Board 8 > Arria plays/reads Umineko blind, Kira cackles at her SPOILERS ARE OKAY #3

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Popcorn_Fairy posted...

Oh hell yeah. Me too. I struggle something fierce getting up in the morning. This semester I had to be in at 10am. I live about an hour away, so I had to leave at 9. I struggle getting up and it takes me about an hour to get ready to go. So yeah, it was kind of a pain. But it's better than Night Classes. Had those last Semester and I hate driving in the dark.

Well I hate driving any time, but I think I prefer night time when there aren't as many assholes on the road. Actually, I live in a regular-ish sized city and the university I went to is in a small town about 30 minutes away on the freeway. But there was a nice bus route that would take students from the bus plaza in my city to the student building. For the last two years of university, I lived a block away from that bus stop so I'd just walk there and take the bus. Sometimes I would study or do homework while on the bus.

Popcorn_Fairy posted...

I'm in the point where all my classes are enjoyable. Got all my general educations out of the way first so I could focus in on the important classes. Really good choice, because I enjoy what I'm doing. Well, until I put all my work off until a week before my finals.

Yeees, that's when university is good. When it's all fun classes that are in the major your chose. I took my sweet time finding what I wanted. My first two years were worthless. I took general education classes and some other stupid stuff just to get a taste of what I wanted to do. I also took two years of Japanese just because I was a weeb. >_> I didn't know I wanted to go into biology until I took it my third year lol.

Popcorn_Fairy posted...

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I love that song! I like the lyrical version too.

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bump. Gonna read on Friday!
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Yay!
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Raka, good to see you in this topic. Arria is at the witch's trial in Episode 5. The one where we get maximum Natsuhi bullying. Any predictions for how she'll respond/what she might think?
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bumpo
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Tomorrow~~~
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Eerieka posted...

What's on your mind, everyone? I'm frustrated with work right now since I'm quitting my current job, but they're introducing a new clock-in/pay website thingy which will only be relevant for me for two weeks and the only day I can be trained on it was on a day and time I had planned to get dinner with my friends.

working on a SECRET PROJECT right now. since my last major writing project ended not too long ago I have a bit more free time on my hands and I feel more motivated to put energy toward other pursuits.

also I'm going to be moving in a few months which is pretty exciting. I feel like I've stagnated quite a bit where I am right now. a nice change of scenery, and the opportunity to be around new and different people, plus the challenge of adapting to a new setting. all of that stuff is difficult but it can also be rewarding.
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MariaTaylor posted...

Eerieka posted...

What's on your mind, everyone? I'm frustrated with work right now since I'm quitting my current job, but they're introducing a new clock-in/pay website thingy which will only be relevant for me for two weeks and the only day I can be trained on it was on a day and time I had planned to get dinner with my friends.

working on a SECRET PROJECT right now. since my last major writing project ended not too long ago I have a bit more free time on my hands and I feel more motivated to put energy toward other pursuits.

also I'm going to be moving in a few months which is pretty exciting. I feel like I've stagnated quite a bit where I am right now. a nice change of scenery, and the opportunity to be around new and different people, plus the challenge of adapting to a new setting. all of that stuff is difficult but it can also be rewarding.

Sounds like you're having a good time! I still plan to get you something on your Steam wishlist for Christmas, too. :P I hope your SECRET PROJECT turns out well. If there's anything I can do to help/participate, let me know! I sometimes miss topics and don't see them until a million other people have posted.

I've only moved once (moving out of my grandparents' house), but that was still within the same city. All my friends live here though, so I couldn't imagine leaving this town. But hey, if a change of scenery is what you need, then hopefully it works out.
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Day 36 (12/21/2018)

Arria tried to open the game from outside of Steam, but it told her to sign in
A: No, fuck you!
Steam: signing out!
A: Noooo! Stand still and let your mother hit you!
K: Going full Rosa already.

THE TRIAL
A: I'll disappointed if this trial if you can call this a trial if the prosecution, defense, and judge is the same pink bitch. Even the White Council in Dresden Files would be like um, no, this is a little suspect! Also, the voices in my head are arguing, and this isnt good because one of them is much better at arguing than the other.

