week 2 - investigation

[vicedirector]

seven vices case 2 - investigation ♫ friday On Friday morning, everyone will wake up with all of their crippling paranoia gone. Or, well, as much as they had before coming here (looking at you, Inaba). Anyone heading out into the lobby will notice that the mirror is gone. And that can only mean one thing. >Investigate? cast setting

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[stupidly]

[HE'S SORRY MORRIGAN he exists to be the Gloomy Straight Man no one ever asked for...

But he doesn't bat a lash when Break goes over to raid some snacks for later in the middle of this INVESTIGATION because really, it wouldn't be Break if he wasn't doing ridiculous shit that makes him question why he stuck around for ten years.]

I don't think there's a body in here. [Unless it's cut into pieces and stuffed into various baskets like an easter egg hunt...] But it's strange for these chains to be here and nothing else, right? Why go out of their way to do that?

[disapproved]

[ it looks like everybody's doing that thing where they go back to pretending that rhys isn't there, so she'll do the same, idly shuffling through the shelves and peeking in paper bags for anything that could be misplaced, despite assuming she would find nothing. might as well just pass time until the announcement was made. ]

I see no point in fretting about it now. For all we know, it could be mere chance, or another rose to distract us from the scent of rubbish.

[ rubbish, of course, being the truth; another possible red herring. ]

[jackhole]

[ see, the real surprise here is that rhys actually believed people would pay attention to him. for one sweet, glorious second, he really did think things had changed. they hadn't, of course, but he definitely thought they might!

everyone starts moving around and rhys is just going to keep standing there, lone straw man it up with his arms crossed. he is a LONE ISLAND who has been BETRAYED by gilbert so whatever gilbert's doing right now doesn't count. rhys is a little bit petty like that. gilbert's not invited to his inner melodramatic dialogue.

he lifts a hand to run it over his hair again before pausing, realizing he just did that, and shoving it back into its place around his chest again. he clears his throat and goes to speak -- ]

MAYBE THEY TIED THEM UP.

[ and apparently accidentally shouts! he looks a little mortified but he just wanted to be part of the conversation again. ]

I-If you're just going to take two of the chains, not all three, you'd be using them for something. Right? They'll probably know when they find the body.

[ "they" because obviously team shady over here isn't going anywhere, apparently. ]

[crazily]

[ Break looks over Rhys's way, since he's actually startled that he shouts, but his expression also flattens fairly quickly. ]

...That's a possibility. But why not take all of them? If you're tying someone up to kill them, it seems like being through wouldn't be a bad thing.

[stupidly]

[Gilbert actually makes a little startled sound and jumps when Rhys shouts, so Break is still doing better than him. AS USUAL. Look, he's tired and he hasn't had coffee yet because people are dead, probably.

But anyway, more sensibly:]

...Maybe they didn't have time to take the third? Unless it is somewhere else, in which case Morrigan might be right. I don't see why they would go out of their way to drop them off here, otherwise.

[disapproved]

[ morrigan, instead, abruptly stops fiddling with the little paper bags to glower towards rhys. calm down? the three of them could probably kill him at the drop of a needle if they were sufficiently frightened, so she has to wonder how deep rhys's intrepid nature goes. ]

'Tis impossible to solve a puzzle with but one piece, no matter how strong the conjecture for where the piece goes. [ in other words slow your roll guys ] Regardless, one of us should prepare to submit the chain as a sort of evidence in the ensuing trial.