week 1 - day 1

[productions]

murder manor week one



monday

30 players remaining.

This is a general mingle post. Please put your character's name, the time, and location in the subject heading of their comment. Players may also thread in logs, either posted to murdermanor or in a private locked journal post filtered to include productions. Plots for this week's crime are due Monday by 9 PM EST.

Setting & Rules
Private Conversations
Plotting

Comments

[mostlymarried]

Tch...

Reading about the fence. It seems I am three hundred years too early.

[vytis]

[Lithuania tilts his head.] What do you mean?

[mostlymarried]

The dates in these books. [she holds up a hardback treatise on physics for example]

1973, 1985, 2001. Where I am from, the year is 1754.

[vytis]

Ah--you're from the past? [There's time travel involved, too? This is the most ridiculous murder mystery game ever.] This all must be really strange for you. Where I'm from, it's 2013.

[mostlymarried]

[Belarus just collapses on the tabletop]

I can't begin to explain. Is this what the future has for us?

[vytis]

This is actually a little old-fashioned compared to when I'm from... [Maybe more than a little, but nation timescales and all--the 1920s aren't that far from the 2010s, really.] I could try to explain anything you're confused by? It might be easier to understand if someone explains it.

[mostlymarried]

Then, I'll be blunt.

How does the electric fence work?

How can we stop it?

[vytis]

It runs with a current of electricity, which is--ah, like lightning controlled by people. The safest way would be to figure out a way to break the current, because it only works when there's a full circuit. Like... [Lithuania hesitates, trying to come up with a comparison.] Like a rope for roping an animal. It only works if there's a proper knot for the loop, and if you undo the knot or cut it, it's useless.

[mostlymarried]

...Ah, so that's why it is missing a fence?

There are enough trees in the area. One could be felled onto it, or failing that used as a bridge.

[vytis]

We would need to make sure anything we used was grounded. [There's a little pause when he realizes that might not quite make sense either.] You've seen how lightning strikes tall trees, right? It's because the electricity wants to get to the ground in the fastest manner possible. If we were going to climb over it, we need to make sure we're not part of the fastest path to the ground, or it'll go through us.

[mostlymarried]

...

...We'd be above it, wouldn't we? [THIS IS COMPLICATED TERRITORY AGAIN]

[vytis]

Whatever we were standing on would be connected to something that's connected to the ground, right? Electricity moves through some things more easily than others, so we'd want to make sure whatever we were standing on is the thing it wants to go through, and not us. [Another pause.] Rubber might help, as well.

[This is really not Lithuania's expertise--though the name escapes him, there's someone else at home he'd really rather ask about all this.]

[mostlymarried]

Hm... it must travel through wood for lightning to strike trees, correct?

[vytis]

It travels through most things, but some things agree with it more--metal conducts electricity pretty well, for example... [This is starting to reach the limits of Lithuania's knowledge, too.]

[mostlymarried]

...Well, what is 'rubber' then?

[vytis]

It's--material that's made from rubber trees. It's used to make shoe soles and certain kinds of gloves and, ah, bouncy balls, too, I suppose...