week 1

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Week 1

[With the introduction to the relationship experiment and their overseeing hosts done with, the Champions are left to their own devices to explore the first floor of the mansion as they please. Cece and Kip will pop-up every once in a while to chit-chat but for the most part they're somewhere inaccessible.

Each morning the Champions are awakened promptly at 7 am by PAL's even, almost laid back voice announcing the time and each evening at 10 pm to announce when the kitchen is closing for the night. Unlike the Overseers, he doesn't seem to be one much for conversation.

Enjoy your week, Champions.]

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[ooc: welcome to week 1, everyone! This first week is a peace week which means there will be no murder this weekend! Feel free to start submitting threads for the benefactors]

Comments

[misanthropicprinciple]

Because of rule seven?

[nojohnyouare]

[nod] Everyone has been so nice. Even when they don't need to be. But I don't know.

[misanthropicprinciple]

No, that's... it's good to think like that. Nice doesn't mean trustworthy.

What're you going to do if you see someone doing something suspicious, though?

[nojohnyouare]

...

[Mai picks up a. Um. Is that a fancy candle holder, you can't even fight with that? why are you holding it like a sword???]

Like this.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Girl...]

Ah. Yup, shouldn't have worried, then.

[nojohnyouare]

[what, it's totally a good idea]

...What do you think?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Uh, I prefer a broom as far as makeshift weapons go, but I guess we haven't found the janitor's closet yet.

[That's what she meant, right?]

[nojohnyouare]

Someone might try. ...But everyone was telling the truth before.

[okay, she missed some of it because takumi bailed her out but]

When the truth is strange, people will be suspicious. Probably.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Telling the... oh.

[Right. But he left early, too.]

Yeah, that was... That was something. You're right, that might've freaked people out, and frightened people are dangerous.

[nojohnyouare]

If someone doesn't fit their idea of normal, they might be targeted. Maybe.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I don't know if it's a problem with "normality" so much as...

[He gropes for the word.]

Danger. Risk. "Fear... leads to anger." [Junpei shakes his head.] And that way the Dark Side lies.

[nojohnyouare]

Fear leads to anger?

[She's still a few months off from that reference.]

...Probably. Like what they say about hammers and nails.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah. Exactly.

...That said, I don't know that patrolling by yourself is, uh... the best idea. In that light.

[nojohnyouare]

...You can come. If you want.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...

Are you going to be doing this all night? Because I, uh, had something I wanted to do...

[nojohnyouare]

Someone to visit?

[misanthropicprinciple]

What? No.

[He seems honestly baffled.]

I wanted to see if the garden's any different at night. [...] Wait, did you think I was going to try something?

[nojohnyouare]

No. But if there were someone you were worried about. ...Let's check the garden.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Sure.

[He starts walking, but he's watching her skeptically.]

We've only been here a few days. I don't think I have anyone I'm especially worried about. Do you?

[nojohnyouare]

...I don't know. [She walks along.] Anyone could attack. But at the same time, anyone could be a victim.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...It's hard to I.D. potential victims in advance. Since we're all strangers, if anyone takes advantage of rule seven, it's likely to be a crime of opportunity. Perps, though...

In a critical situation like this, my experience says you ought to give the people who seem to control the conversation a closer look.

[nojohnyouare]

Leaders and people in charge? [headtilt]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah. Well, and people who make a lot of assumptions that go unchallenged. When verifiable facts are at a premium, a misleading suggestion packs a lot of punch.

[nojohnyouare]

That's why you question everything... You've seen a lot, right?

[misanthropicprinciple]

I am a detective.