day nine

[guestcontrol]

dreamland day nine 10 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. Oh, there's one other thing this morning - your bracelets are no longer working. Fortunately, your rooms have all been left unlocked, as is the entrance to the park. Oh, and you still might not want to go near the fences; the automatic weapons in the guard towers are still a thing. 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. "Congratulations to the tippy top ten! You made it!" You will have until 4 PM to explore the park and talk amongst yourselves. Somewhere in the park, you'll find the body of Oz Vessalius. rulebook character statuses private conversations graveyard

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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 10 players remaining. 6 VIPs have been killed. There have been 2 opportunities for conversion. The following guest roles are still alive:

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.

This morning, Oz Vessalius is dead. That's all! Have a fun filled day!

Ferris Wheel

[guestcontrol]

[If you happen to take the Ferris Wheel this morning, you may notice something somewhat unusual.

From the top, you can still see the small town and factory in the distance, looking as grey and deserted as ever. But flying from the factory, you can just make out a hint of color in something that looks like a flag. It seems to be lime green and magenta.]

Oz Vessalius

[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 that the circus tent is open. Inside, you'll find that the cages containing dead animals have been moved in a semi-circle around one of the raised platforms. On that platform, in the center of some kind of circle drawn in white paint, it a corpse.

The bracelet isn't working today, but this corpse clearly belongs to Oz. He's lying in the center of a paint circle, in which are drawn a variety of strange symbols. Oz's body has been stabbed through the chest, although there is no knife nearby. The overall effect is one of ritual sacrifice.

Oz Vessalius is no longer among us.]

[cheats]

[ Before he had even seen the bulletin board, Ciel knew that Oz hadn't made it through the night. They had a sort of morning ritual by this point, because Ciel was a completely hopeless child, and Oz had to help him get dressed, since he was too noble to even know how to do that. It had filled him with a bitter anger as Ciel had roughly dressed himself this morning (and only in simple clothes, for once, since they were about all he could manage), because of course it hadn't worked. Why would you trust in someone as mad as they were? Idiot, idiot, idiot...

And as Ciel runs out into the park to find Oz, he's angry and anxious, because no small part of him wants to just run into Oz as he takes a morning walk, and he'll laugh in that empty-headed way that says that he just forgot. Ciel will criticize him for making him dress in such an uncouth way, but then they'll both laugh and head to a sad breakfast of oatmeal. The small part of his optimistic heart wishes for that desperately. And he's so focused on that hope that he nearly jogs by the circus tent all together, but he stops, then walks back.

Probably not, but he had to check. He opens the flap to the tent only planning to glance inside, but what he sees makes his blood immediately turn to ice.

Ciel makes a soft noise as his eyes widen in a doeish way, innocent and so much more suited to his age, but as his eyes sweep around the scene before him, his heart races, faster and faster, until it's thundering in his ears. ]

No—

[ The circle on the ground, he knows every letter, because they've been burned into his mind from seeing this scene, over and over and over again every time his sleep came too fitfully. The blood seeps down the altar, even if it's dry now, and there's a body laying on top, staring up distantly. And Ciel, no— ]

Ciel isn't here anymore...

[ Ciel is gone. But Ciel is inside the cages that he sees, reaching out desperately as a dagger plunges into the chest of the person there. Is that Oz? Or is it Ciel? He can't tell, but it's so clear in his mind that Ciel trembles then makes a choked sound before he vomits messily, not collapsing first this time. He cries out feebly, trying to step back, but he falls, because he feels lost. Where is he? Where is Sebastian? Sebastian is supposed to destroy the ones that soiled him— them—

He clutches at the side of the tent and tries to rip his eyes away from the scene before him that's mixing reality with his past, but he can't. He can't even stand to walk, because he's afraid and reliving every moment of being in that cage. Being on the altar? Where was he? He can't figure it out, because it's both, and yet, it neither.

So he screams.

