11 PM - Kitchen Thread

[eraser_rain]

[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]

And leave the two of them alone?

[andeatit]

They're adults. I'm sure I can trust them alone long enough to destroy dangerous weapons.

[eraser_rain]

We can all go.

[andeatit]

Then, if you two don't mind staying behind or postponing your talk, let's finally destroy the pages.

[airlynx]

[Atsushi mumbles something unintelligible about a waste of paper and illegal drugs.]

[takethecake]

Then, Ryuk-san and I will have to talk afterwards. If he survives that long...

[He gets down off of the stool. His tone makes it clear it's a terrible burden now that he has to tag along with everybody.]

L tags along on Light's dates, it's only fair

[andeatit]

[Now in possession of all the notes excluding that in Ryuk's possession, he doesn't mind leading the way.]

Since the rest of us will be voting in that time, did you have one ready?

This is Light intruding on L's date with Ryuk.

[takethecake]

Yes. I've made my decision.

That's why it's only fair.

[andeatit]

Probably, all or most of us have. Since we don't have a crime to convict as of now, I'd feel much better sending a mother back to her children with the vote.

[eraser_rain]

Even were a crime committed, I wouldn't agree with sending the most likely culprit away to safety.

[takethecake]

Ryuk-san is the least likely to be a criminal.

[eraser_rain]

The fact that he's alive is proof that he's killed at some point.

[takethecake]

There's no jurisdiction for Shinigami.

[eraser_rain]

We also don't have any duty to him and his safety if he's "innocent" for lack of jurisdiction.

[takethecake]

Mikami-san is cold.

[eraser_rain]

He's the only one we're not disarming. If he wants to join in the human community by surrendering his Note to be burned, that would be one thing, but...

[takethecake]

That "one thing" would kill him.

[andeatit]

It's not such a simple situation. Even ignoring the question of rather he could be tried while in the human world considering even visitors have to follow the laws of the land they're visiting, the difference between murderer and killer is only in semantics, only in their ability to be tried for a crime. I'm neither arguing we should try a Death God nor that Ryuk is the soon-to-be-killer, but his world's laws don't exclude him as a suspect.

[eraser_rain]

There would need to be a reason for him not to kill us all at once with his Note.

[inthecolosseum]

I have less reason to kill any of you here than I would any random humans, you know. This entire situation has been a lot of fun, and I have plenty of time saved up. Whether that I've killed before makes me a murderer, though... I'll leave human definitions in human hands.

[takethecake]

He has plenty of time saved up, he says. So we are safe.

[Yesiree, no unsettling implications there.]

[andeatit]

Ah... [Light seems to feel as good about the implications as L.

Once in the room, he would aim for the copier.] Moralities of the past aside, we still don't have the murderer we're looking for yet, especially not without a murder.

That said, Ryuk, I hope we have the chance to talk in the future as well. I imagine some of the questions may be in duplicate, but please humor them. It is my first time knowingly been with a Shinigami.

[eraser_rain]

Spare him from repeating himself and ask those questions now. [He has a good sense for why they want to ask them separately, but he doesn't seem to think it's a reason worth humoring. They've been at this for over two hours now with nothing much to show for it.

As Light goes for the copier Mikami, familiar with the office, heads for the sticky notes and begins passing out pens before writing on his own pad.]

We've decided. This time it's Haneoka-san. If we're humoring the idea that the note framed on me was mine, it probably should be me as the most likely to be innocent. But by the next time, if there is a murder, we'll have found them and eliminated the threat. Even if there's still no murder, it'll still probably be me sent next.

[andeatit]

I won't speak of next week until I've seen what happens in the next few days. As for Ryuk's time, I won't impose on a private meeting he's already agreed to. Unless either of us are the victim of the murderer, we should have ample time to talk.

[He would also begin to scribble onto his own provided note as he waited for the first sheet to scan.]

[inthecolosseum]

Don't worry. I won't be.

[With a somewhat... unwholesome, little grin, he redirects his expectant attention to L.]