week 7 - weekend

[productions]

murder manor week seven



saturday & sunday

11 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 Sunday afternoon, when new incentives will be announced. No murders will take place over this time.

Setting & Rules
Private Conversations
Plotting

Comments

Poland - Saturday - Various

[notyetlost]

[Morning - Ballroom]

[Poland's up for breakfast and... well. Really he's just boredly flopping the sleeves of his ridiculously oversized sweater around waiting for who's going to be the first one to demand he fork over the secret passages map.

He's betting on Susan personally. Always bet on old ladies cloaked in black.]

[Afternoon - Stables]

[It's Saturday which means it's one of the days Poland's designated as outside days so he's going to hang out at the stables now that they're actually being put to use with Lithium here. He brought carrots and sugar cubes!]

Morning

[vytis]

[Lithuania has no need to ask Poland for the map, so he will have to keep waiting. He does take note of the sweater, though, and flushes a little while pretending to ignore it.]

Good morning.

[He is actually going to eat food today!]

[teenspirit]

[ Am I going to NPC a horse?

Yes. I'm NPCing a horse.

Lithium seems bored in her stall, and she perks up when she hears someone walk in. ]

Morning

[humanic]

[Poland is going to lose that bet, because Stiles is as nosy and curious as they come. HE LEARNED IT FROM YOU, FATHERLAND.]

So! I hear you've got a couple of secrets up your sleeve.

Morning

[inthebones]

[Simply because someone beat the old lady cloaked in black doesn't mean she won't show up eventually.]

I trust you and Lithuania have reconciled?

[Says someone who was definitely not spying from across the room.]

Friday

[vytis]

[Lithuania is digging a grave, because with Kaoru and Latvia and Belarus gone, someone has to. He works methodically, as he's wont to do, but he'd rather finish it tonight. They've amassed quite a graveyard, really. He can remember seeing Belarus trying to dig under the fence on the first day, and now all the digging that gets done is for this.

But it has to be done, so Lithuania keeps digging.]

Sonia Nevermind - Saturday, various

[teenspirit]

[ Emerald, room #3, 11:00 AM ]

[ After borrowing the keys from May, Sonia has spent a good part of the morning in Kaoru's room. She dusts, sweeps, rearranges, and neatens everything, then she spends some time reorganizing the red and blue in-progress flower arrangements by incorporating the red one into the nearly-completed blue one. Following that, she places the arrangement on the window sill beside the flower chain, struggling to push the window open and let the light in. She goes through the closet, pulling down and folding up everything inside of it.

For a few minutes, she sits on the edge of Kaoru's bed, looking troubled, then she gets up, locks the door, and pauses outside of it, frowning softly, before going to find May to return the keys. ]

[ Bar, 4:00 PM ]

[ Is 4 in the afternoon a good time to start drinking?

Yes. Sonia will already be fairly tipsy by the time anyone comes across her. ]

Wh...whaaaaaaaaaaat's up.

bar

[throe]

[ Rapture also thinks four in the afternoon is a great time to drink. With her slightly angered, slightly confused expression, she certainly looks like she needs a couple drinks. She leans against the top of the bar. ]

I want to be where you are right now. [ Translation: make me a drink. ]

Annie Leonhardt

[hollowheart]

[Saturday- 10:00 am - Pond]

[Normally she's in bed at this early hour, as usual following a trial, but she makes an exception this time to head out early to the swing over the pond.]

[Saturday - Late afternoon - Parlor]

[Relocating temporarily from the dim library, there is a small pile of books as Annie takes most of the sofa. She seems to have been there for hours.]

Parlor

[notyetlost]

[Poland peers into the parlor, after coming back from being outside.] Any visits from the beyond lately?

SUNDAY - FOYER - 1 PM

[productions]

[At 1 PM, the grandfather clock in the foyer chimes. The display stand placed in the foyer last week is still there, but the card on it has been replaced by a new placard.]

We're getting close to the end, ladies and gentlemen, and our numbers grow smaller and smaller! But we still have too many players left to eliminate before the end! This week, we will be trimming the numbers somewhat with a very special incentive.

Long ago, this manor was the home of a wealthy family who came down with a mysterious sickness and died. We pay tribute to the memory of the Mordswell family with a sickness in their honor. All the players in the game will be coming down with this sickness, and left untreated, it will be quickly fatal. There is no known cure, except for murder! Once a murder has been accomplished, the sickness will be cured.

To make things a little more interesting, some of you will be more susceptible to the sickness than others! The sickness will especially target people who didn't try very hard, based on our cumulative popularity and immunity scores.

Good luck!

[Shortly after the announcement, and throughout the afternoon, all players will begin to feel the sensation of coming down with something - a cold or a bug. The symptoms may present as the sniffles, nausea, or fatigue, but throughout Sunday they won't be serious. However, beginning Monday, the symptoms will begin to increase in severity, for some more dramatically than others.

These scores (not provided to the players) detail just how swiftly and dramatically the sickness increases. By Monday morning for the players in the first two categories, Monday afternoon by the middle two, and Monday evening by the final two, all players will have the symptoms written here. Over the course of the week, if no murder is committed, the symptoms will increase even beyond what is written here.

Within three hours of a murder being committed, the symptoms will stop increasing in severity, although too gradually and subtly for it to be very useful in pinpointing a time of death.]

