week 3 - weekend

[productions]

murder manor week three



saturday & sunday

22 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.

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[mostlymarried]

Dy. [there's not much to say. Someone was killed. The culprit was caught. Things went right for once.]

[balzams]

[Latvia knows that Belarus is not the talkative type, but the silence around them just feels too heavy. After a few more minutes of digging he speaks up again, saying the first thing that comes to his mind]

I'm glad you weren't wrongly executed.

I don't mean just because you would have been a scapegoat I mean... I don't know. I'm just glad you're okay.

[mostlymarried]

[it's enough to make Belarus pause, at least]

...Dzjakuj.

[balzams]

It's alright...

Who else would bury the dead after all?

[That sentence should not be spoken with a smile but somehow he manages anyway]

[mostlymarried]

Someone else. [obviously. Belarus seems silent once more, but after a few moments:]

I didn't know who it was, it was just a guess. There wasn't as much confusion as before. It is strange.

[balzams]

I wasn't entirely sure either... But I thought the bruises on his arms and legs couldn't have been from anyone else restraining him.

Most people have only two arms after all.

[mostlymarried]

...Dy. [WELL WHAT ELSE CAN YOU SAY TO THAT]

She was just the most suspicious by elimination. It was inevitable.

[balzams]

Mm...

I think that's just how it might go. The first trial may have been a fluke but it seems like they'll only become harder and harder to solve.

[mostlymarried]

...Each time, they're going to learn from the last, aren't they.

[balzams]

Yeah...

On the other hand maybe our numbers will dwindle so low it'll be obvious who the culprit is...

/2

[mostlymarried]

Don't joke about that.

[she pauses a moment, still digging]

[mostlymarried]

...Murderers don't get to leave corpses. Did you notice?

[balzams]

I wasn't joking...

But I did notice that. I wonder where they all go.

[mostlymarried]

...In this game, the only ones we're burying are the ones that aren't meant to be dead.

[balzams]

[He pauses, looking down at the shovel in his hands and then back up to to the world around him]

Even the ones that murdered people shouldn't be dead either...

If we never came to this place, no one would have to die this way. Their time would come when it comes, it wouldn't be forced like this.

[mostlymarried]

...

Perhaps.

[balzams]

Don't you think feeling trapped like this would make people do desperate things?

I still want to know where they go though... The ballroom is below the drawing room, isn't it? Have you ever noticed anything strange there?