Day 5, afternoon

[pandatreasure]

[SO HEY, THIS MORNING WAS SUPER COOL, HUH??? EASTER EGG HUNT, BODY PARTS, TOO MANY LEGS, SUPER FUN, RIGHT????

and the fun don't stop here at Nope's Peak Academy, because once that announcement has gone off and everyone's had a couple of minutes to...pretend to catch their bearings and deal with the fact that all of the body parts are gone except for the major award leg lamp Ichigo's stuck holding, there are more announcements to come.]

As of now, you have the rest of today and tomorrow to figure out who to punish for the murder of Sigma Klim! You should double check your rules page if you forget what that entails. Or if you didn't! Nyehehehe.

[And there's something new on that rules page, too, for those who take a minute to check.]

You can vote whenever you want, but make sure to do it, okay? It's going to be a problem if you refuse to vote at all, nyehehehehe!

[When the characters open up their tablet again, laborious instructions will guide them through getting to the voting app and using it; both names and pictures are showcased. Votes can be changed at any time, and there's a countdown at the top of the app for how long until votes are due.]

Good luck, everyone, nyehehe!

Comments

[respendent]

Of course! I stand upon the stage, get showered in love and affection, and bring home fame and glory for the Tomoe Foundation!

[cw_suicide]

You must be so bored in such a place as this, then.

[respendent]

I won't lie and say there aren't many places I would rather be! But this is not the first hell I've been to, yes!

[cw_suicide]

Oh? What sort of hells would an idol have been to?

[respendent]

[ a canonical description of Hiyori: Sometimes, when Ohii-san's eyes stop, they look like they were pulled up and out of the gloom of living in a sewage system. ]

My, if you think the life of an idol is all brightness, we must be doing our jobs very well, yes! Hold that image in your mind forever, Dazai.

[cw_suicide]

Oh, hardly. As a former executive of the Port Mafia, I know better than most anyone what idols can get up do, especially in the night.

[a canonical description of Dazai: sometimes, his eyes are just a bottomless stare that seem like they can see straight through a person.. and mocks what he sees.]

[respendent]

[ I hope no one meets either of these fucker's eyes ]

Oh! How excellent, then I won't have to explain anything!

[cw_suicide]

Not a thing at all.

So~ How far have we narrowed down the suspects?

[respendent]

[ Shows him ]

Amongst those remaining, I think Ulaz is the most likely suspect!

[cw_suicide]

Any particular reason, or just because he's an alien?

[respendent]

No. You see, he hates this line of questioning, and he is one of the people who have his still unconfirmed. Not only that, he is on the offensive and quickly finding another target that he thinks we should investigate before even exhausting this line of reasoning!

All suspicious, yes?

[cw_suicide]

Hmmm... [yeah it does, but gotta be SURE.]

We'll need to talk to Lux-chan. She's a good person who I find honest to a fault.

[respendent]

I haven't met her! But yes, yes! I agree! In the event we cannot find her though, Ulaz is where my vote will be going to!

[cw_suicide]

I really don't know many of these people thanks to my bout of illness, but I do know that Minako and Lux are possibly more likely to be unwitting accomplices, if anything.

Also, have we completely ruled out suicide as being an option for this round?

[respendent]

[ Doesn't comment on Minako and Lux, since he's already decided where to place his vote for now ]

The strangely colored bears mentioned they haven't decided what to do about suicides and it'd be dealt with case by case! That sounds as if it hasn't happened yet, and no matter what we must vote! It's better to assume it wasn't, yes.

[cw_suicide]

And there's the whole "one of you" answer...

[respendent]

Indicating not the dead man, yes?

[cw_suicide]

Or "one of you, not either of us".

And if they deal with it case by case, then this could be the first case.

Or it could simply be that Sigma-kun knew his murderer and that's why he may have been caught off-guard and everything staged so oddly.

--are there any other scenes to The Shining that has a room of blood involved? I should ask Akira-kun or Tsumugi-kun.

[respendent]

Yes, ask one of them! I have never seen it, as I abhor all things gloomy! But Dazai, I think trying to glean any information from the scene is all off track! Do you know what the raccoons did to the ass of the victim?

[cw_suicide]

[... blinks.]

I don't, actually.

[respendent]

It was in the chimney, tied up with a bow around the sensitive parts!

[ he is a popstar, so he is not gesturing. that said, he is looking very clearly down at Dazai's crotch to get the point across. ]

[cw_suicide]

... I don't see how that's more relevant than the actual scene of the murder.

[respendent]

Yes, that's the point, it's all irrelevant. It's all been tampered with, yes? I don't think I misunderstood!

[cw_suicide]

Not all of it, I don't think.

But it is wise to be wary.

[respendent]

If something relevant is gleaned, I'll be happy to hear it! Waiting for someone to be suspicious is boring!