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Who: Designated Killers
When: Sunday evening / Monday morning
What: Emergency Meeting

[It's after midnight in the rooms of all of the designated killers when a clock bells goes off, quietly enough not to be heard in other rooms but loud enough to wake them. Their closet door has been left slightly open. In the back of the closet, instead of wood paneling, is a door in the wall. They may climb through - it's a tight fit, even with everyone's size - and will find a narrow stone passageway, leading straight up. There's a ladder to climb up about a story. The Dragon wing residents will find themselves emerging from a trapdoor into a tiny stone room, dimly lit. It looks almost like a hidden cell. Feferi will have to crawl on her hands and knees down a narrow tunnel until she herself can emerge into the cell.

Inside, the Host is standing against the wall. There is a sitting area with a blanket laid out on the floor to make the place more homey, and a small candle is set on the ground to provide some light, but it's not the most comfortable place. It's dark, drafty, dusty, and you can hear rats scampering nearby. But there is a tea set with hot tea and four cups set out for them.

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[lullabytes]

[ Nanami comes out in time to hear that, still dressed in her pajamas.

When she spots the blanket, she comes over and then reaches out to pour the tea into the four waiting cups. ]

...Someone else might go. Most of these deaths have not been at our hands.

[ She holds out the cups, one at a time, to the others. ]

[tyrian]

Chiaki! [Feferi looks incredibly worried, of course.] You can't just encourage the others to kill you!

[lullabytes]

...If it's for the sake of you guys living on, that's worth dying.

[ At this rate, getting away with the murders yet to come... ]

...At any rate, at least everyone is okay. [ AT LEAST THE OTHERS ARE JUST...guarding them, not killing them. ]

[tyrian]

I want you to keep living, too! You haven't done anything wrong! [She hasn't attempted to murder someone or anything!]

[lullabytes]

...I also...want to keep living on with everyone. [ That's the first time she's actually admitted that sort of thing in a designated killer meeting, isn't it. ] I can't leave in the same way everyone else can, I think, but at least...I don't want to disappear and leave Host-kun all alone. He's family.

Anyway, what we have to focus on right now is surviving the week. And then...the week after that. The same small steps as ever. They figured it out because we never want to give up on one another, but...I want to continue being that sort of group.

[tyrian]

I won't vote for any of you in trials. I don't care what people think. [It probably won't even mean anything, but it's something to do.] There has to be a way to save you. You're not a villain.

[lullabytes]

...I am who I was made to be. But...at this point, I do not think revealing ourselves through the votes really...matters...

...that report was fairly comprehensive. So, standing together...I'd prefer it to standing alone.

[tyrian]

I won't abandon you. I'll carry you everywhere so they can't drop the floor out from under you if I have to! Well, if Kuzuryuu doesn't beat me to it! [She tries to smile, to maybe cheer Nanami up a bit.]

[lullabytes]

[ It does get a smile back in return. They're sitting in a drafty, dark, dusty room. Candlelight plays on all four faces, and the Host standing ever quietly, watching them.

But there's a blanket. A candle. Hot tea. And they're talking about saving one another.

These people are all very dear to her, and these simple things make it ever clearer why. ]

...I'll never give up on any of you, either. Nor will I leave your side so long as I am able to stand by you.

[tyrian]

Then together we'll figure something out. [She wants to believe that. She can believe that, if she tries hard.] We just won't do anything unless we absolutely have to and work on figuring out a way for us to all get out okay in the meantime. It's not like the others aren't playing.

Maybe we could have Kuzuryuu and Apollo shout so loud all the microphones and cameras in the castle break and work from there!

[derepressed]

Feferi-san is right!

[lullabytes]

...Yeah. I won't do it again, then.

[ She already got a few of them to promise anyway ALTHOUGH THEN AUSTRIA LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN TO SAVE...HER...

the first time the mafia works against one another and it's to stop one of them from getting killed. guys, really. ]

[derepressed]

Thank you...

[Nanami's just not allowed to die, okay? Okay.]

[lullabytes]

...None of you are permitted to throw away your lives, either.

[derepressed]

[It's not throwing it away if it's for a good reason, right...]

We may have to take risks, though. That's... something we knew when we didn't immediately reject the incentives we were provided with at our first meeting.

[lullabytes]

...Yeah. As long as everyone does their best to live on together, risks...of course they're going to have to be taken.

[ Unless the others somehow take down the game before the last two dks have to go but IT BEING A MURDER GAME... ]

Still, at least they were not wrong about it, you know? We are in this together. For better or worse I will not give up on any of you.

[derepressed]

We won't give up on you, either. Not ever.

[derepressed]

[She takes a cup but doesn't sip from it - she merely stares down at it.]

If someone else goes, and... does something to put one of us on the suspect list, like Kagamine-san did with the white hair... no one will ever believe it wasn't us.

What do we do..?

[lullabytes]

...No, that's not...entirely true, is it?

[ Nanami almost sounds surprised, but. ]

Maribelle-chan. Glinda-san. Austria-san, Athena-san...even Apollo-san, though I think he'll never understand it...they'll listen if we have real objections to not having done it.

[ Which isn't to say that they won't hella nail them if they do, but... ]

...Also, if we show up on the list when we haven't done anything and when we're under guard, I think our alibis will rather be provided for us.

[derepressed]

...I guess that's... true.

[She's a little unsure about Apollo, but that's mostly a knee-jerk reaction to him being the one to present Sebastian's theory... even though Sebastian was the one who thought it up. Sigh.]

Who should we pair up with...? Is there anything we can do that would make it safer for everyone, somehow..?

[lullabytes]

Apollo-san was the one who finally agreed to go into Bakura-kun's room. After everyone else was saying you did that. He's...I do not think he will ever understand this group, but I also think that he will never allow us to be killed in a trial when we have done nothing wrong, simply because this group exists.

[ Prob...ably. ]

I'm not sure who we should pair up with. But, I don't see any reason to interfere with what they decide. I expect...the volunteers will be the people who care about us most, or who are most worried. I do not think there is anything we can do to make it more or less safe.

[impheired]

That jackass...he definitely doesn't understand. And he never will. That much was fucking obvious to me just hearin' him talk at the end of Kagamine's trial. But I can't say he's not named inappropriately, he wants to see justices served as much as anybody. He wouldn't just hang one of us without the evidence to back it up.

[lullabytes]

...Yeah. I don't think he truly believed it was Rin-san, but since we refused to back down, he agreed to go and check.

[impheired]

If he really was suspicious of us before that trial...maybe he thought that us tryin' so hard to protect Yukimura was more proof that she did it...

[lullabytes]

...Probably. It would explain some of why they seemed to think Yukimura-san going down three stories and specifically enacting a plan where she had absolutely no alibi would make more sense than Rin-san doing it, when she had only asked Austria-san if she could room with her that night, and had the best and earliest chance to take Fujisaki-san.

[ Though they really were defending her because she was innocent. ]