Game 2 - DAY 3

[protoshepherd]

[ After ousting finishes, the bodies of Hans, Gina, York, and Bruce slowly turn into glass, starting from their feet and it works its way up until the glass covers the bodies. A few seconds after looking like a diamond statue, the glass shatters, leaving nothing but the broken pieces on the floor.

THERE CERTAINLY WERE HUMAN BODIES THERE EARLIER. WELL? NOT ANYMORE…!

Right after that, everyone will receive a text saying:

Congratulations on making it to the third day! Please get some rest now, as the game will continue tomorrow.
Had there been no wolf ousted the past two days, you all will be in grave danger as one more mistake would mean the wolves win. Oh no! :(
The poll has been updated. Please make sure to cast your votes on time.
Please remember that the game will be over once the number of remaining sheep is the same as the number of total wolves. That is three!

The twelve mirrors backstage will look pretty strange, too. Four of those mirrors have been broken as well, with only eight mirrors hung properly. If this isn't symbolic, then I don't know what is. Perhaps it would be best to clean the glass shards up. We wouldn't want anybody to get injured, right? And it would be best to get a lot of rest.

The loudspeakers seem to have been turned off now, and even the noise you could hear in the locked dressing room is gone… mysterious. But it's also helpful since you'd want to sleep peacefully at night, right?

Of course you do. Come morning, the stage will have Samurai Dogs YET AGAIN, coffee, Cheerios and milk. Have at it. ]

Poll #16634

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 4

Who do you think are wolves?

Nagi Springfield, Gilderoy Lockhart
0 (0.0%)

Asuna Yuuki, Aoi Kurashiki
0 (0.0%)

Inspector Cabanela, Jesse Pinkman
1 (25.0%)

Dick Gumshoe, Bobby Fulbright
2 (50.0%)

Luca Valentino, Lucina
0 (0.0%)

Grace Makutsi, Tony Chu
0 (0.0%)

L'Arachel, Kongwai Tao
0 (0.0%)

Diana, Dandy
1 (25.0%)

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We'll be going on a break this weekend!

[ 00 EST 24 April: Clue/Activity!!* (change of plans, I'll drop a clue tomorrow so you guys can do something over the weekend.)

00 EST 27 April: Suspicion poll comes to an end and Ousting poll gets put up.

00 EST 28 April: Ousting poll draws to a close. A new day begins, with two teams out of the game. ]

Comments

[notaccurate]

[Oh right, they don't need someone seeing that and thinking things. Luca will help scratch it out, to make it just less like an array and more like some childish chalk monster drawing.]

I'm still wondering if the wolves are the murderers for the real case, and this is their trial.

[inspectormacarena]

[Aww, what an impressive chalk monster. No way would that look out of place here.]

Baby, I may not be from 'round these parts, but I can tell you right now that this isn't how the Los Angeles court system works. Besides, our two local detectives who claim to know nothing about this would have to be putting on ooone heck of a show.

[notaccurate]

Well...what if they're the wolves? If it's their trial, they would have every reason to lie.

[bestworstdad]

You'll hurt yourself if you don't know how to headbutt right. Not givin' lessons though!

[notaccurate]

[Did nobody sleep much last night?

When Luca makes his appearance (freshly washed and dressed as well as he can be, of course), he notices how out of it L'Arachel looks, and decides to go over and check on her.]

Are you alright? If you are tired you can rest for a few more hours, I do not think we will be contacted for some time yet.

[inspectormacarena]

And our host would allow them to go around brandishing the title of detective? Would even let them have nice, shiiiny badges to flash in our faces? I dunno, baby. I'm not saying they're not wolves, but somethin' feels off.

[He pauses for a moment, mulling a few things over. This whole situation is just filled with odd coincidences that he can't deny.]

Speaking of law enforcement... You know Mr. Bruce's partner? He was with the FBI. ...Federal Bureau of Investigaaation.

[notaccurate]

[Luca thinks that is exactly what the host would do, to win their trust over, or as some sort of secret test of character or something. But Cabanela still looks tired, so Luca decides not to go off on that tangent at the moment.]

I did not know that, no. The 'FBI' doesn't sound familiar to me, either. Where I am from, all policework is handled by the military.

[What with it being a military powerhouse that is forcibly occupying other countries and all.]

[inspectormacarena]

[Yeahhh... He figured Luca might say something like that. Makes it a bit more difficult to explain just how strange this whole situation is.]

