day five

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dreamland day five 26 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. "Wake up! Wake up! It's an exciting buy one get one free day for bodies!" You will have until 4 PM to explore the park and talk amongst yourselves. Somewhere in the park, you'll find the bodies of K and Kaoru Hitachiin. rulebook character statuses private conversations graveyard Voting will close at 10 PM EST on October 6. 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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Bulletin Board

[guestcontrol]

[As promised, the electronic bulletin board near the main train station has a copy of the rulebook, as well as the following notice: ]

Good morning! As of today, there are 26 players remaining. 1 VIP has been killed. There has been 1 opportunity for conversion. The following guest roles are still alive:

Detective: Every night, will learn the alignment (guest or special guest) of one player. Will also be alerted whenever there's a successful conversion.

Buddy Cops: Meet at night. Every night, chooses one player to learn the alignment of. Will learn the alignment of that player. If one buddy cop is killed, the other may be able to survive one more day before dying, and cannot be saved. If one buddy cop is converted, they will still attend cop meetings, but their vote will technically not count.

Medical Team: Meet at night. Every night, choose one player to protect from being killed. If a protected player's buddy dies that night, they will survive. If one of the medical team dies, the other may be able to survive one more night before dying. Cannot protect themselves.

Detonator: Meets at night. Chooses one player to receive a key that can, at any time, detonate another player's guest identification bracelet and kill them.

???: Objectives unknown. Able to kill once during the day.

This morning, K and Kaoru Hitachiin are dead. That's all! Have a fun filled day!

Kaoru Hitachiin

[guestcontrol]

[Take your time getting ready in the morning, but eventually you won't have any choice but to look for a body. As you wander around the park, you'll likely see that the Tunnel of Love is newly open today. And, in a swan boat floating around through the Tunnel of Love is a body.

You can look at the bracelet on the corpse - it flashes Kaoru Hitachiin's name and dorm mascot, as well as the words Conversion Buster. Kaoru's corpse is curled up at the side of the boat, a fearful expression on his face. There's a gunshot wound through his heart, and the bottom of the boat has filled with a mix of blood and water from the ride.

Kaoru Hitachiin is no longer among us.]

[sparklyrichbastard]

[Not much to do but sit outside the Tunnel of Love and cry.]

[cakelover]

[ ...Oh no. Oh no oh no oh no. ]

Kao-chan! [ Why two in a row? ]

Love Tunnel

[guestcontrol]

[At the north of the park, this cute ride is now open, though you'll want to avoid the swan with a corpse in it. The ride has swan themed boats, plays sweet music, and has animatronic caroling children singing a catchy song, most wearing matching uniforms. The song is in a language you probably won't recognize, but sounds vaguely eastern european. The water looks filthy and is flowing with algae.]

K

[guestcontrol]

[Take your time getting ready in the morning, but eventually you won't have any choice but to look for a body. As you wander around the park, you may notice one of the strange thrill rides have gone slightly off track. Wedged in between the train and the wall in a large, unmistakable body; it seems to have been pushed and dragged around by the train at a high speed.

You can look at the bracelet on the corpse - it flashes K's name and dorm mascot, and shows the words Conversion Buster. The body, of course, is of K's robot suit, but by the massive damage caused to the ride and to the suit, it's safe to say that the man inside did not survive the impact.

K is no longer among us.]

[fanbase]

[ She looks down at the body, her face solemn.

Clash finds it hard to remove herself from the scene and doesn't know how long she's been standing there. ]

[ionicwoman]

[Anise has kept her cool at pretty much every body (not every execution, but hey), but at the sight of this particular body... She completely freezes up]

K...

PAPER DELIVERY

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Bunbunmaru Newspaper, Dreamland Murder Game Special Edition


Season 129, 1st of Kannazuki

Ferris Wheel and Tensions Running High
Mystery detonator and votes kill two pairs of partners

On X the Xth, the park opened to Mr. Kyouya Ootori’s body under the newly-operating ferris wheel. While the ride appears to be fully functional now, not much else seems to be of notice about it other than the view from the top and the fact that Mr. Ootori was apparently killed by falling from such great heights. His was far from the only murder that day as the mysterious ??? role was expanded to reveal that there was, in fact, a hidden non-VIP killer who could detonate victims during the day. He or she then did so and killed Mr. Legion, dooming his partner Miss Toyosatomimi no Miko.

Today’s vote was the grimmest yet, with no clues to go on. But, as Miss Starfire pointed out, not voting was an even greater danger.

' Our numbers go down if someone is killed, too, but... the VIPs do not get any more added to their number, and the detective and buddy cops have a higher chance of finding one of them, because they do not have to worry about reinvestigating people they have already investigated... '

With this reasoning in mind, voters scrambled to find the most suspicious person to execute. That person turned out to be Mr. Francis Abernathy, on the basis that he had been in support of Miss Edea rather than Mr. Missile last night. Despite evidence that his partner Miss Nui Harime was innocent, Mr. Abernathy was ultimately and wrongly hung.

