Day 2: The Motives

[pandatrash]

[Your first "chillaxin day" comes and goes. No exits are found, no help has come, no real explanations are given. But all of a sudden, the tablets reboot and start showing... a spreadsheet. Well, that's something, at least.]

[Tycoon is out in full force today, dashing up to everyone he meets and handing each of them a cute envelope with their name written on the front in crayon. If they should look inside, they'll find their murder carrot written there, as well as, "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY." If your character is one of the ones who has no bribe for which they would kill an innocent person, they will instead find a picture of dickbutt, but with their own face crudely drawn on it, and helpful "DIS U" with an arrow, just in case the point was missed.]

((🔪 Setting
🔪 If you haven't filled out the character list and IC profiles yet, please do that. Until those are done, we have the aforementioned spreadsheet the raccoons are still fixing their tablet software, okay).
🔪 Trust sheets are due Sunday, 6pm PST
🔪If you decide to drop but would like to play out a death scene, you can comment here to volunteer to die.
🔪 We had two last-minute drops: Hiyoko, who did not intro, and Kaito, who would like to retcon having intro'd. The original sign still said 32... well, lbr, raccoons aren't that good at counting.

SOME THREAD LINKS:
McGonagall gives a speech
Oops the library is on fire))

Comments

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[unsure, all these people look the same]

...If you'd just wanted to die, you could've just asked.

[afailedmurder]

Oh? Are you offering?

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Given that the other option seems to be us all burning alive, then yes, I can attempt to be helpful.

[afailedmurder]

[Sets his arson supplies at his feet and spreads his arms out wide]

All right then! Come kill me! Give it your best shot!

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[walks right up to him and pops him one right in the face]

[afailedmurder]

[Takes the blow, stumbling back. He glares up at Kaiba, wiping at his split lip.]

Is that all?

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

I was hoping it'd be enough to make you shut up for a minute, but I guess you're even more hardheaded than you look.

[goes to heft him by the collar and shake him]

You need to understand, you and your problems aren't important enough to be worth damaging things for the rest of us. If you want to set something on fire, fine. Start with yourself and leave the rest of us out of it.

[afailedmurder]

Don't you dare tell me what to do, you pompous piece of shit.

[Takes advantage of their proximity to headbutt him]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[easily enough done, and he'll find they're both pretty hard-headed at at that. Kaiba stumbles back with a curse before pulling a sneer]

As if you're any better, you self-important drama queen! What's wrong, your little book had a bad ending, instead of writing a nasty review you figured you'd burn it all down? You could've been more subtle in your lame bid for attention by taking an ad out in the paper.

[afailedmurder]

Shut up! You don't know a goddamn thing about me!!

[Which is to say, way to hit the mark. Speaking of hitting, though, Akechi is coming in swinging.]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[All according to keikaku. Kaiba dodges the first punch and is able to reach in and yank Akechi's arm to direct the second, using Akechi's momentum to send him stumbling down past him; rather than following, Kaiba stays in a ready stance]

Idiot. You've already told me everything I need to know. Funny how even as you attempt to destroy the library, you're a complete open book yourself.

[afailedmurder]

[Rolls when he hits the ground, landing in a crouch. He picks up a heavy, slightly-burnt dictionary and flings it at Kaiba's head.]

Shut!! Up!!

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[He dodges that one, too...mostly; instead of running into his head it hits one of his ridiculous shoulder spike things which are actually not as padded as they look. His eyes narrow but he maintains position for now]

Hitting a little too close to home? Need me to go easy on you? Maybe someday if you can learn to ask nicely, someone will stroke your hair and tell you you've been a very good boy.

[afailedmurder]

[Kicks at his shins from where he is still crouched on the floor, trying to knock his legs out from under him. Somehow your words aren't ending the cycle of violence, Kaiba.]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[Please don't expect a Kaiba to be the person who effectively deescalates any situation]

[As it is, he's got years of asshole goading experience, and is a good judge of optimal taunting distances. That said, Akechi's got a little more range than a nerd of his height would suggest, and Kaiba has to backstep quick to keep from getting knocked over by the kick. ...Except that backstep lands on the giant dictionary from a second ago, and suddenly he's slipping backwards, grasping for balance.

[Flailing out, his arm catches on a shelf; said shelf half-slides, half-breaks right out of the unit like the pressboard Ikea trash it is, sending a load of (hopefully only minimally on fire) paperbacks spilling over the both of them]

!!!

[afailedmurder]

[OOF. Akechi lies there for a long moment. Maybe if he's lucky, something else will fall and he'll die.]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Rgh...

[Kaiba struggles back to sitting, scowling at the shelves, the books, the fire, the ceiling, and especially Akechi's stupid head]

...

[Now, it isn't sporting to hit a man when he's down. But he's gonna have a giant bruise on his forehead and scorch markets on his coat and he is very rich so fuck it, he throws another book. Maybe he'll die!!!]

[afailedmurder]

[Unfortunately for everyone involved, he does not. He retaliates with a book of his own (not a very heavy book, and he doesn't manage to throw it very hard, but it's the principle of the thing) and starts digging himself out.]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[Does the same. Next time they will need to scuffle somewhere with less degrading things to drop on them than some shitty light novels and the extended Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys canon in full.]

Finished with your tantrum now?

[afailedmurder]

[Instead of answering, he walks off. Let's call that a solid "maybe."]