Day 02

[shimmershimmer]

[Good morning, everyone! Did you sleep well? Some of our members are sleeping so well they've decided not to get up at all! Specifically:

Soulmates Oswin and Bulat, both ordinary villagers, are lost to their dreams, and Lynne, the Seer, shares the same fate.]

((Current role distribution
Another note))

Comments

An anonymous note

[shimmershimmer]

[Posted up in the same manner as before:]

Last night Bobby appeared in my dream as a demon. Lynne is the real Seer, so my reading of Ling and Bobby is false.

Kimblee is lying about writing my note. This is the second and last note that I'm leaving out. If a False Seer is lost to their dreams, check them. I'm hanging on to my next note.

SIGNED, An Anonymous False Seer

Re: An anonymous note

[weeabird]

[Examining the evidence.]

[lifescratched]

... I did not catch anyone putting that up overnight. It must have been earlier this morning.

[weeabird]

Hm. I see.

We should compare the handwriting to the previous note.

[lifescratched]

I believe Mr Mustang was last in possession of the first note...

[weeabird]

Then let us hope he has had the good sense to preserve it.

Re: An anonymous note

[heartofsnarkness]

I did think it was fishy that Kimblee claimed to be the one telling us all to vote for Ling and then voted for someone else entirely.

[skyentificmethod]

Don't like it when people don't stick to their guns?

[heartofsnarkness]

Well, it's one thing to change your mind when you're just following along, but when you try to get everyone on board with a plan and then don't follow the plan yourself, I find that kind of questionable, you know?

[skyentificmethod]

True. Think the two of them have a history together?

[heartofsnarkness]

Him and Ling? Could be.

((ha ha let's pretend I can read and didn't mentally reverse the voter-votee listing order, okay))

[skyentificmethod]

((ha ha let's pretend I'm the sort of person who would even notice))

If they already had a feud going, it'd explain targeting him straight off the bat. Or...it could be the opposite, some sort of self-sacrifice move. Assuming a majority of soft-hearted or just confused voters, by accusing him, it meant people would think twice before going after Ling.

[cafeolay]

[Assuming this isn't written in red ink:]

Ha...!

The plot thickens, as they say.

[thefaceofjustice]

...Is that another coffee joke, Prosecutor Godot?

[Thick coffee?????????????]

[cafeolay]

Coffee is no joking matter, amigo.

[irenicly]

[This isn't good, this isn't good at all.

But there's something about this whole situation...]

Re: An anonymous note

[defenceservice]

At least that's something.

Re: An anonymous note

[very_bad_end]

But was it lying in good-faith?

Re: An anonymous note

[heartofsnarkness]

What do you mean, in good faith?

Re: An anonymous note

[very_bad_end]

Was he lying to protect the real Seer, with the village's best interests in mind, or was he lying to cause disinformation and confusion and hinder the village?

Re: An anonymous note

[heartofsnarkness]

He could've been protecting the real Seer--or rather the real fake Seer, that's true. But it would be awfully altruistic of him to throw himself on the grenade so early when there wasn't an urgent need for anyone to come forward at all.

[thefaceofjustice]

[WELL this is a lot to take in... He'll start by visiting Oswin and Bulat's cottage to spare a few words.]

I'm really sorry that I doubted both of you... I will continue fighting the injustice that did this to you!

[lifescratched]

[Connor's not far behind. Sure enough, the bodies are in just the same state as the others...]

In future, do not be so hasty in throwing out accusations, detective.

[thefaceofjustice]

...I'm not going to drop my accusation of Mr. Kimblee, especially in light of this new message.

[lifescratched]

Nor should you. He has every reason he should explain his actions to us.

[broboticist]

[well

well

wweeelllllllllll]

[microbrobotics]

[ god what now even ]

This is bad...

[broboticist]

It's.

Yeah. It is.

[holds him by the shoulders and takes a deep, slow breath]

[microbrobotics]

[ screws up his face a little and leans back against him ]

[broboticist]

Things are only going to keep getting harder.

[microbrobotics]

[ n-nods ]

At least we didn't hurt Ling.

[broboticist]

It would have been stupid to move on that sort of weak clue.

[microbrobotics]

That doesn't mean people wouldn't choose it.

[culinarian]

[ Upon discovering his devoted student, Siebold makes an attempt to shake her awake but that naturally fails. He stays beside her bed for a long time, looking as though he's in deep thought.

Once in a while his Gyarados gives him a nudge, possibly as its way of asking "You okay, buddy?" ]

[microbrobotics]

[ wait hold up you have a GYARADOS?? ]

Whoa!

[culinarian]

[ He sure does! It's been nerfed and likely is a bit too big for the cottage, being six meters and a half of massive sea serpent but. ]

...Good morning. [ He inclines his head slightly in greeting and the Gyarados does the same, peering down at Hiro. ]

[microbrobotics]

[ still a gyarados holy crap ]

-- Is that a Pokemon? Gyarados, right?

[culinarian]

[ He nods. ]

Of course.

[microbrobotics]

Is he friendly?

[fauxlosophical]

[As he was yesterday, Kimblee is largely keeping to himself today, though he's not interested in denying anyone the opportunity to speak to him - he'll allow it, and if anything he seems a bit too calm when he returns to that pond in the park for a fair amount of the morning.

Of course, he'll be making his rounds to see the bodies of those lost to their dreams as well; it's something he intends to be in the practice of doing from here on.]

[thefaceofjustice]

[Well, the note said the false seer would keep a note with them... but what about the real seer? Bobby's next stop is Lynne's bedside, checking if she left any kind of message or indication of what she dreamed about.]

[shimmershimmer]

[You find nothing of particular interst.]

[skyentificmethod]

[apparently Fulbright is not the only person who had this idea...guess you can take the detective out of the japanifornia, but not the-- wait okay just pretend that made sense]

Find anything?

[thefaceofjustice]

No, nothing out of the ordinary, Detective Skye.

[skyentificmethod]

Of course not. Kinda was hoping I'd left the whole investigating mysterious prone bodies thing behind when I got here. At least there's no blood splatter.