day one

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dreamland day one 41 players remaining. There are no clocks in your dorm room to help you mark the passing of time, but at a certain point, in the early hours of the morning, a cheerful chime tune plays over the loudspeaker. Whether you're awake or asleep, the door to your dorm room is now unlocked. You'll have about a forty five minutes, in which you can get ready or grab some breakfast, before the door that allows you into the park unlocks. By this time, you may or may not have noticed that one of your number is missing. The chimes play again, to announce that the park is open, and the rides and music begin to come back to life as a voice plays over the loudspeaker. "Looks like it's time to get started after all! To all our guests, have a magical morning! Dream big and have fun, but don't forget to look for the body! We'll see you in the afternoon at the Hall of Mirrors when it's time to vote, okay?" You will have until 4 PM to explore the park and talk amongst yourselves. Somewhere in the park, you'll find the body of Malik Ishtar. rulebook character statuses private conversations graveyard Voting will close at 10 PM EST on Sept 24. Though a special comment for discussion will go up shortly before voting, you are encouraged to discuss who to vote for throughout the day. Voting

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[harepiece]

[HEY FLOWER COMPADRE Oz is also definitely much more serious than he was at the candy store...]

All right! I'll try to... bring him closer. [and he will do so!!]

...I can't believe that anyone would have done this.

[cakelover]

...I'd also like to believe that isn't the case.

[ Not that he talked to Malik at all, but. HARSH... ]

[harepiece]

[The karmic death that attacks people who try to cut off dog paws...]

It's— too cruel. But it could have been an accident, right? If it was someone the Detonator gave a key to? [Which still doesn't explain how the body got out here or the multiple other injuries buT...]

[cakelover]

You mean like...using the key just to see what it would do, and then accidentally doing this?

[ THAT WOULD BE HORRIBLE but also seems hella unlikely ]

[harepiece]

[Yeah... yeah... he doesn't think it's very likely at all.]

They might have been given the key and used it to try catching a killer, but... [THAT'D BE DANGEROUS. He'd like to think no one here would be reckless enough to gamble a life on a hunch.] ...It looks like he has multiple injuries, too.

[cakelover]

So, the question is...how many of these injuries were caused by the bracelet going off...?

[ IS THIS WHAT THEY HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO........ ]

[harepiece]

[HE DOESN'T LIKE IT IF IT IS.]

I don't know... I've never seen anyone— [Get blown up??] ...But his arm looks kind of weird, doesn't it?

[cakelover]

Like the bracelet tightened?

[ ............NOT SURE IF WANT TO EXAMINE MORE CLOSELY AFTER ALL ]

[harepiece]

[HONEY nO... Oz will kind of scoot in between Honey and the body...]

Something like that might have happened. It doesn't look like it did before, anyway, and I don't think this is the result of an explosion either. ...Are you all right?

[cakelover]

I-I'm fine!

[ BRAVE...FACE? ]

If there's anyone with first aid skills...maybe they'll be able to tell us a little more about this, right? We should ask around...

[harepiece]

[Honey no..... But Oz won't down on him for putting on a brave face okay, he finds that sort of thing admirable.]

Right— Legion knows some first-aid things, but... [THERE'S THE PAPER, which he's not sure he trusts.] I didn't really talk to anyone else yesterday about injuries, so I don't know who might be able to handle it.

[cakelover]

...If it's medicine, Kyo-chan might be able to take a look. I think Miss Natalia's profile also said something about first aid skills - right?

[ NO ONE ELSE seems to have those skills profile wise though... ]

[harepiece]

I haven't really looked through the profiles yet... [HE PROBABLY SHOULD NOW.] But we can go look for them, in that case! I don't know who Kyochan is, but I met Miss Natalia earlier.

[He's not sure he wants to subject her to a superdead body, though...]

[cakelover]

Kyo-chan is one of my friends - I think he'll probably be interested in checking it out, although we shouldn't wake him until he's already up.

[ HE'S TERRIFYING IN THE MORNINGS. ]

But, I can come find Oz-chan and tell him what Kyo-chan says later, if need be?

[photonement]

[Hello breakfast buddy. We may have worked together on feeding animals earlier in the day but now there are bigger problems]

Does that mean only the Detonator's friend played along? Or do you think the medical team already managed to protect somebody?

[harepiece]

[He does not like these Bigger Problems, but here they are...]

I'm not sure... If they protected somebody, how would this happen, though?

[photonement]

Well, I'm still not sure the VIPs weren't responsible for what happened here. But if the detonator did do this, and nobody else died, then that means the VIPs didn't kill anybody.

Are we guessing one person is more likely to get hysterical than seven people? I don't believe that.

So then if the detonator did help kill somebody, and the VIPs did try to kill somebody, then somebody must have been protected.

[harepiece]

[He nods in understanding at that, brow furrowing.]

Right... So - looking at it like that, it really seems a lot less likely that it's someone the detonator contacted. [It had been a last ditch hope, anyway, pinning this as an accident rather than an intentional occurrence.]

[photonement]

A person who would kill... with no evidence... knowing that they'd be as likely to strike a special role as a special guest... I'm not sure everyone here would even forgive that kind of thing.

I really think... this had to be those people. Wanting to get rid of their most bloodthirsty enemy, who wouldn't be protected.

[harepiece]

[Looking over at Malik's body again like THE POOR GUY... sure he tried to get a dog's paw cut off but still]

...I guess it's a definite possibility. I just... I don't want to think that anyone here would do something like this intentionally.

[photonement]

No matter what side the killer was on... this happened purposefully.

[Even if someone got whipped up like Teruteru... there was still an idea that another person had to end up dead. Mahiru really ought not to get hella sad.]

Even if you struggled with someone, you'd be singed too... but nobody here is. They would have cl- [choking on the disgusting concept] -cleaned up.

[ionicwoman]

Can't we check everyone for injuries? If he fought... there'd be a mark or something, right?

[photonement]

That'd take a very long time! There are forty-one of us! And we'd need really big groups to make sure there weren't VIPs reporting the results together! [COUGH, KUZURYUU AND NANAMI.] I don't think he looks like he was in a big struggle; where's, you know, blood under his fingernails? His explosive or bracelet might have been activated remotely anyway and then there'd be nothing on the culprit at all.

[harepiece]

[He lapses into silence, thinking that over.]

...They really don't want to get caught. [Which, duh. But it's a pretty unhappy realization after how hard Oz had tried to rationalize the game away just a day earlier.]

[photonement]

No, they don't -- unless a bunch of people acted independently, and that'd be even luckier than the medical team guessing right tonight -- why'd they desecrate him so much?

[Maybe it's game rules. Mahiru doubts it's an Egyptian ritual]