031415-Lily-Sami

[10:26] GT: I fucked up.

[10:28] GT: Someone got to his dreamself. I don't know who, but it was in the papers on Prospit.

[10:28] GT: I kissed him, but it didn't work, because someone got to his FUCKING DREAMSELF.

[10:28] GT: AND NOW HE'S GONE.

[10:29] AA: Who?

[10:30] GT: Thiago.

[10:30] GT: He's fucking dead.

[10:30] GT: For good.

[10:30] AA: I thought you said it was just his dreamself.

[10:30] AA: Oh no....has Nate already made his move?

[10:30] GT: Yeah, no SHIT.

[10:31] GT: Came around with his fucking head tucked under his arm a couple hours ago.

[10:31] AA: Flip. I didn't know he would move this soon.

[10:31] AA: He didn't know about Thiago's dreamself?

[10:31] GT: Why would he know? It was still alive as far as ANYONE knew until it showed up in the papers.

[10:33] GT: Who the fuck cares about him, anyway. I know he did it, and I'm gonna make damn sure everyone else does too.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:33] GT: I want to know who offed his other self.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:33] AA: I'm sorry Lily. I didn't really know him, but he seemed nice. I know you have to be hurting.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:33] GT: Because when I find them, I am going to make them pay, fucking PAY.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:33] AA: That seems fair.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:34] AA: Doesn't this timing seem odd, though, Lily?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:35] AA: Right after Thiago became a Lord, suddenly his dreamself is dead?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:35] GT: What, you're saying someone killed him to stop him being a threat?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:35] AA: I don't know.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:36] AA: But I think to be on the safe side, until we know what happened, no one else should use shenanicite to become a Lord or Muse.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:36] GT: But what about the people who've already mastered? What about them?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:36] GT: And...actually, if that's the motive, that narrows the suspect pool a TON.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:36] AA: I think....those people should be very careful. And very circumspect, about their powers.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:37] GT: It'd have to be someone who knew he was a Lord.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:37] AA: At least until we know for sure that's not why whoever did it, did it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:37] AA: Which narrows it down to any of the twinks and anyone who they decided to tell or contract to do it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:37] GT: So...Merrow, for one.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:37] AA: In addition to our teammtes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:37] GT: But...really? Him?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:38] GT: And also...you.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:38] AA: Yes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:38] GT: But, like, again, you're...SAMI.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:38] AA: Yes. I'm Sami.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:38] GT: You're, like, team mom. I literally cannot imagine you doing something like this.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:38] AA: Whatever that means.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:39] AA: Me neither.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:39] AA: But I can't imagine anyone on our teams doing something so horrible, either.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:40] GT: But it has to be one of you, because I can't think of anyone else who knew! Thiago kept it like super duper secret.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:40] GT: Unless it was one of the twinks? Jack, maybe?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:40] GT: Scarlet? The evil Libby?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:40] GT: Who the fuck knows.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:40] AA: Lily, did you know that back in our session, Derse had soap operas starring all of us?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:41] GT: Haha what.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:41] AA: Apparently Scarlet wrote them scripts based on the things she was watching us doing.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:41] AA: All of the twinks have ways of spying on us.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:41] AA: And they think nothing of sharing our secrets with one another, or with even random people.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:42] GT: So whoever killed Thiago, Scarlet would've seen them, right?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:42] AA: Maybe. I'm not sure if she can see things in-person or if she can only read our pesterlogs.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:42] GT: Still, she's gotta have some idea of who did it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:42] GT: This is PERFECT! What's her handle?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:44] AA: Lily. You've spoken to Libby, and you've spoken to Jack. Have your experiences with either really made you think that the twinks are a good way to get straight answers to questions?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:45] GT: I NEED to find who did it, Sami.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:45] AA: I know you do Lily.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:45] GT: So I'm going to do whatever that fucking takes.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:45] GT: Even if that means doing some pretty stupid things.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:46] GT: I don't even have to try and get a straight answer out of them. I can just TAKE it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:46] GT: Muse of Mind, remember?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:46] AA: Lily. If Thiago *did* die because of being raised to Lord, do you really think abusing your powers openly is a wise idea?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:47] GT: I don't CARE.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:47] GT: Thiago is DEAD because of me.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:47] AA: Especially since saying that just now may have just broadcast to any of the twinks who didn't know that you're a Muse of Mind.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:47] GT: PREMANENTLY DEAD.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:47] GT: *permanently

