10 PM Meeting - Laundry Room

[eraser_rain]

[As your character may know if they'd been watching the network thread, Mikami and Light have plans to meet at 10PM in the laundry room. Mikami will end up being about 10 minutes late.]



[OOC: Intended multi-player thread. Feel free to jump in early and run threads until someone interrupts, feel free to interrupt the thread whenever your character does arrive. Since this game tends to move slowly and we're beta, consider going out of turn if appropriate (interruptiong, etc.) as we try to feel this group process out.]

Comments

[eraser_rain]

I wouldn't call it an oversight. If this paper was meant to be the source of the murder, a hypothetical killer's targets would be limited to those who've given their names.

In your case, Yagami Light is obviously not your real name.

[andeatit]

Or it's not meant to be the source of the murder...

I've never had anyone think my name so ridiculous as to question it before, but I assure you I didn't plan for a notebook that could kill by using my name. An oversight considering Kira, but it is my real name.

[eraser_rain]

[Stare.]

[andeatit]

Why are you so sure that's not my given name? It's unusual, but it's hardly impossible.

[takethecake]

"An oversight considering Kira," is it?

[eraser_rain]

It isn't unreasonable. If one's a good person, they wouldn't think to lie about their name even in the context of Kira. Kira has been killing with only a face for years.

[andeatit]

I admit it's more to do with the fact I didn't expect Kira to be here. This isn't his style.

Unfortunately, it's my real name, but I have no proof.

[takethecake]

For somebody who's been investigating Kira, it would be unureasonable to be caught up in a mysterious crime and to still have such an oversight. It really makes me wonder...

Sorry! I didn't mean to steal your post

[andeatit]

Unlike you, I haven't been trying to steal everyone's note. If Kira's brought us here, he knows my name. If he's one of us, getting rid of these notes should protect us.

[eraser_rain]

[All this theorizing about their predicament and murder weapons is great and all, but there's something more important at hand, and that's making it clear that:] Kira isn't such a malevolent god.

It's our duty to step on each other's toes.

[takethecake]

Say, can I ask a question?

[His voice lilts with the distinct tone of an obnoxious class clown bound to ask something intentionally stupid.]

[andeatit]

[Somehow, instead of the question being stupid, Light has a feeling it's designed to make him look stupid.]

What?

[eraser_rain]

[In unison with Light, Mikami might sound even less patient despite not having had experience with L enough to know how cute and funny and not annoying he is.]

What?

[takethecake]

What is Kira?

[inthecolosseum]

[takethecake]

[airlynx]

Ain't that a girl's name? It's disrespectful to be investigatin' ladies.

[andeatit]

No, it's derived from the English word 'killer'. But we're drifting too far off topic. That's something we can discuss at another time. For now, we need to destroy the paper and look at the letters.

[takethecake]

If I've previously suspected you of being a killer, I can't agree to your plan to have us destroy the papers. But I have another idea. There should be ink in the office. We can use that to assure that if somebody uses their paper to kill, it will be traceable.

[andeatit]

Before coming here, I was a fellow detective in your investigation. I'm not happy with being able to solve a crime we can stop before it happens.

[takethecake]

The potential to be caught should stop them. The killer must also have circumstances. Probably, laid out in a separate communication. One that is five paragraphs long. Otherwise, we could all be killed at once as soon as our names are known with this paper.

[andeatit]

No one knows your name. I can't assure anyone else has given their real name. With copies of the note, there's no reason to let everyone to hold onto a potentially murderous weapon.

[takethecake]

I will agree if another communication from our captors is presented. If that happens, there will be no further argument. Shall we do as much first, then? If one isn't presented, we can discuss this further.

[eraser_rain]

If someone's given the privacy to get any other note--which may not even exist--then they'll have the opportunity to replicate their note and only destroy that fake one.

[takethecake]

Down to the type of paper, without taking enough time to be noticed?