[Fin] Murder in the Mountains (End)

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

I didn't tell my story for shits and giggles, you know.

[psychedelicate]

Mitsuha is... shivering in the corner.

Okay. Yeah. Maybe she really is legitimately cold now. A bit.

[Kennifer]

"Aw, but the stories that make you giggle are the best kind."

[TalesofUnder]

...Oh. A death game. ...........

(Jean suddenly gets unpleasant flashbacks to... the witch trials.)

[PointMaid]

Chip wraps a blanket around Ada and they cuddle together, her head on his chest.

[artsyGeek]

[Kondraki just. .sighs. He looks at the others.]

". . .murder stories. Got quite a few, but I won't elaborate, since I don't think you guys want to."

[KungFuCutbug]

[The Soul at this point is just lying in a puddle of their own tears on the floor in the fetal position again, but they're still wrapped in Nellie's blanket. And they aren't crying, either, just... lying there, looking oddly content.]

[Florien]

Meanwhile, Malakhiri is on a rant about how this avatar of death isn't very good at being an avatar of death because they're not even addressing the importance of "the seventh circle" and of "the other six and a quarter circles" and how the Old Gods would frown most severely on how badly avatars of life and death have fallen in quality in recent years. Well, "meanwhile" in the sense that they've been on for at least ten minutes straight and show no signs of stopping.

/Skip Voting

[KungFuCutbug]

[...Thanks to Malakhiri's ranting, now the Soul's started crying again. Just a little.]

/vote skip

[artsyGeek]

[Oh yeah. Malakhiri. Time to slap them, before /skipping vote.]

[TenOfSwords13]

Red is too busy writing down everything Malakhiri is saying to bother voting

/skip

[psychedelicate]

Voting? Uhhh, what voting? Mitsuha must've missed that while she was cowering in fear.

/skip vote

[wingedcatgirl]

Votes (8/15 to confirm)
No Elimination - High Priest, Tainted Soul, Kondraki, Red, Mitsuha (5)

[PointMaid]

Look, I agree there's nothing much to go on at the moment. But I don't want to rule out voting today entirely. My husband was suggesting we get to know each other as a first step. Which is good, and maybe it can help, but maybe... maybe it's the wrong approach? There are four of them, we were told, yes? Maybe a little pressure can help give us ideas, narrow things down. Of course, it also gives the killers time to throw suspicion at people if they're clever, so... be careful.

So, I'm going to ask. The people who are trying to rule out voting today. What's your hurry?

That's the spirit, Ada, love! We can't just give up because there isn't a lot of evidence. Our lives might be riding on it.

[artsyGeek]

[Konny looks at the couple with a simple glare. Not one of anger, simply out of curiosity.]

". .answer me this - Do we have anything else to do here other than talk and maybe investigate that corpse from earlier?"

[PointMaid]

You call it talking. I'm going to call it 'seeing if one of the killers slips up in a way that makes us suspicious of them'.

Even if we don't end up voting today, maybe it can help us connect the dots tomorrow or the next day.

[Weirdguy149]

"Hm... I'm going to try something."

Freddy walked over to the corpse.

>Look for any signs of the killer on the body.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Do what you want, but I feel like it would all be a waste of time.

/skip vote

[artsyGeek]

"Oh, shut up. Why'd they slip up so early on?"

[Cassie]

>look for signs

Drat, can't find any

[MadameButterflyKnife]

But do we even have any alibis? Any baseline behavior to solidify our theories? From all I am aware, we were all just asleep, and barely even know each other. If we're to figure this out through finding these so called "death's children" slipping up, it would be incredibly difficult.

[PointMaid]

Ada does not look pleased.

I'm not say they would slip up, but they could. You don't have to be the brightest bulb to be a murderer, do you? Anything is information. You try to end things early, you cut down our options and information.

...Which is why the first people I'm suspicious of are the ones voting for no elimination.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

It looks more like some of them are just terrified, skipping the vote because they wouldn't want to kill another innocent. I mean, look at some of them. Curled up, searching the starless skies for any sort of mercy. But I would agree, some of the skippers do seem, well. Suspicious. Something to look out for.

[psychedelicate]

"I-I just think it's... too early to act... we don't have much evidence... I don't want to... point fingers at anyone... when there isn't enough evidence..."

[artsyGeek]

". .hm. Right. Even so, what do we have here? The only ones that could reasonably be called one of these. . "death's children" people is that crazy "Old Gods" guy - And would they out themselves that easily?"

". .actually, nevermind that. Sounds like something they'd totally do."