You don't have to provide the solution outright. You do have to establish that you're trying to provide it and working toward that goal. If people can see an effort being made, they're more likely to trust you than if you assume anything you might say means nothing until you know exactly how to fix it.
They might get frustrated at a lack of progress. They might want you to just hand over the answers, or think you're withholding them. The only way to get past that is to be more open about what you're trying to do about it, and to let them work with you on it if there's anything you can delegate.
We have no authority over the school traditions, so if another murder occurs, I can't promise we can influence the trials or the expulsion process. Trying to prevent a murder might be a different story, at least. What would you suggest?
Are you required to assist us with transactions? It won't help handle the weapons some of us arrived with, but if you can just make sure you don't let people have anything dangerous...
I'm allowed to refuse transactions, though a number of people from Spring Dorm have previously asked about obtaining weapons. They're not going to be happy with a ban.
I'm not allowed to explicitly reveal anyone's purchase history. Though if it becomes relevant, there might be ways to get around that to a degree. I just can't promise anything right now.
That's fair enough. If it does become relevant, I'll ask.
Related to preventing harm, however-- I heard you may be able to help us with abilities we no longer have, and there was one that might be useful. A barrier that I could create.
[if they end up unable to stop anyone from trying to murder, maybe she can at least try to protect people to the extent she can. not everyone, the spell doesn't work that way without a strong power source, but even if she could just protect one person-- it'd be enough.]
In its base state, it would be enough to form a barrier around one person to block attacks against them. Given a strong enough power source to channel, I can theoretically do more with it, but
I doubt that's going to be a possibility.
[that would probably get prohibitively expensive real fast!]
This likely won't be as powerful as you're hoping for. However: At the lowest possible cost — not including general discounts on voucher exchanges — at 12 vouchers, that would allow you to regain a one-time use of a time-limited barrier, though blocking a fatal attack in particular would cause it to break.
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Then you'll understand that words are often empty.
There's no point in me asking for anyone's trust if I can't yet provide a solution to the problem.
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They might get frustrated at a lack of progress. They might want you to just hand over the answers, or think you're withholding them. The only way to get past that is to be more open about what you're trying to do about it, and to let them work with you on it if there's anything you can delegate.
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[keeping it in mind and hopefully maybe trying is enough for now.]
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Trying to prevent a murder might be a different story, at least. What would you suggest?
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Are you allowed to provide a record of transactions if needed?
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Related to preventing harm, however-- I heard you may be able to help us with abilities we no longer have, and there was one that might be useful. A barrier that I could create.
[if they end up unable to stop anyone from trying to murder, maybe she can at least try to protect people to the extent she can. not everyone, the spell doesn't work that way without a strong power source, but even if she could just protect one person-- it'd be enough.]
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I doubt that's going to be a possibility.
[that would probably get prohibitively expensive real fast!]
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This likely won't be as powerful as you're hoping for. However:
At the lowest possible cost — not including general discounts on voucher exchanges — at 12 vouchers, that would allow you to regain a one-time use of a time-limited barrier, though blocking a fatal attack in particular would cause it to break.
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[don't read too much into this the mods are just revising things and i'm running back here sweats]
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