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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[throe]

[ Upon knowing this, Rapture asks the most obvious question: ]

Am I in there?

[speakveryclearly]

[Too quickly as if she were afraid of being asked and had prepared a response:]

Not yet, your distinctive and striking style is hard to reconcile with my own duller fallback techniques!

[TOO EIGHTIES TO HANDLE.]

[throe]

[ That just feeds her ego even more. Congratulations, Kanaya. ]

It's hard to really capture The Stingers style. We used to come up with our own, but ever since we got our own recording company, Yaki's been our main designer. We can never find anyone else to get it quite right, it's rare we find something that captures our... essence.

[speakveryclearly]

[Flattery successful, she continues in somewhat genuine curiosity.]

And what do you consider that essence to be? I like to start with a simple symbol and move up from there but I've been under the impression that a stylized R would be a little too straightforward...

[throe]

It would be too confusing anyway, especially when there's Riot.

But our essence...

[ She turns her back to Kanaya, trailing her fingertips across the mantle as she gives a slow walk across the room. ]

Dionysian and Apollonian... we spring from the earth without reason and search for truth in the light! We're fully aware of each others needs, each others tastes, even each others thoughts and even though Riot is our inspiration... we are one singular soul in three, split up to find each other through the chaos of the world itself to bring the order of The Stingers to life!

[ Rapture raises her arms in the air and turns on her heels to face Kanaya once again. ]

We possess a baroque style unlike any other, but our thoughts are beyond even the most modern and mundane realms.

[speakveryclearly]

[But which one of you is the auspistice? Human adults and their ways are so mysterious - the almost equally arcane ways of Alternian adults float in their place. Connecting the vagrancy of "gypsy heritage" to psychic powers and complicated chromatic castes... nothing actually indexes like she expects, but the coincidences are appreciable.]

You keep mentioning Riot... but who was the third stinger?

[throe]

[ Her arms fall to her side and she lays a hand atop one of the chairs, casually shifting her weight to her arm. ]

Minx. She plays the synthesizer, though we both do back up vocals for Riot too.

[speakveryclearly]

Synthesizer? An electronic music source?

[This seems to, at least, be giving her some sort of idea, even if it's only like a headache on top of the balled-up block in her stomach.]

[throe]

Yeah. It's like a piano but with a whole list of different options to choose from. Most of them are electronic, but it can do percussion and strings too.

She could probably explain it much better than I do since she builds them herself.

[speakveryclearly]

I see...

A minx is one of those furry flexible Earth fauna, right?

[throe]

That's a mink. They're used for fur coats and stoles mostly because they symbolize good fortune.

Minx is called Minx because she can get any guy she wants with the option to throw them away as soon as she's tired of them. [ She pauses, waving her hand in the air. Minx's romantic life doesn't hold much importance to her despite their closeness. ] Well, almost any guy.

[speakveryclearly]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. [The way Rapture says that makes it sound like there's a specific story there... but the romantic life of an adult is something she doesn't want to know about.]

So do the words come from the same root at all or is their phonetic similarity entirely coincidental?

[throe]

I don't know. I'm a musician, not an etymologist.

The most I can tell you is that hexe in German means minx and witch.

[speakveryclearly]

What on Earth is German?

[throe]

[ Oh right, Kanaya's role is... some kind of alien creature from some planet that has alien creatures that look like vampires. This is a perfect opportunity to "tell" her about "human culture." ]

It is a language spoken only by those deemed worthy enough to read its incantations!

[speakveryclearly]

Oh, right, I keep forgetting your civilization isn't monolithic. [Less advanced is what she really thinks but she's trying to play it off as merely her own ignorance.]