Murder Mysterium - Day 5

[idolpro]

Who: You!
Where: The Game Tower
When: TBD - Day 5

[ When morning comes, you find yourselves more than freed from your rooms—the mansion collapses behind the last person leaving, completely and utterly demolished. There might be a couple rooms left standing, but . . . you certainly can't have a murder mystery game like this.

The game isn't quite over yet, though.

You may access the twin garden mazes, encouraged, even—there are alcoves in the gardens with flowers wrapping around the gates that are to your unit's color, and upon entering them you'll be able to speak to your unitmates without fear of being overheard, as though there were some sort of soundproofing barrier. You may only enter your unit-specific alcove. There are also plenty of other non-unit specific alcoves for you to enter and converse with someone, but it won't be entirely private—these pockets don't have soundproofing. Players should comment to relevant private threads that are being eavesdropped.

But before you run off to discuss—


You'll want to gather around the fountain.

Its water's stopped, though rather than any stillness in water you can instead see . . .

The details of each murder, as well as the rules, are available on your phones, and in fact, that and the photos app are the only things you can access on your phone right now. Your powers are off too, although you were allowed to bring whatever items are ordinarily on your person—provided they aren't any weapons. ]

RULES | CHEATSHEET | DAY/NIGHT CYCLES | LOGISTICS & WINNING | ROOMS

MURDER 1 | MURDER 2 | BRING YOUR OWN TOPLEVELS

Comments

[stayathome]

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Two....?

[irregular]

Yeah. Two.

Was there only meant to be one?

1/2

[stayathome]

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No?? Why only two...?? If something went wrong, weren't we all supposed to get blown up?? I don't understand what happened.....

2/2

[stayathome]

[ ah... wait ]

You're suspecting me, aren't you.

[irregular]

Yeah. Yeah, I am.

You got away with it last time, right? All you'd need is one more and you could protect whoever you fuckin' liked.

[stayathome]

[ .... he sounds tired. he IS tired. ]

If I protect anyone, it's going to be your team. There's no one else alive in this game that I care about.

[irregular]

That really ain't the problem here, but I'm not gonna stop you. For the others' sake.

Just... tell me the fuckin' truth, okay? Did you hit sensitIV, or no?

[stayathome]

[ ............. does it matter now? he doesn't know. probably not. ]

We did. I wasn't sure how to tell you. ... it's hard talking in public here, and Hitori said he would try to keep us from being implicated with their clues. [ so like... he had to try a little? ]

[irregular]

So, they did sign up for it.

... thought so. Stupid goddamn fucking martyrs and their stupid goddamn fucking martyr complex.

[stayathome]

[ .... I MEAN HE'S PROBABLY NOT WRONG BUT WHAT IS HE SUPPOSED TO SAY TO THAT???? ]

Yeah.......... well, I also felt bad for killing unarmed civilians so.

[irregular]

Don't. They do this to themselves all the fuckin' time. Probably figured they were helping. Still, they shoulda known better than to give one of the guest units that kinda fucking offer. Christ, what were you gonna do, not take it? Not try and grab yourself a win and get the fuck out?

[stayathome]

What--!? I'm the one who offered to protect you in the first place! I didn't do it to "grab a win", I did it because I felt that I could actually do something useful in this game! Hitori wanted to protect his brother, and I stole that from him! It has nothing to do with "winning"!

[crossmyheartandhope]

Looks like it.

[stayathome]

[ he's uh. he's just been yelling at a 10iv what's up ]

I'm starting to wish we'd been one of the teams to get blown up.

[crossmyheartandhope]

You and me both, dude.

[stayathome]

... it should end tonight, at least. I'm sure that my team will finally be executed for our past crimes.

[crossmyheartandhope]

...oh yeah?

You get bad RNG in another round or something?

[stayathome]

We broke up the alliance between Tenshi and sensitIV, and tried to make things right... but I guess in Tenshi's eyes we were intruding. We may have even insulted them. ... at least, one of them is convinced that we did it only for selfish reasons.

[crossmyheartandhope]

You just find em by accident?

[stayathome]

We'd been choosing rooms that were used in previous murders, but we had no idea they would be there. I wouldn't have picked the room if I'd known.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah... legit, honestly.

Seems like it was easy to run into people you weren't expecting.

[stayathome]

I was hoping to find an opponent, not a victim... are all the games this much of a pain?

[agentgymstudent]

So since there's no point lying now....

What happened with SensitIV?

Because I asked Khonsu for a dark picture to trust you and a light picture that you were full of shit and he gave me a dark cave with someone holding a light.

[stayathome]

... really. ... I guess that means they don't fully trust me, either. [ he seems more depressed by this than anything. ]

My team came across sensitIV completely by chance. We picked the Conservatory just because a murder had occurred there the previous round. But sensitIV was unarmed, so... their deaths were inevitable. I never wanted to come across an unarmed opponent.

So when Hitori mentioned that he had wanted to protect your team, I offered to protect you in their stead. He agreed, and said that they would do what they could to keep us alive so we could actually live to protect you. And that's all I can tell you.

[agentgymstudent]

They may have had limited pictures. Depends on spirit of the question versus literal.

So they just made the best of a bad situation. For a bit, I wondered if this was a weird trap to protect us both.

Going in armed was always a risk though. Not like it'd be a real fight.