Week 5, Wednesday

[pinesfortruth]

[the twins are barging in on Chie's room for this one because Drama]

Chie, there's something we gotta tell you.

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[pinesforyou]

[hi Chie]

A bunch of something, actually.

[wristbands]

[let's be real, after what happened with kaiba, chie doesn't even bother locking her door anymore because whoever's trying to murder her will somehow find their way inside anyway.

when she sees it's the twins, though, she springs up from her laying position, eyes wide with dread. just the twins, not anyone else...]

Is someone dead? Wait, n-no—was it Jay?

[pinesfortruth]

[that gets a weird shared look between the twins, tbh]

Well, it does concern Jay and murder, but no, no one's dead. ...Yet.

[dipper maybe you should say that better]

[pinesforyou]

[TIME TO KILL CHIE]





[with sadness]

W-Well... no, what Dipper means is that there's something big going on, and.... we find out it's...


...complicated.

[yeah she's not helping either]

[wristbands]

Um... then what's going on? You guys are starting to worry me...

[you guys? can tell her??]

[pinesfortruth]

[sighs]

Okay, so. The guys who worked with Mira are called the Prophets, and the guys who were sending them passive-aggressive notes are the Hunters. The Prophets are Girge and Tsurugi. The Hunters are... Kaito, Yukina and Jay. This part... This part might sound hard to believe, but... They learned some stuff from Craftly, and now they're all working together, because they think the only way to beat this game is to kill everyone until only three people are left, and then whoever's left is going to take over Craftly's spot and become the host. When they do that, everyone else gets to go home, even those who are dead.

[he's not looking at Chie at all, just glaring at the ground]

At least that's what they believe anyway.

[pinesforyou]

...Yeah. So basically, they all teamed up to kill everyone because they think it's the only way. And... they're just starting to share their plan, now.

[squeezes Dipper's hand, sad twins in the Chieroom]

Craftly's apparently.... been trying to fight the game, I guess. I don't know if I believe it, but they do.

[wristbands]

["kaito, yukina, and jay." it's whatever about girge and tsurugi, she's never really interacted with them—but she actually trusts those first three. she doesn't realize her hand is starting to ball up into a fist so tightly that her knuckles begin to whiten.]

So they want to kill us all... to save us? [god, it is so bizarre getting this news from the twins, of all people.] How did you guys even find this out? Did one of them tell you themselves?

[pinesfortruth]

We heard it from someone else, but Jay confirmed it when we-- [bodily tackled him to the ground] confronted him about it. You can ask him for yourself if you don't believe us. I know I didn't want to believe it either.

[pinesforyou]

.... Yeah. He said he wanted to tell us on our own, but.... I don't know, Chie.

[a beat]

We wanted to tell you, at least. I don't know if he was really planning to do it himself but.... you deserve to know.

[wristbands]

[there's so much she wants to say, but she doesn't speak. she doesn't even want to ask if they're okay, because that's long since become a very stupid question to ask around yuggoth. she can't even reassure them for the same reason.

instead, she just closes the distance and hugs the two of them.]

[pinesfortruth]

[why is this physical affection happening???]

Chie???

[oh my god did they make her cry.]

[pinesforyou]

Are you okay?

[she hugs back but she's concerned]

[wristbands]

[she's not crying, thank goodness, but there is a somber sadness in her smile]

I thought we could trust him.

[pinesfortruth]

[...]

He thinks it's the only way. I-- [sure, jay said he would've told them, but dipper doesn't know if he can trust that. and he still can't agree with it being the only way without actual proof.] I don't know. It's messed up.