week 1 - weekend

[productions]

murder manor week one



friday, saturday, sunday

28 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.

This post will cover the weekend period from the end of trial Thursday evening to early Sunday evening, when new incentives will be announced. No murders will take place over this time.

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Private Conversations

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[aozaki]

[she gives a small nod before sipping her own. she misses coffee tbh, but she can sacrifice it next to nicely brewed tea.]

It was shaping out to be like this from the start; this is stacked like a castle of cards.

[...]

Do you think the claims are true, though? That our entire situation is supposed to pass off as some sort of reality TV show?

[allice]

I'm...not sure. We've only been told there's an audience, but who can say that's the truth? And this "audience" may just be the people who brought us here to begin with.

[She picks up her tea cup and sips it a tiny bit, to taste how hot the water is, and puts it down so she can fold her hands on the table.]

There have been reports years ago of rich billionaires who would make games and pay people to play in them, just so they can jeer and laugh at what happens. Only in our case there's no consent.

[aozaki]

There's no way for us to know. I haven't noticed any recording cameras either, although I wouldn't be surprised if they were indestructible, even if we find some.

[looking a little annoyed, she sits down nevertheless, glancing at the notebook alice was pouring over. ... huh, is this

what she thinks it is...]

This court system shouldn't be legal in most places on Earth, anyhow. [raising an eyebrow at that, though.] You'd expect billionaires to buy slaves for their amusement. There were consent, in those reports?

[allice]

Sometimes yes. But they were still charged for endangerment of human lives. These games weren't what we'd call "safe" or "legal" by any means. The lack of consent from those involved only added more charges onto it, but it only added years to a sentence.

[aozaki]

Sentence means legal court procedures were involved, this is practically a kangaroo court in contrast. You've done studies in that field though, Alice? It's a particular topic to have knowledge in.

[allice]

Well...I'm sure you took a look at my information card, right? It mentioned I was trained by the United States government for a reason: I work as an agent in the Department of Defense.

[aozaki]

That's way out of my field, aha. [waves hand chuckling sheepishly! herp herp] I can't even begin to imagine the sort of mission you would be trained for, so please forgive my ignorance over the matter. [magi aren't really worldly beings...] Did you had to go over such cases in your career then, if that's not top secret classified information?

[allice]

Sorry, but it is. Even letting slip my job is a violation and I really shouldn't say any more than this.

[Especially because of her theory that someone inside the mansion is possibly working for this "Hostess", much like how Zero III was just a stand-in for the real Zero. There's no telling how much they know, so it's better to keep it as quiet as possible.]

[aozaki]

Guess it can't be helped. I'm happy with the company, at least. They could've brought in people we don't like, although I guess that may be too much too obvious, in terms of motive and incentive.

[allice]

Heh, yeah. I can name at least one asshole I wouldn't want to see here. He goes around dressing like he's from the circus and acts like he's a tough big man, but I could kick his ass without even trying.

[aozaki]

That sounds awfully familiar, Alice. [MAKES A WARPED SMILE but she's justified ok...] A personal case of mine is also fond of sporting an obnoxious red silk top hat, it clashes terribly with his blonde hair. A cockroach and a preacher, I might kill him if he shows just to spare everyone else.

[casually talking about murdering in murder house with a government employee

A+]

[allice]

[dat slasher smile.]

Hah...my idiot had blonde hair as well, right down to the bottom of his neck, and wore an obnoxious top hat to boot. Do you think they might be related?

[aozaki]

...

We went to school together, I'm pretty sure he doesn't have siblings. He's always had his hime cut, but he grew it out to reach his back, apparently. I would also hope no one else in any world would share his stock of genes. He's got delusions of grandeur and too many personality problems to list, if we're going to make a list for comparisons. What are the odds?

[are we going to dip into the morphogenic fields too at this rate]

[allice]

Delusions of grandeur, terrible fashion sense, a list of personality problems - maybe these two are actually clones of one another.

[What, cloning is A Thing in VLR totally legit.]

[aozaki]

...I'm sorry to hear that, Alice. Is he any obsessed with the color red, by any chance?

[she truly, truly is.]

[allice]

He is. He also likes gold and black and having people put up with him, one way or another.

[sooner or later everyone deals with alba and dio.]

[aozaki]

...So, thirst for recognition? Does he hold grudges, when someone else nabs that center of attention?

[dear god

why

BUT THIS IS ALSO MORBIDLY FASCINATING, NGL]

[allice]

Definitely. And he'd be willing to backstab and push blame to anyone to get ahead, even little children. [She takes a sip of her tea.] I won't lie Touko, I'm a little bit freaked out.

[aozaki]

Yours may actually be worse than mine. His grudge is concentrated on one person, so--

...

On second thought, he'd kill kids too if it may give him any chance at all to get revenge.

...

Maybe I should resume my research on the Akasha after all, if that could terminate these sort of freak accidents from spawning anywhere else.

[touko's too busy going KYUUBEY over this for anything else, ngl. ALBA DOUBLES R U 4 REEL]

[allice]

I don't know what Akasha is, but I wouldn't disregard the possibility of illegal cloning of egotistical assholes. The only question is why clone them of all people.

[aozaki]

Just cloning their looks is already a travesty, but what sort of power could actually copy a soul? Urgh, that defies everything I've ever known, on top of being the worst thing I've had to imagine in recent years.

[NOW SHE JUST FEELS GROSSED OUT]