[not again] catchall for ant cabin

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I went to Dragon Cabin.

[That's. That's literally what she thinks it's called.]

Tsurumaru was there. He was with us, but... he stepped out to go and fetch something, and...

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... and he didn't come back.

Dick told me that Lili knocked on his door after everything got locked. She was yelling about how he went missing.

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[She nods.]

We went after him when we realized that it was getting late. But we were unable to find him, and unable to get back into the cabin.

[vigilantics]

So, he disappeared before everyone got knocked out then, huh...

[fishingforcompliments]

Yes, that is correct.

[vigilantics]

... well, at least that's good to know. It'll help with making a timeline.

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[she nods, looking unhappy with this entire situation]

I cannot fathom why anyone would... do this. I thought we were all tired of all this killing.

[vigilantics]

Well, a few places had some form of possession going on. At the castle, people were either bribed or threatened... so maybe it's something like that.

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The way the update to our travel guides was phrased, though... "Death is now a part of this competition".

["Is now."]

...if it was not before, then... can we truly count on it being a possession, or a compulsion? And if whomever did it was bribed or threatened, who by? Our hosts? Why lie to us about their intentions all this time, if they knew this would happen?

[vigilantics]

I don't think we'll be getting those answers right away.

[ from what it sounded like after speaking to everyone, no one got answers right away. ]

We're going to have to keep looking into it.

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Then we shall look, and we shall find it. And whomever is responsible for this...

[Her voice trails off.]

They shall... have all of us to contend with.

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...If Tsurumaru left, and was attacked before we were all sealed in...

[ because that's usually when the weirdness starts, right, pre-curfew deaths are always 100% in plain sight, ]

Wouldn't we have heard or noticed something? The camp isn't that big, if there was a struggle they should have found upturned tracks or ... something.

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Perhaps he made it to wherever he was going before we were all locked out, and he was locked in with his killer?

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[ give her a moment, processing... ]

... Actually, by any chance... was he intending to fetch snacks from the mess hall?

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I am not certain. I was conversing with some of the others when he left.

[vigilantics]

... I dunno.

In the castle, it was some magic nonsense that just made us not notice if a murder was happening. You could be awake all night, and still not see anything. So maybe it's something like that?

[recrypt]

Really? So even if you were in the same place, before everyone mysteriously went to bed, you just... Saw everything as normal?

[ that's annoying. ]

[vigilantics]

Pretty much. Someone could theoretically break into your room and it would seem normal to you.

[recrypt]

So you were all outside when everyone was forced to sleep?

[fishingforcompliments]

Yes.

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... Who was with you, and were they similarly feverish?

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Lili, Ookurikara, Dimitri, Magnus the Hammer, and Chef Taako were all outdoors with me. I assume that they are - I have not been able to confirm it with all of them, but somebody who did not know I was out there told me that they had heard from others that they were feeling unwell in the same way.

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[ she's just going to sigh deeply, and go: ]

Glad this place keeps copying the mansion. Very reassuring regarding the prospects of our souls.

[fishingforcompliments]

...you all escaped the mansion. We will escape this camp, as well.

[recrypt]

... Right.

[ rolls over, stares at the bunk above her, then speaks up again. ]

Well. In any case. Quick rundown of what I remember from the mansion, in case this place decides to keep copying it:

[ i'm bullet noting this for readability let me live ]

- The good news is... you'll probably feel fine by the time the trial starts tomorrow, if these conditions are like with the mansion.
- Those strange side effects tend to tie in with wherever it was you slept. Anyone who slept in their own rooms didn't wake up to anything the next day unless it was involved in a murder, but people sleeping in the library, for example, usually ended up inexplicably knowing things tangential to how the murder happened.
- The bad news is, no matter how hard you look, if you aren't one of a few arbitrarily decided people who can see the trace amounts of a particular piece of evidence, you won't be able to find anything at all before the trial starts. Everyone else just sees, feels, smells... an illusion, I suppose, of everything being perfectly normal.