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?

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Re: START

[thankyouverymooch]

[oh my god]

Please don't make that face. You should know, everything I do is for you as well.

Re: START

[medpacksapunch]

...I-Idiot! I already said, absolutely nobody would think there was anything good about you!

[oh no, but, where is the sting? The words, they fall a little flat]

Re: START

[thankyouverymooch]

It's fine, belligerent rascal. Your feelings for me— I've know about them for a long time now. But until I achieve my goal, I can't return them.

Just remember, everything I do is for the good of everyone. No matter what.

Re: START

[medpacksapunch]

[huffs]

There really is no changing someone like you, is there? You're so weak and trod on that you don't even feel it anymore. How am I supposed to compete with that?

[crosses her arms and looks away]

Do whatever you want, then. I hope your goal makes you happy.

Re: START

[thankyouverymooch]

It'll make both of us happy, someday...

You should believe in that.

Re: START

[medpacksapunch]

L-Like I could believe a cheesy line like that...




Maybe I could believe it if you tracked the murderer down. Maybe then you wouldn't just be all big words.

Re: START

[thankyouverymooch]

[oh no can't keep it up. He's starting to laugh but valiantly keeps trying to keep talking through that]

O-of course! That was my intention from [laaaaaughter] ...the start!

Re: START

[medpacksapunch]

Well, good! But murder is no laughing matter, and if you keep that up people are going to suspect you!

Me-people!

Re: START

[thankyouverymooch]

Really, now! I can't believe you'd suspect me!

[medpacksapunch]

Prove me wrong, weak, community-minded hero!

[thankyouverymooch]

Well how about it...? It can't have been me, since I'm so weak. Besides, someone as kind as I am could never kill Mister X, no matter how many projects he cancelled!

So you see, I'm innocent, my fair maiden.

[medpacksapunch]

Ooh, your alibi is built right into your role! Lucky!

[thankyouverymooch]

Unfortunately for you, you aren't as lucky. So? What's yours...?

[medpacksapunch]

Well, obviously I'm violent and touchy, but let's be honest-- if I were gonna kill somebody with this attitude, I wouldn't stab him in the back; I'd just attack him from the front. He's an older guy and I'm arrogant and a bully.

Poison and hanging also would take way too much forethought and set-up, for a character like me.

[thankyouverymooch]

Oooh, true, true! Nice defense. I'll believe you.

[medpacksapunch]

Gee, thanks.

personally, I suspect the guy digging around for clues.

[thankyouverymooch]

I've already decided on my answer. We'll see which one is right then, huh?