plan all your moves in advance (week 5 meeting)

[fuckingguy]

[ So, it's Wednesday, and we're having a meeting in the bathroom of the bowling alley.

Jonathan is the one who initially attempts to set said meeting up, and perhaps that's how you found out about this! But while he's putting the gathering together, his efforts come up against (read: are viciously hijacked by) several other people's similar ideas, and, somehow, this ends up organically manifesting itself. No invitations are sent; word of mouth serves instead. If you aren't given warning ahead of time, by Wednesday afternoon, it's kind of a gimme; many of the people still alive are suddenly absent, and of those who remain, at least two are actively suggesting everyone else head over to the bowling alley bathroom. Zinda's methods are probably less Like This, but Nandor's... ]

Bathroom safety meeting! Bathroom safety meeting, everyone! Follow me, please, we are having it in a more amenable space.

[ And he will absolutely not take no for an answer and keep following people around until they comply, so unless you slam the suite door in his face (valid), the path of least resistance is probably just going! The bathroom, once you show up, is a far cry from the garden party or even the changing room get-together on week 3. Dandy and Misfire (?) have instruments, which they are playing annoyingly, but that seems to be about it as far as outside preparations go. ]

Good; that is all of us, and now we can begin. [ Whether this is actually all of them or not is irrelevant! He clears his throat. ] As you may have realized... there is no bathroom safety meeting. That was but a ruse, crafted to conceal our secret meeting, and now we are going to discuss what we have discovered over the past two weeks and how we will go about unleashing utter destruction on Fontaine.

[ You also might simply be in the bowling alley already and need to use the restroom. That is entirely possible, and if so, tough luck. ]

So, uh, what have we got?

Comments

[pairtner]

I'm beginning to think it's human nature to want to drink, use, and touch everything they shouldn't.

[What's wrong with people, first the vials of powers, now this]

[visiblepattern]

What about skincare products in a spa seems as though it ought to be off-limits? If we start operating on that sort of logic, none of the food we've been provided is safe, either.

[pairtner]

Fair enough.

[Not that it will stop Aiba from feeling like she has some sort of common sense superiority here, haha. Don't be smug, Aiba]

[hotpaprika]

... Dear God, should we be concerned about what Fontaine puts in the food we eat?

[visiblepattern]

I sincerely hope not?

[why was today the day he decided that crawling out of his room was acceptable. why this all the time.]

[specialyellthing]

I'm sure if he was gonna drug us, he woulda started already!

[pairtner]

On the other hand, we being unaware what happens on Saturdays is a bad sign...

[But what's the alternative, really? Starve? They don't have any choice but to eat stuff]

[inaclearing]

Has anyone else tried staying up on Friday night?

[specialyellthing]

[looking at nandor like....]

[fuckingguy]

[ in this singular case, because it's funny, he completely misses the implication and just plows on like: ]

Yes, that is a good point! As I usually keep to a nocturnal schedule, I have been up to the crack of Saturday several times.

[specialyellthing]

[OI---]

Yeah, includin' this week!

[fuckingguy]

Oh.

[inaclearing]

[.....uhhhhhh, he's gonna ignore those implications because he had an actual point here]

Did you hear that song? The one that was playing when we first woke up here? When I tried staying up, I was in the lobby - that song started playing, right before midnight. And then when midnight hit, I just...woke up back in my bed, and it was Sunday.

[fuckingguy]

I suppose I have. But then I just, you know... went on with my Sunday.

[inaclearing]

You...didn't find that strange, at all...?

[daimakaicho]

Oh, right. That's been going on every week since the murders started.

[ ........... and you're just now mentioning this? ]

[inaclearing]

It's like there's some sort of...

[Brett doesn't really look like he even wants to say this, but:]

...Manchurian Candidate thing about it. As if it was the trigger for knocking us out, or...whatever happened.

[hotpaprika]

I am more concerned that we have already been drugged, and that we're simply unaware of it.

this is so stupid im sorry nick

[bootyhunter]

Hey! Drinkin', tastin', n' touchin' stuff..

Is fun!

[pairtner]

[bootyhunter]

[pairtner]

[Aiba sighs]

I'm sure before the year ends someone I know will say the exact same thing you did. I'll need a vacation.

['someone' being Date, of course. Being Aiba is suffering]

[bootyhunter]

But where would you go? Somebody else's eyeball?

[bc isn't that where she normally lives...]

D'uuuuuh... Eye socket?

[pairtner]

I will cross that bridge when I get there.

[Aiba has no idea at all]

[bootyhunter]

So, an armpit then?

[He grins at her, the expression a little wild.

This is finally helping Dandy feel like himself again.]

Would't recommend it! Too stickeh, baby.

Maybe try, oh, I dunno! A particularly run-in kneecap.