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hell if i know.

[ Then, maybe surprisingly: ]

think he just needs someone to be mad at.

you find anything out?

nothing more than morticia and gomez found in the autopsy. multiple killers theory seems strong, but i don’t know these freaks well enough to guess who’s into knifeplay.

maybe we go back through the butler profiles, see who seems suspicious.

[ two slit throats. ]

yeah, methods of killing seem too different – and time-consuming, unless we've got a serial killer santa on our hands.

there are a few folks who literally put "knives" in their interests.

knives: alia, zoro (technically swords), shanks (also technically swords), danny, david, tiffany ("stabbing"), jacaerys (also technically swords, also dead)
blood: lauralae, alexei
poison: lauralae
drugs: pierce, maxine, daniil, iggy
hunting: set
killing monsters (?): hao

not listed: abigail helped her serial killer dad for a while before he tried to kill her, maxine killed her dad but that sounded like a gun crime/probable self-defense.

blondes: sanji, grace (dead), caroline, koby, alia, francesca, david, lestat, greer, rhaenyra (dead), betty, daenerys, daemon, saxsice (dead), gideon, aemond (not him), baela

might've missed a thing or two, my eyes kinda started glazing over.
more obvious clues aside, i don't think we can really rule old soldier boy out, either.

the whole killing machine schtick definitely keeps him in the game.

your notes almost match mine. danny johnson also had a picture with a gun, but i guess that’s just the american way.

add the vamps from the shitty dinner to blood: louis, daniel, armand, astarion. no blondes.

sanji seems pretty dense, rule him out.

what about supes? erik was one of us.

even considering the gun lobby, the kid's profile reeks. and i'm not just saying that because he's thrown my name into the ring.

lestat, too, right? though he's more strawberry blonde than out-and-out blonde.
i mean, the vamp thing seems awfully conveniently timed, but it's not like this place is really that subtle. plus, it'd be a hell of a lot of work just to set one of them up.

and yeah, he's dense, but it seems like he's got a bit of a temper and a weird simp/proto-incel thing going on.

they drugged him. could be a supe, could be a regular joe. not sure who'd know enough about it or have access.

also, that embry guy. unrelated?

danny boy’s eager to point the finger, and he doesn't even think you attacked his girl. he was on the network asking about if people have died before here, too. you might jump on any name that came up if you were guilty.

re: embry, i know fuller, who announced it, but not moore. they have a weird siblings-who-kiss-on-christmas vibe.

or kissed.

[ RIP. but seriously, why do they look so alike? it’s giving boyfriend twins dot tumblr dot com. ]

fuller suspects foul play but won’t name names. says it was different, more personal. starkov and rhaenyra seemed pretty fucking personal to me.

[ a beat. ]

you’re leading the jail vote. what’s your strategy?

yeah, re: starkov, you don't really string someone up like that unless you're trying to make a point.

why's fuller keeping his cards so close to his chest? unless he's fucking sherlock holmes (in either sense) it's not like that's going to help anyone.

as for me,

[ He has to think about this for a second. Add the issue of public opinion on top of being depowered and his usual strategy of "kill/torture everyone he suspects" is slightly less workable (at least for now, when he isn't particularly worked up). ]

feels like the best way forward is collecting evidence for a little while longer, then try pointing fingers.

it's just jail, anyway. if we get the killer, great, if i get locked up, it's not like whatever decrepit shit they've got in the basement here is really gonna be a problem.

don’t know. either he’s like every other lying politician, or he wants revenge for himself.

[ there’s only one good person on this bitch of an earth, and she isn’t here. ]

yeah, guess jail doesn’t really do shit for people like us.

[ she mulls over whether to say more — ]

but it’d be better for everyone if you don’t land in the doghouse. we can put our votes behind the idiot who self-nominated if no strong suspects emerge.

like he's going to get very far with an actual killer on the loose.

[ He types out didn't think you cared before deleting it. Something for him to keep and mull over, while they still seem to be on the same page. ]

sounds like a plan to me.
what a fucking dunce.
who names their kid "lucifer" anyway?

[ Surely he's not the actual Christian Devil ... and if he is, what a letdown. ]

yeah, it’s fucking stupid. still, bet he’d vote with us to protect the balfours. guys like that run the numbers.

[ now that rosie’s on the block. ]

goths? hell if i know.

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does he actually like them? is it a stockholm syndrome thing?
some of these people come from fucking wastelands, so them, i get, but if your world's even close to normal, i don't know.

seems like it might not even be an issue anymore. all the teens are out for blood.
i'm feeling, like
ambivalent
about stopping them from killing each other.
is that bad?

yes.

[ everything you say is bad. next question. ]

but it wouldn’t matter if we intervened. i think we’re stuck in the game until somebody wins, same as we’re stuck in this ugly house.

best bet is to vote for the most convincing argument, so we’re at least trying to catch the killer.

okay, okay.

somebody wins, or we all die.

[ Which, unfortunately, doesn't seem to be out of the question. Honestly, he's surprised people have been suggesting jail. ]

the alia argument is looking better by the minute.
you and i both know how fucky mind control is.

seriously.
i helped glasses put his case together.

[ because daemon talked about losing a kid and, well. she wasn’t unmoved. ]

and that was before the ren faire dogpile.
it’s not damning, but it’s something.

[ the idea of harming innocents (again) unsettles her stomach, but there’s nothing for it. if a trip to royal jail stops this shit from escalating, it’ll be worth it. ]

nice work.

and we can't forget they're just going to jail. whoever gets voted off the island, they'll just be sitting pretty until the game's over.

you buy into the theory people are being compelled to act? that it's not their own will?

[ don’t compliment her off-camera. it’s weird. ]

thanks.

[ ugh. ]

maybe the jailbirds are safer than we are.

i don’t know shit about these people or this game. what i do know is they put enough drugs in that fucked up feast to mess with my perception, so it’s possible. anyone you know acting strange?

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[ 😇 don't know what you’re talking about ]

they might well be. and that’s the thing — who’d think we could die here in barbie’s playhouse? and the balfours seem less in control of it than i’d think. maybe there’s someone else behind the curtain.

and no one any stranger than usual, at least aside from emotions running high.
you?

yeah, portia seems seconds from a breakdown.

no one i know seems off yet, but i’ll keep watch.
see you at tribal council.

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