catchall jailbird crew

[selfimmolation]

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[tongshi]

Wouldn't be a first, right? Secret villain running a show?

[sharkgirl]

No, we're not.

[she says, fiercely.] I'm gonna burn the city to the ground before they can even try.

[sharkgirl]

[she's just sitting her sulking so thanks bro]

[selfimmolation]

No, it wouldn't. So how do we stop them?

[eliminated]

[chiemi is just staring at her phone blearily because i'm late. hi guys.]

[selfimmolation]

You and me both. [ with a little smirk ] But let's try finding who's responsible and burn them, first.

[resumed]

What are they getting out of it every time a hero dies...?

[resumed]

I don't know. A distraction from whatever else they're planning to do to this city? A way to show people how to "make examples" of villains?

[sharkgirl]

Ugh, but that's boring.

[this is a little bit of a joke at least]

[resumed]

[ an absolute mood. ]

Maybe we were right to start conspiracy theorying about all of this after all.

[resumed]

[ he's going to crouch down and hold out a hand if she wants uppies onto his shoulder where shame is vibin in his hood. otherwise yeah fucking mood. ]

[eliminated]

... I don't know if it's a kindness or a cruelty that this place least gives us a few days of guaranteed "peace" in between killing.

[resumed]

Not only the first but the second, too. I think murder kind of counts as destroying things. Technically.

[spiritconsulting]

[well. fuck.]

...Kind of makes sense, though, huh? Why execute Mika but put all ten of us in a jail cell for two days.

Because Mika was part of the plan. They want us killing each other and then being punished for it. If they lost ten of us at once, the game doesn't work.

[spiritconsulting]

[this isn't specifically nimona but there's been a lot of destroying the city talk so he will just.]

Destroying the city is probably just fine with them. A bunch of civilians get hurt, and they get to blame it on villains. Meanwhile, anyone with real authority is going to be somewhere safe with power dampening technology to protect them.

[sharkgirl]

[yeah sure she'll take uppies after she denied ace climbies

but it's mostly because she wants to pat shame with her paw.]

So it's gonna be like last Thursday again, right?

[spiritconsulting]

We're allowed to kill them on Thursday, but also if we get caught doing it, we get executed. Funny definition of "allowed."

[sharkgirl]

[this is why we don't let nimona be in charge of plans or thinking, because this is a good point.]

I don't get what they're getting out of this, or like, what they're planning to do to make this happen.

It has to be some sort of power play thing right? Like, we don't have any villains anymore so we gotta make them, so people don't think we're useless and overthrow us? Like a gang offering "protection".

[sociable]

Oh, yeah. We're all going to be jumping on that chance!

Why... would anyone even want to be a villain?

[tongshi]

Considering the destruction caused during Mika and Rocket just having fun... imagine intent to kill, and intent to survive.

[spiritconsulting]

I'm not sure. I'm going to talk to the team leaders and see what I can find out, but...

[he's frowning.]

It seems like whoever is calling the shots wants a heroes versus villains showdown. Whatever their reasoning, it must be important to them that the public believes in it.

That's something we can use.

[tongshi]

[ listening to reigen throughout this thread as he thinks ]

... figure out who they are, where they are, and get ready to raise hell. We did a lot on a jail, but Mr. Reigen's right - they probably would have the power dampeners.

[spiritconsulting]

Sounds like a bargain to me. Kill somebody, maybe save my world, if that's even real, and definitely get caught and killed.

I think they have ways of forcing us to go along with what they want us to do. Might try a carrot, might try a stick.

[sharkgirl]

You can't trust them. [this is instinctive, and he probably knows why after all of y'all heard her shouting at tiger last night.] Whatever they tell you is going to be for their benefit.

[rizomata]

None of this makes any sense!