It's loud and harsh enough that anyone would hear it easily, because it's a sound of fear and despair, barely human sounding in just how rough it is. ]

[photoshot]

[ the bracelets are down. that's almost the first thing she notices in the morning.

the next was that, experimentally, when she tried opening Sigma's door next to hers, it was unlocked.

time to do some investigative journalism and by that she means snooping in every single dead person's room for clues. tact, what tact. ]

[paws_and_rewind]

[ Missile's room contains mostly newspaper scraps and a heap of those Listen, human, and tremble! notes. And a bunch of photographs. There is no box of possessions - all of that is under his bed. ]

[poyoyon]

[ Tiger 1 is a rather messy room. There are half-drunk cokes and some open snacks and carnival toy prizes strewn around at random. There isn't any sheet music to be found, since she gave it all to Sheba before her trial.

There's nothing useful here, why did you even bother, Aya. ]

[belgian]

[Belgium's room contains Mahiru's camera, a notebook, and a note for Oz. Apparently Belgium was expecting that if Oz was around to read notes at all it was because her death would come as a result of being suddenly detonated. Belgium's cell phone is stuffed in her box of stuff from home under her bed--all the settings have been erased. Her SD card is in there, too, though it's not in the phone (and doesn't have anything relevant on it).

There's also chocolate in her box, if Aya wants it.]

[fanbase]

[ Clash has made no effort to tidy up her room before her demise. There are papers strewn and crumpled about, which looks like the starting of her final letter posted in Aya's paper. It seems she struggled to get it started and some of the smoother papers look to have had something wet on them at one point, like tears.

Otherwise, there's a stack of paper's on her nightstand that looks to be sheet music. It's not clear who they're written by, but the some of the songs look to be written for her rather than by her.

Finally, her make-up palette is left in the center of her unmade bed. Applying the final touches seems to be all she needed it for, but if a certain someone in particular wants it (Mabel) it's free for the taking. Otherwise there are just clothes lying about. It's a room that looks lived in, but feels emptier when one realizes that no one longer is. ]

[terci]

[Dipper's room is filled with lots and lots of notes! Mostly random theories about where the park was and what the motives of the VIPs and the people running the place were, but nothing really concrete or with real reason. Also there are a few detailed sketches of the deaths before him, with notes such as what weapons were used and who could use which ones.

Besides the notes, there's nothing really useful or noteworthy.]

[glasshole]

[Kyouya's room contains a bunch of hoarded food and medical supplies. What a douche. His cell phone is in there, too, but his notebook isn't there.]

[sparklyrichbastard]

[Tamaki's room has a bunch of stuffed animals he collected with the intent of giving them to his friends before, you know, he started killing them and all. He also has a bunch of empty candy wrappers, not discarded as trash, but neatly laid out and organized in a system that probably only makes sense to Tamaki.

He also has a draft of the note he was writing to the other VIPs in case he was 'woken up early'. It's an overblown dramatic mess and it's really for the best he never finished it.]

[jingler]

[K's room is very tidy, with little inside to note. The bed has a hefty indent shape but is otherwise made and neat. There are a couple of papers on the table with scribbled drawings of what look like people, but very poorly done and not entirely whole. One of them can certainly be made out to look like Sigma if Aya squints at it enough, but the rest of them are of strangers not here in the park.

Another paper had a short list of people with small notes next to them:

-Sigma [???] [has a buddy] [will delivered] [he opened it (rudely) before my death]
-Anise [???] [young girl] [smarter than she acts]
-Kaoru [buddy] [met friends - seem nice] [kind if not mischevious]
-Levi [detective] [protected from conversion] [lied to us about being detective] [guest]
-Edea [???] [received torn image of her] [seems innocent] [VIP] [appeared unaware of what she was doing]
-Missile [real detective] [confirmed me as guest] [shredded picture guilty, bit picture innocent]
-Aya [???] [seems neutral to everything] [not trustworthy, but easy to work with]
-Kyouya [???] [seems controlling] [deal with him as I must] [guest]
-Legion [guest] [missile's third report] [anonymous note confirmed as fake]
-Gundam [???] [trained missile with good intentions]
-Miko [???] [spoke with her when legion died] [stood nearby her until her death] [guest]

The list ends there. Nothing else in the room.

