week 2 - weekend

[productions]

murder manor week two



saturday & sunday

24 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 Friday evening to early Sunday evening, when new incentives will be announced. No murders will take place over this time.

Setting & Rules
Private Conversations

Comments

[souredsweet]

If worse comes to worse, it may be prudent for one of you to stay in the room of the other for the night. With luck, things will not come to such measures.

[that gets an understanding nod.] Thank you for the concern, Miss Sto Helit. I will not allow my guard to drop.

[inthebones]

I wish very much that everyone in this house could agree to be of one accord - if only for a week. The things they promise us and the things they hold over our heads. They've shown no sign of being able to deliver on them so far.

[souredsweet]

Even with our number lowered, I fear it may not be possible to reach a consensus... I believe that, despite a lack of evidence to the contrary, many believe our captors capable of delivering what they promise simply because of the circumstances of our capture.

[inthebones]

A dimensional transportation spell is impressive, yes. But that remains in the realm of possibility.

The incentive now is simply preposterous - you can't change the past. It would fracture the universe entirely. Meddling with time will bring about the end - and I mean the End. It's almost happened before in my world.

[souredsweet]

It certainly does not seem so easy to change an entire course of history without disastrous consequences, even for those capable of setting up this scenario. [a pause; Kaoru gives the sheet another good look.]

Still... I fear it may be enough motivation for someone. Do you believe that disaster may be avoided if the impossibilities of this incentive are explained?

[inthebones]

...No.

No, I don't believe it at all.

Because as much as I believe that humans are... incredible creatures who deserve their place in the universe, I also believe that the depths of their idiocy can reach no limits.

Come Thursday, we'll be in that room again.

[souredsweet]

[it was the answer Kaoru expected, but that doesn't make it much easier to accept.]

I wish that it was not so, but I will not be naive enough to hope for it. Preventative measures are most likely our best option - keeping a close eye on those on the list, and retaining our guards. ...It certainly does make looking into escape more difficult, when one is constantly concerned with the lives of themselves and the ones around them. [a purposeful game mechanism, no doubt.]

[inthebones]

...I'm sure that's part of the plan.

[Another pause before Susan rolls her eyes and heaves a sigh of disgust.]

I can't stand being outmaneuvered at every turn. It's really very... annoying - if my hair weren't already white, I'm quite sure it'd have changed by now. Perhaps I'll start losing it soon.

[souredsweet]

[susan that is concerning]

You have done so much for everyone, I can only imagine the stress... But it does seem to be as though things are very intentionally designed this way, and that the people here have been selected with an equal amount of care so that there will always be at least one danger to be looking out for.

[inthebones]

[do you see these black hairs that is a sign that something is gravely wrong ok]

Yes, I'm sure you're right. They could hardly have a game if they picked 30 pacifists or anything of the like. ...There are certainly more amongst us who aren't quite what we seem.

[A slight sigh.]

Perhaps if we're lucky, they'll call themselves off.

[souredsweet]

[does someone need to call a doctor...!]

As Bernkastel was, perhaps... though I had heard that she made no effort to hide her apathy or uncaring nature toward murder even before that week. [Kaoru doesn't sigh, but the impeccable posture seems to slump just a little.]

It is an unsettling idea. I can only hope we will be so lucky for that.

[inthebones]

((that moment when you typo the most critical word in a sentence and write a sentence that makes sense still but not in the way you intend it to (call should have been kill)))

In any case, there's nothing to be gained from worrying about it.

We must simply do what we can.

[Susan seems to think the conversation is over as she gives Kaoru a slight nod and turns away.]