Week 4, Friday

[foundationmods]

Another Thursday night comes, and everyone seems to know what that means. Even with the failure of last week, several people are out on patrol, trying to make sure no murders occur tonight. That motive had been tempting, after all, and keeping people in check when there's the promise of 'going home' on the line is difficult at best.

Moriarty, at least, seems intent on taking advantage of that motive. After slipping out of his room, he walks briskly towards the back yard. His intended target is out there, he knows it, and he wants to get this done quickly before anyone notices he's missing. The stipulation of 'don't get caught' has made this week's motive all the harder to obtain, and he has no intentions of letting anyone get the best of him.

However, Oda is not alone this week. Several people have decided to patrol with him, making for many witnesses to any possible crime. A fact that Moriarty sees instantly as soon as he steps outside.

For a moment, Oda and Moriarty's eyes meet. Oda frowns, because he can figure out exactly what Moriarty is doing out and about at this hour. But he can't say anything, not with the people around him. The goal is to avoid deaths, after all, and speaking up now will just result in Moriarty's death instead of his own. And since Oda won't attack with other people right there to get caught in a firefight and possibly die, he does nothing against this obvious threat.

Karen looks over the edge and sees Moriarty too. In turn, Moriarty smiles and waves up at the group, acting as if nothing bad had been about to happen. Karen waves in return, suspecting nothing. The exchange just makes Oda's frown deepen, but he still says nothing.

Then, once that pleasant exchange is made, Moriarty ducks back inside, heading back to his room before anyone can miss him.

The night passes with no deaths.

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A THING

[foundationmods]

[At noon, six eggs, six boxes of 250 toothpicks, and six hot glue guns can be found on the table in the living room, along with this note:]

Design an egg contraption that keeps your egg from breaking when dropped from the roof, and your team wins a prize.

Azura can join one of the other teams if she doesn't want to work alone.

[dereban]

[ sees this ]

. . . What is this, American high school?

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[Saki is... tired. She ended up dozing off on the roof sometime after Moriarty popped by and promptly went to bed later when it seemed the danger had passed. Besides that, she's been subdued ever since the pool party, too.

So uh

Enjoy having a pretty much useless teammate, blue team. She's just kind of staring blankly at the toothpicks.]

Orange team.

[darkremnants]

[ Just going to start making a box for the egg. ]

Nothing like crafts to start the day.

cyan team

[odasaku]

[ oda looks rather tired, even for someone that’s used to the occasional all nighter.

still, he’ll look at the toothpicks and then the eggs, looking a little confused. ]

Are these the only things we can use?

[darkova]

[Unless someone else on yellow stops him Ingway is gonna start making triangles filled with a "window pane" of glue.]

Purple team

[failsaw]

[Giriko considers the toothpicks and glue guns and eggs and starts making some triangles. Lots of triangles. ]

also blue submission

[dereban]

[ so.

there is an egg in a ziplock bag surrounded with cereal and marshmallows.

it is also attached to string tied to both ends of a plastic bag that is upside down as a parachute.

and also the egg is covered in peanut butter. ]

[resortghosts]

[ The brown sparrow-colored prinny has returned! This time it has a stack of sandwiches as it walks out from the direction of the kitchen. Really well-made ones despite flippers.

Canonically they they have magical/mysterious "sticky" properties, according to the Disgaea 2 art book. ]

[dereban]

. . . Sandwiches?

[ cants her head to the side ]

You don't mind if I use these, do you?

[darkremnants]

[ Snagging a sandwich to eat. ]

[odasaku]

Ah. Let me help you with that.

[ oda will help take the stack of sandwiches from the prinny. ]

You made all of these? Thanks.

[iblistriggered]

These look tasty! Thanks Miiiii.... my very good Prinny friend.

[prayerwheel]

[ pats mitsuprinny ]

You're a very hard worker. How do you manage with just those flippers?

[houndumb]

[Actually, he was heading to the coop just to grab an egg because working with eggs first thing is already making him hungry and he's actually hangry after staying up too long patrolling, thanks. So Nora pauses when he sniffs sandwiches.]

Hey, gimme some of those!

