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ambidex voting #13

A M B I D E X V O T I N G

Another round, maybe this one will end better? Less blood and gore even? No? Well, here are the conditions regardless.:

For anyone who chooses Ally, well, if your opponent chooses Ally as well, then 2BP for each of you and blah blah blah, predictable. Bore him to tears why don't you.

For anyone who chooses Betray, and gets a Betray in return, everyone's BP stays the same and one of you gets fifty coins! That'd be fun, right? A cheeky little gamble. The rest get a pat on the back and that warm feeling of a vote well voted.

Last but certainly not least: for anyone who chooses Betray and their opponent chooses Ally, same deal as last time, two whole memories! Eh, eh? Come on, that's a pretty good deal, right? Take the offer! And the ally person well, they get the usual.

So, happy voting! Calhoun will see all of you later with the results.

BASIC INFO ✖ VOTES + FORMS ✖ RESULTS + REACTIONS

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"I wish he'd asked. I don't mind giving up a few points for something like that." He can make do just fine without a bed; having the ability to get a medical kit was more of his priority when it came to points.

"I think... as long as you're even a little cautious, you won't have the same problem Alfendi did."

"I think most people don't have the same problems Alfendi does," said Heiji. "You should listen to that guy, he likes the gruel."

Well. He supposed someone had to. "Good to hear, though. I'll try and play it safe. If I ended up worse off than him, I don't think I could keep my head up."

"...He does?" Sasuke admittedly isn't a huge fan of the food or anything, but it's... edible. That's about all he really needs. But to actually liking it...?

"He thinks cafeterias are a marvel of modern engineering," said Heiji. "So I guess that means everything they produce is also a marvel...? Told me all about it."

He shook his head. "Don't get me wrong, it's better than nothing, but you'd think there'd be some room in those criteria for taste. That ain't even the weirdest thing about him. He's like super-focused on protecting Hershel's... I dunno. Innocence or somethin'. He's convinced I wanna date him."

"Cafeterias?" That's... interesting. "It really doesn't matter what the food is like as long as it's convenient, basically."

The second part only serves to confuse him even further. "--You didn't tell him you were already dating someone else?" He could understand why, but it would be a good way to deflect, at least.

"Are you kidding? When he thought I liked Clive..." He drew himself up and did his very best impression of Alfendi, complete with total excitable overreaction.

"'No way! Clive? Haha! That's disgusting! Oh my god! That's gross! Clive? Clive?! Why not just date a literal pile of garbage?!'"

Heiji shrugged it off, looking annoyed. "...And then he just kept goin' on like that. If he went off on like Snake like that I'd probably have to pop him one, so I figured I'd just let him think I liked someone else."

Wow, and he'd thought it would have been best to keep it quiet just because Snake was so reserved. That's. A reaction.

"...How did he get the idea you liked Clive?"

Heiji sighed. "I figured it'd help him relax a little if I told him I was dating someone else. I was vague on exactly who, and he battened on Clive as a likely suspect. Then when I said it wasn't him, he just off and ran with it. He's seriously impossible sometimes. I can hardly believe he's related to the Laytons. Maybe he like... married into the family."

Then again, maybe he just lost the genetic lottery. Hard.

"...But wouldn't that mean he would have to be married?" He already sounds like a super bachelor from all that Heiji's said.

"Yeah, but what if his mom married a Layton? Then they both woulda changed their last names. Or I guess he coulda been adopted. Or maybe a real nice Layton girl took pity on him and he changed his name."

He couldn't imagine anyone feeling sorry enough to saddle themselves with Alfendi, to be honest, but if the other Laytons were as kindhearted as Hershel and his parents, then... maybe...

Maybe...................

There's kindness and there's needless self-sacrifice. This would fall firmly under the latter.

"The first two sound more likely. Do you know if either of them remember each other?" It could shed some light on their relation...

"Hershel said he don't remember Alfendi. It's Alfendi that thinks they're related, though he's not too free with the details. Alfendi does seem concerned with Hershel's safety, at least..."

He didn't think that distress in the grey room had been feigned, though of course anything was possible. "I tried to get Hershel to just up and question Alfendi about it straight-out while he's like he is now, but he ain't too keen on it."

"...Do you think it was a bad memory?" He can't think of any other reason why someone would be so reluctant to say much on it, nor why Hershel would hesitate to ask. Confirming that kind of thing would be pretty important, or at least, that's what he thinks.

Heiji shook his head. "No way to tell from a secondhand account. But if I can track him down, I'll ask about it. Oh yeah, Hershel was sayin' we oughtta come up with something different to call the two Alfendis. He suggested 'Al' for the calm one."

-?

"Two...?"

Guess who hasn't actually talked to Alfendi like... at all.

"Oh. You ain't talked to the other one yet, huh?" Wow, Sasuke, were you ever in for a treat.

"Well, it seems like he's got two different personalities. Or close enough, anyway. One of 'em's really calm, the other one's... excitable."

"...I've only talked to him when he's calm." He's assuming, anyway. He was downright lethargic at the time. But maybe he needs to change that; this sounds kind of important.

"Yeah, you should talk to the other Alfendi, then. Maybe bring up murder or fast food, he seems real energetic about those topics."

God, Sasuke. God. Just. Alfendi.

One of those things is a little...

"Why murder?"

"...He's probably one of those weirdos who has a whole bookcase full of reference materials on serial killers and cold cases," said Heiji.

"I mean, when he was talkin' about it to me, he was goin' on about how the motive for murder can transcend the pettiness of human existence and achieve true beauty or somethin'. It was seriously weird. Got real upset with me when I said a lot of murderers were just lowlifes. You know, the type to kill over an inheritance dispute or for control of a company. Or to cover their tracks and try and prevent a scandal."

"So he's just... really interested in murderers?" That's... Okay, now he can really see where Heiji's confusion regarding their relationship is coming from. Sasuke's getting pretty confused himself.

Like... What? Where the heck would a hobby like that come from?

"Uh, interested's one way of puttin' it. Waxing poetic might be another way. He's like... a murder otaku or somethin'."

God where did Alfendi even come from. Maybe he crawled out of a storm drain one day.

Alfendi is secretly a rat king given human form.

"...I wonder what makes him so interested in them...?" There has to be some kind of logical explanation for it. Work maybe, or...

That's it, that's Alfendi...

Heiji shook his head. "Who knows? Not sayin' I don't like a good detective novel now and then, but... I don't really see the family resemblance. I mean, Hershel's so nice. And normal."

"Murder mysteries are one thing, but..." Most of the appeal of that was the mystery as opposed to the murder. Of course Hershel would like a mystery; it's like one big huge puzzle. "...Maybe it really was adoption?"

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