ROOM 7

[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

[medpacksapunch]

Gee, y'think?

[fraternalorders]

Obviously.

[medpacksapunch]

[sticks her tongue out]

Smartass.

[fraternalorders]

I think that's a more appropriate description of you, at the moment.

[medpacksapunch]

Yeah, you got a problem with it?

[fraternalorders]

No.

[medpacksapunch]

That's what I thought.

[fraternalorders]

[you are kind of silly]

[medpacksapunch]

[I enjoy the acting games. Later I'll hyperventilate in a corner for threatening you. Meanwhile, nudging with a shoulder. Nudge. Nudge. Nudge]

Well? Just gonna stand there?

[NUDGE]

[fraternalorders]

[gosh, your role is something]

No.

[going to check out the fireplace, actually]

[dramatispersonae]

[it's roasty-toasty and very nice. there is nothing special about it]

[fraternalorders]

[too bad. Moving on to inspect the chairs, then]

[medpacksapunch]

[follows~]

Oooh, look at you, so calm! Too good to get angry?

[pokes in the shoulder]

[fraternalorders]

I wouldn't say that.

[medpacksapunch]

Well what would you say? So far it's been a whole lot of not much.

[fraternalorders]

You were being talkative enough for both of us.

[medpacksapunch]

Ooh, somebody thinks he's funny~

[fraternalorders]

Not in particular.

[medpacksapunch]

Uggh, you must really be the killer, because you are boring me to death over here.

[fraternalorders]

He died of poison, not boredom.

[medpacksapunch]

Hey, this was clearly a multi-stage kill, as we've already established. We just can't see the boredom when he's already dead.

[fraternalorders]

That's reaching a little, I think.

[medpacksapunch]

Yeah? Well aren't you just Mister Murder Expert.

[fraternalorders]

I was speaking of your explanation, not the murder itself.

[medpacksapunch]

Yeah, well... you're dumb.

[stealth, stealth it's so exhausting being continually belligerent]