Part 9: First Playthrough - 10 PM

[SFX: Crickets, wind, stray noises]

[SFX: The sirens are producing gravelly static, as if they were burning in a fire.]



It always seems like the sun will never set until we look up and find it already has. The sirens buzz a little louder now; they always buzz louder at night.

The devil is weak and humans are strong, and that is the way it has always been. Even a kid can kill the devil. All she has to do is try.



♀: We should make the rounds...maybe?
♆: We should do something else.
♃: We should make the rounds.
♀: Or we could...do something else?
♃: Come on. We have to. It might be nothing but if we don't check we'll get in trouble.



[MUSIC: The Sirens]

Jupiter pulls herself up by her radio. It's long and thin and delicate, but then there's that awful weight at the end.

♃: Let's all go. Bring your radios.
♀: And leave everything else?
♃: Yeah, why not? It's not like anyone's going to steal it.
♀: What if he comes by when we're gone?
♃: Mmm. That's true...
♆: Ugh. Who cares.
♃: The captain...a lot, probably.
♆: Ugh.
♃: I know.
♀: But it's not good for one of us to be alone.
♆: That's why there shouldn't be three of us in the first place. This is such a joke.
♀: It makes sense for two people to go out and one to stay here...
♆: Ugh. Yeah. Fine.
♃: ...
♃: Yeah. We should do something else, actually. Truth or Dare again?



♀: The sirens are louder tonight...I can definitely hear something—
♃: No forget it, I don't want to. Let's just not. He's never gonna know.
♃: And tonight's just going to turn out to be another night where nothing happens, right?
♃: I don't want to...
♃: Let's just stay here.
♆: That's what I was SAYING.
♀: What if the captain comes to check on us?
♆: Nah. He's going home with his girlfriend or whatever she is tonight.
♆: Irresponsible. Gross. Whatever. It's so him.
♆: He's not going to bother us and even if he did we could say we were totally just about to or we already did and how's he going to know.
♀: Cool. Good.



It's an easy and correct choice to make. It would have been nice to go together, but we can't.

We should do the irresponsible thing and stay in the sleeping bags and piles of clothes until we're happy.

[SFX: In the distance, an overpowering siren wails.]

♃: Ah, here come the sirens.
♀: ...no, ow, they're so loud.

[MUSIC: Victim of Circumstance]

♆: God, why won't he shut up.

But god has spoken, on that unmistakable frequency.





♀ + ♆ / ♃ + ♆ / ♀ + ♃

Now this hour's interesting. We have THREE choices for a pairing, meaning no pairing is conditionally left out. All possibilities are accounted for here!

So who's going to make the rounds? The choices are Venus and Neptune, Jupiter and Neptune, or Venus and Jupiter.