WEEK FIVE MINGLE

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nerak: week 5 mingle at your service

25 Remain

Waking up this morning will reveal some unfamiliar surroundings. While Camebit had an autumnal chill in the air, things are a little different, now - the air is frigid, and waking up is an adventure, considering you are swaddled to the nines and cozied right up to your roomie of the week (where you have one, anyways). Everything around you is made of ice and packed snow, fogged glass and porcelain, and it is freezing. Who thought this was a good idea? Even the brisk chill of Camebit in the skies above everything was more forgiving than this! This isn't a transition! Whose manager can you speak to..?

About that.



You have to trek out of the lodging, and over into the building made of actual wood and stone, to actually see your Watchers of the week. They're all dressed in their full cloaks again to combat the chill, even in this building, although both Rameel and Satariel are standing much closer to Yomiel than they usually do - much like they had in Ahnkeen, actually.

"Good morning and welcome to Nerak! If you've ever wondered what it was like to stay at an ice hotel, then you're in luck!" Rameel says with moderate flourish as they make sure to keep close to Yomiel—their daemon currently not found anywhere near them as they make the announcement. Looks like they're without their black box of musical wonders this morning.

While the other two Watchers press close, Yomiel's daemon has wrapped itself around their neck like a polecat scarf. Warm. Arm cradled gently against their chest, they pause to glance at Satariel before greeting everyone. "Try to be careful. The ice can get slippery, especially when you're all looking like that and leaving a mess everywhere you go." Whatever that means.

Satariel seems a little more subdued than usual but offers everyone a smile, daemon bear-shaped against their back, large head peering around at everyone while they take in the travelers that come to join them here in the hotel lobby. Their cloak is completely closed around them - not even the front of their dress can be seen, and they're clearly holding it tightly shut. "Please be nice to the hotel staff - if I catch any of you being rude to them, I'll kick you clear across the tundra before sticking you in their outdoor 'jail' for timeout. We're guests, but they're working hard to accommodate us, alright?"


With the new week, travelers will find that they no longer the adorable animal features they did in Camebit, but something much less cute. Injuries from their pasts have come back to haunt them, major or minor, and they cannot be healed. The good thing is that they don't seem to hurt or really take a toll on the travelers at all - at least, not until they're touched, and then both you the other will feel the pain from the moment the wound was inflicted. This effect lasts all week.

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Comments

[escardos]

I mean I don’t think there’s any rule saying not to, but that’s like… wasting time?

[booksleeves]

There's no time, and also it - my goal isn't to punish anyone, or endanger them. Trial is a slightly dangerous place for that information to be revealed.

[escardos]

Everyone’s stressed in trial… who knows if someone would try to do their own “execution” for an unsolved murder…

But if it’s for others listening, I think the Angels and Watchers can hear us anywhere, both private or public.

[booksleeves]

The former is what I meant. It's always possible, if there's doubt, we will make a hasty choice when we vote.

[bloodread]

Depends on when. We don't do a lot when people are out searching.

[escardos]

[ he glances at susato, and then sighs. ]

We would have to have someone that has the evidence for previous murders written down. Without that we’re just kind of pointing fingers…more than usual, I mean.

[bloodread]

Pointing fingers is about as useful as some of the items last week, yeah.

[ He will die with this salt. ]

[escardos]

I mean, it’d be nice if we figured out one and promised not to do something crazy like a midtrial execution but with last week’s victims…

[ he has little hope! ]

[bloodread]

If we figured one out, we could vote for them.

[ He will not address the mid trial executions. ]

[escardos]

And let this week’s killer get away too? Or will we vote them out the following week?

[bloodread]

Where the hell did you get that from? If we figured it out we could vote for them if we have no idea what the fuck happened like last weekend.

We can execute two people a week, you know. But the votes would have to be tied for that.

[escardos]

Choosing the first person is easy, but we're voting for at least like, 3 other people whenever we have to vote for someone else.

[bloodread]

Yeah, cause I don't think we've ever discussed it cause we haven't had the time. But people are gonna vote how they want, anyway.

[booksleeves]

There are people listening to you right now, and likely making decisions as to whether they feel they can trust you, Kijima-san.

[bloodread]

Yeah, and? If people don't wanna listen to me I'm not gonna throw a fit about it.

I have no idea what the hell you're thinking, I just have a problem with letting past killers go entirely and that includes the ones in the current trial. Voting out someone who killed before is a hell of a lot fucking better than voting someone innocent like Nanaly.

[booksleeves]

And how will you be sure you know? The truth is, we did have reasons to suspect Nanaly. And then she was proven innocent, but with minutes to go people did not change their votes.

If you knew the identity of another killer for certain and in those minutes had named them, maybe that would have spared her life. But you would have to have more certainty about that than we did for Nanaly, or you might make the same mistake.

[bloodread]

Did I say I was gonna name anyone? That'd be really fucking stupid unless there was proof, yeah. All I said was that if we're sitting on our asses anyway, we could sit on our asses and talk.

People voted for her yeah, cause we didn't have any idea what the hell happened and she was the last one people turned their attention on.

[booksleeves]

[She sighs.]

I suppose I only mean that . . . we can get old cases wrong, too. That's not a reason to give up on solving them, but it is a reason to be cautious about making use of that in trial. If we voted for the wrong person we might never even know.

[bloodread]

...something to ask the Watchers about.

[ Because he's ultimately here for closure, no matter how he goes about it. ]

[booksleeves]

[She nods, giving him a small smile.]

I simply . . . last week, some spoke with considerable certainty the belief that Yukio Okumura-san had killed Rex. In discussing further, those persons later came to the conclusion that this was in fact quite unlikely.

My fear is a circumstance much like that. Were Okumura-san still among us, and had we discussed that case at trial while waiting for the investigation groups to return, it is not impossible we would have voted for him rather than for Nanaly. Either situation, an innocent person would have suffered for someone else's crimes, but in the former case we also may have been left with uncertainty as to his culpability even after the vote.

This is the primary reason I think it would be wise to be cautious about discussing prior cases in trial.

[booksleeves]

Oh. Yes, I have that all written down, and I will gladly share it with someone who asks and wishes in good faith to attempt to solve the prior week's mysteries. But I will not share it during trial if it is not relevant to that week's trial.

If someone would prefer to do things a different way, they are welcome to take their own notes.