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[productions]

[At the midnight following each execution, once everyone who has died that week has awoken in the theatre, the curtains in front of the cinema screen will close for a few minutes. When they reopen, a platform with a small wooden box will have appeared on stage. The film onscreen will change from the mansion to display a brief clip featuring a film clip of a beautiful older woman, her face covered by a veil. She seems smiling and pleasant, but there's something canned about the words she's speaking.]

Good evening to all of our lovely players! My condolences on your premature departure from this exciting season of Murder Manor. Please know that your many fans are sorry to see you go. Fortunately, you're dead but not forgotten, and there's still something you can do to help play the game!

Underneath your chairs, you will find a stack of notecards and a pen. Please write down who you believe to be this week's most valuable or interesting player and put it in the box. Whoever receives the most votes will receive a prize this week that may help them survive their stay, whether it be a tool for committing the perfect crime, solving one, or defending themselves!

Now, remember, the point is not just to vote for the players you like best! After all, as in every season of Murder Manor, the viewers will ultimately be given the power to decide your fates! We hope this season will be the most exciting one yet, and the more you get our viewers talking, the more opportunities you will have to return to your homes! But if the viewers aren't impressed with your choices, your deaths will be made permanent.

So make sure to choose the most interesting players: the skilled detectives, the scheming killers, the hunky heartthrobs and the potential powerhouses! These are the players who we most expect to put on a wonderful show for our viewers! Make sure to talk amongst yourselves and decide.

And good luck!

[The screen flickers back to the castle. You'll have until the start of each week to vote before the podium vanishes again.]

Comments

[ladyofthehouse]

I think we should sponsor Herr Michaelis.

[perfectstrike]

After what he did to the young master and the others? Absolutely not.

[ladyofthehouse]

Even if he had no intentions of killing when he revealed he can't lie to the lawyer collective, his hands are completely tied now with his card confirming it. [A small victory of Austria's trial.] He won't be going after them himself.

Besides. If there's anyone who would get a useful item, it would be him.

[perfectstrike]

No. I don't trust him not to find a loophole that will enable him to harm the young master. That 'group' you all suspect he is part of? Michaelis is the one who revealed its existence. You may vote as you wish, but I will never aid that -- [she almost says 'man,' but he's not a man, he's a demon] -- thing in any way.

[Mostly she just wants him dead, though. So giving him a useful item that might save his life is definitely not something she'll support.]

[ladyofthehouse]

[No. Austria wants Sebastian to live a nice. Long. Life.

Forever remembering how completely wrong he was about everything here for eternity.

This may be the most passive aggressive attempt at a sponsorship yet.]

[bigthings]

I wanna give it to Kaoru. He broke the dumb shitty murder game we were in last time, maybe he can do it again. [via supermurder...]

1/2

[ladyofthehouse]

...I thought we were all in different seasons.

[Not that she is aware of what happened in season 40 or blank state.]

2/2

[ladyofthehouse]

Herr Nagumo, did such a thing?

[She's not unopposed, just. A little surprised Kaoru ever manages to do much of anything with how he tends to waffle around.

Although there was a distinct change in him at her trial.]

[bigthings]

No, it's still summer, right? [DOESN'T...UNDERSTAND ANY OF THIS TBH...] And I'm talkin' about this other dumb murder mystery shit with shitty ass guilt demons that totally possessed you now that I think about it.

Anyway, that whole lame boring nice guy Kaoru's just an act. He's actually a lot like Barf Face underneath it, he's just waaaay better at fakin' it.

[ladyofthehouse]

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. But at this point I'd believe it. [Possessed... sure why not. Kouha's nothing if not honest.]

In any case.

What exactly did he do to break this other thing we were all in?

[bloomnobly]

[ Yuyuko has a sinking feeling she's going to regret agreeing with this. like, she's fine with kaoru supermurdering the host or producers tbh...BUT NOT ANYONE ELSE, THAT'S A HUGE RISK ]

...and it also appears he has made his way onto the lower lists as well.

[bigthings]

See? See? That's what happens when you fake being super boring for too long. He should have shed that act ages ago, I told him he was way more interestin' without it.

[bloomnobly]

At least this time I managed to partially see through it... [ HIS CRAZY EYES FINALLY MAKE SENSE she's quite happy she didn't get played like a fiddle this time, even if it was her untimely death that got it cut short ]

I would be tempted to say 'I hope he doesn't use this sponsorship to kill another and play into the producer's hands', but he doesn't seem the type to take this particular incentive. [ as if he would give a fuck ]

[ladyofthehouse]

His... odd. Relationship with his sister would make me rather concerned to give him anything if he's really that... awful as you're implying.

[At least Sebastian doesn't give a crap about anyone equally.]

[bloomnobly]

[ inb4 FREAKY INCEST SHIT kouha get out of here ]

How so? A valid enough concern, but why the relationship specifically?

1/2

[ladyofthehouse]

Frau Yukimura is very... ah. What's the word I'm looking for.

[...]

Squishy?

2/2

[ladyofthehouse]

And given the stress and obligations of her role, I don't think arming someone who's been pretending to be someone he's not and possibly lying to her this whole time, is a particularly good idea.

[Just look at what Spain did to her. And she's a hard ass.]