The FBI basically does what I do, except on a much graaander scale. They operate across the country as a whole, my humble little Special Investigations division operates locally. Los Angeles falls outside my jurisdiction, but Mr. York? He could've arrested eeevery single one of us if he wanted to, baby.

[notaccurate]

That seems inefficient, and would likely lead to abuses of districts, especially if someone could just hop over to another one to escape arrest by one specific person.

[Luca is a little hairy at the thought of being arrested, though. Knowing that it is 2026 here, he definitely should not exist in this time. Nevermind the fact that he is from a country that doesn't even exist in this world.]

...But I can see what you are saying, I think. If Mr. York could arrest people here, then the wolves would want him gone, yes?

[inspectormacarena]

Maaaybe. Keeping that in mind, then maaaybe he'd already started digging and found just a little too much buried treasure around here, if you catch my drift.

[notaccurate]

...ah.

So we need to be less obvious, then.

[inspectormacarena]

At least in front of people we can't trust, yeah. But it might already be too late. Following the rules of the game, the wolves can only take out one team every night. Two if they trick us into ousting fellow sheep. Point iiis, come next morning, I might not be here anymore.

[notaccurate]

I think it's too early to call that. If you appear in a clue, then it would be careless of the wolves to take you out.

[At least this early, at least. Once they're through all the teams that weren't in clues, though...]

It is also early enough that I think most people are either still asleep or getting ready for the day. We will need an excuse for our absence from the main room, of course, but I think we can avoid any suspicion for now.

[yeahscience]

No!

[He shakes his head, bewildered and distraught.]

I mean-- no way was Banner one of them. He-- he didn't know anything about the place, asked me all kinds of questions about it. He didn't... he wasn't... he was innocent.

They killed him.

[inspectormacarena]

[Cabanela could point out that once breakfast is served, this room is the main room. He could also point out that he had a perfectly good reason for lurking around in here all night. However, that encounter they had in the bathroom the previous day comes to mind and he can't stop himself from joking about it.]

Weeell, baby. If anyone asks, we can always say you were inspecting my little friend. [He might be talking about his gun, which Luca claimed was "smaller than a child's rifle". Then again, he might not be.]

[yeahscience]

[It's not Jesse's first, either, but he'd been starting to believe. They'd just disappeared the first night. It was still believable that they'd just been taken off somewhere, right? A little bit?

If it was then, maybe it still is now. He swallows back bile.]

Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Like-- with mirrors and all. Smoke and mirrors.

[yeahscience]

Who the hell is?!

[Jesse has seen a lot of terrible things. He's seen people killed in front of him -- he pulled the trigger on two of them. He's seen what happens to a human body in acid.

But staring at the shards that used to be their fellow players... maybe it's not worse, but maybe it is. They're so impersonal. At least Emilio had still had human parts. This is just... nothing.]

[yeahscience]

What do you mean, three? There's seven of us.

[yeahscience]

What the hell are you doing, man? Don't even try to tell me you're trying that shooting-the-door business again.

[inspectormacarena]

Of cooourse not, baby. I learn from my mistakes. We're only going to try and look at it from a different angle.

[And then try to jinx the door with ancient European magic or something like that.]

[notaccurate]

[Luca chokes when he hears that. Because hell yes his mind went right to where Cabanela was kindamaybe joking about. His mind always goes there, he just is usually good about keeping those thoughts inside his head only.]

What?!

[After that initial outburst, he remembers that they are where they can be heard, and he covers his mouth with a hand. Then he looks around quickly, to see if anyone heard him, before leaning in to whisper harshly to Cabanela.]

Are you insane?! I thought the whole point was to not get arrested or murdered!

[Notice how he protested the 'tell everyone a thing' idea, not the lie itself.]

[yeahscience]

[Jesse tries, anyway, starting to type on the keys.]

how are we su

[Okay, that's clearly not working. He cups his hands and shouts to the rafters:]

How are we supposed to believe that, yo!? They bit it right in front of us!

[thefaceofjustice]

Four teams have not been in either of the earlier clues. All of the other clues have been giving us groups of three teams, with one team being wolves.

If we exclude the team of Ms. Makutsi and Mr. Chu for now being confirmed sheep, then we once again have three teams with one team of wolves hiding among them.

[yeahscience]

[He eyeballs him suspiciously for a long moment, but when Cabanela doesn't pull out his gun, he grinds his teeth together and sits down to watch him.]

[yeahscience]

Uh, that's assuming we believe anything this badger bitch has got to say now. How do we know he ain't lying now? How do we know he was ever telling the truth?

He said no one would die, but you saw what I saw, right? Now he's saying they're just chilling upstairs?