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Murder Mysterium - Night 4, Billiards Room

[ pep!pep! and Heart Soldier Senshi enter.

Lingering smoke hangs heavy in the air of the billiards room. The eponymous table stands square in the center of the room, making the place’s purpose clear. The forest green walls on either side are lined with racks, holding pool cues set horizontal like rifles ready to be taken on the hunt. A fire crackles in the hearth, the grate that sections it from the room patterned with organically erratic bronze branches, badly in need of polish on account of soot. On the mantle a leather cigar case sits closed, a box of matches waiting to be lit ablaze perches expectantly atop of it.

It's just the two of you here. ]

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[Sits himself down crosslegged by the wall and leans back against it]

Edited 2021-05-18 19:47 (UTC)

...All according to plan so far.

[Well, she half-suspected they'd be in for a bit of a wait. Besides, from everything she's witnessed and heard so far, Alisaie certainly hasn't been fooling herself that their captors' reaction to the pawns demanding fairer rules and an end to sudden death by blowing up most of the board is going to be, oh well, why don't we call it a night then.

[She won't deny it would be nice. But no tyrant worthy of the name gave up at the first stirrings of revolt.]

In that we successfully turned in a recipe for revolt, yes.

[That was never going to be the difficult part.]

[After a time she's spent poking around, on the lookout for anything obviously out of place, Alisaie comes to sit down next to him.]

Hurricane, are you all right? And you don't have to answer that if it's a stupid question.

[She's not about to ask if he has any reservations, because she has several. It's never fun, to have nothing left to actually do than sit around collecting dust and wait for the reprisal.]

... I wonder if these pairings are random.

[Mayhap this is already part of the scheme.]