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[wingedcatgirl]

"May I suggest you vote for someone else, instead of me?" Loren says drily. "I might already have a bunch of people gunning for me, but that doesn't mean we can't turn it around and root out an actual cop."

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Honestly?! Yeah! That would speed things along! And for not seeing anything...yeah, that's pretty weird. Maybe the killer shot the poison from the ring in the hallway!

/vote Loren

[TalesofUnder]

Okay, how about this? If you flip green, we vote out Escargoon or Snakeweed. But only if you stop Instilling Insecurities in Innocents!

[wingedcatgirl]

"I mean, yes, obviously that's what you're gonna do." Loren turns away from the group, arms folded. "This has been a damn waste of time..."

[KungFuCutbug]

"I already said if Loren flips green—and that's a huge if—I'm gunning it for Snakeweed next. Escargoon's not worth pursuing yet, in my opinion, because he only just recently became sus while I've had my eye on Snakeweed since after Yukichi's execution. we just need one more vote for Loren, and then we can decide our course of action from there."

[wingedcatgirl]

Loren whirls around. "W- wait, if you've had your eye on Snakeweed that long, why in the world did you go along with her claims against me?!"

[Kennifer]

Kim nods.

"I'm still hoping we've got ourselves a cop here, but if not then yeah, we can figure out what to do from there."

[KungFuCutbug]

"because what she said makes more sense than whatever the fuck you were trying to say. I'm not about to go against her just because I think she might be sus when she's being completely logical, jesus. besides, I'm more confident in your status as a cop than hers right now anyway."

[wingedcatgirl]

"And the fact that these claims might be coming from an enemy doesn't make you wonder if she's bullshitting?!"

[KungFuCutbug]

"it does, just a little bit. which is why I'm saying I'm gonna gun it for her if you flip green. but if I genuinely believed she were bullshitting, I'd have voted for her right off the bat."

[TalesofUnder]

Can't you just resign yourself to your fate? Why do you have to be so stubborn?

[wingedcatgirl]

"I Deny Dropping Down and Dying for your Damn Desires!

"What Snakeweed said isn't logical! All she did was point out how I was taking a different approach to rooting out the pigs and insinuated that it must be bad cause nobody else is doing it!"

and we couldn't come up with an IC phrasing so /vote Snakeweed

[KungFuCutbug]

"I still don't know how you think your 'fuck, marry, kill' game would help us root out the cops. like Snakeweed said, it seems more likely that it would help the scum figure out who to target." [Pizzabug just groans and presses their hand on their forehead, looking extremely annoyed.] "you're giving me a massive headache at this point... seriously."

[wingedcatgirl]

"I said you didn't have to answer, didn't I? You all could've said 'I don't think this will be helpful' instead of trying to kill me for it!"

[KungFuCutbug]

"WE WOULDN'T BE KILLING YOU FOR IT IF YOU HAD DONE LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE TO FURTHER THE INVESTIGATION WHILE ASKING THE QUESTION!"

[wingedcatgirl]

"YOU WANT SOME DAMN INVESTIGATION?"

Loren shifts dragon and attempts to >tear Snakeweed's pockets open to see if anything incriminating spills out.

... No, this is not the act of a level-headed woman thinking rationally, why do you ask?

watch as this somehow gets Loren locked in a closet

[artsyGeek]

Clef, observing the shit that's going on, decides to /vote Loren.

". .there. Happy now?"

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Okay, OKAY, now Chili's starting to give a shit. Hey?! What're you doing?! Fuckin drag-alright, NOW I think you're out to kill us all! She pulls out a knife, ready to defend herself.

[wingedcatgirl]

If Loren weren't mcfucking losing it right now, she'd point out that the list of people who voted her is as follows:

Snakeweed
Pizzabug
Kim
Soseki
Escargoon
Chili
Clef

and advise the other mafiosos to consider this vital evidence.

Alas, she is currently doing a violence.

[Weirdguy149]

Mike looked around the room then shrugged his shoulders. "Here's to hoping your plan works. Because if you guys are wrong, I'm feeling more suspicious of one of you."

[KungFuCutbug]

"GH—?!" [Pizzabug takes SEVERAL steps back and pulls their hammer out from underneath their jacket, looking absolutely terrified.]

[TalesofUnder]

You know... I also learned a thing or two from a certain Susato Mikotoba.

>Attempt to perform a Susato takedown (read: knocking then on their ass) on Lorenmin.

[artsyGeek]

. .Clef's seen some weird shit before all this, so something like this isn't too big of a deal. It still pisses him off though.

". .dude. Please. Shut the fuck up. Don't be such a dumbass. You're just digging a deeper grave for yourself."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

>tear Snakeweed's pockets open to see if anything incriminating spills out. (Loren)

You don't find anything incriminating.

>Attempt to perform a Susato takedown (read: knocking then on their ass) on Lorenmin.

You tackled her down hard, nearly knocking her out cold. Don't fuck with Soseki!

Meanwhile, Carmello, who got occupied for a few moments comes in and sees the seven votes.

Well, that's seven votes then for Loren. Well, lady, you got any last words?

[wingedcatgirl]

Loren seethes. "Last words? How about find the pigs next time! Gods, I don't even have the satisfaction of knowing I'm taking one down with me..."

Some part of her wanted to end that sentence with "this time", even though that doesn't make sense because she's never died in a scumhunt situation before.