week 7

[vicedirector]

seven vices week 7 24 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 Katerina's 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 park and playground next to the clinic. >Mingle? This is Week 7'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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[hopefragment]

[Floating is cheating!! Because she's a dirty, dirty cheater, she might be quick enough to get a glimpse of his own picture atop several lines of white text on a black background before he snaps the folder shut with a discomforted noise. Roxy don't look...]

It's... nothing. Really, I think they just... couldn't find anything, so they made something up. I mean... for their "motive," if it's something you wouldn't want people to know, it makes sense that it could be made up, right? If people believe it anyway...

[Who are you trying to convince, dude??]

[muties]

[ What a nice picture! Is Hinata a secret agent is that his shameful dirty secret. ]

I wouldn't put it past 'em, they are grade A assholes. How bad is it?

[ She wouldn't put it past them b u t she has a feeling Hinata is trying more to convince himself of that than he is actually convinced of it. ]

[hopefragment]

...

[SHSL Secret Agent, no one must know!!

With her floating behind him like that, he can lean back into her arms, just enough to try to rest his head back against her shoulder. It's comforting like this, even if he still feels uneasy just holding that folder.]

...Bad, [he murmurs, fingers squeezing the folder as if that somehow might make it change its contents.] I don't... it's fine, Roxy. It's just made up, anyway.

[muties]

[ Solution: burn the folder. Let it Die. ]

Mhm. [ It sure doesn't sound fine. But she doesn't want to force him to tell her. But she doesn't want him to be so. vague hand gestures. about the whole thing?? She just bumps the side of her head against his affectionately. ] If you say so. Buuuut if on the rare off chance it isn't made up, it's ok and no one can judge you.

[ rhys' is bodypillows, it can't be worse than that hinata ]

[hopefragment]

...No one can judge me, huh...?

[He just tries to rest his head against hers for a second when she bumps him, unsuccessfully trying to bite back a humorless laugh.]

Yeah. You're right.

[He doesn't sound like he thinks she's right, though. Instead he just reaches with his free hand to take hers for a gentle squeeze.]

You're okay?

[muties]

[ Is she going to have to spend this whole week worrying about him. Because damn it, she will. ]

Yeah, I'm a'right. Really, I was expecting a flipbook of most of my life or maybe just a picture of when I was a baby, so.

[ Shrugs. ]

Woooould it make you feel better if I showed you?

[hopefragment]

[He hums and glances back to her with a bit of a concerned frown. He'd very much like to focus on his own problems, but he doesn't like the implication that a flipbook of her entire life would be a valid motive.]

You... don't have to show me, no. It's something... you don't want anyone to know, right? So don't worry.

[He means it. As curious as he is, it's... probably something really personal, right? So he doesn't want to pry.]

I really wouldn't have expected it to be anything like you said, though.

[Come on, Roxy, you're great? The greatest girl in the whole town, to be sure. Will Smith Pose.png]

[muties]

[ Despite offering, Roxy is relieved he says no. With a quick kiss to his cheek, she swings around to land in front of him. Because her minute of flight has probably run out, who knows. ]

Nah? Well, you might be a lil biased.

[ No, you're thinking of yourself Hinata. You're the greatest girl in town. Er, boy. ]

[hopefragment]

[He still manages to flush when she kisses his cheek... ugh listen, it's different when she does it. A small smile flickers across his face for a moment at the accusation, and, well, he can't exactly deny being biased, but...]

It's still not what they gave you, so I think that says something.

[He doesn't hold the smile for long, though, just exhaling a sigh through his nose and raking his free hand through his hair.]

Don't worry about me, it's... fine. It's fake, I know it is. So... don't worry about it, okay?

[muties]

A'right, I won't.

[ 100% a lie, she will worry about it 5ever. Or rather, worry about Hajime in the context of it. But if he thinks it's fake, it must be, right? After all, you don't just forget your most shameful moment, probably. ]

Wanna throw it in the bonfire to show them aholes they can't get your goat with their shitty fake motive?

[hopefragment]

[Things that people shouldn't forget but are somehow capable of forgetting, a lesson by the dangan cast.

He stiffens, fingers clutching the edge of the folder more tightly as he just shakes his head.]

I... no. I want to hang onto it. I mean, it's just...

[It's fake? But he has to prove it. Or if he looks at it it'll... help. Or something.]

Maybe later.

[muties]

[ See, this is why she's going to worry. But she Tried. Then again, she has no intention of burning her 100% authentic motive trash either, but for dumber reasons. ]

A'righty.

[ Reaches up to plant another kiss, this time on his nose. ]

I guess I'll kiss you later, then.

... Catch, I meant to say catch.

[hopefragment]

[He scrunches his nose with a brief smile when she kisses it because hey!! That tickles!! And normally with that kind of comment, he'd at the very least make a joke about why can't she both catch and kiss him later.

Instead he just reaches to briefly touch her shoulder and try for another smile. It doesn't work but... a small attempt was made. Maybe if he just steps away and looks over the folder again, that will help? Or he'll get dragged away for oj by a rude alien. One or the other.]