Imeeji Idol Productions ([personal profile] idolpro) wrote2020-09-27 10:56 am

PRINCESS MAKER 1.5: ☆ZRAEL

[ When you insert the key and open the door, you'll find the room inside looks like the living room of a mansion. There are several doors, but one in particular stands out to you: it is ornately decorated, the very door's wood itself carved beautifully with gold etched in to make luxurious patterns depicting what looks like the sky and the wind blowing through the grasslands. Though the door is closed, you can see through it—as if it's somewhat transparent.

The room is painted baby blue and a gold-plated cradle sits in the room. Inside, a baby cries—high pitched and noisy. That child, your charge—you're her nursemaid, so you go to her and rock her to sleep. ]

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[ Slowly, the scene changes, fading in and out with various silent scenes—the baby sits up, trying to climb out of her cradle; a little toddler dressed prettily with expensive clothes beams pleasantly; a tantrum, thrown by the little girl who's distressed; the little girl holding a puppy, pleased as punch; then the wall becomes opaque. ]

[ In the middle of the open doorway, a young girl at the age of 11 sits on a chair, smiling at you. A long-haired, pure white cat is curled up beside her.

This is your little girl. you couldn't help spoiling her, honestly—after all, she's a noble too, and she should like to become a princess as well. She deserves it! But you also know, with how her family history has gone, she's going to have to work to get to the top. Still, you have faith in her—she's your girl, after all. Fortunately, when she goes to the Lost Continent, she won't be alone: you, as her longtime caretaker (her third parent, really, or her first, if you consider how her family's left her care entirely to you), may accompany her to her new school. You'll be her ally, her support, her greatest weapon; you'll be the one who determines her success . . . or her failure. ]

[ Of course, you're not the only one that thinks your charge deserves the world: in the dark of the night, you received an ill omen. A vision of nightmare, if you will. You saw the flames dancing high, blood spreading through the rivers and streams - if the wrong person were to rebuild the Lost Continent, one not properly blessed by the shadows, then the calamity of dragonfire and hatred that had consumed this land centuries ago would once again visit it.

And you know this, because you saw it. Because you were told. Because you know. In this vision, you saw her - the girl impaled, the monster sent to her death for the crime of simply being too monstrous to be allowed to live free: ☆☆☆oth.

And as if that were not proof enough, the next day, you received a letter in the mail.

Your daughter would be sent to the Lost Continent, and you knew that she must be the one to rebuild it - even if she had to become a monster to do so. ]
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] avestan 2020-09-27 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
More than that, do they even know who died? We were kinda assuming it was another kid, but... that was never actually established.

And there's a lot of other inconsistencies too. If Annie was a witch, why would she need a pipe to kill someone? And when the murder happened, her diligence was in the negatives, so how the hell could she have even pulled off bludgeoning someone to death?
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] constellationprize 2020-09-27 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. And that book, too - it depends on what sort it was, but I don't think that she would have been able to read it to use the magic that was there.

Those are things that we can prove too, aren't they? Her martial arts teachers would know how weak she was when they first started, and her mathematics and science teachers sent notes of the places she was struggling home with her, too.
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] avestan 2020-09-27 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I think we've got a pretty good case to make it clear that at the very least, there's not enough proof pointing to her as the killer.

There's something more going on, though. Doesn't it kinda seem like someone really wants people worrying about witches, and specifically these girls potentially being witches?
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] constellationprize 2020-09-28 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
It's a little strange, to hear it talked about that way, but there are places where it isn't good to do those things too, aren't there ...

If there's someone that's trying to stop the girls in her class from becoming princesses, then we should try talking to the other parents, shouldn't we?
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] avestan 2020-09-28 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
We definitely should.
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] constellationprize 2020-09-28 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
. . . I want to investigate that book, too.
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] avestan 2020-09-28 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
It might be hard to get our hands on it, but we can try.

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] constellationprize 2020-09-28 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ ah ]

We got a letter ...

If I send letters to all of the parents, do you think you or the others could ask about that book?

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] avestan 2020-09-28 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Sure. The book and the body both.

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] constellationprize 2020-09-28 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[ in the meantime she's writing out two letters, both of which say,

Noble sirs,

With regard to the current tensions surrounding our class 2B, it seems to us that there may exist external matters which have caused further agitation. We know well that your own child, as well as our own, has brought harm to no one; expressed most simply it is rather our belief, as such rumors abound, that there may be someone intent upon denouncing each student in the class as a witch, such that they may not become princesses.

To that end, for the sake of our children, we would hope to cooperate and see them all well. We shall in turn provide to you our full assistance and cooperation.

We urgently await your reply.

Yours sincerely,

☆ZRAEL


P.S. - Let this dove carry its message to you well. Once its purpose has been well-served, we would be overjoyed were you to consider it a gift for your daughter. ]
Edited 2020-09-28 01:08 (UTC)
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] stakesthesame 2020-09-28 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Annie says she couldn't tell who the dead guy was.

And that the Baritones kid was with her when they saw dog girl running.
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] avestan 2020-09-28 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
She told me she's not even sure it was dog girl, it could've been someone in her clothes.

Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] stakesthesame 2020-09-28 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

... I dunno. What's the chances someone did it from outside? Can we figure out who the body even IS?
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Re: DISCUSSION

[personal profile] avestan 2020-09-28 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
We should at least try to look into it. I mean, it's kinda weird that we don't know, right? It should be really obvious if someone from the school went missing.

But even if the corpse isn't from the outside, I'm starting to think there's a pretty good chance the killer is.