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

[andeatit]

The atmosphere is stressful. [Light offers easily.] But we have to stay calm. Panic is your biggest enemy in high stress situations.

[inthecolosseum]

[Ryuk seems perfectly content to limit his interaction with the situation to quietly mirthful observation - accustomed to lurking invisibly. Old habits die hard.]

[andeatit]

[Considering it handled for now, Light would sigh, ready for L to come back. They still had most of the room to go.]

[airlynx]

[Atsushi sighs too, stretching his arms up in the air in content. Since he has borderline yaoi hands, he reaches up so high that the tip of his lit blunt hovers dangerously close to Light's hair.]

[andeatit]

Careful, careful. [Light reaches up to try to grab it now.] I'd prefer not to be put on fire.

[eraser_rain]

[Angrier, more snappily, Mikami will make yet another grab for that joint, this time hoping to have a better shot at actually getting it away from him when he has it up at everyone else's face level.] Are you trying to kill somebody or just make yourself the candidate for the first to be killed?

[airlynx]

[Atsushi casually discards the joint to the side, letting it smoke peacefully on the floor.] I'd kill for another joint.

[andeatit]

[Light's eyes went to the door L had gone through.]

Please stop saying such things. I do plan on being a detective and they are still against the law. Focus on the investigation. I'm sure we can find other activities in the meantime.

[airlynx]

Nuh-uh. They's only illegal in Japan, and as someone already told me, we ain't in Japan anymore.

[eraser_rain]

No. We probably are.

[airlynx]

Then why are we all speakin' English?

[eraser_rain]

[airlynx]

[andeatit]

[Light sighs. There really was a lot of tension here.]

Let's make it through this much so we can move onto the notes. As soon as he returns, I'll go. Everyone else be ready with theirs.

[inthecolosseum]

I dunno where this place is, but if even the laws of physics are different, it definitely ain't Japan.

[airlynx]

Thanks, dude. Maybe I'll roll ya one, too.

[andeatit]

The packages, the notes, everything I've seen so far has been in Japanese. Someone has managed a lot of seemingly supernatural feats, but that doesn't mean we're anywhere other than Earth.

[takethecake]

[Having dropped off an envelope in place, L slinks back in and on top of the washing machine again.] Once we've seen that the rules of common sense don't apply to our situation, holding onto the old forms of reasoning is as harmful to our cause as superstition...

[andeatit]

[Light readies himself, though he stops when L starts talking.]

Getting rid of all rules is the first step to chaos. We'll need to think differently, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't still apply the laws as we know them. After all, without them, the murder itself isn't a crime.

[takethecake]

Natural laws and rules are different things. Assumptions that something supernatural hasn't happened, that the murders will not be supernatural, or even that this is earth are all unfounded. They're only founded in common sense. That doesn't apply here. Surely.

[andeatit]

It's not unfounded. The language is our own, the food is familiar and geared toward Japanese origins. Gravity doesn't seem to have changed, and the night and day cycles still line up with my watch. The fish and the fruit are all familiar. I think that's reason enough to assume we're on Earth.

[takethecake]

Well, where we are isn't a problem. But that kind of thinking is. As far as the threat of murder, our actual interest, we should be thinking that it will be a killing that defies common sense.

[andeatit]

We'll agree on that much. [He turned back around to head toward the room.]

We already have one means of murder that defies it. I'll be going inside now.

[eraser_rain]

[Mikami makes a face at that, looking to Atsushi who is likely his own problem to babysit with Light, the one last left with that duty, on his way out.]

That's if this isn't all for the sake of whipping up a false panic and ring of accusations.

[takethecake]

Hm. [That grunt is meant to skirt that issue, an argument not worth having as he instead looks to the others in the room once Light's gone.] Mikami-san and Yagami-san have heard of a supernatural murderer Kira. Atsushi-kun seems to be unfamiliar? And the Shinigami?