What's that crashing sound that follows us around?

[exceptionalcrook]

WHO: Anyone, Duke
WHAT: Reactions to the executions/talking about next steps
WHERE: The dorms
WHEN: During/immediately following the executions
WARNINGS: Discussions of frickin' executions

[For people in the dorms to react to current events. Feel free to post your own starter!]

Comments

[sociallychallenged]

"Yeah, let's hope that he can keep keeping us safe. And not get distracted with his weak points."

Now, Hank is pretty sure he knows where they are. He's thought about it. He's just not figured it out yet. He needs help for that.

He takes the tablet he was writing on and flips to another page. In the corner he writes:

ZOO
PARK
HERE

And underlines 'here' a few times.

There's something under each of those, he's sure of it. He's guessed for a long time that the Head himself wouldn't be in the temple. He had to be somewhere else. The most suspicious points for that right now are those locations that never move. Especially the park, after what Arkady noticed.

Nothing he can talk about a few times.

He tears off that bit of paper and gives it to Tim. There's nothing too implicating in that.

[mrsarcastic003]

Tim nods and takes the slip of paper, glancing at it casually before folding it in half and tucking it into a pocket. "Well, I'm sure that with the Heart put down, it will all be sunshine and lollipops from now on. Isn't that what this whole public execution thing is for? To show us all how very safe we are?"

If they're lucky--not a guarantee--the Head might actually think they've all been sufficiently cowed by the display. Maybe they'll get a little breathing room. If they're careful.

[sociallychallenged]

"Yeah, he's keeping us pretty safe from these complete fucking morons."

Tragically dead ones, yes. All passed in horrifying ways. But he's still so angry that he put them at that kind of risk. That they called them out there, knowing that consequences could be them ripped apart. That things could be as bad as this, and never let any one of them make an informed decision.

They could have saved themselves. But at least now they've proven every warning that he's learned is true. The Head can control people. The Head still has the disease and can use it as a 'delete all' button. The Head can thoroughly bind their abilities.

[mrsarcastic003]

"Yes. I'm sure we're all very grateful."

He doesn't sounds grateful. He sounds a little sick, but at least the words are the right ones. He gives Hank a slight smile.

"Of course I'm glad that we're all safe, but I have to admit that the manner in which our safety was assured might be deemed 'overkill.'"

[sociallychallenged]

"Yeah... well, he just told us a lot with his overkill." Honestly if the Heart had just told them all this in the beginning, they might not have died to it.

"He's developed a way to accelerate the virus. I don't know how." He's not a medical expert, but that was WAY faster than the memories. "He can control people." Just like Hank had warned with the chips. He can and would use people's abilities against each other. "And people here can suppress abilities with the same tattoos that can grant them. So if someone needed turning off?"

They could do that without the head's interference. They could figure out how to do the tattoos and take them away.

"Isn't he pretty damn brilliant."

[mrsarcastic003]

"Big dramatic shows of force are always so useful that way," Tim agrees. "And all of this has definitely given us a lot to think about." At the very least, it will certainly encourage them all to be a lot more careful in the ways they communicate and plan in the future.

He raises a curious eyebrow at Hank. "I never considered that use for the tattoos and things. I don't really have any abilities personally that I'd be interested in suppressing, but I can see how others might want that." And how it might otherwise be useful. "How does it work?"

[sociallychallenged]

"Yup, they are..." the big dramatic shows of force, that is. "And you know, I don't know. But I know who does."

He writes Tim another note. 'The Malakye. Head loyal crime family. Vergil was their boss. They sold him out.'

This time he leaves it with him. Because if someone can investigate crime families and their mysterious magic tattooing ways? It'd probably be one of Batman's kids.