Looks like it. We might need to try and go over what we can remember from that clusterfuck and separate out what connects to him to figure out everything.
How do we even get around that. We have clues based on where we stay, but there's also a chance someone won't have stayed in the room something happened in. We're a finite group of people, and our numbers keep dropping.
Plus with these ... strange disappearances that keep happening, groups end up in the medbay, which limits our numbers more.
[ mood, what the fuck is a clown. don't know 'em. ]
...maybe we should try to spread ourselves out deliberately. Pair off, so no one ends up alone, and try to have someone in most of the rooms that people don't usually end up checking?
[the kitchen's probably fine to pass on, since it seems to come up at trial All The Time...]
I think there are issues in letting people know where we're staying, though. Especially if someone's looking for their target. We can agree to pair off amongst ourselves, but someone could randomly pick the same room as you anyway.
[ that's... basically what happened in the rec room, after all. ]
Although I think people do tend to gravitate to the higher floors and congregate there. [ ... ] It sounded like the planetarium had the same effect as the first week though, didn't it? Stars falling from the sky. [ both weeks someone was framed. ] So maybe we need to keep that in mind.
Right... [she hates it, but...] ...there's really not much in the way of knowing who to trust, at this point.
[their really obvious murderers are either dead or slated to be dead, soon. well, most of them, anyway. there's still the clown, but unfortunately, douman has been very nice to shi qingxuan, so they're not on her radar, really.
not in more than a "fukuda said it might be them and he turned up innocent so we should at least look into it" kind of way.]
That's true... we could pair off among ourselves in smaller groups, then, and at least try to cover each of the floors. If some of the effects do seem to repeat, or at least happen in a way that's similar to previous weeks - well, maybe that's a clue. If there's suddenly something different, then it could mean that's the week that place was involved.
"Sleep with one eye open"? I'm not sure we can trust people completely. We've known each other three weeks, after all. I've had people I've known years turn out to be backstabbing little bastards.
[ ... ]
Maybe this place finds a way, regardless. The coffee in the rec room, and the smell of bread linked Luca's murder and the room he was in before we all fell asleep. But the biome garden had stone roses and the people there were attacked by plants -- probably linked to Luca's murder, but he didn't go into the biome garden.
she looks briefly up at yuri's face at that - backstabbing little bastards, huh? - and then down at her hands.]
The only connection between Luca and the garden that I can think of is that Vlad started out there, and ended up dead in the same room as him... but, ah. The plants were attacking us before we all fell asleep - before anyone died.
[so, are they really related...? does this place know, somehow, how things are going to turn out?]
Surely we would've been able to look there if it was connected, or something had happened in there. And then there was the tea room as well -- Gu Yun found cactus needles there.
That's... probably where the confrontation began, then? It certainly didn't end there. [because luca's body appeared while they were searching a different room.] It ended in the music room.
[mmmgh... thinking is hard.]
Then there was the common room - with the larger footprint. I'd have thought that unrelated, or perhaps related to Steven's death in an attempt to wash off the blood, but there were those large shoes that Mineo found in the circus with the needles...
It couldn't have been one killer, there's just... too much for it to have been one killer.
[ ... ]
Unless it was two, and whoever was wearing the clown shoes [ I. HATE. THIS. FAMILY. ] decided to clear up more evidence than someone was expecting. Two killers, two victims, but one of the killers decides to silence the person they worked with...?
...I suppose that's not impossible, if they wanted to ensure they couldn't turn on them if things started to go poorly for them at the trial.
[her brow furrows]
But that seems risky, too - you'd end up potentially leaving more evidence, and although we were very motivated to figure this out... we've never actually managed to do so.
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Unless it was less that they started out working together, and more that they came across each other by chance while carrying out their own murders...?
That hasn't happened before though... but there did seem to be a lot of crossover this time around. If you couldn't trust the other to keep silent, then the only other logical thing to do would be to kill them as well.
Well, I say logical, but if one killer outed another in trial, they'd be outing themselves as well.
Not necessarily... they could examine the evidence knowing that person was involved, somehow, and present it in a way that made it seem like they were just following a logical conclusion.
It's easier to make connections when you already have some idea of who you want it to point to.
After how badly we've done, I'd be suspicious of someone piecing stuff together so easily. But even then, you could play it off and take your time with it.
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To be fair to us, that was an absolute mess already.
... But we did mess up as well.
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...so, we have to keep searching for Luca's killer.
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Looks like it. We might need to try and go over what we can remember from that clusterfuck and separate out what connects to him to figure out everything.
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[though honestly the footprints being Way Too Big for everyone there was probably a clue, but shi qingxuan doesn't know shit about clowns]
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Plus with these ... strange disappearances that keep happening, groups end up in the medbay, which limits our numbers more.
[ mood, what the fuck is a clown. don't know 'em. ]
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[the kitchen's probably fine to pass on, since it seems to come up at trial All The Time...]
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[ that's... basically what happened in the rec room, after all. ]
Although I think people do tend to gravitate to the higher floors and congregate there. [ ... ] It sounded like the planetarium had the same effect as the first week though, didn't it? Stars falling from the sky. [ both weeks someone was framed. ] So maybe we need to keep that in mind.
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[their really obvious murderers are either dead or slated to be dead, soon. well, most of them, anyway. there's still the clown, but unfortunately, douman has been very nice to shi qingxuan, so they're not on her radar, really.
not in more than a "fukuda said it might be them and he turned up innocent so we should at least look into it" kind of way.]
That's true... we could pair off among ourselves in smaller groups, then, and at least try to cover each of the floors. If some of the effects do seem to repeat, or at least happen in a way that's similar to previous weeks - well, maybe that's a clue. If there's suddenly something different, then it could mean that's the week that place was involved.
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[ ... ]
Maybe this place finds a way, regardless. The coffee in the rec room, and the smell of bread linked Luca's murder and the room he was in before we all fell asleep. But the biome garden had stone roses and the people there were attacked by plants -- probably linked to Luca's murder, but he didn't go into the biome garden.
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she looks briefly up at yuri's face at that - backstabbing little bastards, huh? - and then down at her hands.]
The only connection between Luca and the garden that I can think of is that Vlad started out there, and ended up dead in the same room as him... but, ah. The plants were attacking us before we all fell asleep - before anyone died.
[so, are they really related...? does this place know, somehow, how things are going to turn out?]
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[ what the fuck happened that night. ]
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[mmmgh... thinking is hard.]
Then there was the common room - with the larger footprint. I'd have thought that unrelated, or perhaps related to Steven's death in an attempt to wash off the blood, but there were those large shoes that Mineo found in the circus with the needles...
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[ ... ]
Unless it was two, and whoever was wearing the clown shoes [ I. HATE. THIS. FAMILY. ] decided to clear up more evidence than someone was expecting. Two killers, two victims, but one of the killers decides to silence the person they worked with...?
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[her brow furrows]
But that seems risky, too - you'd end up potentially leaving more evidence, and although we were very motivated to figure this out... we've never actually managed to do so.
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Unless it was less that they started out working together, and more that they came across each other by chance while carrying out their own murders...?
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Well, I say logical, but if one killer outed another in trial, they'd be outing themselves as well.
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It's easier to make connections when you already have some idea of who you want it to point to.
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[ and thus they are no closer to a truth. ]
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What a mess.
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Isn't it just?
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sadly binge eating after they fucked up at trial probably counts as a combination despair-gluttony indulgence.]
When we catch whoever did this, I'd like to make a mess of them.
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Oh, I'll help. Or ask you to get in line. [ smile! ]
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You're at the front of the line. I'll be right behind you.
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