We can only hope that we won’t repeat this mistake again.

- Aya Shameimaru.



Parkgoers Published!
Broadcast your voice

If you'd like to submit a story or piece of information, please feel free to leave a message under my door at Bee #6. Note: entries are not guaranteed to be accurate or trustworthy, just in-print.

Today's entries are:

• [There's a hand-drawn maze puzzle submitted to the paper today! It's in the shape of a rabbit and at the center of the maze is a little carrot.]

• ' We wish to live record of our time here. We do not have access to our critical restorative functions, so this unit's destruction will mean the destruction of all data housed in this unit. Restorative measures are not feasible. So instead, we will leave our message physically. This is inefficient, but we have no other choice.
  
  We have enjoyed our time here. We have experienced much that we would have not been able to otherwise. We are on a combat starship, so we do not often interact with civilians. It has been an experience we wish we can share with all Geth. We live beyond the Perseus Veil, since it is safer for us. But we had not had contact with organics for more then two hundred years because of this. We believe our experiences here would have been accepted into the consensus. We do not have much data on what average organics are like. We were glad for this opportunity to learn.
  
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  Aya Shameimaru: Your journalism would be considered unethical by four races' journalistic standards. Further standards unknown. We advise consideration.
  
  Ibuki-BFF: We thank you for teaching us about fun. We were unable to process this data fully, and we did not reach consensus on a definition. However, this was a complex subject. More data was required. We did reach acceptable consensus on teacups and comics, however.
  
  K: We apologize for not providing a key to our suit. Our scans were not able to find a solution. We hope that you will find one. We were not able to come to a consensus about the long term viability of this suit.
  
  Mabel-Sister: We thank you for teaching us about family. Geth do not have family as organics perceive it, but we were grateful for the acceptance. We were also grateful for the sticker. We have reached consensus that family is a topic that needs further study. But we did enjoy playing games with you.
  
  Missile: No data available about the ability of Canis familiaris's reading ability. However, further data suggests that pretzels are not acceptable food for Canis familiaris. We apologize.
  
  Oz Vessalius: We no longer need our mattress. We have left our door unlocked for you to take it. We hope you are more comfortable.
  
  Royce Bracket: Your mathematics were beyond average capacity for humans. We enjoyed evaluating your equations. We leave one for your consideration—
  

  For how many integers n with |n| < 500 can the polynomial Pn(x) = x6 + n be written as a product of two non-constant polynomials with integer coefficients?

  
  Sigma Klim: Your consideration for our continued existence was surprising. We thank you for it.
  
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  We ask that a copy of this data be given to Shepard-Commander. Formerly of the N7 Alliance Marines. Now Cerberus operative. She will know what to do with this data. We ask that she proceed to the Station and destroy the heretics. This way, the Geth may still continue to exist outside of the influence of the Old Machines. We also hope that she will defeat Nazara.
  
  We are sorry that we will not be able to help her as we promised.
  
  Keelah se'lai.
  
  Legion. '

• ' PARK-STYLE HOROSCOPES! OR **MASCOTSCOPES**!
  Tiger; your stripes better than a zebra's!
  Hamster; every day is a good day to be a furball!
  Bee; something sure is abuzz about how cool you are!
  Snake; slither along, today's going to be great!
  Elephant; we don't need to talk about this elephant in the room, everyone knows you're awesome!
  Kitten; your pinchers sure are looking sharp today! '

[ there are no other stories, even scandals, but there are a few snapshots of the ferris wheel and the view from atop it. the rest of the paper is dedicated to obituaries and last words.

M'gann M'orzz: She liked to cook. We were going to make oreos. [...] She was really nice! (- Miss Belgium.)

Kyouya Ootori: Kyouya always had a scheme up his sleeve. He was undoubtedly talking to all sorts of people. He'd have been cautious, too... I can't believe all it took was one badly-timed letter... (- Mr. Tamaki Suoh.)

Legion: Most people liked him, didn't they? A lot of us disagreed with executing him, even though we might have thought he was a VIP for awhile there. (- Miss Constance "Clash" Montgomery.)

Toyosatomimi no Miko: I'd like to apologize to you all. Again and again, I tried to be a leader, but my actions only ever caused more suffering and disaster. I have failed in everything I undertook since I came here, and now...

Francis Abernathy: Good Lord, what's happened the past three days? You wouldn't kill Legion based off a note, but now I have to be sacrificed for no reason.

Nui Harime: Lady Ragyo, my deepest apologies! It seems I won't be there to finish our greatest work! But at least REVOCS' Grand Couturier will go out with a worthy bang! ]

[eventhandler]

[Good morning, Aya. Same old meet and greet, same old newspaper, and...ah, the note from Legion...]

