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Proto Badger ([personal profile] protoshepherd) wrote in [community profile] crybadger2015-03-03 01:19 pm
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MIDNIGHT/DAY 2 - suspicion

[ In the spirit of Ace Attorney, the game where murders happen but NO ONE ACTUALLY SEES THE ACTUAL THING EXCEPT FOR THE PERPETRATORS…

The night has ended. You might have ousted someone, but NOTHING HAPPENS. You go back to your rooms and you find some samurai dogs by your bedside. At least there's food. Better than nothing. But you feel tired. It's been a long and stressful day. Could you even sleep at that rate?

In the middle of the night, you might hear a loud thud. If you wake up (or if you were already awake) and check the hallway, you'll find a bust—or its remnants—by the mirror closer to the Hawthorne and Gavin rooms. The statue is coloured… pink? Magenta? Well, whatever.

Behind the bust is a body… a dead body. Yup, that's right.

If you approach it, you'll find the dead body of Myriam Scuttlebutt. There's no box, just the young girl. If you saw her without the guise of her box, you'll realise that she isn't wearing her school uniform. She has a green jumpsuit on. Her arms were raised and had some red markings on her wrist, as if her hands had been tied. An awl was lodged in her abdomen. Dried blood by her wound, as if the blood had seeped through from her wound.

Myriam Scuttlebutt has been taken out by the allies of the Bad Badger. You have all been warned. You should have expected this.

If you decide to do a headcount, you'll find that one team is missing. One team with two members in it. The room to the Engarde room is swinging open. Do you check it out?

Upon entering, you'll find Matt Engarde's corpse placed conveniently on a chair. You'd think it's Matt, anyway. He seems to be wearing the Nickel Samurai costume. He's seated with his head facing the ground. There's a scarf on his neck, placed rather too tightly. Did he did from strangulation…? By the chair is an open guitar case, and a vanity with a wine glass on top of it.

By the only mirror in the room is Simon Keye's body, hanging frrom the ceiling. Nearby is a coffee table, and an envelope with the police department's seal on it. Whoever opens it will read a letter that reads "proto badgr kill."

If you go back to the library, you'll find Myriam's mirror still standing, but it doesn't function as a mirror anymore. You'll find a portrait of Aristotle Means instead, like a huge picture frame. A huge X painted in red covers about half of the portrait. The same goes for Matt and Simon Keye's mirrors - except Simon's mirror also has Matt's face on it. L O L.

The other mirrors have names again… although if you count, there seems to be only ten teams now: ]

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 10

ho bad badgr?????? vote for edgeworth safe

Furio Tigre Team
0 (0.0%)

Redd White Team
3 (30.0%)

Dahlia Hawthorne Team
3 (30.0%)

Jacques Portsman Team
1 (10.0%)

Morgan Fey Team
0 (0.0%)

The Phantom Team
3 (30.0%)

Horace Knightley Team
0 (0.0%)

Luke Atmey Team
0 (0.0%)

Daryan Crescend Team
0 (0.0%)

Kristoph Gavin Team
0 (0.0%)



[ If you've still got an appetite, there are calzones (WHICH IS BASICALLY THE GRANDFATHER OF PIZZAS - THANK YOU PARKS AND RECREATION) and sushi (NOT BURGERS) that is edible in the dining hall. If you are thirsty, here is a water dispenser, as well as a bowl of punch. Not alcoholic. ]


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[ 00:01 MARCH 3 EST: Day 2 begins, and a new suspicion poll pops up. ONLY TEN TEAMS REMAIN.

00 MARCH 4 EST: A clue will be given. Suspicion poll closes at MIDNIGHT.

00 MARCH 5 EST: Ousting poll gets put up! ]


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CLUE!!! (Handcuffs can be broken, feel free to play around with it.)
devilsworkday: it's fucking people over (002. this thing i consider my only art)

[personal profile] devilsworkday 2015-03-03 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
[It likely says plenty about both of them, really - the answer surely does, but so does the fact that it was a question in the first place.]

...You're an interesting person, if you don't mind my saying so.

[His tone isn't indicating whether that's a good thing or not; "interesting" can go several ways and all.]

Fortunately for both of us, I'm capable of the former without letting it turn into anything close to the latter. It was simply a question, nothing more.
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[personal profile] talldarkbitter 2015-03-03 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
Coming from you, I'm almost sure that's a compliment.

[ Though not an advantage. He doesn't blush. A man like Godot merely flicks his mask, the edge of his mouth sharp. ]

I think anything behind a mirror is just an image. In fact, given their quality to follow any subject, just a projection. But the concept works on the weak, bleeding hearts.
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devilsworkday: sell you on me after all that I have done (001. but no words ever did sell you)

[personal profile] devilsworkday 2015-03-03 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's not much of an insult.

[Kristoph.]

Either way - we agree, then. Excellent...though it may be in our best interests to not phrase it that way in front of Wright.
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[personal profile] talldarkbitter 2015-03-03 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's not stupid. His smirk grows a little wider. ]

Good thing Trite can't actually hear us now.

[ Godot moves to delicately remove Matt Engarde's helmet, then presents it to Kristoph Gavin. Like a prize, in its way. You've survived this, sir.

A thing to examine under pretense. ]


What's the next move for you?

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devilsworkday: any more than he cares for the lack of it in others (007. god won't care for your benevolence)

[personal profile] devilsworkday 2015-03-03 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's something incredibly distasteful about that entire display with the helmet, and perhaps that's why Kristoph indulges it; almost everyone else here is fully aware of what he is and what he's done, and there's something vaguely charming about not having to keep up any sort of pretense anymore. Either way, he'll take it, and he'll turn it a bit in his hands while he considers.]

Believe me, I've no intention of staying here any longer than necessary and I'm more than slightly displeased with the fact that one of my former employees is being used as emotional blackmail, mere projection or not.

I imagine our best bet toward finding something of value is that locked door downstairs.
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[personal profile] talldarkbitter 2015-03-04 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ Distasteful, but Matt Engarde wasn't exactly a man worthy of much respect, anyway. He's looked through some case files when it came to Wright, and if he remembers rightly, this display isn't just some random whim. ]

Behind the stairs? Salvation in the cellar?

[ He mulls it over. ]

Well, I don't guess you know how to pick a lock? Then again, if any of us did, I don't think those sort of tools are just lying around. The next option would be kicking it down, but if it's anything like those mirrors Trite rammed into, it's not coming down.