not rating her looks. [ actually: ] -- And, hey. You don't even know what she looks like?

[ maybe she IS a 2/10? (she's not) ]

I am certainly more than a 2/10 in both forms.

[teufelshund]

I can try to guess what you're rating for without knowing whether your ratings are accurate or not.

Though I'd hope you wouldn't really be here rating someone who can interface with your brain a 2.

[psynchronise]

She'd be bored without me. Ratings or not.

Would I?

Either way, I guess that's another drink solved. Least it's not turning me into random animals.

[ aiba spins her little umbrella thoughtfully. ] That reminds me. There are two murders unaccounted for, yours-- [ she points her little umbrella at mephisto. ] -- although I perhaps have some theories on the culprit there. And also Childe's murder. Are you forbidden from talking about what happened?

[teufelshund]

Nope! Though I think mine's obvious enough that it's kind of embarrassing you all didn't at least solve it before sending poor Mr. Fiddlepie to his fate.

[ he takes a sip and wipes a bit of stray gold dust off his lip. ]

I'm not sure it's really my place to talk about the other one, but I don't mind telling if you're not getting answers elsewhere. Maybe just don't say you heard it from me, hm?

[psynchronise]

Says the guy that experienced it all first hand.

[ buuut if it is it's not like date would publically out his suspect either way. ]

The body was discovered quite late, and we did not have the time to put together the logistics of his murder. I do not have a problem keeping secrets, but I also do not think not keeping it would do much to change your favourability with people after this weekend.

[ wow. date takes another sip of his drink and looks away in a clearly very smooth attempt to hide his laugh. ]

[teufelshund]

Let's put it this way — I don't think what I did would have bothered Childe's murderer that much. Out of the remaining "living" that narrows it down quite a bit, doesn't it?

[psynchronise]

[ date just looks tired. ]

Ah.

Ah. Ryo?

[teufelshund]

[ smiles and makes a kind of "bingo" motion. ]

[psynchronise]

Date, I did say quite early on that he put me on edge.

I agreed with you pretty early on, you don't get to play smart and superior now. He's like a 1/10 by the way, thinking about it.

I do not know what you are thinking about.

[ urk. ]

Anyway. Shocking that the guy pretending his gun was a pet fish took a stab at securing his invite. And it worked. [ francy must be fuming that she didn't get caught... sorry francy, we gave aki death over you. ]

[teufelshund]

Yeah, he was at the top of my list of likely killers ever since that goldfish thing.

[ he's still a little smug about calling four and ryo as the most likely future killers when he talked to rynlan about it after the first trial. he knows a disaster when he sees one. ]

We had so little evidence from that case that there wasn't much reason to suspect him for that one in particular, though.

[psynchronise]

[ literally when is he not smug. ]

He didn't exactly hide it. And his memories were-- [ disturbing! ]... he was very calm for someone experiencing the kind of stuff I saw in both his and Akira's memories -- zero. Zero out of ten, I'm pretty sure he doesn't have anything.

[ STOP ]

It is not as though there is much to be done about it. We did not investigate that case particularly well.