[Royce stares at the math problem, before he lets out a sigh, folding the newspaper. He would solve it later, in his own time. In his own time...]

...I'll assume, as always, that there was a murder today.

[poyoyon]

breakfast;

[ Ibuki can be found slathering a hot dog in ketchup. She's so good at this nutrition thing. This will be about the only time she can be caught sitting still for the day...for the rest of it, she'll be out and about in the park. ]

Eh...do they restock things like this when we're all sleeping?

tunnel of love;

[ A new ride, huh. Well, Ibuki has always ridden all the other rides, including the ferris wheel when it was unlocked, so... ]

Time for a ride in the tunnel of love, right?! Ibuki will accompany anyone who wants to go! ...After all, maybe those killers left something behind? Do they have special keys?

tunnel of love

[fanbase]

[ Her demeanor is less excited today, she doesn't think that the tunnel of love will excite her as much as the ferris wheel, but if it's Ibuki asking... she can't say no. ]

Sure, yeah. I'll go with you.

[perfectstrike]

[No. Peko still doesn't want to ride any of the rides. Even less so since K got himself run over by a roller coaster. But there haven't been any injures strictly as a result of the rides themselves, and Ibuki makes a valid point about something being left behind...]

Fine, I will accompany you. Keep your eyes open for any evidence.

[Peko this isn't the island, there is no evidence anywhere that's helpful...]

breakfast

[belgian]

[Belgium spends a lot of time in the mess hall, because cooking is therapeutic. She's eating something a little more healthy than a hot dog as a result.]

Maybe our kidnappers make the VIPs deliver food.

tunnel of love

[ionicwoman]

The tunnel of love? I could take my darling Ciel there~ ♥

[But well, one always needs practice, so]

I'll go with you, Ibuki.

breakfast!

[harepiece]

[IBUKI THAT'S GROSS AS HELL...]

That would mean someone would have to come in, right? [He's not judgin, though... He's got two bowls of oatmeal in his hands, and he'll offer one out to Ibuki regardless. There's a copy of Aya's paper tucked under it.]

Um... I submitted a game for you, like I said!

[photoshot]

... Miss Ibuki Mioda has been investigated by the cops. According to Mr. Missile, they claim that she's VIP. [ Aya offers up two halves of a picture of the accused as evidence. ]

Thoughts? We need to start thinking of votes now to try to avoid a desperate situation like yesterday.

[fanbase]

What?

[ What kind of announcement is this right after she's told Ibuki all the things she has on the swan ride. ]

That— I'm not going to vote for her!

[perfectstrike]

Is there any further proof? The "buddy cops" have done nothing of use until today.

[Peko still looks as exhausted as she has every day since Kuzuryuu's murder, but she doesn't want to accuse one of her classmates without absolute proof.]

[ionicwoman]

I.. IBUKI? [What the hell?!]

N-No way...

[poyoyon]

Ehhhhhhh?! But that's not true! Ibuki would know if it was true, right?!

[ what the fuck ]

Ibuki's 10000% sure she would remember killing people at night!

[ that's something you would remember ]

[belgian]

Ibuki? [But she was going to make Ibuki dinner! And Ibuki is so nice and Ibuki-ish!] Really?

afternoon

[guestcontrol]

[At some point during the early afternoon before the trial starts, anyone in the northern area of the park will hear what sounds like a small explosion going off. If they head towards it, they'll find Anna's body nearby the carousel. Her corpse is a mess; judging by the gaping chest wound, it looks like something embedded in there exploded.

Her bracelet is attached to her wrist and seems to still be in working order despite the explosion. On it is displayed the words REGULAR GUEST.]

[perfectstrike]

[Oh no. Oh no.

Peko's just kind of standing there in horrified shock, then she abruptly turns heel and marches away. It seems as though she's looking for someone.]

AROUND

[mediumburgers]

[ A bit after the accusation claiming Ibuki a VIP, Maya will be running around the park trying to build a solid defense case. She'll be doing this all day, even after Anna's explosion. ]

Hey, you! [ Yes, you. ] Do you have anything to say about Ibuki? I'm going to defend her in court and need as much evidence to prove her innocence as possible!

[ If the answer is anywhere along the lines of "sure"/"yes", Maya will literally drag them off into a private convo. If you say no, then she won't do that. She supposes. ]

[fanbase]

If you're gonna defend her then yeah, I do. She said that we could do it together, but it'll probably help more if someone else does it instead.

Mess hall, afternoon

[murimurimuri]

[Simon waits until there are a decent amount of people around grabbing snacks or late lunches, and then stands up on a table.]

Um, excuse me... I feel like there's something that maybe we should talk about? Maybe we don't have enough information to make any solid conclusions, but I think it's worth thinking about. Namely, the VIPs' motivations, and those of the bomber.

I have some theories, but I'm not exactly the most clever guy around, so I kind of want to see if other people are thinking the same thing...

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What are your theories?