[Bounties + Honorary Bounty: week 5, Tuesday]

[thatsthespirit]

[on Tuesday, Milla flags down Percy, Damian and Noctis and tells them to meet her at the homestead-- the perfect, out-of-the-way place for clandestine meetings. she makes sure she arrives first (after all, part of the purpose of this meeting is to introduce Noctis to Percy and Damian as another Bounty), so when the others arrive they'll find her dutifully feeding a cow some hay from her hand]

[when all known Bounties and the Honorary Bounty arrive, she speaks up, hand resting on the cow's neck as it chews its cud]

I confirmed yesterday afternoon that Noctis is a fellow Bounty. With three of us gathered, I imagine the Sheriff will soon be introducing us to the fourth-- and last-- of our numbers.

[or is it fifth, with Percy hanging around?? he was just as good as a Bounty in her mind, after all. ah well]

And with that, I imagine we all have much to discuss.

[MEETING, GET!!]

Comments

[elemancy]

...Looks like we've got a pattern on our hands after all.

[though noct isn't sure if it's because they've been wanted, or because.]

I, uh. Might have taken down an Imperial base or two during all that. [so you know. breaking the law properly and all.

but also noct?? that's not "low profile???" it's fine. this fine.] Guess it's stuff that's worthy of having a bounty on our heads.

[hydrokinetics]

[........you hooligans.]

I was totally kidding, but look at that. [That's. Something.]

You think that our last Bounty has something similar then? It would make a lot of sense. I didn't think there would be a connecting point.

[thatsthespirit]

[she can't help but chuckle]

It would make sense. So far, we're all people who are used to keeping our heads down and our profiles low. I'm not surprised the Sheriff would handpick individuals with that kind of experience.

[hydrokinetics]

The implication behind that though is that he's been watching people for a really long time. So that's...not that reassuring either.

Let's think about it then. Who else has been keeping their head down?

[elemancy]

Tough to say. Not like I've been that quiet. Milla hasn't either—we just avoid that topic.

[but that's generally pretty easy to do.]

[thatsthespirit]

[inclines her head towards Noctist]

Right. All of us here have been fairly vocal at trials because we want to see the actual killers captured.

But everyone so far has avoided the topic of who has what roles and what they do in public. Because no one is willing to bring it up at trials. . . it's likely the people in this town all know a lot more than we think.

[bittybat]

It's too dangerous to say anything out loud at a trial. Even what Xion did was risky and stupid. I'm surprised no one has tried to kill her yet solely based on the fact she had inside information given to her by someone else.

And she's young, fitting the criteria for the Deputy.

[hydrokinetics]

I gotta agree with Damian. It's too dangerous to say anything at trials because we don't know what cards people are keeping close to their chest and what people are planning even while all of us are sitting there. I've taken it upon myself to try and keep Xion safe, even if she doesn't always listen to me. I may pass that duty onto Shinnosuke. He's blind, but he's not useless. She's not helpless either.

[But.] The only way we can really keep people safe is if we put all of the younger kids with at least one adult. Some of us might have to double up. [Implying, you know, that Percy thinks he's an adult.]

[thatsthespirit]

[Percy is adult enough for her, tbh]

I'd say that's a good suggestion, if it weren't for the fact that we still have unknown killers in our midst. We might wind up pairing someone up with someone dangerous.

[hydrokinetics]

...good point. All the more reason to find the Madame and Bartender and get them on our side to start investigating everybody who's left. But then what do we do about this week?

[thatsthespirit]

Precisely. Though I wonder if the Madame and Bartender will be able to see who was previously a Bandit, too?

[since. they failed to catch like. four of those]

As for this week. . . I suppose all we can do is continue investigating and keeping our heads down.

[hydrokinetics]

If they can only investigate one person a week, I think we should just focus on finding the Deputy. All of you keep your heads down and stick close with other people at all times. People you trust, I mean.