week 1, sunday

[ninjay]

[ when 11:00 hits after the execution, jay's eyes open slowly. there's a second where he just squints blearily at the ceiling before it suddenly hits, and then he's sitting up so quickly that the blanket he was so kindly tucked into falls off him.

once he confirms that he is indeed back in room 117, he turns towards jake's bed to see if his roommate is also awake or even, like, there in the first place. his mind is still racing with all the images that he witnessed at the lake, but he has other people he need to check on right now as well. ]

Jake. [ while his voice isn't loud, it's firm, like his intent is waking the other teen in case he is asleep. ]

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[potentite]

[Jake nods and takes a breath. It's fine. He does trust Jay, even if they don't know each other well. It would just be suspicious for roommates to kill each other. And it might help protect Dirk, so...]

Um, well, honestly my role is quite useless. I'm the Carpenter. I can prove it, too. Um, it's here— [He puts his hand on his waist and suddenly there's a nailgun visible, hanging off his belt.] But... I don't intend to hurt anyone with it. And unfortunately that's all my role does. But it might, um, confirm? That it's possible weapon roles are only that. Though actually I suppose it just might be mine that's like that, so...

[He runs a hand through his hair.] You'll be able to see it now but no one else will. So please don't tell anyone else. And um, hopefully this helps a little? Dirk wouldn't want to risk something happening to me, especially knowing my role can't do anything to protect me.

[ninjay]

[ his gaze immediately fall upon the nailgun. a skill role would have been more difficult to prove, so jake lucked out that this one is something that's actually tangible. jay's glance at the weapon is short though, and he goes back to looking at jake. ]

Hana had a weapon role as well, and hers seemed to be just that as well. So we can probably cross those off the list of roles that might have helped the ghost.

[ something jake says makes jay's lips twitch upwards though. ] Technically, your role could protect you, if you lifted your nailgun and used it. I'm starting to believe you really aren't the type though. [ ... ] Thank you for telling me. I'll keep it a secret.

[potentite]

[He smiles a little back.] Thank you. And heavens, no, I could never do that with, well, a nailgun of all things especially, gosh.

[Look he can't get over how terrible of a death that would be? He is pretty sure it would not be quick and relatively painless.]

But yes, you're right. With Hana's role known and mine to you now, we can probably assume anything with the 'weapon' title has no additional purpose. Skill and item ones, though... But the problem is still that, somehow, the person who possessed Hana knew she had a weapon. The only people who should be able to see it is the owner and anyone who is informed.

[ninjay]

Right. And she said she hadn't told anyone, so...

[ he glances back down at the list. ]

What if there's a role that doesn't tell you exactly what it is, but the type? In that case, they'd know someone has a weapon, but not what kind of weapon it is. [ he sighs. ] Maybe. For all we know, the ghost acted on their own and got lucky when they picked Hana. But I personally wouldn't have risked that, if it were me. So I still think some sort of team-up is the most likely choice, even if we don't know how it happened.

[potentite]

No, I agree completely. Why risk fifteen minutes on chance?

[Jake looks for the menu again.]

Let's see... some that stand out... The Convict has a key. There are an awful lot of locked doors here. We don't know what that person might find. The Copycat could copy the Ghost, that's a frightful idea. The Reporter... Monday passed, they would have received a token and gained a clue. Many of these items I'm not sure what purpose they would serve? For example, a statue would be a fine enough weapon but that isn't listed as a weapon role. Items must do something, then. Perhaps they receive instructions on how to use them? Like... puzzle solutions. So the item itself might not matter but what they gained from it could?

[ninjay]

There's also the fact that someone gets a vial of poison, but it's listed as an item instead of a weapon. Which is... an interesting choice, I think.

[ you can poison someone and not actually kill them, of course, but that depends on the kind of poison it is. ]

So there are definitely a couple of possibilities here for how they might have found out what her role is.

[potentite]

Oh, you're right it is. I overlooked that.

[It's definitely an interesting choice. He frowns to himself, trying to think what that could mean. But even if they figure it out, will it help?]

Poison isn't always poisonous to everything. Might be a plant poison, for example. [Since he hasn't seen any animals but there are definitely a lot of plants.] But you're right. Though... now that we all know what roles exist....

[He puts his finger on the Bomber.] This would be a nasty surprise lying in wait and certainly one any cohorts in crime will try to avoid.

[ninjay]

I actually spoke to Craftly about that. He said that in a case like that, we still need to execute someone.

[ he doesn't add more, hoping that jake will catch onto the pretty shitty implication that they'd most likely have to kill someone innocent again. ]

[potentite]

But... [He frowns. He sees the implication but he can't understand why.] For cripes sake why go through all this trouble! I guess maybe it's a ritual? So we must follow procedure?

[ninjay]

There's always the chance there's some sort of loophole there that Craftly didn't mention, but we can't rely on that possibility. Unfortunately, our best bet there is if more than one murder occurs if and when the Bomber dies, so in that case we can still pick someone who is actually guilty.

... However, that's still multiple people dead, so it's not much better.

[potentite]

Multiple bodies can hardly be called a victory. [He really doesn't want that but he has to admit Jay has a point. At least they wouldn't be voting for an innocent. It's just lose/lose no matter what.] Next time, I want to do a better job fingering the culprit. I don't want to see anyone endure such a retribution but... not an innocent again.

[ninjay]

I honestly have no idea how we could have found the actual guilty party in this case, unless we somehow missed some piece of evidence while investigating.

[ he's sure there are probably some avenues of investigating that they missed during the trial, but thinking back on it... jay is pretty confident that they went through all of the possibilities that they could have. unless they just flat out lacked some sort of evidence then he isn't certain how they could have solved that. ]

The theory that she was possessed was a popular one, so it's not like we were completely off the mark. We just... had absolutely no way of even slightly proving it. Did we overlook something?