superhell pcs: date

[teufelshund]

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[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?

[psynchronise]

That seems about right.

[ is it scaramoose if he's not growling at people? ]

... [ hmmmm. he turns the little dog plush over and then squeezes it. it growls. ]

Sure. Very cute. [ he points the plush at mephisto and gives it another squeeze. it growls again. ]

[teufelshund]

My real growls are cuter.

[ he doesn't even mean that in a weird way, he's just a very cute dog. ]

Have you found one of yourself yet?

[ I'M JUST IMAGINING THERE'S A FUCKING FALCO PLUSH RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM and date's just like man i haven't where could it be ]

[psynchronise]

[ … WELL NOW I’M DOING THAT. there’s a date!edition and a falco!edition. ]

Not yet. I’ve come across a lot of the demons, and some other random ones. Buuut I think I must be a rare edition or something.

[ ✨ special ✨ ]

[teufelshund]

Oh! Then that's one I definitely need for my collection.

[ starts looking, completely bypassing falco, who the fuck is that ]

[psynchronise]

[ yeah who’s this guy, get him out of here. yeet. ]

… [ why does he have the urge to find his plushie before mephisto? and run? ] Now I feel like a commodity.

[ grumble. ] — oh hey. [ he found nameless. ]

[teufelshund]

But a hot commodity.

[ and isn't that what matters. ]

Also cute! Some of us translate better to this style than others.

Do you want to hold on to that one?

[ along with your dog that you are definitely taking with you ]

It's not as fun if I get the whole collection thing done in a day anyway.

[psynchronise]

I am definitely going to be one of the best looking plushies here. [ it’s still confidence week in this thread. ]

… Yeah, I think I will. [ little nameless… :( ]

It’s not like you have to go hunting far for them though — if they exist they’re gonna be here.