[He'll just swipe two from the pile just because he can. Sticky sandwiches...? Hopefully the entire pile doesn't come off because RIP he doesn't have the reflexes to catch a bunch of sandwiches on this amount of sleep.

That being said you probably saved everyone from him exploding an egg in the microwave so good job.]

[dereban]

[ okay Inaba is going to rummage through the kitchen for some materials, so people might notice that she's grabbed some marshmallows, cereal, a ziplock bag, a plastic bag and some string?

hm.

what is she doing..... ]

I think this should work.

Sometime after eggs - Initially closed to Moriarty

[allmyfriendsaredead]

[Assuming eggs don't bring death?! Saki's going to be locating Moriarty.]

Can I talk with you? ...Somewhere quiet?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[Why would eggs bring death, Dani??

Anyway, he blinks - but nods, quietly.]

Of course - is it urgent, then?

YO MAPLE

[iblistriggered]

[Well, after that whole thing with Moriarty, Silver feels kind of crappy and listless. He walks in the hallway, past the locked door]

HI

[foundationmods]

[As he walks past the locked door, he will find that it is cracked open. What's more, a voice will call out from it:]

Psst. Kid.

Mod Ping in first prompt

[scarsnstripes]

[Atsushi's curled up outside, back against the fence and phone held close at an angle so only he can see the screen. He's got pesterchum open, and sends a text to TentacleTherapist.

He's not sure if this is going to go well or not, but... maybe he could start subtly. Maybe... if he chose a message only they'd understand?]

MoonlitStray: Meow. You asked for my name, didn't you?

Kitchen
[Later... he can be found making himself some comfort food in the kitchen for dinner. Chazuke, specifically. It's been a long, stressful week, and the scent of green tea, rice, chicken and seasonings is comforting.

There's more than enough fixings for others to have some, too.]

kitchen

[dereban]

[ eventually someone's gotta eat and Inaba isn't going to be the one to avoid dinner tonight when there's going to be a very high chance of something bad happening tomorrow, even if they aren't having a trial.

although it's admittedly a little awkward to face him after--

after what happened yesterday, but she can easily pretend that it didn't happen.

it's fine, probably.

(is it really, Inaba?) ]

. . . oh, chazuke.

[ she's not surprised, but she can't help but say that aloud.

maybe it's because she doesn't really have anything to say that wouldn't just make the conversation more awkward. ]

[foundationmods]

TT: That depends on who you are, exactly.

Garage Info Sale GO (Meeting Hell Redux)

[houndumb]

[So there's like, that one usable corner of the garage, and Nora is crouched in it currently looking like an angry gargoyle who's fallen off the roof and is about to claw somebody's eyes out every time they come to this gloomy area of the garage. There's writing implements, in case people really want them, and he's dragged some random equipment to sit on.

He's also stolen some of Ingway's potions equipment, just for a somewhat poor excuse to be around here. It's a good thing the wifi router covers everything in case anybody wants to google 'How Not to Hold Meetings, Especially After You All Just Almost Beat the Snot Out of Each Other Over Old Men With Issues'. It's fine.

God, who let this guy run meetings twice in a row.]

... Eh, I got no idea what the hell game this is, but this shit better be useful. I used up a whole lot of fucking butter for it. [?????] Here's what we're goin' to be playing since we didn't fucking kill anybody yet, I guess.

[YET. PLEASE SEE ABOVE ABOUT OLD MEN AND SHIT. He's pulling up a photo of a file on his phone that's literally just the rules to Family Feud. Enjoy that.]

Next thing! Dazai's still fucking up so they sent him a warning letter to kill three people this week! Guess we still got two to go to tomorrow, so we better be prepared for that. [there's resentment in there, which may be directed at Dazai but may just be a general dissatisfaction because their situation is shitty and getting shittier] Oh, and I found some candy and this weird shit in his office. Think it might be good for threatening him with??

[There's a bunch of candy, which he's apparently liberated from Dazai's office, and then an Epi-pen of all things that Nora's spinning in his hand like a pen. Enjoy that. Also bring your own info, why not.]

[darkremnants]

[ He'll snag the Epi-pen straight up if he'll let him ]

What's this?