day four - afternoon

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dreamland day four 31 players remaining. [As the day wears on into the afternoon, the dead aren't getting any deader. It's late in the afternoon, and the air is beginning to cool, when the chimes play again over the park loudspeaker. "All of us here at Dreamland wish you luck, guests! Let's meet up in the Hall of Mirrors!" Wherever you are, it's time to make your way over to the House of Horrors, where you'll have to brave the funhouse to find the room on the top floor. Don't delay, or your guest identification bracelet will begin beeping. The House of Mirrors is a large room, more than capable of fitting a crowd. Tall mirrors line every wall, and the door you entered through seems to vanish into a mirror as well. The mirrors give the impression that many, many more are among your number, standing in the background. In the back is a jar filled with blank raffle tickets. You'll have to take a ticket, write down a name, and place it back in the jar. Hopefully you already know who you're voting for, but if not, you only have time for a brief discussion before you're out of time. rulebook character statuses private conversations graveyard Voting will close at 11 PM EST on October 3. Voting

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ANNOUNCEMENT

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[Once everyone's gathered in the House of Horrors, the loudspeakers chime again.]

Just to let you know, you will not be allowed to vote for Miko Toyosatomimi today! Anyone who places a vote for her will have it be counted as a vote for no one.

[shoutoku_administrator]

[Miko sits down cross-legged by the wall, alternately with eyes closed or watching the group vaguely, not offering any suggestions unless approached directly. Both hands are still attached.

She's wearing her earmuffs now. Anything to shut out the sound of that infernal beeping.]

[sunshade]

The vote...was that your idea?

[ there's no other reason for that announcement, anyway. For them to vote for Miko seeing as she'd be dying regardless; there would be an execution and the VIPs couldn't convert. ]

[photoshot]

Any last words for the press? [ TACT what tact. ]

[paws_and_rewind]

[ Missile walks up to press a sympathetic nose into her hand. Not the one with the horrible beeping. The other one. You tried really hard! Being dead might not be so bad! You might get cool powers and get to hang around as a mystery-solving ghost! That's what he'd say if he could talk. It might be for the best that he can't. ]

[sparklyrichbastard]

[Tamaki have you stopped being a fetal ball at any point today. How did you even get here. Did you roll?]

[fanbase]

Are you alright?

[ A redundant question, but then again she isn't aware that Tamaki is a friend of Kyouya. ]

[crueltobekind]

[Kaoru is joining Tamaki in the misery corner today.]

[unbridledjoy]

[Starfire doesn't look at all happy. They don't seem to have made any progress on figuring out who to vote for, they can't vote for Miko, they can't keep Miko from dying, and if they don't vote for someone then the VIPs will have a chance to convert...

She just can't take it anymore.]

What are we going to do..?

[flatview]

Draw straws? If there's someone willing to sacrifice themselves to stop a conversion ♥.

[foetida]

[Nanami's trying to keep up her usual bravado, but it's not working well.]

That depends...on whether we think conversion is better or worse than death.

[godwhisperer]

[Glowering in the corner like usual.]

This I swear. We will not permit a conversion today. We will not.

Now. Though we may have no result from the prior day, we are not blind. We know that yesterday we saw the execution of a VIP, and that before her death, she argued for a broad deception against her.

So? Who are those who appeared to support her deception? Wouldn't these be the VIP?

[poyoyon]

Was that the really wordy argument???

[ Uh, she'll have to think about it. Who...supported that? ]

Ibuki doesn't remember anyone really strongly arguing for it. A few people said it made sense or was a good theory, but then they all pointed out there were too many coincidences, right? Or that Missile-chan would have to be a super high school level actor!

[ A glance at the log shows like 1 comment in favor of it being true and everyone else going "lol nice try Edea". ]

[mediumburgers]

Yeah, but what if innocent people were supporting her too and just didn't realize she was a VIP? I don't know if we can get much off of just that.

[murimurimuri]

Ah... don't you think it would be just the opposite? Surely the VIPs knew it was time to cut their losses.

[billows]

Wait, hold on. [ Being like the one person who thought it was reasonable. ] Some people are just very empathetic. I still don't have much inclination to believe a dog over human beings, but—well, after that, he's proven himself.

[perfectstrike]

Has anyone noticed a pattern in the victims? Why was Ootori killed at this stage?

[Sup friends, Peko... still kind of looks as though she's been hit with a train when it comes to sleep. But she seems to be losing patience.]

Koizumi left Ootori a note of some kind, before her death, implying they may have had a relationship of some kind. The nature does not interest me, as both were normal guests. What is more important is that the next day, directly after Koizumi's death, Ootori was murdered. The VIPs must have assumed them to have discovered something.

I need more information on Ootori's nature. What could he have to discuss with the Super High School Level Photographer? And why has my class been targeted so frequently before this point?

[cakelover]

If it's about Kyo-chan's nature, I don't mind answering - though if I had to guess, he was probably speaking with many people privately and trying to gather information...Mahiru-chan was probably one of those people.

[ No idea what about, though. ]

[jingler]

I think it's important that we actually see the note's contents. Both parties are deceased, so there is no room for objection. If we see the note, we can perhaps get an idea.

Alternatively I wonder if Kyouya's classmates have anything to say about the situation between Mahiru and Kyouya, if they know anything.

[mediumburgers]

Maybe Mahiru and Kyouya were dating...? And it was a secret last love letter!

[ P...ause. ]

Okay, maybe not. But I would guess that maybe Kyouya wanted Mahiru's photographic help for something. Evidence, maybe?

And... I think it's because your class is very talented, Peko. I'd bet the VIPs find that threatening.

[poyoyon]

Ibuki is pretty sure she saw Mahiru-chan and Kyouya-chan working on her crossword together!! But that's the only time she ever saw them together?

[ Is...that really helpful... ]

[mediumburgers]

We're running out of time... I know who we need to vote for!

[ no ]

The guy who kidnapped us, the man on the loudspeaker! We all vote for him, he'll have to execute himself by his own rules! It's foolproof!

[ maya ]

[murimurimuri]

. . .

Erm. As much as I'd like to...

polling

[cakelover]

...We're nearly out of time. Who is everyone voting for? If not no one, there...needs to be a majority. We barely have twenty minutes left.

Some people mentioned voting for no one, but it...doesn't seem like a majority, so...

[ Who are we offing and why. ]

[shoutoku_administrator]

...If we're at an impasse, somebody will need to suggest a name. It doesn't need to be well-reasoned at this point.

I can carry that burden.

let's not kill francis

[flatview]

Do you want to kill two people...? [ nui hesitates, leaning on her parasol ]

He's my buddy. You'd be killing me, too.

[billows]

And then what would you people do about clothes? [ The perfect argument. ]

WHO THE HECK ARE WE VOTING FOR

[eventhandler]

Enough! Enough...this is...

[A sigh.] Now that we know of, ah, Nui's and Francis' partnership, are we still voting for them? Abstaining from voting? Voting someone else It is...almost time, almost time to vote, and yet, we still haven't reached a clear decision.

What is our consensus...?

[shoutoku_administrator]

Francis.