Eight Beat | Head Under Water and They Tell Me

[knightime]

Characters: Dave Strider and Rose Lalonde
Format: EVERY FORMAT POSSIBLE?! Idk man
This log is: Closed
Location: Somewhere in the town. Park? Lmfao I'm terrible at this
Summary: There's something relieving about having your Derse sibling here, despite being in the opposite school. Dave finally tells someone else what happened on Saturday.
Warnings: Talk about death and drowning, Derse siblings being Derse siblings, trying to talk to someone who's blind when you're mute, these warnings need its own warning, Kim warnings, SRS BZNS

Dave needed to talk to Rose. It was a selfish need. He knew he could talk to Jade or John or even John from Conquest. But he wanted to talk to Rose about it. At least before he mentioned it to anyone else.

He just felt less pressured talking to Rose for some reason. Which was dumb, since she was the sarcastic one and tended to do things that annoyed him. Nonetheless, she was someone he actually confided on several occasions about his fears. This was just one of those times. And seeing as he hadn't had her around for so long, it was slightly relieving.

He was waiting near the gates of Conquest. Dave wasn't sure how well Rose was going to get around the place, so he wanted to be around to at least help her to get to town. He knew he couldn't touch her, but if they were lucky, they would have some sort of object to work as a middleman between them.

Comments

[overthroen]

"Well, that narrows it down," she says drily. A lot of the people here seem to be pretty crazy. "I'll just look for the ones that are killing students. Or search in some other fashion, anyway."

[knightime]

You were expecting him to just flat out tell you? He's a little too stubborn for that still.

its a pretty stupid and lost cause you know
even if you found out who it was
what are you gonna do???
plus we apparently have other things to deal with
like apparently
someone is trying to start some rebellion
i didnt think wed have to deal with psycho terrorists too
but here we are

[overthroen]

Anything's worth a shot. But talk of rebellion drives thoughts of the erring prefect out of her head.

"A rebellion against what? The system appears uniquely unbreakable - there's no escaping the island, at least of one's own free will. Do they want to depose the officials?"

[knightime]

i doubt if you killed them
theyd stay dead
but i guess they think they can just go home if they do this

Which is kind of dumb, since all of them had repeated so many times they can leave once they beat this game or something.

i dont know much about the system
but if this is like any other system
theres got to be some glitches we can either exploit or find
im looking for those

[overthroen]

Rose purses her lips. "I don't know. I'd need to look farther into it to be sure. I haven't memorized the rulebook yet. But that makes sense. Does anybody know the names of the perpetrators?" She doesn't expect an affirmative response to this, if they haven't been caught, but one never knows.

[knightime]

Dave kind of has a guessing as to what he can do as far as money goes. But he hasn't tested it out yet to give an affirmation to it.

well
we assume its whoever this zero asshole is
but no one knows who they are apparently

[overthroen]

"An alias? Intriguing." Her eyes light up. Mysteries are exciting. "And they've wreaked anonymous havoc? The list of possibilities can't be very large. It's a small island."

And something occurs to her then - someone else might have seen Dave's death.

[knightime]

i think some people know about him
this place has a tendency to grab us in chunks
its like
welp
since we grabbed one
might as well grab five more

Oh my god. Shove off it. The dying thing is so done. No more about Dave's death.

since its obviously someone outside of this place
i mean theres only so many of us
and it gets smaller if you consider whos been here since he left the notes on the doors

[overthroen]

"That's something I'd like to see. Or, since that would be ineffective, be read." She feels a twinge of a smile at her own joke. She could get used to this existence of blackness. It just falls to her to be flippant about the whole thing.

"We should begin networking to find him. Anybody close to you, besides the people we know from home. Anyone close enough to witness secret things." Trying to tiptoe around the issue, but she's going to try to figure out who might have seen him drown now. No way is she giving this up until the person is paid back in full.

[knightime]

But it makes conversing with you so hard...

theyre probably from fortitude
at least
it seems we keep getting ridiculous shit happening over here

Rose. Please stop. You are blind and thirteen. He is mute and thirteen. They are thirteen and this is not SBURB.