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

[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]

[fraternalorders]

[...pfff]

[medpacksapunch]

[...leans on him]

I don't have any idea how to go about solving a mystery like this, on a dummy of all things. So I guess I'll just stick to my role.

What part are you playing?

[fraternalorders]

A "graceful, peaceful traveler, whose still waters may run deep."

[medpacksapunch]

..Oh. So.. that must be pretty easy for you, huh?