ROOM 5

[dramatispersonae]

[You enter a pleasant sitting room: there are nine plush comfy chairs in a semi-circle in front of a crackling fireplace, and a table set with various finger-foods and two carafes, one of water and one of wine. It'd be a very nice room ... if not for the dummy lying facedown on the floor with a giant butcher knife sticking out of its back and a little bottle by one of its hands, marked with a tiny skull and crossbones. There's a hangman's noose around its neck, though the other end looks rather frayed.

The pleasant voice of a woman -- not the persona -- begins to speak:]

Hello and welcome. I wish it could have been under better circumstances, but today has some interesting circumstances. As you can see, my good associate, Mister X, has met an unfortunate end. I've reason to believe it might be one of you! Shall we see if I'm right?

Comments

Re: START

[oneknightstands]

Maybe they were just doing what the law couldn't do.

Re: START

[unionoftheheart]

[I have a suspicion that if I knew Vesperia this conversation would be so much more hilarious]

[also a frustrated noise] The law does everything it can. Going beyond it doesn't help anybody. It's not like the punishment for blackmail is death.

Re: START

[oneknightstands]

That depends on what kind of blackmail it was.