superhell pcs: date

[teufelshund]

Comments

[teufelshund]

[ kind of walking the perimeter of the room to look at everything... human apples seem so far away now ]

One of those curses, maybe? Yours this week seemed a lot less innocent than some earlier ones, in any case.

[psynchronise]

If that's a curse that's an ominous as fuck one-- mind control? Persuasion wouldn't wipe someone's memory like that, would it?

[ ... ]

Curses depend on the demon that gives you the choice of curse item. If it was a curse, then one of them had something that could manipulate someone.

Bit of a step up from alpacas, and even blood rain.

[teufelshund]

[ hm... that drink was always a more concerning one than most. ]

I wouldn't think so. Though I suppose it's not impossible for that part of it to be simple traumatic memory repression.

[psynchronise]

[ tbh, quite a few of the drinks are concerning when you're not looking at them in a tee hee how funny! light. ]

It feels deliberate that she can't remember though. She knows she's not guilty now, so if her memories came back she'd have ... well, presumably she'd have no reason to out whoever manipulated her. If she knew.

[teufelshund]

[ TRUE... at least that biting one never evolved to cannibalism. ]

I don't know. If they were expecting her to forget everything, I wouldn't think there would be a need for them to hide in that costume as they presumably did.

[psynchronise]

[ don't tempt fate. ]

It might be that they knew it would be unpredictable -- hence the costume and the need to hide it. Hide their identity from Kon and Tuuri, and then hide that they were ever there at all by hiding the kigurumi.

[ ... ]

We only knew it was someone in a kigu because of that photo Kon took.

[teufelshund]

It's impressive that he managed to do that if he was really already on the ground like the angle made it appear. Really a shame we let such a good clue go to waste.

[psynchronise]

[ he rubs his forehead ]

The quality wasn’t amazing, was it? I wonder if— [ he doesn’t want to say “did he take that just before tuuri stabbed him?” but….

but then he just sighs instead. ]

We wasted a lot of clues. The “L”, the powder, the blood rynlan found here— [ he taps the wall with his foot ]

[teufelshund]

[ might have taken it AS she was stabbing him, even. kon was pretty hardcore. ]

At least that last one might have just been from when she tried to awaken Mr. Greywords after she returned. I assume she would have had plenty of blood on her by that point.

The others are certainly curious, though.

[ cocaine rodent... ]

[psynchronise]

[ kon, being stabbed: hold up lemme get a selfie. ]

But the pile of kigurumi… did she mention carrying a pile of animal pyjamas back to the gift shop? Because that’s a weird thing for her to specifically do. You were talking to her at the end there, right? Didn’t she specifically say she wore her own clothes?

[teufelshund]

[ that's what mephisto would do tbh ]

I imagine whoever was in the photo probably just dropped off the kigurumi they were wearing and threw it in a pile with others to obscure which one they'd used. Better to leave it there than risk it being found in their closet during room searches or something.

[psynchronise]

[ awkwardly timed murder-selfies... ]

So, if we'd figured out which one was worn by the killer, we'd have more of an idea of who it could've been. Maybe. And, yeah. Hiding a kigurumi you used to kill someone in in your room would be... a choice.

[teufelshund]

Probably so. At the very least, it seems clear that they wore one, given the photograph, and went to the effort of trying to hide it, so I don't think it can be written off as a red herring.

[psynchronise]

[ ……………………. uggggggh. ]

We really just looked at a ton of evidence and went “actually, let’s not bother”.

[teufelshund]

[ shrugs, because. yeah, they kind of did, but. ]

To be fair, we usually had some unexplained evidence or timeline gaps still left at the end of the other trials too. There were still blanks we had to ask the culprits to fill in for us after the fact.

It's just unfortunate that in this case all the leftovers were the things that would have pointed to someone else.

[psynchronise]

There's was normally enough we could guess, or assume what happened. Wrongly or rightly.

[ he sighs. ]

Yeah, would've been covenient if we'd figured that out. For Tuuri's sake, if nothing else -- although I am surprised we went this long without fucking up.

[ he's wandering over to another part of the gift shop and digging through the shelves almost absently. ]

[teufelshund]

No matter how close the calls were, we always managed to pull it off in the eleventh hour... or, well, ninth hour, as it were. Probably made everyone a little too complacent.

[psynchronise]

… It’s impressive actually. Not great, because it bit us pretty hard this time, but—

[ he pulls out what looks like a little plush of tuuri from the shelves and frowns at it. rude. ]

— it takes days normally, and that’s with whole teams of people and individual investigators all piling their resources to figure out a crime. Logically it is going to be easier when the killer is one of a set group of people and can’t literally remove themselves from the situation, but still. Nine hours is no time to figure out someone’s death.

[teufelshund]

That's true. [ they never do a case in one day on law & order. ] Looking at it that way does put it in a different perspective.

[ glancing over at the plush ]

...Going to take that and put it with the others at that makeshift memorial?

[psynchronise]

[ law and order would never. ]

Yeah. It’s… the basics are the same? But sped up and whittled down. I get what they were going for, given we basically kicked off a bunch of murders they were’t expecting.

[ hm. ]

Maybe I should. You know they have one of pretty much everyone here? [ he rummages again and pulls out a little cosmopolitan plush. ] See?

[teufelshund]

Yes, they're very cute! Especially that one.

[ comes over and pats the cosmo plush on the head before looking through the shelves himself. ]

Though I'm a fan of plush toys in general.

[ as date probably knows after seeing his room. ]

I should see if I can collect a full set of our whole little group, actually.

[psynchronise]

[ favourite plush, found. ]

Really? I wouldn't have guessed.

[ he's back in the pile looking for others now. ] Who do you already have?

[teufelshund]

Just Scaramouche, Four, and Uriel so far.

[ what a collection.

upon digging a little, he spots some long white ears back behind a few other plushes and grabs onto them to pull it out. ]

Ah, here you go!

[ holds out a familiar dog. ]

A second friend to keep you company in your empty room.

[psynchronise]

Does Scaramouche insult you went you squeeze him?

[ he should've squeezed cosmo. so tiny, so angry. ]

Hm--?

[ oh. hang on. ]

Wait-- [ he remembers that photo from the beek poll a few weeks back. ] They have a plush of dog-you?

[teufelshund]

Unfortunately no, though he does growl sometimes.

[ it's precious. ]

Apparently! Adorable, right?