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[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..

Comments

[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..."