newlydead r2 - day 11 - junpei

[jinglebros]

[ Santa's dressing room is messed up as fuck. There's several dents in the wall, clothing piles all over the floor and the chair pushed into a corner. He yanks the robe off as soon as they get in there and throws it at the chair, turning around to face Junpei in his jeans and tshirt once the door is closed. ]

You're going to the hotel, whether you like it or not. It's already been done.

Comments

[unexpectedboner]

Wh-what the fuck!? You can't! Why?

[jinglebros]

I have to! Because you're going to fucking die if you stay here! You keep trying to escape and it's going to be the fucking death of you!

[unexpectedboner]

The hell are you talking about? I'm not gonna die, not from that! There's only one thing I'm good for here, and being in the hotel sure isn't it! If you're talking about people getting themselves killed, send yourself to the hotel!

[jinglebros]

Escaping will kill you! It killed Seven and it's going to kill you too! And I'm not sending myself to the shitty hotel! I get the most votes and you fucking know it! What use am I to her in the hotel?

[unexpectedboner]

What use am I to her in the hotel!? What happens when you can't vote for her? What happens when one of your antics gets someone pissed off enough to take you out? Who's left to take care of her then? --You were the one who dragged me into this mess in the first place, you can't just take me out this far in!

[jinglebros]

So stop trying to escape! Stop acting like nothing is wrong! Start taking care of yourself, start trying harder - can you do that, or are you going to keep spiraling downward?!

[ santa half of that is hypocritical ]

[unexpectedboner]

I know what I have to do! Don't patronize me! I'm not the one getting sloppy drunk in public or letting everybody and their brother draw dicks all over me. If you're worried about downward spirals, maybe you should look in a mirror for once!

[jinglebros]

Maybe I'm slipping but I'm still getting tons of votes and I'm still providing! Are you sure you can keep doing that?

[ Santa pinches the bridge of his nose like he has a migraine and exhales out sharply. ]

Look. Fucking look. What would you do to stay here. Are you willing to prove yourself and your loyalty to stay here?

[unexpectedboner]

Are--are you seriously hazing me over this? You can't even get rid of me, we don't even have votes yet.

[jinglebros]

I'm not hazing you. I'm asking you a serious fucking question! I need to know how far you're willing to go.

There's something going down soon and if you involve yourself, if you willingly involve yourself, then I'll take back the hotel deal. Because I'll know you're fucking serious.

[unexpectedboner]

Ignoring the part where you don't have votes, I'm not willingly involving myself in anything I don't know the details of. Unlike some people I don't have a death wish!

[jinglebros]

You're not repeating this. If you repeat it I'm going to make you wish I killed you because it will hurt Akane. You understand? If you repeat it I will fucking hurt you. I'm goddamn serious here.

[unexpectedboner]

If you're doing something that's gonna hurt Kanny I'm not going to just sit back and do nothing.

[jinglebros]

You involving yourself means she's not hurt. That's the goddamn point. She has to do something very bad as it stands and I want you to take her place.

[unexpectedboner]

...What is it?

[jinglebros]

We made a deal with Ronald. I get hurt, it spreads horror and upset through the community. I live, but it makes everyone think there's someone out there who's running rampant and trying to fuck people up without ramifications. As it stands right now, she has to be the one to hurt me.

If you don't want to go to the hotel, you have to do it when we get the cue that says it's go time.

[unexpectedboner]

[takes a beat to process this]

...Why her?

[jinglebros]

Why else? It was her idea.

[unexpectedboner]

...

...What...what for? What's this supposed to do?

[jinglebros]

We came up with a new concept. Anti-passes. They prevent you from going to the hotel when someone casts a hotel pass on you or you get too many votes. Don't you tell anyone we have one each because it'll wreck us if you do.

[unexpectedboner]

So if I help you with this, you each get one? What about me? I'm thrown under the bus once you feel like freaking out again?

[jinglebros]

No. You choose someone you want to go to the hotel, I'll tell my partner to send them instead of you.

With certain limitations of course.

[unexpectedboner]

So that part isn't with Kanny? And how are you supposed to be doing all this secret chatting after all this extreme stabbing, huh?

[jinglebros]

...I'm afraid if I give you their name, you'll tell them to send Corrin and stab me figuratively as well as literally.

[unexpectedboner]

Except how if you're bleeding out, now I've done your dirty work AND been sent to the hotel. No thanks.

What's stopping Ronald from just saying that if Kanny doesn't do it, the whole deal's off anyway?