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

[inthebones]

Naturally. ...Are you going to share?

[notyetlost]

Of course.

I need to see your face when I show you what elaborate combination of wine bottle tugging you need to do in order to get it open.

[inthebones]

...I've been very thorough. Although I suppose when there's that many bottles to attempt, it's not within the realm of possibility.

[notyetlost]

I'm sure you have.

[Poland plucks the paper out of her hands and skips out of the ballroom and off to the cellar]

You coming?

[inthebones]

...

[Susan frowns suspiciously as she follows.]

It's going to be one in the corner I missed, isn't it. The gold foils will be in the shape of an arrow pointing down.

[notyetlost]

There is such a thing as over-thinking you know.

You could stand to turn your brain off for five minutes.

[inthebones]

Seeing as how you're such an expert, I thought I'd let you handle that.

I'd like you to cast your mind back and recall that I was the one who sent you to the basement in the first place, though.

[notyetlost]

Yeah, at like ten o'clock at night all by myself? Who's brain would have been turned off then?

[Poland stops in front of the wine cellar.]

You might want to get out a pad of paper and a pen for this.

[inthebones]

...I thought I wasn't supposed to overthink this.

[Susan has no pad or pen but she'll frown at Poland intently which probably means she's paying attention even if the frown isn't discernible from her default expression.]

[notyetlost]

[And Poland thought you were the queen of sarcasm. Tsk tsk Susan.]

Ready?








[Poland reaches for a single bottle. 1863 Laguedoc. And tugs it.]

[inthebones]

[CLEARLY nothing happens because Susan has tried that already duh what a huge waste of time???]

[notyetlost]

[Wow she better take that up with Doris then because the shelf slides aside and a doorway opens in the wall.]

[inthebones]

...

Well. Obviously, I don't see anything since I already tried that bottle half a dozen times; we may as well go.

[>=(]

[notyetlost]

When we get out you should seriously get those eyes checked.

[inthebones]

Clearly, this has only been here since about four or five days ago.

[Susan will grumble as she approaches the staircase.]

[notyetlost]

Lithuania will attest differently. [Poland even has physical evidence.]

Come on. [The staircase reaches a point where you can either keep climbing straight up a ladder, or go into a narrow crawl space. But Susan can investigate the crawl space in her own time. Poland wants to focus on the locked trap door.]

See?

[inthebones]

...And this leads up into the smoking room?

[Susan frowns for a bit as she tries to fit this together in her mind, rapping on the trap door.]

There must be a gap behind the kitchen - this staircase is probably closer to the outer wall.

[A pause.]

This must be the passage the hamsters found as well - where does that space go?

[notyetlost]

There's some tunnels that let you look out on all the rooms on the first floor.

[Well.] Aside from the Ruby wing bathroom.

[inthebones]

...But.

Including the Ruby Wing bedrooms?

[notyetlost]

...basically.

[Just be glad Poland got the map and not Stiles.]

[inthebones]

...

The obvious topics of conversation aside, that doesn't seem quite... fair. Doesn't this suggest there are other passages that look into our rooms as well?

[notyetlost]

Not according to this. [Poland flaps the map around.]

But if you're asking me if I started getting dressed in the bathroom as opposed to my room after learning this then the answer is yes.

[inthebones]

...Well. Yes.

It's called the 'Complete Map', and they haven't misled us so far.

Is there someone in the Ruby Wing the creators of this game specifically wanted to keep an eye on? Or is there someone the players should be keeping an eye on?

...Only Alice is still alive from there.

[notyetlost]

Well. There was Touko. [That girl was cray.] And Siren. [Also cray.]

Latvia and Dave not so much.

And... [Well to be honest Poland doesn't know Alice that well.] Maybe it's because she refuses to wear clothing and the mastermind is a total perv.

[inthebones]

...[She won't respond to that.]

Where are these peepholes situated, by the way? About eye level, normally? How is it that no one's noticed them?