newlydead r2 - day 13 - simon

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[ It's night and Santa is wide awake. There's lots of hustle and bustle outside the hospital set and it's hard to sleep, even if you're heavily injured. He's getting stronger but he still can't wheelchair by himself out there yet, so he's stuck in bed and worrying. Oh boy.

He's all alone in the hospital set right now. It'd be a great time to meet privately with someone. ]

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You know who I grew up with. I find a lot of things interesting other people wouldn't.

[court_chesster]

Guess so...

[pauses awkwardly]

So I'll hotel Rohan and we can figure out where to go from there. Anything else we should get out of the way while we have a little privacy?

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I have a few things to address, actually.

[ Santa narrows his eyes and leans forward. ]

You should know who did this to me and why I'm so badly off. It was a simple deal with Junpei that he would stab me a little so June wouldn't have to. I don't know what he brought, but you see the results. He certainly didn't 'simply stab me'.

[court_chesster]

...No, no he did not. Do you know why? It doesn't seem like he was trying to kill you.

[jinglebros]

I'm pretty sure he was aggravated that he had to do it in the first place. Which is fucking bullshit because we made a fair trade for it. I guess I was wrong about him being a 'fair man', huh?

[court_chesster]

That's a pretty extreme way to express one's pettiness. You sure he wasn't trying to incapacitate you so they'd give away your votes?

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[ Santa looks surprised, as if he hadn't thought of that at all. ]

You know what? He doesn't agree with how I want to vote. It's fucking possible that's exactly what he was doing.

[court_chesster]

Seems likely to me. How come you decided not to get rid of him?

[jinglebros]

I'm getting rid of him via votes. I think he might have an anti-pass and if he does, the hotel pass won't work.

Of course, if you have another idea...

[court_chesster]

[laughs]

I dunno, this kinda sounds like a personal problem.

[jinglebros]

[ Laughs too. ]

We shouldn't have to worry about it much longer, anyway. Not if everything goes according to plan.

[court_chesster]

Ooh, I like the sound of that!

[jinglebros]

Let's just say if everything works out, we'll be down quite a bit when this voting round is over.

We're getting closer to endgame, Simon. You ready to hold your head high?

[court_chesster]

Dunno! I've never tried it before.

[jinglebros]

You better do it, if you want to get anywhere close to the Final Five.

[court_chesster]

We'll see.

Hey, apropos of nothing, but do you like to play games?

[jinglebros]

As long as they're not death puzzles, I'm usually pretty okay. Why?

[court_chesster]

You must be soooo bored being laid up in here, right? So maybe sweet ol' Simon could bring you a game from the prop room — something we can do even if there are other people around. Like cards, for example, or chess — and in case one of us needs to send a signal to the other, we can build that in.

Though don't say chess unless you're actually good at chess. Playing against amateurs is boring as shit.

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I'm bad at chess but fucking amazing at poker.

[court_chesster]

Okay, I'll bring you a deck of cards tomorrow. I don't normally play poker, but somehow I'm sure I'll do just fine.

[jinglebros]

You know what? I'm sure of that too.

[court_chesster]

Great! You can "teach" me.

[jinglebros]

Looking forward to it.