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:47] AA: Thiago's not dead because of you, Lily.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:47] GT: If I hadn't chosen him, he might have lived.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:48] GT: He is dead because I didn't think things through.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:48] AA: And if Nate hadn't decided revenge was worth taking his waking self. And if whoever decided to assassinate his dreamself hadn't decided to do that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:48] AA: And if we had never played this game in the first place.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:49] AA: For that matter, if I had said something to Nate instead of trying to keep him from knowing you told me about the arrangement, Thiago might still be alive.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:49] AA: So in a very real way, Lily, I killed Thiago.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:49] GT: No you didn't.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:49] GT: Don't ever fucking think that.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:49] GT: This is my fault.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:49] GT: But I'm going to fix it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:49] AA: Let's not play blame game kung fu here Lily.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:49] GT: Or the closest thing to fixing it I can do.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:50] AA: Let us focus on making sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again, for now.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:50] GT: Sure. You go ahead and make your little public service announcement.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:50] AA: Lily. Don't be reckless here. I don't want to lose you too.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:51] AA: It would absolutely kill me if whoever did this to Thiago came after you next. :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:51] GT: Good. Means I don't have to track them down.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:52] AA: It doesn't look like whoever went after Thiago gave him much of a chance to fight back, Lily.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:52] AA: I don't think you're dealing with someone who would have the common decency to fight you face to face.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:53] GT: We don't know that for sure. All we know is he's dead, not how he died.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:53] GT: But if I talk to Scarlet, I could find that out.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:53] AA: If you talk to Scarlet, you'll find out whatever Scarlet thinks would be funniest for you to know.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:53] GT: Better than nothing.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:53] AA: Whether whatever that is is true or not.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:54] AA: Maybe you should talk to your mom first, Lily.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:54] AA: If nothing else maybe she can tell you what to do about this Muse situation.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:54] GT: I can't trust her right now. I don't know who's going to pick up the phone if I answer.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:54] GT: *call

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:54] AA: Before you start trying to use powers you don't understand on your quest for revenge.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:55] GT: OK, by now it's obvious you're not going to give me her handle.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:55] GT: I'm going to talk to someone who will.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:55] AA: ravishingCalypso.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:55] GT: Much obliged.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:55] AA: But this is a really bad idea Lily. You're not going to hear what you want to hear from Scarlet.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:56] AA: And take it from someone who's lost people they love in the past--

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:56] AA: --whatever it is you do to try to bring them back....it's not going to bring them back.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:56] AA: It's not going to fill the hole.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:56] GT: I'm not trying to bring him back.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:56] AA: No. You're trying to stop the hurting.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:56] AA: I know. I've been there.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:57] AA: And I tried to bring her back to make it stop hurting.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:57] AA: And you're trying to hunt down his killer to make it stop hurting.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:57] GT: You said yourself this guy is going to go after more of us if we don't stop them!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:57] GT: I'm doing a SERVICE.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:57] AA: I said he *might* go after more of us. We don't know yet. We need to find out more.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:58] GT: THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO *DO*!

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:58] AA: Well do what you want then.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:58] AA: Just remember, whatever you find, and whatever happens from here on in...

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">[10:58] AA: ...I love you Lily. And I'm sorry things went like they did.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> -- arcaneArtisan [AA] ceased pestering galliardTartarologist [GT] at 22:59 --