[uncoincidental]

[Sheba's bed is unmade, but other than that her room seems clean enough. There aren't any snacks or anything scattered around.

The majority of Ibuki's sheet music is missing, but if Aya looks inside the drawers she'll find a piece of sheet music with purple writing on the back, addressed to Sheba.

On top of the drawer, though, are more papers - some notes that are bundled together, all written in Oz's handwriting, addressed to Honey, Clash, Ciel, and Nanami. Looks like he gave them to her to deliver in the case of his death, but she and one of his recipients ended up dead before that could happen. There are two more that were addressed to herself, too, which have been opened and refolded a few times as if she's been rereading them. She's also tucked away a photograph of a strange screen that says "SHEBA" and then a sparkly green INNOCENT.

A little to the side is one last letter, which is a combination of her handwriting and Oz's, and a pen is lying on the paper. It looks like Oz wrote it initially and she took notes.]

Aya probably safe since patchouli was a vip
Ciel
Clash bomber
Gundam he's known about me too long to be a vip
Mabel
Natalia probably safe since anise was a vip
Patchouli vip, executed
Peko probably safe since ibuki was a vip
Simon
Takashi probably safe since tamaki was a vip
Tamaki vip, executed

ciel, mabel, or simon could be the last vips?
if ciel's theory about information leaks is right maybe that is why dipper died after mabel helped him think about suspects
simon is probably not trustworthy something about him doesn't seem right
but if ciel is the vip can we trust what he said about leaks?
maybe he doesn't remember
or maybe he's covering for simon or one of the others

did clash's bracelet say ??? because they tried to convert her but messed up somehow? maybe we only need to find one more

[ionicwoman]

[Anise's room has no notes, just some hidden food and lots of carnival prizes]

[sunshade]

[ Patchouli's room is impeccably neat and contains what minuscule amount of books the park has to offer, along with some stashed food.

That about it. :T ]

[eventhandler]

[Royce's room is disorderly, to say the least. It doesn't look like he slept in his room before the day he died, or, at the very least, he didn't have a good night's sleep, based on the tossed sheets and messy state of the bed. Cigarette butts can be found on the floor, and the pungent smell of smoke permeates the room.]

[Parts of his walls are covered with scribbles of mathematical equations, probably far too complex to make heads and tails of. There are also a few doodles of what looks to be a strange-looking sword here and there. A pile of Aya's newspapers can be also found sitting in the corner.]

[A note can be found if one looks under the bed, written in a script that ranges from "neat" to "somewhat unreadable" It looks very much like a work in progress.]

[harepiece]

[Oz's room is very lived-in and seems welcoming even without much additional personal touches. There's clothing laid out around the place and a small, nearly emptied dish of candy on the table along with an empty mug. A pocketwatch sits on the desk that will play a soft, tinkling melody if opened.

Outside of that, there's nothing much of note.]

[photonement]

[As soon as Aya walks into Mahiru's room, she'll smell something overall cloying - though it's faint enough by now that leaving the door open might defuse the air to the extent future visitors won't notice anything. There are five small flowers (orange, yellow, red, pink, and green) wrapped around the bar connecting the bleak regulation metal posts at the head of the bed. With no water for over five days, they've died. The real sources of the perfume, counteracting the botanical decay, are two little hemispherical fresheners balanced on top of the bedposts, garish electric blue in hue. A dress, off-white with purple polka dots, hangs neatly over the posts at the foot of the bed.

What sticks out the most on the corner of the dresser is a single tube of pretty pink lipstick. It's next to carnival tickets, in two stacks of ten plus another pile of three. The souvenir pen and matching stationary paper pad takes up most the center of the dresser's surface - though the pad is over half empty. In the remaining space off to the sie lie a few handwritten maps.

The lockbox contains separate drafts of her letters to Peko and Gundam and Ibuki, and several other stationary sheets that only have names on one side and at most half a dozen words on the other - Nui, Oz, Ciel, Kenny, Sigma, Mabel, Natalia, Edea... Underneath those is one labelled "Hiyoko-chan", but there's a small damp spot in the middle and nothing else.

