clue

[vivariummods]

One whole day after the second group’s arrival (along with one whole day since the dead body’s discovery...), some sort of activity in the warehouse begins. Early in the morning, there is an abrupt squawk of microphone feedback over the loudspeakers (and since when were there loudspeakers?), before a screechy voice makes a terse announcement: “Ahem, ahem, testing. One, two, three, testing! Ooookay, looks like this is up and running. So, you pesky test subjects, what a mess you’ve made! I take my eyes off you for just a moment and this is what happens. You really are a terrible bunch, aren’t you?” The “voice” clicks its tongue three times, letting out a heavy sigh, before continuing. “Anyway, let’s get this all sorted out! Know those elevators back out in the lobby? Well, first of all, they’re not elevators. They’re called Ambidex Rooms, so get it right, but second of all, why don’t you all make yourselves useful for once and step into them? Only one test subject per room, though! You can try to go in with someone else, but we just don’t start. What is that? You don’t want to go in? Then we can do this aaaaaaaaall day, I’m a very patient mouse, I’ll let you know!” And with that, the mysterious announcer goes silent. In fact, they’ll stay quiet until all the test subjects finally enter one of the AB Rooms, no matter how long it take. Once inside, the doors shut close, trapping them all inside..

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[toybombs]

She shakes her head. "Uh-uh. Just... someone dragging the body."

[hisokathemagician]

"Could you tell if it was a man or woman?" That sounded like a fairly important detail. Or at least one Hisoka would be interested in.

...Also whether or not they had nice legs.

[toybombs]

"Not really... I just couldn't see enough to tell." Her tone is apologetic. Her clue doesn't seem to be all that helpful, huh?

[hisokathemagician]

"Hmm. Well, my video had a man wiping blood off of a knife. He had short hair... but all three of us match that description. I'd say yours was much more useful ♦."

Well, I mean. At least Hisoka wasn't wearing sneakers?

[toybombs]

Eep!

"B-blood? But wait, there's only one of you who wears... um..."

Oh. Oh no. Her gaze slowly slides over to Kaidou, horrified.

[hisokathemagician]

"It seems that we're in the presence of a very dangerous man." lolol okay no, keeping a straight face. Keeping a straight face.

[toybombs]

"B-but... he was so nice to me earlier. It couldn't be him. C-could it...?"

Sure, he seemed rough around the edges, but not exactly murderer material.

[hisokathemagician]

"I don't know. We have mostly what you've seen to rely on. ♥" Hisoka didn't seem at all concerned by the idea of a murderer in their midst, though he... probably should have been.

"But the others may have seen something that gives us more perspective."

[toybombs]

"-! That's right! Everyone has clues, so... maybe it was someone else after all!" She sounds so hopeful. Maybe this will turn out okay and bandanna guy won't be it...

[hisokathemagician]

"Hoping it was someone in particular?" He just... can't resist asking....

[toybombs]

"Eh-- o-of course not...!" Why would she think that way? "But... If it really was someone, I don't want to just wait until they decide to do something again, either... what if it's even worse than this?" Just. The situation in general, apparently.

[hisokathemagician]

"Worse how, do you think? After all, someone's already dead." What were you thinking, Rio, did you want two people to be dead next time?

[toybombs]

Maybe if one of them were you, Hisoka.

"B-but the rest of us are still alive... and we're trying to figure out who did it." That's a pretty good motivation to kill again.

[hisokathemagician]

THEN YOU COULD JOIN HIM, RIO. WHAT FUN.

Actually, it wouldn't be all that fun, he'd rather die with Ellie or Maria. "That is a problem, isn't it? But there's no guarantee it was any of us. It might have even been more than one of us. We're all a bit bloodied, after all."

[toybombs]

Denied, she's going to survive this thing, dammit.

"There's only one vote, though... If there was an accomplice, wouldn't we have to be able to vote for more than one person? Otherwise it isn't fair."

[hisokathemagician]

"Hmm. Well, I'd say this situation isn't very fair in general. After all, our captor holds almost all the cards. ♠"

If one of you wasn't Zero, that was...

[toybombs]

"But if more than one person did it, wouldn't it make sense to let us vote that way? Then we really couldn't trust each other... multiple people in one group working together to do something terrible like this would just show us to pick our allies carefully. It could cause division."

In this case, they were probably going to generally ally against a single person, which might calm... well, the less paranoid, at least.

[hisokathemagician]

For the first time since they'd started talking, Hisoka started to display actual interest in Rio.

"You're thinking hard about this, aren't you? ♠"

[toybombs]

With a shy, embarrassed sputter, her gaze drops abruptly to the ground.

"W-well... worrying seems to be all I'm really good for here..."