All the human, furniture, witches, and the witches on an even higher lever had gathered in one place.
A: Sentences which out of context make you go err? *cocks head*
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Lambda: The pieces! Have they been gathered?
A: Theres 18. I hope you can count that high
Chiester 00 appears momentarily
A: Hi pretty bunny
She disappears
A: Bye pretty bunny.

Lambda, Bern, and Beatrice take their places
A: I want to ask a question, but I feel like asking is going to make me lose sanity. Is THIS piece Beatrice? Not the lobotomized dead Beatrice who is the real Beatrice, right? I dont even
K: This is the same Beatrice who was in Natsuhis head, so take that as you will.
A: So take this scene with enough salt to feed a third world country? Or is all that salt cocaine? Thats the secret! Natsuhi has been doing cocaine!
K: This scene isnt really happening in any time or space. Its just a theoretical place where you can argue about stuff
A: The hive mind of every lawyer. No wonder theres a lot of cocaine.

Erika comes in and gives a curtsy to the court. Shes super thrilled about being Berns bitch.
A: Please tell me theres porn of these two
K: *excitedly* Oh my god theres SO much porn of them. They might be the two most pornd characters in this series
A: *laughs* I didnt expect that little comment to get such emotion out of you!
Bern and Erika give each other eyes. Lambda tell them to listen to her
A: And now Lambdas angry about being ignored. How DARE Bern bring her vibrator into the bedroom!
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Lambda asks everyone to introduce themselves
Lambda, Bern, and Beatrice do so.
A: Judge, prosecution, and defendant?
Then Battler
A: Witness/literal piece of evidence?

Battler and Beatrice talk about taking their game back
A: I love how this looks like a quiet, intimate moment, but weve been told that Battler is down on the pew while Beatrice is up on a balcony so in reality theyd have to be like LETS TAKE OUR GAME BACK! I imagine Lambda is like umm, we can hear you, you know.

A: The voices want me to point out that one of you is appropriately dressed for a trial. The other is not.
K: Keep in mind this is a Court of Witches and Illusions.
A: True. But Beatrice is dressed like shes from an era where women werent allowed to give legal testimony on trials because they were little more than property.
K: Im sure Kinzo considers Beatrice property
A: Yeah, well Kinzo is senile, drunk
K: And dead
A: Two of those three adjective apply to my store manager
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Battler: Ill calm down and coolly watch everything
A; *guffaw* Bitch, you havent been calm and collected in over a year since weve been playing. The calmest youve ever been was when Beato had you on a leash, which says a lot about you.

Erika: I will stick a charming period on the end of this tale.
A: I thought that was a comment about bloody periods at first! Not punctuation! That says a lot about my brain that I thought Umineko was making a sick joke about the bloody end of a tale rather that just a punctuation mark.

A: I think a certain step in the judicial process was skipped. Actually I think SEVERAL were skipped, but Im just going to talk about one. The swearing an oath to tell the truth. Im assuming that didnt happen as the corpse is talking about being alive.
K: They use the Knox rules in this court, one of which is that non-detectives are allowed to give their opinions and viewpoints, which can be false

Maria introduced herself next. I died, but look Im alive and talking.
A: Oh, at first I thought you werent happy enough to be Maria. Youre just creepy Maria
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A: It really bothers me that they are doing this in the same seating order. Like, do we have to follow Kinzos fucking hierarchy here?

Gohda and Kumasawa are last.
A: Poor Gohda has no fucking clue what hes in for.

Chiester 410 then asks the witches to introduce themselves
A: Oh this is a problem for Kumasawa. Is she just going to turn into Virgillia?
K: its a theoretical world were personas can exist outside their vessel, so all is well.
A: I like to pretend Kumasawa is playing with a Virgilia hand puppet

Then Knox
A: Oh god this is going to trigger some Dresden File memories. Yes! Of course the creepy murderbot is calm and collected! Shes an executioner! Shes done this before! Its not her first rodeo.
Dlanor talks to Battler for a second and has her eyebrows arched look
A: Thats the look of you know Im not really furniture, so dont act like I am.

