11 PM - Kitchen Thread

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[All characters have relocated to the kitchen where they've set envelopes on the table; characters were encouraged (but not required on any game-based level) to put anything besides their welcome message/map into the envelope. Fake outs, of course, allowed. Separate thread by requests since it's been about two months. If your character put anything in their envelope, a reminder that you can post an anonymous comment with the contents of an envelope here, just be sure to PM sheep_dog to let them know you did in case there's any questions. Once your character's made a reply we'll assume you've had a chance to leave any message. Feel free to leave your anonymous messages in or outside the thread.

Characters can put their vote-off post on the bulletin board after the kitchen thread, but due to OOC issues Haneoka had to be the one voted off the first round. We've confirmed enough characters will vote her off anyway but feel free to list whoever else you want. You can do that anonymously too if you prefer.]

Comments

[takethecake]

[L is neither more nor less enthusiastic as he brushes the soot over it, focusing on the top and bottom edges as well as the center seal. He makes a face as the seal is torn and getting a solid fingerprint from the two halves is unlikely, but maybe they'll be lucky enough with other prints.]


((OOC: I'm not sure which envelope he's dusting. Are we going in order or just doing/starting with the fourth one?))

[inthecolosseum]

((I think just going through in the order they were opened seems a reasonable way to go about it unless anyone wants to instigate a particular order. I'll assume that's the sequence he defaults to.))

Input

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((OOC: Works for me. Everyone can feel free to put a note under each letter posting above with what fingerprints are on them as we go through dusting them. We're currently doing envelope 1 in the list above. If you're L, Light or Mikami and want to put "young small/medium build adult male" prints anonymously, if you don't think the prints could be differentiated well, go for it. Though Light and Mikami have made sample prints, so you might have to make a good case to sheep_dog as to why they can't be determined; examples could include trying to fake L's holding style, etc.

If there are NOT fingerprints on an envelope and your character has touched one or more envelopes (I'm pretty sure they've all touched at least one one), drop sheep_dog a line saying why you're not announcing fingerprints here.

This doesn't apply to Ryuk who can probably touch things without fingerprints, due to a lack of metabolism. Unless he wants to leave prints, I guess. Whatever floats your boat there.))

Re: Input

[inthecolosseum]

((I figure Ryuk probably doesn't have skin oils to leave behind, though he might leave claw-dimples - though they'd already be on everything at this point.))

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The owner of that envelope is easy enough to identify. Of course, we also know the owner of the last and unopened one.

[His eyes go straight to Atsushi even while talking to Ryuk.]

Ryuk? Will you be as cooperative in restraining one of us as you are in the rest of this envelope shuffling affair?

[inthecolosseum]

Nah. I'd much rather watch you fight it out if it comes to that.

[takethecake]

Then the next please.

[inthecolosseum]

[[Compliantly, he plucks up the second one that was opened, holding it pinched delicately between index finger and thumb in both hands.]]

[takethecake]

[Another smear with the brush at the bottom of the kettle. Dust, dust, dust.]

[inthecolosseum]

((Should we go ahead and just summarize going over them all, and open the floor to any interjections of whose are on which?))

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((OOC: Confirmed with all players but L that they haven't touched or at least haven't left prints on any other envelopes, so if you guys wanna go on to two and three. Everyone can mark their envelopes now and we can react in the appropriate timing, so we're not waiting on anyone.

Mikami will have a reaction to 3, if you don't mind pausing there.))

[inthecolosseum]

[[With no particular comment on the second note, Ryuk moves on to holding up 3. It seems, note by note, his look of vague intrigue starts to slump into slight boredom - though it's kind of hard to tell, mostly manifest as a faint narrowing of the eyes.]]

[andeatit]

[Light's eyes would slide to Mikami. As he already knew whose prints would show up on the third, and the burnt note from Atsushi was nowhere to be seen, that left only one person.]

