PCs - Vin

[moonlightbeast]

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Weekend 0, Saturday

[moonlightbeast]

[Right after Vin gets clown'd, Atsushi happens to come across her. He's still looking for clues and it looks like Vin has a clue right on her face!]

What happened to you?

[allomantic]

[her voice is very grave as she answers.]

The clowns.

[the clowns happened to her (or she happened to them, maybe).]

[moonlightbeast]

...clowns?

[He has, thankfully, not been subjected to the clowns at this point yet.]

We have clowns here?

[allomantic]

That's what Vax said they were.

[she has never seen a clown before today, but she's taking his word for it.]

[moonlightbeast]

With noses that honk and bright face makeup?

[JUST. CHECKING.]

[allomantic]

[she nods.]

Yes. And... strange expressions.

[moonlightbeast]

Ah. That does sound like a clown, yes.

Why do you have the makeup though?

[allomantic]

Because of the clowns.

[that answers nothing, so after a second:]

They seemed as though they were going to attack, so we prepared to defend ourselves, and they sprayed this onto our faces somehow.

[moonlightbeast]

And there's probably no makeup remover around here, huh? It's going to take you a while to scrub it off.

What happened to the clowns anyway? Are they still around?

[allomantic]

It won't come off at all. [also:] They exploded.

[what.]

[moonlightbeast]

[What.]

Ah. Exploding clowns. That's why the carnival is a mess.

[allomantic]

It seems to be.

[frowning.]

They are... alarming, but they did not harm us ultimately.

[moonlightbeast]

They might not have been a threat, and were just trying to scare you. If they're here because of whoever brought us here, that might be the point: to keep us scared.

[allomantic]

[thinking about that for a moment.]

If they wanted to scare us, I would think they would send something more substantial.

[moonlightbeast]

Oh? What would be more substantial?

[allomantic]

A Steel Inquisitor, maybe?

[she isn't thinking about the fact that he probably doesn't know what that is.]

[moonlightbeast]

What's that?

[Well now she gets to explain it!]

[allomantic]

...Right.

[different places, and all. she pauses for a moment, thinking about the best way to describe them.]

They are... esteemed guards of the ruler of our empire. The only way to kill them is to behead them completely.

[moonlightbeast]

But...if they're the esteemed guards of the ruler of your empire, then why do you want to kill them? Wouldn't they be protecting the people?

[allomantic]

I don't want to kill them.

[only because it's too dangerous to try, but she doesn't specify that.]

But they're the type of people who would be sent to scare us, or send a message. They only protect the nobility and the ruler.

[moonlightbeast]

[He is going to assume that she doesn't want to fight them at all.]

Ahhh, I see now! Something like that would be scarier than a clown.

So if that's the case, then the fact that it's something like a clown must mean...they don't want to hurt us?

[allomantic]

[she blinks.]

Isn't it too soon to decide that?

[moonlightbeast]

Well if they wanted to hurt us they would have done it already, right?

[allomantic]

It's easier to hurt people who have their guard down.

[moonlightbeast]

So they're lowering our guard, then they send in the things that can kill us?