Then the Chiesters
A; Yes, I get it, youre the bailiff, but Im okay with any excuse to have you on the screen. No, I most certainly dont have a lesbian crush on you, 00!
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410 best Chiester.
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410 is pretty legit, nyeh. But 556 will always have my heart <3
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00 >= 410 > 556

sounds like Aria has good taste...
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Sometimes she does! Other times, I find her taste questionable lol.

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Lambda says she was advised to eat popcorn while watching court by you (meaning Bern, but its in bold which has previously meant to imply the reader)
A: Are you talking to me? Because that is something I would suggest.

Now we come to Natsuhi again
A: Is anyone here surprised that my favorite character is being accused of murder and treason? Add sedition to that and you have my favorite book! Like, after a certain point you have to wonder what is wrong with me.
(Arria has a habit of her favorite characters in fiction being traitors)

Lambda gives a certain face.
A: I dont like that face. Either youre up to something, youre secretly a jack-o-lantern, or you just had the best shit of your life.
K: Well, she does have a jack-o-lantern on her waist
A: *pointing at it and laughing* fuck, I forgot about that thing.
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RIP 556. Fought Valiantly until the end with the Black Witch.
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A salute in honor of 556. ('-'*

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A: I dont get Natsuhi. Youre already dead. If youre guilty, youre dead. If youre innocent, youre still dead.
K: She has her honor
A: I stopped caring about that a LONG time ago
K: But Natsuhi has not.

Beatrice: Natsuhi, you are my master, the new Head of the Ushiromiya family.
A: Im about 95% certain about this point the plot is Natsuhi fell down the stairs, hit her head, fantasized about murdering her family and becoming the next Head.

A: I feel like if the prosecutor and judge are sleeping together, this should be grounds for a mistrial

Game: Beatrice is fighting for her life. She must not lose!
A: considering theres an episode 6 and 7 and 8, Im gonna guess she doesnt lose! Not saying she wins but she wont lose.
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Natsuhi says the lack of an alibi doesnt mean shes guilty
A: Im so sorry, honey, but thats like the biggest problem here.

Erika: Ill explain the how-dunnit later. Ill focus on the who-dunnit now
A *pointing at her*: Youre a bitch. I understand youre logic and reasoning, but youre a bitch

Gaap: The Game Master is mad at us. We should take the initiative
A: This is like if the Lich says to kill the DM before she can fuck with you. This is a level of 4th wall breaking you shouldnt be capable of!

Battler makes a very obvious Divine Comedy reference
A: Thank you, Dante, for your contribution to my Umineko.
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Eerieka posted...

Erika: Ill explain the how-dunnit later. Ill focus on the who-dunnit now
A *pointing at her*: Youre a bitch. I understand youre logic and reasoning, but youre a bitch

She only gets worse and I'm so excited
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I also just noticed that I typed "you're " instead of "your" and I feel like a moron. I deserve to have Erika call me a moron
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A checklist appears
A: Um, hello, are you a checklist? Am I supposed to interact with you?
K: This is the meat of the trial. Theyll go through each of those points.

Kumasawa gives her alibi about going to bed because shes an old woman who cant stay up too late
A: This is bullshit. Every old lady I know stays up until 3 in the freaking morning and then sleeps all day.
K: Ehh, I saw quite a few old ladies in the ER whose habits were to go to bed at 8 in the evening and wake up at the crack of dawn.
A: That wont be us as old ladies!
K: Its not me currently. Wait, am I an old lady?

Erika mentions the receipt trick again
A: Really? Are we really doing this? Its not infallible!
K: True, but this is a conceptual battle where the receipt trick will work because its a rule that it must work.

They talk about the time the murder happened
A: How long does it take to slit five throats?
K: *motioning a slice five times*
A: Hell, if Erika blinked too long, shed miss it.
K: I think it's another conceptual thing. She didn't miss anyone slipping by because the rules don't allow it.
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