Day 6 - Final discussion before the second execution

[pandatrash]

[This morning, a video of Tycoon auto-plays on everyone's tablets. He is in a dimly lit room, and seems to be eating pudding out of a bicycle horn...? Whatever, the raccoons are weird.]

Today’s the day! Are you pumped up? Psyched out? Pissed off? Done in? Hehehehe!

Everybody better vote today for who you want to be PUNISHED! If you don't vote by the time the timer reaches zero, your vote will be randomized! Just like it now says in the rules!

I, Tycoon (only Tycoon), will still answer one question per person if you haven’t cashed yours in yet! Rule clarifications are free, by the way! Also, quit freaking out about the people who are off crying in their rooms or whatever! You already have all the alibis you need to solve the mystery!

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Comments

[cw_suicide]

Would it?

The raccoons tore the rest of the body apart. It'd be impossible to tell what was caused by whom.

But nevertheless, we should probably address the dragon in the room and ensure that Corrin is looked after if he is, in fact, innocent.

[eternalballad]

But even so, Sigma was killed in such a small space. If he were in dragon form when he killed that man, I doubt there'd be much left in the wake of a dragon's destruction.

[ He folds his arms. ]

I do, however, agree that he should be looked after following this incident.

[cw_suicide]

Depends how big the dragon is.

I believe Niles-san phrased it "cute little sleeping dragon" which he was able to pick up and put into his room.

[purrtagonist]

-- Dazai.

[no honorific! he's dropped them all throughout the course of this trial]

Are you sure that when Niles said that, he meant that he found Corrin sleeping in dragon form? Most of us here have lost our powers, and wouldn't turning into a dragon count as one?

[cw_suicide]

Not necessarily.

If it's a biological thing, it might not be able to be helped.

My ability, for example, can negate other people's abilities. But it can't effect what a person is. Say, a person who blorts into a several-stories tall monster of some sort. Learned that the hard way of getting hit with a tentacle!

[purrtagonist]

[POINT THERE]

Then maybe we should ask Niles what he meant when he said he found Corrin as a "cute little sleeping dragon." And if someone still has a question, have them ask the raccoons the one Erika suggested.

[. . .]

People have supposed that Niles might be covering for Corrin already.

[but he, personally, hasn't been able to make that one work]

[cw_suicide]

Well, he does seem pretty calm about looming death. He might just be that type of person.

Really, if the theory is true, I'd find it almost admirable.

[purrtagonist]

In a sense, it would be.

[pulls up a crooked smile, kind of tired, kind of sad]

But if that were true, then Corrin was definitely downplaying how important Niles is to him when I was questioning him abut it.

[cw_suicide]

Corrin might not know what Niles is doing for him.

[shrugs a bit]

But that's all very theoretical. The only way to know for certain is to get a confession for either or both of them, and I doubt we will in this little of time.

[purrtagonist]

I already tried.

[not well, because he isn't a detective, but]

[chosemyfate]

... [This IS too much.]

And what if I said it was me?

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[did somebody say cute dragons]

Probably about a meter, meter and a half from snout to tail, yet still an impressive wingspan and powerful jawline. I mean, it was no Blue-Eyes, but certainly nothing to laugh at.

[purrtagonist]

Ah. I should have known the Ultimate Dragon Fanboy would have the answer to our question.

[. . . attempting a little bit of lightheartedness at a time like this? yes]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[haughty]

Obviously. It would have no issue in a limited space, though I cannot speak to whether or not its rage would be sated after just that much. I didn't have a chance for that much observation.

[purrtagonist]

Sounds like you need to perfect your observational techniques. Learn to camouflage yourself with your surroundings, and use binoculars.

[cw_suicide]

[. . . omg.]

Thank you, Ultimate Dragon Fanboy-san.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[less sneering, more satisfied]

Hmph.

The theory of the lecher acting on his own has never sat well with me, especially given how outspoken he usually is; I'd imagine he'd have proudly claimed responsibility by now. However, acting in service to a glorious creature like that--rendering the body to obscure details, for example, would be much more understandable.

[cw_suicide]

[omg you're amazing.]

Well.

I have to ask, when did you see the dragon, Kaiba-kun?

... have you been chasing the dragon and not sharing?

[very_good_end]

You're overlooking the obvious, Dazai-san. The rule is that the raccoons will alter the 'crime' scene.

In order for it to qualify as a 'crime,' it must have been committed by a culprit who intended murder. Not collateral damage from a, shall we say, berserker-rage while in 'dragon-form'.

Supposing such a thing did happen as you describe it, that would mean Corrin was not responsible for his actions, and therefore mean there was no 'crime'.

Therefore the raccoons would not alter the scene in ways to hide his identity. We know the raccoons did alter the scene, so we can say therefore, the killing was a result of a conscious decision to murder.

...I mean, it's a loophole, isn't it? And we know what the raccoons do when one of us finds a loophole.

[cw_suicide]

"Crime" is dependent on "law".

Here, the law is "if you kill someone during Killing Night, you are a criminal".

[very_good_end]

Are you dismissing the concept of 'natural law', Dazai-san?

Here's another consideration. Why is Corrin, the so-called 'dragon,' allowing his friend to take the fall for him? Is he a fiend who is willing to let someone die in his place, even when he killed in an accident? It seems a bit cold-hearted.

[cw_suicide]

That's where the "unaware" part comes in.

And natural law doesn't apply in this place. The raccoons' law does.

[cw_suicide]

The only other thing I could think of is that it's Niles-san's way of getting Corrin-kun out of here.

One commits the murder while the other takes the fall and the one who commits the murder gets away and out of this place.

But that seems too cold hearted for it to apply here--or at least from Corrin-kun's perspective. Niles-san's... probably not.

[very_good_end]

In other words, it's more likely the opposite. Niles committed the murder, and Corrin was set up to sacrifice himself? That is more in line with their personalities?

[cw_suicide]

I don't know them well enough to comment on personalities.

I just meant that the cover-up was probably Niles-san's idea, not Corrin-kun's.