week 4

[vicedirector]

seven vices week 4 28 players remaining ♫ monday - thursday Monday morning begins just like the rest, slow and uneasy. At 12pm, every television will go off with its usual bout of static, followed by a calm, albeit disinterested, voice. "Please gather in the hotel lobby within the next hour." That's all that it says before the televisions turn off. Anyone not in their rooms will hear the voice echoing around them as if through a speaker system, although there are (still) no speakers present. After hearing the motive, characters who choose to explore will find that the void around the town has retracted a bit, and there is now a police station to the far east of the chapel. On the chapel wall near the altar, black and white portraits of Youko, Zelos, and Morrigan have been hung up. Anyone looking for them will find that Youko's pink shoes and the fragments of Zelos's crystal are now gone. >Mingle? This is Week 4's mingle log, covering Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday. Investigations will go up on Friday. When posting toplevels, specify the time and location. If you plan on having any private conversations between characters, remember to let us know in the post linked below. More plot elements will be introduced this week. Mod comments will be occasionally distributed to open toplevels, accordingly. cast setting rulebook profiles private conversations

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[lastgirl]

Both. In my homeland, I am the last woman alive. Humanity will one day die out unless I reproduce.

[herbgrace]

I'm honestly not sure. [There could be in this place!]

[herbgrace]

If this is actually an air raid we should be getting to a shelter, or at least somewhere away from windows and things that will easily break and low to the ground. [Since this place, last she knew, did not include a convenient air raid shelter.]

[unpleasantries]

So humanity is doomed, then.

[Because Buddy lives the #misandrylife]

[herbgrace]

Why is that? [She's genuinely curious.]

[lastgirl]

[She tilts her head a little, curious as to what he means.]

What reasons then?

[dereban]

Just women, huh...

[ She just mutters that aloud as she stares at the sign. ]

tuesday afternoon

[muties]

[ No one's spilled the beans yet? Man, it's TEMPTING. But she must stay strong...! ]

Well, take a guess. What do you think it means?

[jackhole]

[ okay so, they're arguing now. this is happening. rhys looks shocked for a moment before again he laughs and gives a shake of his head. ]

Oh! Okay! That makes so much more sense now. This is a thing you do, yeah? You let people die for you. Wah, wah, my family died to protect me. Get over it. No one cares. You just let someone else die to protect you. Again. Good fucking job, kiddo!

[ he runs a hand through his hair, frustrated and angry. this is all bullshit. ]

I don't care if I'm a coward, at least I don't leave a pile of corpses behind me. This just proves it, honestly. Who would have been more useful to have around in a game where people are forced to kill each other? Morrigan. She was pragmatic, she was smart, she had fucking sense. Instead we get some useless brat with a freaky fixation on women who won't lift a god damn hand to help anyone else unless it saves herself.

[ he jabs a finger at the poster then. ]

This? Empty fucking words that won't benefit anyone. You got off scot-free, you might as well just shut up and leave the rest of us alone.

[lastgirl]

...

Men have done nothing but hurt me my whole life. They never let me have a choice of what I want with my life, and when I tried to make that choice they did everything they could do stop me.

I'm the last woman of my homeland Olathe. Maybe the last woman alive. All of the men want me to be their savior, while treating me as a prize in the same stroke.

[thebonezone]

all week

[from around noon until six pm, in front of different buildings depending on the day (monday: general store, tuesday: hotel, wednesday: chapel, thursday: police station) sans is standing behind what looks, from afar, to be a cardboard box with a sign planted on it. if you come any closer, it still looks exactly like that. the sign says ""HOT DOGS" FOR SALE" in comic sans. in smaller print, it says "price negotiable". there is no sign of any hot dog or "hot dog" on the box, though the appropriate condiments are there.

from 3 to 4, the sign says OUT FOR A BREAK. sans is just napping behind the box. in the snow.

from 6 to 7, the sign says "THE PSYCHIATRIST IS IN" for some reason...? a closer look will reveal that "psy" has been scratched out and replaced with the word dog written in a scrawl on top. sans is nowhere to be found, but there is a small dog sitting where he should be.]

[unpleasantries]

[THIS IS THE WORST DAY EVER]

Given the context of the discussion it came up in, I've been taking it to imply some sort of unfaithfulness to one's partner.

[symbologic]

Even if we were capable of tampering with such...primitive technology [Giving that monitor a slightly haughty look because this goes well beyond ancient, in his eyes.] I doubt it would do us much good. The announcement has already been made. It's not as though we need this [Gesturing to the computer.] to relive our regrets...

[dhaosu]

[ His lips quirk up slightly, but not quite in amusement. ]

Yes, it does come as a surprise. Did you actually manage to discover something useful?

[dereban]

I honestly hope not. [ Like please no.... is this the True Motive?? ]

I just hope that this is some sort of mistake or something else entirely different.

[earie]

[ There are clips of Sadie with a girl, either kissing or looking as though they're arguing before the girl descends down a staircase.

Sadie remains quiet and places her hands on her earmuffs protectively, hunching down a bit. ]

[herbgrace]

[...Okay, that's a pretty justifiable reason, especially for someone so young. And, while Lithuania doesn't suffer from nearly so extreme a case, she can understand the frustration in decisions being taken from you and the desire of others to lock you away in some sort of tower, metaphorical or literal.]

Your homeland sounds like a difficult place. Have you met other women at all before you arrived here? [The way she speaks, it's obvious her mother must be dead for Buddy to say she may be the last woman alive.]

[vicedirector]

[ Doesn't seem so. It's literally just a monitor stuck into the wall. Classy. ]

tuesday, 6ish??

[dereban]

... Um. Are you the only one here?

[ Just going to speak to the dog because ????? ]

[earie]

Yes. [ She is so pleased, this is obviously because she solved the case before anyone else. What do you mean Morrigan wasn't guilty?? ]

tuesday, ~6:30

[unpleasantries]

[reaches out to pet the dog]

[muties]

It's a lil' outdated, but maybe we could get it to play something else less stupid if we could hack it. Like, IDK, I'd accept even some shitty anime.

[whereisyourdognow]

[the dog barks. it does not seem to be capable of speech. it does, however, lean closer to inaba.

pet??????]

[muties]

[ Gosh, murder village, get your shit together. ]

[fluorospar]

[He's... he's not wrong.]

True enough. Just... [...] You seem to have taken this harder even than most. Be cautious, and take care of yourself and your health.