DAY 6 (POST TRIAL) ALFENDI & SHIJIMA & BIGBY & ELIZABETH & ALICE

[selfdenying]

[Well, what a trial. Back and forth accusations between several people, a search for wounds, inquiries galore, the discovery that Bigby has weird kinks, Adam's sudden confession...it was one giant rollercoaster, but somehow, they've all made it. Somehow, this apartment is still ticking away with its strange inhabitants, now plus one in the form of Elizabeth.]

[Alfendi seems pleased by the whole affair- outwardly, at least. Once they've all gathered, he pulls out Bigby's whiskey bottle from last time, offering it to his fellow roommates (and Liz) with a devilish smile. It looks like his nicer side still isn't ready to come out - and honestly, he still looks sickly, but he's in a good mood.]

[He lets out a laugh.]

Well, I'm pretty sure I'm going to die. I don't suppose anyone is going to help me write my last will and testament?

[Another laugh as he sits on the edge of the couch, smiling wide,]

Anyways, never mind that, we're not out of the woods yet. We may have caught the guilty party, but there are still a few rats running around. What are everyone's thoughts on the matter? [A beat, as he glances to their newest occupant.] Also, before I forget, I just wanted to give a warm welcome to Elizabeth. You definitely came to the right place.

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[selfdenying]

The little idiot voted for me. Can you believe that? Did it as one last great insult before he started pushing daisies.

[He laughs.]

And I got my guess right twice in a row, apparently. First Luke, now him. I was pushing Adam quite hard, too. I think they'll kill me before they kill any of you, so don't you all worry.

[liven]

Yes, I can. His idea of "innocence" is an odd one. I do agree none of us are completely that, but I think it silly to put more blame on those who haven't actually physically killed someone here or been party to the murders than to blame those who vote simply because there is no other option.

[selfdenying]

He's just an odd little duck, in general. I'm not at all upset he's gone. The weasel deserved it. And honestly, he only confessed to save others from being suspected, in my opinion.

[He shakes his head.]

I wonder how he was able to kill, and yet wasn't a staff member himself? Isn't that quite the strange thing?

[liven]

It is. It had to have been allowed by either the staff or yet another of those "six people". But I find it difficult to believe the six people would allow Franziska to perish.

[selfdenying]

Some of those six people tried to get someone to kill Bigby this morning, or do you not remember that? Apparently, they're just as bad as staff if they're allowing innocent people to murder others without a single care in the world.

[liven]

No, I do, but at least with Bigby there's some cause. [ a pause. ] No offense, Bigby. But you at least have some remotely suspicious qualities. Franziska didn't seem at all likely to be Staff to me, and if their supposed goal is to "work against" Staff, they ought to be targeting likely Staff members.

So, I think there were people more likely than Franziska for that.

[selfdenying]

So, what, do we have Staff, Staff's Best Friends Forever, Weird Vigilantes, Doctors R Us, and some other people we don't know about? Is that the gist of it?

[liven]

No. Or perhaps, I don't know which groups you're assigning those names to.

[ she sits up straight, because OF COURSE SHE IS ON THE BED, now crosslegged. ]

Here is what we know. We have one doctor, previously two; that sole person can now presumably defend people at night...if they pick correctly. We have two people who can arm a third party, and we do not know if they might accidentally arm a Staff member or not. We also do not know how much contact they have with the people they arm; what Kei said was vague, and they could communicate in person or through other means. The third group of the six is two members with an unknown function. They might have been responsible for Franziska and Adam, but that seems to similar to the function of the group that armed Kei, so I would hazard a guess they do something else entirely.

[ as to the staff: ]

The staff now numbers four, do they not...? And they can act at night, and control the cuffs. They do not know the identities of the people working against them. We can assume the six do not know Staff identities either. This means that of course they might manage to kill staff, but that they can kill us...or protect them. It's a bit of a mess.

[puffing]

They obviously used Adam as some kind of scapegoat to do their work for them. Like Kei. Don't be so happy you guessed right. Staff was pretty hopeful in thinking he would take the spotlight.

[ and in that same light: ]

Also means that they aren't going to kill you because of it. You pissed Adam off, not the rest of them. You'll probably live another day. Maybe.

[liven]

I agree, but I think it's for the best he's dead. He was a distraction who wasn't going to work with any of us any longer because of our great crime of "murdering" a staff member.

[puffing]

Yeah, I know. He pretty much clocked out, either because of Luke or because he killed Franziska and was satisfied with that. Guilty is guilty.

[ even if he's guilty of a kill as well. that's a different conversation. ]

[liven]

He made his choice. He did not have to kill her. He woke with her and a baton. That woman wouldn't have killed him, I do not think. She truly did want to protect all of us, though she was foolish about it.

They could have sat and waited for morning. Instead, he killed her. It's one thing to do that, but I didn't care for his rhetoric. He saw himself as a "hero" at the end.

[puffing]

I don't know. I'm sure the staff was intent on seeing one of them die. Could have very well been a kill-or-be-killed situation. If that's the case, Adam had even less of a reason not to do what he did.

[ he's all for killing under the right causes, okay. Bigby's done it here and he's done it more than enough back in Fabletown. ]

Mm. The only thing I didn't like was how confident he was that we were all fucking up. You obviously had the right idea from the get-go, but I guess people had a problem with believing things to be too expected.

[liven]

He simply didn't want to admit that Alice and Alfendi and I were correct that he was a killer. And everyone else who concurred...but if he wanted to die believing he'd pulled the wool over our eyes or whatever, what of it. At least he won't be a nuisance any longer. He was only going to be a liability with his mindset at the end.

[ shijima is a dick, news at eleven ]

And perhaps the staff was intent on that. However, he still chose to play their game. I do not think much of that.