[Open Broadcast]

[modernliterature]

Hello, ja, I have a question.

I've been thinking about this whole murdering the Arcana business.

A few months ago, I got told we didn't know how to do it.

Now it looks like somebody had a breakthrough.

I'm not talking about turning anybody in or anything like that. I don't know if I'd want to shake your hand or kick you into a latrine anyway. Maybe both?

Ah, so my question is, anyway - if you were going to try and kill an Arcana, how would you do it?

What exactly does everybody think it would take; what would the plan be like, that sort of thing.

If you want to investigate the murder, maybe this will help you figure out how they pulled it off. Same if you want to do it again sometime instead. For everybody else, just some harmless theorizing.

Comments

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh my god.

[Dude, what?]

[modernliterature]

You don't have any idea either, then?

[thornsofmalkav]

I've got my theories, dude, but I'm not dumb enough to theorize out loud about this shit in public when there's a murderer investigation going on.

[canbebrave]

You mean to casually theorize a murder? And call it harmless?

[modernliterature]

That wasn't clear? Ja. That's what I'm doing.

[canbebrave]

We need not lose every ounce of civility we have!

[bite_the_hand]

[Eren's been unusually quiet through this whole thing, but this finally gets him to speak up. Because come on, even he knows talking about how to murder someone right in front of that same person is a terrible idea.]

Uh. This isn't the kind of conversation you want to have on the Network.

[modernliterature]

I'm just supposed to shout it at people as they walk by?

[grimjeaper]

[He doesn't say anyrhing, but in Liminal Space proper, Barry is trying not to laugh.]

[bite_the_hand]

Yes- No... I don't know! But if you want to figure out how you'd kill somebody you don't yell about it where everybody can hear you! You yell about it in private where only the people you trust can hear you!

[claudiometer]

It's not harmless. They can eavesdrop.

In any case, given that whoever did this went after possibly the only one of the lot unlikely to call for backup, anything else would need everyone here to be on board, and that's not gonna happen.

[modernliterature]

If they eavesdrop then they probably hear a lot of this stuff already, don't they?

[claudiometer]

Way less likely if you don't talk about it on the network.

[haveabiscuit]

This is an exceptionally poor idea.

[And she looks after teenaged Gryffindors]

[modernliterature]

You know, that's really a surprise to hear, nobody else has said anything like that.

[naturaltwohands]

... I would not advise discussing how to kill Arcana where they can hear you.

[modernliterature]

Why not? They probably want to know how we did it, too.

[desperate_times_right]

This sounds like bait.

[modernliterature]

I don't go fishing much.

[crouching_sin]

You're an idiot.

But also, the answer is - carefully.

[But like hell is he going to elaborate.]

[modernliterature]

No shit.

[reallymean]

For the sake of discussion, I think what it would take would be an unimaginable surge of luck. Either good luck on the killers' side, or bad luck on the side of the victim.

[modernliterature]

So, you think they tried something really stupid and random, and it lined up just right?

Ja, okay, I could see that.

[blinktomissit]

[god fuck he swore to himself he'd stay away from the psychic stuff after Tower fucking blitzed his brain but Taako cannot help himself here--]

So how's that Q&A panning out for you, huh?

[modernliterature]

Just wonderful. A whole two people have answered one question.