MIDNIGHT/DAY 3 - suspicion

[protoshepherd]

[ Ousting has ended, and you're all prodded to go back to your rooms.

You hear the sound of glass, and maybe a scream. And a thud, as if something like a statue just fell and broke. Basically, there is a lot of noise in the middle of the night again.

The door to the Redd White room is swinging open, and you'll find Mia Fey's body on the floor. She's seated with her back against the mirror, blood flowing from the back of her head, into her clothes, and onto the floor. She seems to have died from a blow by a blunt object, and may have lived for a few minutes after being hit. Near her body is the word "blu", written in blood, with the same handwriting as the one you've seen when you received the letter.

Maya Fey's death seems to be… quite unique. It's not like any other crime scene Phoenix Wright has scene, for sure. Her body has ropes all around, and she's seated on a chair, posed like The Thinker. But just like her elder sister, she's got a huge wound on her head. Blood flowing, seeping, and dripping on the carpets.

Why did they die? Wasn't it Team The Phantom who was ousted?

… It seems one has overturned the ousting, and it was definitely one of you. And when you enter the Redd White room, you will hear the badger say it. Overturn oust. One of you. Team Phantom is not oust.

And just like the night before, another team has passed.

The door to the Kristoph Gavin room is also open, and you'll find Kristoph seated on a table with a deck of cards sprawled all over, as well as on the floor. There's blood spatter on the cards, and you can see a huge mark on his forehead. It seems he was hit from behind, since the direction of the blood was not going to his face, but rather, flowing through his blond locks that he meticulously curls every morning.

On the other side of the table is Colias Palaeno, his head resting on the table, with a yellow coffee mug in his hand. You may notice some blue residue from where he seems to have taken a sip of his coffee. Poison? Most definitely.

But if you decide to investigate further, it isn't just a deck of cards on the table. There is this, too. It seems the Kristoph Gavin team has found out more than they should have. Or, you know. The allies of the Bad Badger just to them.

The mirrors in the library now display an image of Redd White, where Maya and Mia's mirrors were supposed to be. And Kristoph Gavin's portrait where Kristoph and Palaeno's were supposed to be.

Good morning, allies of the bad and blue badgers. There are only eight teams now.

Upon checking the mirrors, you will hear Proto Badger talk again. Only one bad badger ally found. You are all guilty.]

Poll #16512

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 7

Hehe... oust overturn. what now?

Horace Knightley Team
0 (0.0%)

Daryan Crescend Team
0 (0.0%)

Luke Atmey Team
0 (0.0%)

Dahlia Hawthorne Team
1 (14.3%)

Furio Tigre Team
0 (0.0%)

The Phantom Team
3 (42.9%)

Morgan Fey Team
0 (0.0%)

Jacques Portsman Team
3 (42.9%)

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[ 00:01 MARCH 6 EST: Day 3 begins, and a new suspicion poll pops up. ONLY EIGHT TEAMS REMAIN.

00 MARCH 7 EST: A clue will be given. Suspicion poll closes at MIDNIGHT.

00 MARCH 8 EST: Ousting poll gets put up! ]


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CLUE!!

Comments

[dekillerqueen]

[Shelly enters the Redd White room, and he needs a few moments to process what he's seeing. The vote was unanimous, the other team was supposed to die, those are the established rules, this isn't right--

As he processes the scene, rage bubbles up within him, and there's barely a sign of it on his face but even he is human and he can't keep it ALL in or mysteriously channel it into inanimate objects forever. His mouth draws into a thin line behind his moustache, his eyebrows tense.

He heads back to the mirrors with rigid wide steps and raises his voice.]

Badger.

[protoshepherd]

[ Jaws theme jaws theme. ]

Morning.

[dekillerqueen]

[NOT INTIMIDATED.]

What is the meaning of this?

[protoshepherd]

Of this?

[dekillerqueen]

The vote. You violated it.

[protoshepherd]

Not me. Someone.

[dekillerqueen]

Yet you allowed it, correct?

[protoshepherd]

Yes. It entertaining.

[dekillerqueen]

[Oh, that does it. He retrieves his knife and points it straight at this stupid badger.]

Firstly, speak in properly formed sentences, please.

Secondly, I will NOT stand for this.

[protoshepherd]

Cannot. It hard. Brain... slow.

[dekillerqueen]

[That... actually gets him to lower his knife. Just a bit.] What?

[protoshepherd]

[ The badger nods very slowly. ]

White walls. Because of that. And other thing.

[dekillerqueen]

["White walls"... Shelly's heard those words here and there. He's not sure if he likes the implications, or even if he fully understands them.]

What is this... "other thing"?

[protoshepherd]

[ He shakes his head... it's not because he doesn't want to talk about it, but he can't find the words.

So he doesn't respond for a good while, but then-- ]

House burn... neighbours. . . don't know. Don't remember.

[dekillerqueen]

[Well... He doesn't quite GET it. But he has the feeling whoever the Proto Badger really is may be literally brain damaged.

He needs to approach this with some care.]

In... any case... You must understand this: [And the knife is right back where it was. Maybe it'll help the Badger get the POINT HA]

A most fundamental part of [... uhhhh] interpersonal relationships is trust. Over the past few days, you have established a number of rules for us to follow. You created expectations, and none of us expected them to be subverted, because no matter how bizarre and twisted our predicament is, there is an element of rhyme and reason to everything. It is to be expected that when norms are presented, they will be followed.

What has happened is a flagrant breach of the rules, and of the trust we had in them.

[OKAY SO MAYBE HE DIDN'T QUITE SUCCEED IN KEEPING THAT SIMPLE.]

[protoshepherd]

[ Well, Badger is still in the mirror so he's not the least bit threatened. And also, his head falls off all the time... :(

Sadly, he just tilts his head because that is too much to comprehend for him. He does understand a few things. ]

Trust. But Proto did not betray. Not you. Not blue. Not bad.

[ And he frowns, and braces himself. ]

Someone else break trust.

[dekillerqueen]

[MIRRORS CAN BE STABBED.

Anyway, he supposes that may have been too much. Sigh.]

Very well. Who, then?

[protoshepherd]

[ He shakes his head again. ]

Sorry. Proto cannot share. Not now.

[dekillerqueen]

Why not?

[protoshepherd]

You kill... Yes?

[dekillerqueen]

[That gives him pause, and not just because he's parsing the question. WOULD he kill the perpetrator? He was certainly capable of doing it, and maybe a little willing, too.

But... this was not a matter of business in any way. Killing people just because he's angry... that would be a dangerous line to cross.]

I will not kill whoever did this.

[Giving them an injury or two isn't entirely out of the question, though.]

[protoshepherd]

...

Sorry. Cannot. Not now.

Pink lady is here for injection. Proto sleep. Good night.

[ And he disappears. ]

[dekillerqueen]

[WELL NOW HE'S JUST FRUSTRATED.]

[protoshepherd]

[ Moments later, he comes back, although he looks a bit disheveled ... if a badger can even look like such. ]

Knightley. Come.

[dekillerqueen]

[Wait, he's back? Shelly was not expecting that.

His moustache twitches disapprovingly. Where does he want him to go?... Into the mirror?]

Very well. As long as you do not call me that ever again.