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

[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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Then we make sure the staff can't rally anymore to their cause.

[ She thinks calculative, wondering if this is how Rosalind Lutece had to look at situations before she made a damn city fly into the atmosphere. She hopes, in some weird way, she's making her proud. ]

I believe Ciel has something to hide - perhaps the one who equipped Kei? He can't seem to fight his own battles, after all.

[ Despite Alice going forth and sounding ominous with the protection line, Elizabeth agrees. ]

Painting a target on our backs for pushing the subject after Adam confesses... it would be bad, yes. So, we play off each other. It's like poker - wait for them to show their bluff and then call it.

Whatever the case, there's nothing to do but watch and wait and refine our arguments until the next time. And hope that the lot of us survive to trial once more, I suppose. We cannot actually rely on one of us waking and killing the threat on the regular.

[ UNFORTUNATELY. ]

...that's true.

[Alice imagines that after Kei's botched assassination gave Bigby the chance to kill him instead, anyone else who gets sent out to do their own killing will be instructed to go for the lethal blow immediately. It's how she would do it, after all, if she was the one doing the killing.]

The stabbing woke him up, but I don't think we have the resources to keep patching ourselves up even if we could rig something to drop at a certain time of night and stab one of us so we'd be awake...

[Alice?? that's extreme.]

I'd say we should set up a trap for intruders, but if Judy works for those people and monitors us, she might tell them about it. It might be worth doing anyway.

We can't even tell how she's monitoring us, can we? Tch. If there were visible cameras, we could cover them up...

[He shakes his head.]

But a trap doesn't sound half bad, anyways. Maybe throw some pins on the floor before the door so the morons can step on them if they enter...

The worst that could happen would be whatever-it-is not working. We could also set something up to fall on anyone who opened our door from the outside...

[ the grin she gets indicates she would. want to pour something dreadful on them. so. ]

...something really smelly from the kitchens. Really smelly, the kind of thing that won't come out with just a single wash.

If one of us turns up dead, we can try and see if any of the scent is lingering on anyone.

There's also "liquid nitrogen", though I don't pretend to know the details of how that works. But it's lethal, isn't it?

[ someone interrupt this idea ]

I've never heard of it before, but it can't hurt to find out.

[please someone stop them]

The bird liked science. It's meant to freeze things solid...or whatever. A fitting punishment for breaking into a room, I think.

[ go hard ]

...ooh. ♡

[This is an approving "ooh". It's the kind of "ooh" that implies that she would like to go right back out there and go get some, except, you know, curfew.]

Let's see if we can get it, then, and try to rig it up over the door before we go to bed tomorrow night.

[ their roomies have like the rest of the night to stop this plan IF NOT...I GUESS...WE HAVE TO TELL THE MODS ABOUT THIS PLAN. BIGBY LIZ ALFENDI SURELY ONE OF YOU OBJECTS? or has a better idea? ]

We can request it in the morning.

Hey, now, what if it freezes the remaining doctor person? That person could enter someone's room, and if you kill the guy, then we'd be down that person for good.

[And then a shrug.]

But it's not a half bad idea, heh.

[ALFENDI NO]

Do you really think the doctor has to come into our room while we're sleeping to protect us? Because if so, that's weird. And creepy.

They have to protect a person somehow, right? What are they going to do, stand in front of someone's door and fight off whoever gets near it?

Hold - hold on a moment! Are we sure this is - this is a course of action we should take? Would paint or something else more - um... not deadly work better? If anything happened, would it shift blame to us..?

[There's a pause, like he's remembering something.]

...

Right, paint would probably work better. Though I can't say liquid nitrogen would be less fun to see...

Do we have paint to use? We at least know we have nitrogen.

Alfendi..? Do you still have it?

[ uh about that paint.... ]

Apparently I do.

[Just bends down and fishes out two cans of blue paint, two cans of red paint, and one can of yellow paint from under the couch and just shrugs, like it wasn't even a big deal he was hiding paint in the first place.]

I've got all the paint you need. Thank the other guy for getting it.

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They might shower the paint off, but if we look for people who took showers, that might also be something, I suppose? I still think my solution is more permanent, but...

They'd have to wash their clothes too, you know. It's not like we were all provided with a change of clothes, so that could be worth noting.

[He shakes his head.]

Ah, so we might catch them that way. Who knows, they might have something up their sleeves, though.

Even so...isn't catching them dead better than catching them alive, perhaps?

[ she just wants to pour nitrogen on someone. ]

True, but what if staff finds out and they get some poor hapless sap into the deal and freeze them? Then we'd be blamed for a murder that we technically committed, no?

Very well...but we will set up the paint trap?

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