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[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Now that's five for Loren, and one for the snail. Two more before we snill the snormer. Damn it, Escargoon!

[wingedcatgirl]

Yes, they are. As are your words on this matter. Blindly voting people who don't agree with you in some cockeyed attempt at “social deduction”... exactly what a COP would do!

"... literally what the fuck are you talking about?"

[KungFuCutbug]

"... literally what the fuck are you talking about?"

"oh my god stop playing dumb. you literally voted for Kim over a miscommunication, and the second Escargoon commented on how weirdly accusatory you were, you changed your vote to him instead."

[wingedcatgirl]

"Neither of which was voting for someone for 'disagreeing' with me."

[wingedcatgirl]

"Hells, if I voted people for disagreeing with me, I'd have voted you ages ago."

[KungFuCutbug]

"yes it was?? you voted for Escargoon because he disagreed with you voting for Kim! how. are you. not. SEEING that?!"

[wingedcatgirl]

"Is calling someone 'accusatory' a disagreement? He didn't actually say he thought I was wrong, he just didn't like my tone."

[KungFuCutbug]

"well, the implication was still there, Loren!"

[wingedcatgirl]

"Well, yes, I'm sure that's what you inferred. Surely you can see how I was voting for him for reasons that did not include 'disagreeing'?"

[KungFuCutbug]

"you voted for him over one comment about how you were being accusatory. he's certainly been more helpful than you have, today—he saved us (well, tried to) from dying of strychnine poisoning while trying to investigate the crime scene, for fuck's sake! not to mention he's been actually investigating as well. what've you been doing? trying to make us play a weird variant of 'fuck, marry, kill'."

[wingedcatgirl]

"Nah, I'm actually going with the ridiculous theory that the overly broad evidence was a red herring - and snails don't have fingers or the right heads for a wig, so he'd be 'excluded' by it. Admittedly, his comment didn't help his case, but - well, I'm kinda annoyed that he showed up right when I decided to switch my vote to him, cause now none of ya are gonna believe that."

[TalesofUnder]

You have done nothing for us, Loren, unless you count wasting our time.

[wingedcatgirl]

"Look who's talking. Only reason I'm not swapping my vote to you right now is because I'm still gunning for the snail."

[Weirdguy149]

Mike decided to speak up at this moment. "And the hell have you been doing, skittish guy? I haven't been doing shit either, but at least I keep quiet about it."

[KungFuCutbug]

"Soseki at least tried to investigate! ...granted, snorting strychnine was an absolutely horrible idea in hindsight, but do you think a cop would legitimately risk killing themself like that just to avoid suspicion?"

[wingedcatgirl]

"I dunno, maybe he's just a dumbass."

[Subparman]

Gin also finally decides to voice his suspicions, although his voice is a bit muffled by all the bandages from earlier.

Wait just one second, meow... I dunno how to feel about the snail mister or the old guy, woof, but we should be considering the evidence. There's no way someone could frame the dragon lady with that wig, and there wasn't anything pointing to her when the evidence was against the weird grownup, meow...

Meow... If she was really the cop, why would she make herself suspicious by asking around like that, woof? I don't get it, meow. Maybe I got it all wrong, but I don't think she's lying, woof. But the cookie lady's been super weird from the start... She was always starting a case against someone, but she ignored all the other possibilities, meow. Even now... It feels like she just wants to pick someone to blame and get them killed, woof...

[Kennifer]

"...the lady who makes cookies or the one who is a cookie? You're confusing me, kid."

[Subparman]

The lady who makes cookies, meow. I don't think big sis Chili did anything weird, woof.

[Kennifer]

"Okay, just got a bit confused 'cause Chili was mentioned earlier too. You gotta use names, kid, make it clear who you're talking about."

...of course, Kim was finding this whole day confusing and frustrating so far, and she hoped they were doing the right thing.

[PointMaid]

Look, I already gave my reasons...

[TalesofUnder]

...fine. You want to know what I did last night? I watched Cutbug's room last night. They didn't move from it one bit, and... I saw him die. With my two eyes. 

And now I have a target on my back. Are you happy now?

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Honestly, no one could've been framed with that wig! Almost no one here's blonde! Besides, it could be some weird play? The kid has a point, but like. It could be a cop pretending to be so stupid that they can't possibly be a cop? That's what happened yesterday when we got the wrong guy. Dumb member of our crew dug his own grave. Might make sense to imitate him and take advantage of our wariness? I dunno! I just want to get this over with! I've been trapped in a box, got glass in my arms, dragged through Little Russia, thrown in a pool-I just want to be done.

[KungFuCutbug]

"well, if you wanna get it over with... we still need two votes for Loren. and you haven't voted yet, Chili. so maybe that'd help speed things along?" [Pizzabug dryly snickers.]

[TalesofUnder]

Oh, and claiming that Snakeweed did it has the fundamental flaw that she's way shorter than the body imprints would signify. I'm not even sure the poison ring fits her properly.