Catch-All for Shess

[specialdog]

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[specialdog]

[ They look decent and edible! Just maybe not so professional. ]

So nowww, I was wondering if you could do me new favor! But this one's easier than solving a puzzle.

[nonbelligerent]

What is it?

[specialdog]

I thought maybe we could trade! You made me give my power to eeeeveryone at the trial.

So I thought maybe you could let me know something good in return! Like your power, or someone else's, or even some fun gossip!

[nonbelligerent]

Sorry for that.

[hm.]

Do you know about the additional, unique abilities some have been granted here?

[specialdog]

[ She blinks, then slowly shakes her head. ]

No. Some people got bonus powers? I know about tying people together for the partnership thing, but...?

[nonbelligerent]

That's one of them, though it sounds like the other ones may not change hands every week.

I don't know the details of what they do or how many there are, other than that there are more than two including the partnership one. Lune wasn't allowed to freely say much about them.

[specialdog]

[ Akane claps her hands together! ]

That is interesting! Way more interesting than what I expected!

So we don't know how many people, or what they can do, just that there are secret powers!

[nonbelligerent]

[he nods.]

I haven't heard people talk about them, so I don't think many people know yet.

[specialdog]

I'm sure it's dangerous to out yourself as someone with that kind of power. The corruption would go straight for your throat!

[nonbelligerent]

That's true. It's dangerous to be useful.

[specialdog]

But then that also means that someone with a power could be killed by coincidence, and if no one knows what they had, we won't know that we've lost it.

That's rough, too.

[nonbelligerent]

Yes. At the very least, losing whoever was given the partnership ability in the present week will always be a concern.

Good job with the second partnership, though.

[specialdog]

[ Hm. She's a little startled, but. ]

Ehehe, I didn't really do anything.

[nonbelligerent]

You played a part in it, and because of that, two lives were saved. No need to be modest.

[specialdog]

Who'd you find out from? This makes me a little worried for my friends.

[ Her friends being the people she did the escape room with. After all, one of them already died... They're. Definitely friends! Yeah?! Sure! ]

[nonbelligerent]

Lune. I asked about the second partnership and he told me that it was given by "accomplishing tasks against the instability that dwells within the gateways."

Don't worry, he wasn't allowed to confirm any details past that. It was only obvious because I'd already spoken to you.

[specialdog]

That's a relief! I know Lune-san would never put us in danger.

[ honestly at this point just this part of the image sums up most of Akane's cr. ]

[nonbelligerent]

[akane sTOP]

I take it it's not something you want people talking about?

[specialdog]

Mm, I just worry about everyone, you know? If someone finds out we left something useful with North, they might target her. The same for Four, or for me.

It might have already happened to Nana.

[nonbelligerent]

Do you think the first aid kit was a part of it at all?

[specialdog]

I don't know. But she had it, and then she turned up dead, and the first aid kit got all messed up.

[nonbelligerent]

It's true that it's a worrying coincidence at best, if potentially something more ominous.

North and Four seem as though they have some means of defending themselves, at least. What about you?

[specialdog]

Welllll, I've got that thing from the puzzle box, thanks to you.

[ a box-cutter??? it's fine, don't worry about it ]

[nonbelligerent]

Hopefully, you'll never have to use it.

[specialdog]

Hopefully. I'd really have to be pushed into a corner to try and use it as a weapon...