We've seen whose the first belongs to. Since there seems to be a lack of prints, the second belongs to Ryuk. When you compare, you'll see the third belongs to me. Atsushi-kun burnt his note, which I'm sure we'll find in envelope five.

Mikami-san, will we find yours on the next?

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[Mikami is, as L finishes with the third, holding up the print comparisons, looking between his and Light's. It doesn't take him long to nod and set both sets of prints down, satisfied that it's Light's. However, his eyes go immediately to Atsushi, at least until he notices Light's fall on him. He glances in Light's direction, starting to try to move slowly, to try to get one of them subtly on either side of Atsushi, as if harboring some misunderstanding about what's communicated by that look. He nods.]

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[Until that second to last sentence Light says, about Atsushi's burnt note. His expression drops, along with his shoulders, both hands, and coincidentally the fingerprint slips he was holding.]


He what?


[Guess who was out of the room during the time frame in which Atsushi lit his joint to when it was revealed what that joint paper was made of?]

[airlynx]

Is that any of yer business, Four Eyes?

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Yes! It is! [His voice cracks at that as he slams his hand down on the coutner, the other pointing directly at Atsushi.] That letter should be yours! The fifth one should be empty! [He looks to said fifth envelope, then back around the room in a rather badly concealed panicked confusion.] You saw it! You all saw it! The Shinigami! That's right! [He promptly turns his pointing finger to Ryuk.] I gave my letters to Ryuk! To the Shinigami! Before I left the room! How could I put those in there with something like that?! [With another scan of the room his eyes settle on L, who also gets to be the target of his finger.] This is some kind of trap set up by you! In going against God! Some kind of trick! Some kind of unfair... Some kind of sick blasphemy, an unfair violation of the rules of evidence! [Despite not really doing himself a lot of favors with it, he's prone to rambling with an increasingly tight voice. Back to Ryuk with the finger again!] Or you! For some kind of entertainment! [His eyes go to Light but while his jaw tenses, his hand doesn't quite shift to pointing to him. He might lack a potential motive or blame to assign to him, but it doesn't look like he's given up trying to think of one yet.]

[takethecake]

It isn't as if it particularly marks you as a criminal, Mikami-san.

[Despite saying that, he is not and does not even attempt to sound interested in stopping the show he's putting on. But he will take a break from dusting the all important fourth envelope to sip at his tea while it's going.]

[inthecolosseum]

[[Ryuk supports the envelope patiently for L, not yet gracing Mikami's outburst with a verbal response. The grin on his face, however, is positively perverse with delight that he is making infuriatingly little effort to conceal.]]

[andeatit]

Mikami-san, please stay calm. [Panic instilled panic, though with the current group, only Atsushi seemed willing to go to heightened emotions.

Aside from Mikami himself at the moment.]

We have your fingerprints to compare the evidence with. If you didn't touch it, they won't be present. But, you're saying the fifth should be empty. Does that mean you didn't put anything inside your envelope?

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You were there! [He says as if somehow he expects at least Light to be a more understanding case, if only for having a lack of accusation towards him yet, and points to Ryuk again.] I handed him my things before I left! In order to be completely beyond doubt! That I couldn't have copied it and left a fake! [With another breath, he starts to calm down. He's still visibly angry, but the panic subsides. Mostly.] In the first place, if I had evidence like this, why on earth wouldn't I have us all tend to and vote off the supposed murderer right now?

[andeatit]

I wonder why that's true for the person who did have that note.

Before we discuss anything further, we'll see what the prints say. I do remember the incident with Ryuk. [But he was sure they all, or most of them, could see a way around that.] So, we'll wait for results.

[takethecake]

By the way, Mikami-san, earlier you had said that the only one who could not have been responsible for this envelope [Setting the tea cup down, he finally takes to dusting envelope number four.] was Atsushi-san. If you weren't aware of the nature of his letter, why is it you were certain of that?

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Eh...? Something like that, did I even...

[takethecake]

You did.