RECORDING 11: THE FOURTH MURDER.

[foundationmods]

A fourth week, and this is now definitely routine. Waking on friday, with the knowledge deep down that your number has yet again decreased.

You must still pull yourself from your bed, and discover who is now forever gone.

...But, wait.

What's that smell...?

((OOC: 2 people max under a heading, please! Just to keep things easy on the mods. You can switch out with someone else during an investigation if needed.))

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Post-investigations... [sorry ghosts, WWX's booty call game too strong]

[cw_suicide]

[he still hasn't seen the body. and that's definitely not... great.

but Dazai makes his way back to the livingroom where people are probably most congregated because he does have one thing on his mind. his eyes are a bit dimmer than usual, not distant but a coldness to them that have cropped up now and again previously near constant now.

thanks to WWX, once again, ghosts will probably be distracted by some charms or another.]

If anyone has had contact with Sakaguchi Ango or has been doing things within the house that can be discovered by his ability, you have until Monday before the entity inside this house knows what you're hiding and what you're up to.

To explain: Ango was not simply a worker for the government in our world. He was a well-versed spy and has even worked to levels of triple-agent in espionage and information gathering. And his ability sees more than what he has let on--though even I don't really know the full extent of it. I wouldn't even be surprised if he was sent on this mission by the Foundation with spying in mind, either.

And before anyone asks: no. Ango has told me nothing about what he was doing himself. Save that he may have found something out about this house that would be important, later. Unfortunately, we now have until Monday to figure out what that was.

There's the pattern of a murder on Friday, trial on Saturday, and then the ghost of the victim and the executed appearing on Monday--usually with the victim being the chosen Vessel for the week. Assuming this pattern stands, Ango will not simply become a ghost but will become the next chosen Vessel. Anything he knows, the entity will know.

The ghosts of the house already know this, so they're eager to welcome him to the fold.

Whoever chose Ango as their target... has given us a deadline.

[GOOD FUCKING JOB, ASSHOLE, he does not say but only because he's tired ok.]

[finalring]

[ romani has looked like he was about to faint since he stepped out of the ice room, but now he just slides against the living room wall all the way down to the floor.

it's one thing to know this, and it's another to have it confirmed by the person that knew ango the best. ]

[oxidegreen]

[C-catching him...

Oh god.]

[cw_suicide]

[probably once all the commotion bound to happen is over, Dazai's moving over to him. because. well. you know why.]

Sensei. Where is he?

[no idle chatter, no nonsensical tones, just to the point, flat.]

[impyroverished]

...?

[Emil frowns, crossing his arms. For a moment he's silent, until...]

I guess that's...bad? I don't really understand how it's much worse than everything so far. It's not like the ghosts wouldn't know already everything we do.

[Looks like Emil is misunderstanding stuff]

[cw_suicide]

They don't know everything we do.

Case in point, they're not here.

[zweivoltage]

And... any more secrets we've kept from each other can be exploited as well.

[God damn it]

Our plans we made, are going to make... he'll know it all. Right?

[cw_suicide]

That's the shape of it.

[accrowed]

[ He listens quietly. ]

He didn't even give you a hint? Or tell you where he might've hidden a coded note with the information in case he ever died?

[cw_suicide]

... he told me he would try to put down the information in a code in a journal.

He because he told me this where ghosts could potentially hear, he didn't tell me where he would hide the journal.

[foxetious]

[Hello Dazai, it seems they’ve met again much too soon.]

So you’re saying your friend withheld information, you withheld information, until it was forced out of your hand by a third party, and now we have to spend what few hours we have until the next vessel is chosen scrambling to find an answer to an impossible situation?

[Emil might have shouted out parts or all of this, but Gin is trying to really hammer home that hypocrisy. Him not sharing votes that already happened unprompted is a lot less disastrous than Ango collecting everyone he could’s secrets as well as house information, and then not telling anyone until after he was dead. Assuming Dazai even has credible information.

Gin knew there was a reason he didn’t like Ango. Too much like Aizen, and then without the ability to back it up.]

[cw_suicide]

Are you really going to be focusing on the fact that everyone here lies and has secrets and aren't sharing information over the fact that someone has killed, gruesomely and thoroughly at that?

[he's... so tired.]

[zweivoltage]

And that was my decision. If you want to simper about what happened on Wednesday night, you whine to me. Or are you the kind of hyena that can only bare his teeth at someone that's already down?

[golden_dream]

...

[Subtly tries to make eye-contact, a few meters off to the side.]

[golden_dream]

...

[cw_suicide]

[that sure is a face]

Questions, Rosa-san?

[boardreversal]

[Battler is...here? He's here. That's basically all that can really be said.]

...So now everyone's secrets are going to be out there, huh?

[He should care. He should be sad about Sakaguchi, if just for the chaos and fear this is going to bring.

....But he's comfortably numb, and he doesn't want to go back.]

That's what everyone's going to focus on - not getting out of here.

[cw_suicide]

Apparently.

People will be people, as always.

[some of them are focusing on the right thing, anyway]

[golden_dream]

...

[Watching from the side: how hungover is he?]

[white_camellia]

That is true, that is a potential way for the situation to go.

On the other hand, it also means that once we reach Monday, there is no longer a need or purpose for secrets.

We are approaching the end, for better or worse.

[sageking]

[ Where did he even start...?

This was a big mess. He could feel a ton of headaches coming on all at once. This week truly was hell...so much screwing up, so little time (48 hours now) ]

I suppose we should be grateful to be informed of this at least. I won't even bother bringing up the irony in this situation.

[ ... ]

Then again, if this was information we could've used before he died, we might as well all had been told this sooner than later. I'm hoping he had a good reason for holding it to himself as long as he did, and that it'll be recovered immediately.

[cw_suicide]

Chances are he was more concerned with someone either sabotaging his efforts, killing him, or giving away the information to the entity when he died.

Triple agent spy types don't tend to be the trusting sort.

[hence why even his closest friend doesn't know all that much]

[noneforall]

[Walking in late with Starbucks, take two: he's certainly moving a little slower this morning, but he looks a little more alert than he did when the body announcement was clanging so rudely into his skull. He did stop by to get a cup of tea, though, nice and fresh.

Just. Going to stop and take in the sights, AKA people fighting over Ango's death? Sure. Guess we're doing that now.]

Hmm. Looks like I'm missing the funeral party.

[Just going to claim one of the sofas for himself and his tea leaves.]

You sure you're not eating some kind of miasma effect? Sounds like you spend more time worrying about the ghosts' opinions than anything.

[cw_suicide]

View it as you'd like, Subete-san.

[white_camellia]

[Okay, for the time being, she needs to focus on the important things: What to do next. For that...]

Obviously, finding whatever information he left behind takes priority. More than that however, it appears that there be no point to secrecy going further.