[not again] catchall for ant cabin

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[vigilantics]

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

[fishingforcompliments]

[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.

[fishingforcompliments]

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.

[fishingforcompliments]

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.

[vigilantics]

... yeah.

And then we'll get everyone home safely.

[fishingforcompliments]

Yes.

[They'll do that. They have to.

Flayn doesn't know what they'll do if they can't.]

[recrypt]

...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.

[fishingforcompliments]

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

[recrypt]

[ give her a moment, processing... ]

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

[fishingforcompliments]

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

[recrypt]

Hm.

I only ask because there were tracks leading away from the mess hall earlier. But... Sanji and I barricaded the door last night. If he stopped by before we did that, it might make sense...

[ or maybe someone can turn into a ghost, or maybe someone just super strengthed their way through the barricade. powers are bad. ]

[fishingforcompliments]

Lili or Ookurikara were the ones to first notice how long he had been gone. They might know precisely what it was he left for, if you ask them tomorrow.

[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]

...... Of course it would. Since when has anything ever been easy with these games.

[ uuuuuugghhhhhh ]

[vigilantics]

Hopefully we'll get a clearer idea of how it works.

[ ... ]

Off topic, but. Akechi?

[recrypt]

Oh, did you know him too?

[vigilantics]

Unfortunately.

[ every day she wishes she did not ]

[recrypt]

Oh, wow, you definitely know him.

[ just from that face alone ]

Still, we might've been a little harsh on him back there- he was helpful, after all.

[vigilantics]

Was he.

[ YALL GOT HELPFUL AKECHIS? ]

[recrypt]

Didn't yours act like an overbearing, overachieving busybody? Like he had something to prove?

[ not all nosy detectives are made equal ]

[vigilantics]

I mean, he did, but he also kept murdering people so it kind of cancelled it out.