batterypack: (To the pitch black streets)

week 4, saturday

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-16 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ after all of that, you can bet she's outside! she's outside in the garden, hanging out in the gazebo and just sort of staring off into space. ]

... I suppose that was one way to find both of them.
sarkazm: (11 - z2BwXEp)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-16 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't have had to jump on the fucking lake if we'd waited....
batterypack: (With every bubble)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-16 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
You and I both know if you had waited you would have lost too much time. Consider it a noble sacrifice then.
sarkazm: (11 - z2BwXEp)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-16 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
...yeah, I know.

[she's just still so annoyed after EVERYTHING.]
batterypack: (I'll fall apart)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-16 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
... sorry. I know these trials are always a pain. Especially knowing it's because of things people can't always control.
sarkazm: (24 - PvvJCxS)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-16 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
The scheduled part of it is getting pretty weird, too! I'm really not used to like... organized murder?
batterypack: (Better find another superstition)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-16 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
I would be very concerned if you were. But I think the scheduling's a bit strange, too. Like whatever this thing is is most powerful on Thursdays only, and we're thrown into the next cycle. We take the time Friday to try and find places and freeze them, and collect the bodies and... give people time to process. But it's those three days in a row that are hard.
sarkazm: (14 - aFwnC4s)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-16 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Any idea what it is about Thursdays...? I don't know of anything that'd work like that.
batterypack: (To the pitch black streets)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-16 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
That, I don't know. We're still looking into it, too, given it started after what happened with Jing Yuan and Charlie. And it feels like they're escalating each week. This is the most amount of people we've seen disappear so far.
sarkazm: (14 - aFwnC4s)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-16 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
And there's still not a lot we could do to stop it. Like, if we could find signs beforehand we could at least restrain people or something overnight, but...
batterypack: (And days are always making you blue)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-16 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
It's... been different people so far, and different places. It's not like you're leaving Heaven either, but I'm not sure where it is. If we knew that, we could at least try to pull you all out before you got too seriously hurt.
sarkazm: (16 - xUNKS1t)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-16 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
It's seriously just salt in the wound! Here, have some trauma and bodily harm, right before somebody dies! Now deal with the weekend!
batterypack: (I'm not passive but aggressive)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-16 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
It's a miracle that the people who die aren't any of the same people who go on those ventures on Thursdays, though at the same time that's almost worse. It's maximizing the amount of people suffering.
sarkazm: (14 - 1Y2wpwc)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-16 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
It is, but I don't know if it's actually worse. At least not targeting them means-- they don't have to die while they're still kind of losing their minds.
batterypack: (Don't do friends)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-16 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ there's a pause. ]

That's also true. It feels like a lose-lose situation no matter what.
sarkazm: (11 - z2BwXEp)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-16 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
That's the worst part of this, you know? Even when we get shit right, it's like this. Everybody gets depressed about it, there's no stopping it from ending in more death-- there's no winning here!
batterypack: (Aren't al...kids aren't alright)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-16 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Don't tell me you're going to blame everyone for being depressed. [ she knows that's not it. ] But it really is a vicious cycle that we haven't found the break in.
sarkazm: (20 - BjlAbxm)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-16 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'll blame them for whatever I want.

[no, the depression is fair.]

You think there's going to end up being a break at all?
batterypack: (And days are always making you blue)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-16 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
There's about three weeks left. There's no way this will continue all the way up to judgment day. I think God would sooner tear the entirety of Heaven apart than allow that to happen.
sarkazm: (13 - 91u6Wra)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-16 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Jeez. Well, let's hope they don't take that option...
batterypack: (Leave all your love)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-17 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
What? [ thinking back to what she said. ] I meant that they'll find a solution before the three weeks is over. Even if they did tear Heaven apart, they would prioritize your safety.
sarkazm: (18 - iBYwTjW)

[personal profile] sarkazm 2025-03-17 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes it's the best way to root something out! Buuut I figure it'd be rough dealing with us and that.
batterypack: (She sank with a drink)

[personal profile] batterypack 2025-03-17 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Their hands are pretty full, yeah. [ thoughtful. ] Not to mention still meeting with us every day or so for updates.