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Murder Mysterium - 10IV

[ Your unit-colored alcove has its own seating—benches, rather than any specific number of chairs, line the green bushels. It's wide enough to comfortably fit all of your unitmates if necessary, though it's likely not all of you will be here at a time. You're aware, somehow, that the space is soundproof; you could say whatever you like here and it won't be heard by anyone but your unitmates.

At the center of your "room" is what looks to be a marble table, but upon further inspection you'll note that the surface is actually electronic, a touch screen that mimics the visual texture of marble. Here, you have a number of options of things to choose from, and you can even pull up a keyboard or write with your finger for a certain freeform answer section. ]

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...you mean the biography section? Though, it's not really...

...well, it's not so much a biography but an old poem.

Once, there was a maiden...
....who was always looking forward to the way things would be.
She said, "Someday, I'm getting out of this place."
"Someday, I'm going to kill that boy that put me here."
"And while I wait, I don't much mind,
'cause it's better to dream tomorrow than to be there."
....
"I'm holding at bay," she said, "what I know to be true."
"That I'll never get out. I won't let my dreams die!"
"I'll hang on to hope," she said, "until Time itself ends. But--"
"There's always an ending," said Time.

Once, there was a maiden...
...who was the living embodiment of everything right in the world.
While she lived, no real harm could come to anyone.
Oh, wounds, disease, even death, sure.
But she stood between the world and anything worse.
...
"Except," she said, "I'm going to die." And no one listened.
"I'm going to die tomorrow," she said. And no one heard.
Into the silence, she said, "There's always an ending, after all."

I always liked that one more.

Ah, then you're—

...from home.

.......though, really, neither of those are my favorites. They feel a little too on the nose, these days.

If they're so on the nose, how come nobody ever gets them? Even my co-workers think I'm weird for thinking too much about that sort of thing, which is probably why I don't have coworkers anymore.

Oh! That, and I died. Abyssals really know how to hit you like an avalanche, you know? Well, you wouldn't.

No, I just got killed by, ah. Several other things converging on me, mostly.

Has everyone really forgotten those and what they refer to? They always seemed clear enough to me.

I'm aware! I helped arrange that. Well, mostly I told everyone that it was kind of stupid and wouldn't actually fix anything and is actually really wasteful, and then told everyone who agreed with me that they're idiots, and then everyone ignored me because I had zero seniority.

Then I helped out anyway! It was pretty exciting.

Anyway, everyone forgot because the kids these days, I don't know.

[ uh????? ]

...I don't suppose you have designs on doing it again?

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No, I just told you I thought it was kind of stupid. And honestly, ever since I got here I've started thinking a lot of things we decided were good ideas are actually really stupid ideas? It's not like it really matters to you anyway, since -

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- Ohhhh, right. You're here because you're deaaaad. People don't like it when that happens to them, especially not ten seconds after it happened.

...admittedly I made my peace with that some time ago! I'm not really looking for a second chance myself, but it would be a little inconvenient right now if someone were to kill me.

Probably also upsetting for the children?

My parents died right in front of me when I was a child and I thought that was neat, actually! The kidnapping afterwards was less neat.

Sorry, but—

...where do I know you from? You certainly know me, but...

Didn't your mother ever teach you to not ask people their true identity? The name I'm using right now is Contrivance of Circumstantial Evidence, which you would remember as well as any other name I gave you.

(That's a clue!)

(Just try remembering things you've forgotten!)

[ wait

uh

wait— ]

...Secrets? No, Endings, isn't it?

That's right! You're so smart!

Everything you say sounds really suspicious, you know.

Oh, that's out of habit! It's easier to trick people if they think you're tricking them.

...wouldn't it be the opposite, er... you'd want people to trust you if you're going to trick them, wouldn't you?

Haha, no way! It's like a joke, see? Everyone's always waiting for the punchline, and it's way funnier if it's something they don't expect! But if you tell a joke when nobody's expecting one, then they just think you're kind of weird and don't want to talk to you anymore.

For various reasons, I have an unnatural preoccupation with being seen as a normal girl (or boy) who doesn't have an obsession with the transitory nature of things, so having lived my life that way I just have the sort of personality where it's waaaay easier for me to do the thing that doesn't make people think I'm weird and instead do the thing that makes them think I'm a loveable rogue that can and will backstab them at any moment for a bigger paycheck, so that when I don't do that at the most critical, fateful, and narratively convenient moment, they trust me unconditionally just in time for me to get them to do the thing I spent all that time conditioning them to do!

Edited 2021-05-18 05:07 (UTC)

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