sheepwolf | 10 PM Meeting

[When it had first appeared, he reacted, but it had been silent. His eyes widened, rounded out, his mouth opening without sound. Did no one else see it?!]

aaaaaaAAAAAAHHHHHHH! [And then his silence breaks and he screams, his arm going out to try to urge the rest of the group back, away from the monster. It was probably dangerous!]

((I am absolutely loving this as a recurring motif.))

..... Oi, oi. [The aforementioned monster pipes up in a tone of perhaps rather exaggerated hurt.] Nice to meet you, too.

[And while all of that takes place, L turns to Eimi, talking casually over Light's display as if he isn't even there. L asked Light a question about the sixth but it seems like he isn't in a condition to answer it.]

Then, you've met the one not here? Atsushi-kun.

[ooc: Ryuk if perfect for Halloween.]

[Light returns the favor, unintentionally, of talking to Ryuk over everyone else.

He seems calm down, if one could judge by his tone of voice.]

Y-you...

I think we should focus on our captor a bit more. [He addresses L, cutting off any answer, quickly as he points at Ryuk.]

[Holding in a sigh, looking uninterested in Light's display, L is forced to look to the rudely interrupting Light again.]

Were you always this poor under pressure?

Edited 2015-09-28 02:06 (UTC)

[Mikami looks towards Ryuk when he enters, but Light's outburst has more of his attention. He reacted the same way so he can't actually judge, but he looks as if he's judging. That is because he is Mikami.]

I'm fine under pressure, but I think having what seems to be supernatural creature here takes procedance over the rest of the day.

I was worried too, but he says he's a fellow captive, and if the rest of this is possible, that is too. As for Atsushi-kun, briefly, yes; he's a nice boy, but... a little fond of the drink, and doesn't have the best of sense.

Yeah, I haven't met this Atsushi fella, myself.

[He looks back to Light after this comment.]

The name's Ryuk, by the way. Woke up here the same way I take it all of you did.

It goes against my better judgment to accept the existence of something so ridiculous, but there we have it.

Then, in summary, on this island we have a God of Death [He points to Ryuk.], a murder suspect [to Light], a criminal whose charge hasn't been shared yet [to Mikami], an idiot drunk, the detective [to himself] and a family woman. [His pointing ends with an open hand towards Eimi.]

A God of Death? [He's still looking at Ryuk, though he nods. Rather or not he accepts it, now he'll move onto gathering information.] I can't so easily dismiss that as coincidence, but something was mentioned in the note. If you are innocent, I would prefer having you on our side... Ryuk.

As for the rest of the summary, it's suspiciously biased. I'd like to give my own. I'll start with myself. I was a murder suspect based on circumstantial evidence. I have been cleared of charges, as I've told you. Since then, I've been working along beside you trying to catch the same killer. Since this isn't new information to you, it would be best to not give out the version you'd like to be true and taint other investigations.

[His finger goes to L.] As for you, you're known as one of the world's best detective. That does come with some questionable tactics, such as sending a man in to die as bait and locking up two people with trial and keeping them there for 50 days. You've also put me in very questionable situations before to try to provoke me into killing. [As such, it is possible L has set this up to do the same thing again.]

Atsushi-kun is knowledgeable in things the rest of us would probably have less skill in. [Out of L, Light, and Mikami, which one of them looked ready to do heavy construction?] That isn't proof of either guilt or innocence, but it's worth noting.

Haneoka-san does seem to be a family woman, and I would like to send her back in the vote if it does indeed work. Most of us probably won't object to having more time to figure out the mystery.

[He would nod toward Mikami.] I'm sure he's capable of giving his own side of the story, which is how the justice system does work.

[Eimi pauses for a bit and nods.] It sounds like you've all got some things to work through where you come from, so I'll leave that at that. Even if one of you were a criminal, that wouldn't necessarily mean you were this criminal. In fact, you might be better equipped to stop them if that were the case.

[Being summarized as a criminal sends him from his usual scowl to something more distinctly acrimonious. Light's counter summary doesn't really help matters much, nor does Eimi's attempt to smooth things over.]

...Speaking of things mentioned in the note. As Yagami-san has mentioned, it says that the one voted for will be sent back.

Despite the obvious goal set out for us in the letter, if there is a criminal among us, keeping in mind that even the allegation itself is only for a yet uncommitted crime, I would not want a murderer simply sent home free.

I move that our interests should be in sending home those whose innocence we're most certain of. For now, we are all innocent of murder, and only one of us would be remotely capable of this kind of kidnapping. [He bluntly points to Ryuk.] I propose leaving the him for last, at which point he can presumably vote himself off, or failing that, be in the strongest position to confront the very likely supernatural entity behind this.

Heh... Possibly. This seems a little beyond anything I've dealt with. [He turns to address the group at large.]

See, I've never been trapped before. If someone tries to keep me somewhere I don't want, I can walk through the wall, or fly away, or just go back to the land of the shinigami. But this place... [He mulls it over, chewing on the words a bit.] It's different. I can't get out. It just doesn't work. Like flexing a muscle that's been cut. And when I tried to fly off, I got nowhere, literally. The water just wraps around, like its own tiny planet. [He offers a slouched shrug.]

I don't know whose realm this is, but I don't think it's on Earth, as I said to this guy earlier. [A long, tapered finger indicates Mikami.]

Do you have your letter with you?

Hm? The letter? I keep it with me.

Do you mean this is somehow... separate from the rest of the world? Like some kind of barrier? I've never heard of anything like that.

I'm skeptical. If this were its own planet, the gravity, climate, night and day cycles should be different. But the laws of common sense and reality have already been thoroughly violated by this situation... As for my letter, I do have it with me, but it seems that all of them are the same.

I haven't seen anyone else's, but I've still got mine. Not with me, though. Now, I don't know much about gravity or climate or all that. But you probably thought solid objects couldn't pass through each other too, didn't you?

[He's not about to spit out a perfectly good piece of candy just to click his tongue, but sucking on candy makes a sound much like 'tsk tsk.']

It's not good not to be able to show it. The killer has probably a different one, after all. One that's five paragraphs. Possibly a few more.

But, Ryuk-san is probably not the killer. Probably Ryuk-san is in the most danger...

The murderer would have to blend in better than having a different letter would allow. He may have had another letter or secondary communication, but having them have a letter different than our own would make them too suspicious.

Then you think Ryuk will be the first to die.

Yes, as the one most likely to be able to kill the murderer, Ryuk-san is in the most danger. And also as the one who can enter that room.

[Light would nod. He definitely agreed. They could technically kill each other at any time, but Ryuk would naturally be seen as the biggest threat. Maybe to them all, not just the killer.]

A skill I'd like to ask him to use once we have a contingency plan. The person behind this knew about Ryuk's ability, and the consequences of trying to force our way in was stated. Likely it was referring to physical force, but we can't discount there being measures taken against him as well.

If it's something they can do at any time, from someplace remote, relying on them not to do so on a whim is ridiculous. To date the only crime here so far has been the kidnapping, therefore they are the only criminals. Giving in to them mustn't be tolerated. If anything, we should urge them to show their hand as much as possible.

Yes. That's the right way to think. And because Ryuk-san must be the most afraid, we should bravely take the risk of being without creature comforts for his sake and have him go in for us.

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