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Dr. Newton Geiszler ([personal profile] completelycrazy) wrote2018-04-11 02:49 am

week 5 - lenka - wednesday

[Ughhh, Newt is so tired this week. He's moving a little slowly today, but he does eventually track Lenka down in Bloodbath and Beyond. If he was in a better mood these days, he would laugh a lot at that name.]

Hey. You got a minute?

[Lenka also might be able to smell the faintest hint of blood on him. Hm!]
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[personal profile] soylentprotag 2018-04-12 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[For Lenka, it's not so much about who is or isn't more useful -- that's something he acknowledges because it is fact, and something he'd put more weight on before all the revelations about the Reapers they're dealing with -- it's about the deception involved, the tactics, and the fact that Magnus and Taako doing this for three more weeks both leaves a bad taste in his mouth and makes him wonder how the hell they will.

But knowing them, they probably could pull it off.

They have a few options -- he could list out all of them, but he's going to go with the ones that work best for him first.]

I'm not going to hold it against them. We're... The next three weeks aren't going to be good.

[Understatement of the fucking year. He really doesn't want to fight them, in trial or out of it. Not out of lack of confidence or unwillingness to throw himself in -- well, okay, he'd actually have quite a bit of trouble raising a paw against his fellow Players, even if he hadn't run into the hell of all revelations this week. But they need to think this through. They need to think about the rest of the Players, and what the Game will look like. He still believes that this needs to be about trust and cooperation, rather than lies and a race to the bottom. Newt's story is... bleak, but Lenka is too busy searching for holes in the walls they'll need to climb.]

Okay. First: we could talk to them. I'm not as easy to threaten as you and Hermann. [and that goes for physically or in terms of credibility and Partnership] Second: we get a polygraph, or something else that can help the way it helped Hermann last week. They can't use dirty evidence if we have enough failsafes. Three: we find someone with a trial hint, or we buy enough trial hints to cover you.

Those are the ideas I can think of, right now. I'd still rather talk to them first, I think.

[If he was unsteady and afraid through most of their previous conversation, he's perfectly steady now, eyes flinty. He can't put together trial hints as well as some of them, exert the same influence as the pair they're facing, or provide scientific analysis, but he can come up with strategies on the fly if he needs to. Call it a job skill.]
Edited 2018-04-12 03:06 (UTC)
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[personal profile] soylentprotag 2018-04-12 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Lenka lets Newt ramble -- he's still thinking through possible courses of action, because while the ones he's come up with first of all are viable regardless of whether or not Newt gets specifically targeted, they could backfire when it comes to protecting the real Reapers. The whole thing is going to need maneuvering depending on how Magnus and Taako play it.

He's still kind of, sort of of the mind that he should see what they have to say about everything they're dealing with right now. The Game. The Reapers. The... sacrifices.

Newt is doing a lot of back and side-pedaling in the meantime, though, so he finally shakes his head.]

I think we can trust that they want to do the right thing. I just don't think this is the right thing. Not for the rest of the Game.

If it were to come out, they'd lose trust, too. I don't think any of us want that.

[They're all already divided enough as it is. He wants to be able to work with both Newt and Magnus and Taako -- they'd be able to do better together, he's pretty sure, at least at protecting the remaining Reapers. They can't mess this up.

He does accept the... pile of ripcoins, though, looking dubious about it. It might in fact be safer with him, if pickpockets was what they were worried about, but...]

Assassin... [He's... honestly worried about the guy, has been for a while. He doesn't want anything to happen to him or the people he keeps threatening; he's pretty sure it would make Mary cry if they had to go after him at some point.] You really need to be careful. You and Hermann can stay with me and Mary, if you want.

[They're not really like, staying anywhere, but the mattress store is big and useful and all.]
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[personal profile] soylentprotag 2018-04-12 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
We will. We have too many more trials, and not enough Reapers.

[They're going to have some hard choices to make, and he can't mince words about that anymore. He wouldn't agree with taking out the Reapers at this stage, obviously, but nobody so far has been able to come up with workable alternatives that don't involve the runaround like Magnus and Taako are doing. There are ways to be more straightforward and ways to minimize damage...

But he's not sure how well that would go over with himself, never mind the rest of the Players.

He'd been frustrated at the lack of answers, once. They still don't have the real answers -- none of the ones they want -- but according to Max and perhaps the others watching the Game... they're doing better. They're taking steps forward.

He wants to save those important to him. It might be a little selfish. But he's willing to do everything he can to save as many as he can. Just--]

I also don't like that... Magnus was the one talking about honesty, last trial. I don't want him to do this.

[Were he human, he'd be biting his lip or otherwise resorting to habitual fidgets right now. As an Aragami, he absently bats his tail a little with one paw.]

You're thinking Friday is the only dangerous day. [he just told you to be careful, bro] But you know where to find us, if you need us.