SUNDAY - DRAWING ROOM - 1 PM

[productions]

[At 1 PM, a list and an attached list of tools will be posted on the door leading into the smoking room.]

POPULARITY RANKINGS

Each week, we will be conducting a poll with YOU, the audience, to determine which players you want to see more of! The results are in!

IMMUNITY

Players who are immune will not be considered valid targets! If they are killed, no prizes will be awarded and no trial will be held! Immune players can still commit crimes and may still be considered suspects! In addition, the immune players will receive a chance to obtain a secret clue about the players in the game!

This week's immunity has been awarded to:

Gundam Tanaka
Susan Sto Helit


POPULAR

These players were chosen by poll as popular players! They are still valid targets, but if they are killed, all players will receive a special extra clue to aid in the discovery of the culprit! In addition, the popular players will receive a chance to obtain a secret clue about the identity of the Mastermind working together through a fun trivia game!

This week's popular players are:

Sonia Nevermind
Lithuania

DISPENSABLE

We asked, and you let us know! These players are dispensable; we haven't seen anything interesting about them yet! Is it time to say goodbye? Any culprit who attempts to target one of these players will be able to choose a prize from the attached list before the kill! Simply let us in on the plan in the privacy of your own room, and your prize will be delivered to you!

The dispensable players are:

Alice
Stiles Stilinski


DEADWEIGHT

These players need to step it up! Our audience is not interested in seeing more from them at this rate. Maybe it's time for them to stop being dead boring and start being dead! Any culprit who attempts to kill one of these players will be able to choose two prizes from the attached list beforehand OR the ability to nullify the target's special abilities before the kill! Of course, getting to keep the prize means going through with killing one of these players! Simply let us in on the plan in the privacy of your own room, and your prizes will be delivered to you!

The deadweight players are:

Spain
Anastasia Romanov


GOOD LUCK, EVERYONE!

[throe]

A trivia game? This is the one week where I'm glad I'm not popular.

[ She's still offended that her performance hasn't at least earned something. ]

SUNDAY - DRAWING ROOM - 4 PM

[productions]

[Here's a surprise! The clock bells chime once again at 4 PM. The Hostess will be in the drawing room, and both Sonia and Lithuania will have received a note to come at once.

There are two tables set up, one for Sonia to sit at, and one for Lithuania. Neither will be allowed use of the information cards. There are also chairs set up for anyone who wishes to to sit and watch, and refreshments in the form of some punch and some champagne.]

This week, for a special prize, we'll be having a trivia competition! The trivia will be about your fellow players. Lithuania and Sonia both need to get at least 7 questions out of 10 right in order to win the prize! No use of information cards, no researching, and if anyone gives them any help, they'll be disqualified on that question! Let's get started!

Question 1

[productions]

All right. Now, when I ask the question, write your answer on the paper in front of you and turn it over. No peeking! You will have one minute to write, and then you will both turn over your answers at the same time.

For our first question! Please list every animal compansion in the mansion, including their names!

Question 2

[productions]

Well done, both of you! That is one point for Sonia, and zero points for Lithuania.

The next question is a little more simple. We have, or rather, had, three teenage boys who each go by a nickname. What are the full names and the nicknames of the three boys?

Question 3

[productions]

Well done! That's right to both of you, so a point to Lithuania and two to Sonia.

For the third question, name the Halloween costumes of two people who are now dead.

Question 4

[productions]

Three points to Sonia, and two to Lithuania! Well done, indeed.

Now, this one is a little trickier. Name the blood types of three different victims.

Question 5

[productions]

All tied up at last! Three for Lithuania and three for Sonia. That's four to go for both of you if you want to win!

All right, let's test your memory. Remember the trial where an important person was taken hostage? Who did the suspects each say was taken from them? Give either an name or a description of their relationship to that person.

Question 6

[productions]

Ooh, too bad. No more tie. That would be Four for Sonia Nevermind and Three for Lithuania.

Now, name where five body parts of Belarus were found. Give the specific location as well as the part, if you please.

Question 7

[productions]

Well done! Five for Sonia, and Four for Lithuania.

This time...name the first person, besides the killer of course, to discover the body in seven different murders. Should more than one person have made the discovery at the same time, you need only name one of them. Please name the deceased discovered, as well.

Question 8

[productions]

Ooh, I'm afraid both of you have that wrong. Five for Sonia and Four for Lithuania, then. Lithuania, I'm afraid you'll have to get each of the next three questions correct in order to win!

Now for this question...name the living player who has had immunity most times and the living player who has been deadweight most times.

Question 9

[productions]

Six for Sonia, just one more, darling. Five for Lithuania.

[For this one the Hostess has to glance at her notes.]

...Ah. All right, then. Which living players have never been a suspect?

Question 10

[productions]

Congratulations, Sonia! You may answer this if you'd like, but you're free to step down. Lithuania, it's all up to you!

Please name, of the living guests: the three heaviest, the three lightest, the three tallest, and three shortest. In the event of a tie, please choose which to list.

END

[productions]

No, I'm sorry, but that's wrong. I'm afraid I won't be able to give you a clue.

[She actually looks a little vexed, and is chewing her lip.]

Terribly sorry! But well done all. Better luck next time!