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]

You don't need to trust me. All you need to know is that I don't want any more women to die. But I understand.

[fluorospar]

... I sincerely hope that that is the case.

[But she's not going to pick that apart, because if that's what Buddy's holding onto to keep going, what right does Selena have to undermine it?]

[dhaosu]

...Have you been in a situation where the technology acts like this with those screens?

[ Screens as in TV. Bombs would be the bomb (not). ]

[lastgirl]

[the one true buddy system.]

If it keeps women from dying from this point on, I will gladly be a human shield for my kind.

[fluorospar]

[Look, she's not going to... deny that, but--]

You are doing the best you can, in a situation that no person should ever be in. That much should be respected, and in that sense you are no different from the rest of us.

That is what I believe.

[unpleasantries]

[In the most soothing, kind voice she has ever used her entire stay:]

Okay, good dog. Just stay like this and let me see what's on your collar...

[Keeping one hand on his belly to rub it, she reaches for the tags with the other, so that she can try to read them.]

[fluorospar]

Perhaps somewhat.

[It's okay, Dhaos, she's not judging!!]

I suppose this week's motive is... harder for you, then?

[unpleasantries]

[Theoretically there is nothing stopping her from taking the dog and running, and she does briefly consider this.

...But she decides against it, because it belongs to someone else. She lets the dog sit on her lap, ANYTHING FOR DOG.]

What a good dog you are! You're very friendly.

[keepshispride]

Do what you want, but you do know you don't owe them anything just because you have something in common with them. Yes?

[muties]

[ Clearly an air raid shelter will be the next thing revealed from the void. ]

Who would be even air raiding this place? Gaysbaum, the next town over where everyone's assigned virtues instead of sins?

[stupidly]

What's an air raid siren?

[HE'S TOO VICTORIAN FOR THIS THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE PLANES YET.]

[stupidly]

Rhys?

[GLANCING OVER... Every time Rhys does the little oh noooo whine, Gilbert knows it's time to be a little concerned...]

[unpleasantries]

So all of the letters stand for something...

[That doesn't really help, but she'll give it a shot.]

D...I...L...F. Hmm. I don't suppose the I stands for idiot.

[Which, relatedly, is what she feels like right now, but maybe if she humors Roxy enough she will tell her???]

[whereisyourdognow]

[there is! at the end of the infinite scarf sheet is a folded piece of cardboard. the sheet is tied to it through a poorly-made hole. does inaba dare open it. and more importantly

the annoying dog seems to be getting impatient, pawing at inaba repeatedly. either he really wants her to open it, or he wants more pets. it is hard to tell because he keeps looking at the cardboard.]

[whereisyourdognow]

[the annoying dog vibrates in place. he is so very happy.

...he is also making an odd clinking noise every time he vibrates.]

monday!

[stupidly]

There really is an entire town out in that abyss...

[This is more of a self-directed mutter of an observation than a conversation starter, but that's what Gilbert intends it to be, anyway...

He'd been looking through the police station himself, of course, but they end up at the jail cell at the same time. He hovers somewhat warily outside of it, eying the place from top to bottom.]

[dhaosu]

I see. So you have a photographer graphic memory. I suppose that is an actual point in your favor, for once.

[ He just draws a layout or something when something pops up. Having that good if a memory means the guy is good for something, it seems. ]

...

I have never been to Earth, either. I presume you hail from a different locale, then?

[ Flips a page through someone's ugly mug. If he ever discovers something useful from this he will laugh. ]

[dereban]

[ This feels like a trap. Swallowing hard, she decides to open it. ]

Let's see what we have here...

wednesday!

[stupidly]

[TIME FOR GENSOKYO AND PSEUDO-VICTORIAN STRUGGLES. Gilbert, who's been collecting more cigarettes, pauses long enough to look over at the can.

...

That's a good question, Satori.]

Er— With a knife, maybe? [Holding a hand out!] Can I see it for a second?

[unpleasantries]

[That's weird. Still petting the dog with one hand, she starts randomly patting him in various places to see if she can determine the source of the clinking...a collar, maybe? Something stuck in his tail???]

[symbologic]

[Faize comes across Buddy sometime post-signage hanging while he's looking for Miata. So maybe somewhere outside the hotel, if that's where she'd be. Or inside, it's wherever. He regards her quietly for a moment or two before speaking.]

...how much of our discussion on Thursday night was the truth?

[He wants to believe that all of it was, but after what happened to Morrigan, he's honestly not sure what to think anymore. But he wants to try and make sense of it, all the same.]

monday!

[stupidly]

[Modern (or "modern") guns are a bit beyond Gilbert, but he doesn't have marksmanship on his card for no reason - he's definitely familiar with them, too. There's no hesitation before he nods.]

I agree. I can help, if you wouldn't mind letting me watch you do the first.

[He's hoping it's not too different from what he's used to.]

[lastgirl]

I'm not sure what you mean. [She grumbles a little.] Morrigan told me something like that too. That women can be just as cruel and evil as men in the end.

[lastgirl]

[She looks at him a little confused and crosses her arms.]

All of it. I don't see any reason to lie about my circumstances, even if I may not like talking about it.

[lastgirl]

...If you need safety, you know where to find me.

[With that, she'll begin to walk off.]