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

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[fraternalorders]

A traveler.

[apparently]

And yourself?

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[doubleminded]

And Mr. X traveled a lot, didn't he? How interesting.

I'm his frustrated bodyguard.

Re: START

[fraternalorders]

That's what it says, though I can't say I'm familiar with him.

...I see.

Re: START

[doubleminded]

I think you're more familiar with him than you're letting on.

Re: START

[fraternalorders]

Is that so?

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[doubleminded]

[adjusts his expression.]

You had the means to get to know him, after all.

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[fraternalorders]

So did you, if you were his bodyguard.

Both being inclined to travel doesn't mean we were traveling in the same circles.

Re: START

[doubleminded]

Then who do you think did it?

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[fraternalorders]

It's difficult to say based on limited evidence. Perhaps we should ask the others about what they are, to help conclude how many of us may have had a possible connection to him.

Re: START

[doubleminded]

[shrugs and drops the facade.]

I already did.

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[fraternalorders]

Have you come to a conclusion, then?

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[doubleminded]

I don't know.