Day 20: Whodunnit?

[pandatreasure]

[As is about standard fare around here, the tablets come to life the next morning with the regular notification that they'll have to vote for someone today for tomorrow's execution. The bodies have been cleaned up by now, and the library is no longer flooded. The cat piano remains, unfortunately.

The tablets also display this ecard to everyone, dubious image quality and all, only the raccoons have photoshopped Will Graham's face onto it, except they picked a picture where he was in the middle of sneezing?? All victories must come at a cost. Anyone who tries to jump the gun and vote on their tablets will notice that Will is no longer a voting option. Guess we're gonna have to work together to pick a recent murderer this time!!! Boooooo.]

((VOTE
Recyclr
Shrine
Raquelle, being useful))

Comments

[afailedmurder]

Is there even a point to asking? Assuming we don't have any ambitious serial killers on our hands, between Ulaz, Ein, Kaiba, Mae, and Aino, there's only one that didn't commit a murder.

[truthstranger]

...Not necessarily. It's also possible some of the victims killed each other or themselves.

[afailedmurder]

True enough! I wonder, will someone outside of our little group have the guts to ask about that?

[truthstranger]

It would be a good question to get answered, in any case.

[afailedmurder]

...I don't think we should. I don't want to be proven right.

[truthstranger]

Neither option is good, really. It may be difficult to come to a majority decision this time...

[afailedmurder]

The best option is where one or two people killed everyone.

Any more than that, and it doesn't even matter. At that point, it's just a popularity contest.

[truthstranger]

Mm... and if people aren't agreed, it would be easy for a few people to sway the vote.

[afailedmurder]

So let's make it simple and only find one killer.

Since our self-serving game-mates don't really think for themselves and only care about who's the most popular, let's just find whoever killed one of the more popular victims — Corrin or Illya. I'm sure the others would be delighted to execute one of those two.

[truthstranger]

Ah... I wouldn't go that far. Any choice in this situation is a difficult one. We'd both certainly try to keep each other alive, and other people will be doing the same with the people they care about.

The best route might still be to choose a victim arbitrarily and try to agree on finding that specific culprit, but... in this situation, it may be difficult to determine who killed who.

[afailedmurder]

Mm.

I don't like how quiet everyone is being...

[truthstranger]

Mm. It's an effective way to avoid incriminating yourself, I suppose...

[afailedmurder]

Well~ if nobody else is going to take it seriously, why should we? Let's go investigate something.

[claps Shuichi on the shoulder, grinning obnoxiously]

[truthstranger]

[Shuichi looks deeply conflicted]

I don't... know if I can be satisfied with that.

[afailedmurder]

But there's no harm in taking a break, right?

[c'mon. c'mooooon.]

[truthstranger]

...

I suppose... we could take a little while. Maybe people will be more forthcoming later. Or at least be willing to argue for a particular vote.

[afailedmurder]

[just gonna take him by the hand and drag him off then because fuck all y'all, go find the truth yourselves]