week 3, Sunday, post-execution

[pinesfortruth]

[so after ... That... display, Dipper's a bit hesitant to approach Jake (and Dirk, who is probably his shadow), but then again-- he said he'd wanted to talk, and maybe it'd get his mind off of... disembowelment, which wowie is Dipper trying to not Think about that, like, at all. so. he gives the boy enough time to like wash out the blood probably (yikes? yikes) before going to find him]

Hey, Jake, um-- [should he mention the execution. let's not? let's not] you wanted to talk?

[dirk will get a little awkward half-wave of acknowledgement. wow dipper. super smooth. nailed it.]

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[pinesfortruth]

No, um. [quickly scribbles out bill] That's Bill Cipher. He's a demon from the nightmare dimension. The symbol that looked like one from back home is the sign for this kid's "tent of telepathy", but I think he got it from Bill because of... stuff. It's a long story.

[he frowns in thought after that]

Can I see your wound? I don't think I'll recognize them, but just in case.

[potentite]

[Huh. He is a demonic triangle apparently?]

Illuminati...

[splinten]

Billuminati.

[Dirk no.

Anyway he yanks up his shirt to show the tattoo: this shit. Also remains of the burns, but he's okay.]

[pinesfortruth]

No.

[that's for the pun. he squints at it]

It looks familiar... Hm. Blergh. I've looked up so much weird writing back home I can't tell without a reference. [because he didn't pay lovecraft shit enough attention, tbh] It looks cultish though? Buuuut so does this whole place. Let's be real.

[potentite]

I thought they looked like claws.

[That's his helpful suggestion.]

[splinten]

[Drops shirt]

They look stupid. [thanks dirk]

[pinesfortruth]

You are not wrong. [that's for both, ok] You said there were alchemy symbols in the building you went through? Which one was that?

[and can dipper see the symbols etc etc he is an unending well of questions]

[potentite]

[Jake is scowling. Dirk can interpret this as his boyfriend disapproving of allowing a little boy to go wander into that building alone so he can. Solve that issue somehow.]

[splinten]

Not in the building. It was on the outside of the locked building that wasn't burned down, beside the Museum.

[pinesfortruth]

[thinking out lout to himself:] Besides the museum... Oh, wasn't that the pet store? [...... WAIT SHIT laughs nervously] Soooo is that still there?

[super subtle, dipper.]

[potentite]

If you're going, you're not going alone.

[splinten]

No one is going. It's locked. We can look at the outside together for the symbols, but we lost the Convict so we aren't going in.

[SO. NO RECKLESSNESS. THANK YOU?]

[pinesfortruth]

I wouldn't explore something without Mabel.

[is that supposed to be reassuring??? it probably isn't, but dipper is rolling his eyes like the future teen he is]

I just want the symbols. Everyone who's gone exploring's been injured so far, so when I do have to check some place out, I'm planning on being prepared.

[potentite]

You don't have a Weapon Role, though. [He isn't asking for Mabel's but. Even if she had one, that'd only be one weapon between them.] There are a fair number of beasts that—

[Oh. Oh! Jake grabs Dirk's arm and shakes it lightly.]

The soulless beast!

[Forgive him, he's kind of still scattered. But it was another thing he thought wise to tell Dipper, if only for trust between them. Despite his stupid outburst, though, he's uh. Attempting to check with Dirk on Dirk's opinion?]

[splinten]

[HIS POOR ARM. He stares, and then. Nods? Sure hit it, Jake.]

[pinesfortruth]

[ok dipper can grab his own weapon, rude?-- but he's immediately distracted by Jake's SUDDEN ENTHUSIASM]

Uhhh. Yeah? What about it?

[he looks unsure]

[potentite]

We think the group here, the ones facilitating the murders, are soulless. Mira wasn't hamming it up when she told Dirk she had no soul. It was the price she paid to become one of the key murderers here.

[splinten]

Which explains the Paranoid's role a lot better.

[pinesfortruth]

[dipper just continues to look... nervous, at that admission]

... Yeah, I, uh, kind of. Already knew that. A little. [w o o p s] That's why I wasn't surprised we were sacrifices for some kind of ritual-- the killers are already selling their souls for whatever the incentive is, so. It made sense.

[it settles into sheepishness]

But thanks for telling me?

[potentite]

[That actually makes Jake smile a little.] So you know The Paranoid's rules.

[splinten]

[lmfao

like deadpan, but also: lmfao]

[pinesfortruth]

... Noooope, I don't. I haven't seen anyone's rules but my own and Mabel's.

[potentite]

Oh really? Then how did you figure it out?

[splinten]

[dipper please]

[pinesfortruth]

It, uh... Well, it made sense when I thought about it? The--the bible stuff from this week confirmed it for me. Yep. That's what did it.

[he says, not looking them in the eye]

Like I said, I've dealt with supernatural stuff before, so.