unknownseas | plan all your moves in advance (week 5 meeting)

[ 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?

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A gun was vended to me, by the vending machine. Was in a wet paper bag.

W

Why on earth is the machine giving us such weaponry?!

[ with the tone of a disappointed father: ]

Jonathan, do we really have to go through this again?

N-no, it's just...

I despise how Fontaine is taunting us like this. How am I supposed to feel safe like this? How are we supposed to believe the man we talked to that we simply need to be friends with each other if this keeps happening at every turn!

Sometimes friends carry guns!

That's not the point I'm trying to make...

[he buries his face in his hands,sounding absolutely miserable.

Was it loaded?

... How can you tell?

[ jesus christ ]

...Maybe you should give it to Blake-san.

[can he say no to this face?]

But I have always wanted to have a gun...!

Which is, admittedly, not so far out of reach as I once thought.

Please tell me you're at least keeping it somewhere safe.

[why does she ask questions she doesn't want the answer to]

Of course I am doing this, Mafuyu. It is secure and safe in my room, and everything is just fine.

[ It's the only weapon he hasn't straight-up hung on his walls, so like, that's safe, right... ]