At the very bottom of the box are the first two issues of Bunbunmaru Newspaper, Dreamland Murder Game Special Edition.]

[chronic]

[ Kenny's room is a mess, as you could typically expect from a 10-year-old boy. There are clothes of all sorts here- both boyish and feminine. A long blonde wig has been carefully combed out and laid aside tenderly. There are no notes- at least, none that can be found- but there is a drawing. Next to that is a list, with accompanying notes.

Night 1: Miko
Night 2: Levi
Night 3: Royce
nothing. we can't find any patterns. hard to predict what they're doing.
Night 4: Gundam
they expected us to shield gundam. went for someone else
Night 5: Missile
risk on missile is working. they never go for him. too risky. no need to try protecting him again
Night 6: Anise
i'm getting frustrated. i'm so fucking tired
Night 7: Oz
we saved oz last night. belgium died. but we did it
Night 8: Oz
one of us is definitely going to die tonight and it'll probably be me
sheba i'm sorry
i'm scared to die. it's stupid but i'm scared to die. i always am. no matter how many times. i'm scared. i said it didn't matter but it does. it always does

That's about it. ]

[edealistical]

[Edea's room has a few hair ribbons and a very curious journal filled with all sorts of esoteric and highly improbable information. She's already sent all the notes she meant to send but there's scraps of paper on which she penned out her theory for defense during her trial.

Most are unremarkable, but there's one that's crossed out and reads

Gundam Tanaka's motives: an animal enthusiast, he would have chosen Malik on his first day for his threat against Missile. As for the other victims, his classmates were chosen because the game he was taken from requires the death of every participant but the winner regardless. Therefore, there is only one person with a strong motive for all three crimes...

But it's crossed out with a note:

:( Too cruel... I do not know if even I can believe that, though it may well be so. No doubt they will vote for me if only because I was the first name proposed. 'My death will mean the end of millions of worlds' - that, too, is cruel to say. I will see my end with dignity...

Please do not forget the goal and the true enemy, everyone... No matter what might happen.]

[siggey]

[Sigma's room is dreadfully boring.

The cover of the bed is unmade, but aside from that, while not the picture perfect of tidiness, it's not really messy either. The worst offender may be a plate with a few dried up fries left on the table next to half a dozen empty bottles of water, but otherwise, the whole place conveys nothing more than the feeling of a motel room where one holed up to sleep, but do little more.

It did give the impression that he was planning to come back, though. Or well, the lack of anything like a will, as if he wasn't expecting to die in a game that made no qualms in killing every participant.

...Oh yeah, the box where most would find personal belongings isn't empty: there's a meticulously clean can of kidney beans, obviously from the mess hall.

Apart from that, nothing of interest. ]

Mori - Circus

[dotdotdotstare]

[After the initial Oz discovery, Mori is just going to take advantage of the unworking bracelets to take a second look at that crate full of machine guns, explosives and missiles, assuming it's still there. Wishful thinking at work, but it would be great if they could take out one of the guard towers with something in here.]

[guestcontrol]

[It's still there. Do you know how to operate these, though? The explosives and missiles especially are confusing.]

Fence

[murimurimuri]

[It would be nice to head over to that circus and gloat, and even nicer to go gank some of those weapons, but Simon doubts he can get away with either of those, and anyway the nicest thing of all would be getting the hell out of dodge. So the second he realizes his bracelet is off, he packs up a bag full of provisions and heads for the fence to see if he can find a viable point of escape.

While he checks out the fence, Money is on the lookout, riding on the back of one of the petting zoo sheep.]

[guestcontrol]

[If he goes near the fence, the guns in the guard tower turn and seem to target on him.]

Dipper's Room - later in the morning

[ineptus]

[Aya isn't the only one snooping through bedrooms. Okay, maybe she's the only one snooping, but she's not the only one visiting. Perhaps predictably, Mabel can be found in her twin's room. She's not doing much, just sitting on his bed and hugging his pillow. Some of his notes are strewn on the bed, face up, as if she were reading them earlier. But now she's mostly just staring at them.

The door is left slightly open, so you're welcome to enter if you want.]