Week 0

[productions]

Who: Designated Killers and Mastermind
What: Assignments
When: Early Morning, Sunday

[Early this morning, several guests will be awoken before 6 AM by a loud alarm ringing in their room. Lying on their desk will be a telegram, signed The Producer, instructing them to go immediately to the billiards room.

Once they arrive at the billiards room, they will find the door in the back open. They will then be able to proceed into the smoking room, where others await.]

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[speakveryclearly]

[Kanaya slides in perhaps the earliest and already dressed properly - there are benefits to her speed. She has one of those hats with a veil, now, and her clothes notably are selected to completely cover her decolletage. She finds a corner to wait in.]

How strange that this door isn't locked anymore... why do I have a terrible feeling its opening is related to a morbid part of the "game" we're going to be playing?

[vytis]

[Lithuania is fairly early--this isn't that much different from his normal schedule for waking up, really. This is a fair bit earlier than they were told to meet last evening, though...]

Ah--hello...?

[pasodoble]

( Breaking the early-bird and on-time combo, Spain will most likely arrive later than most. Who wakes up before 6AM when there aren't any fields to harvest? It doesn't help that his sleep this night wasn't as sound as he'd expected it to be. Whine, whine, nag, nag.

Though dressed, he's still bleary eyed and it looks like he didn't even bother to brush his hair before coming down. )

Am I late?

[aozaki]

Aah, so that's what this room was for!

[Touko's been moseying around outside the smoking room yesterday wondering what was inside, ok.

...

now scanning it for actual tobacco or something she can legitimately smoke, because reasons.]

Is this an early preview? We're certainly getting into the spirit of things, haha.

[vytis]

[Once everyone is accounted for, Lithuania moves--finding a spot by the fireplace where he can easily be seen. Far from his earlier, nervous behavior, he seems quite confident now, as if he'd flipped some sort of switch in his mind.]

It seems like everyone's here now, so please listen carefully! I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, but I needed to make sure everyone got here. I'm the Producer--the one who called you all here, and the one in charge of this game.

The five of you have been selected specially to make sure the game runs smoothly for everyone. Pay attention, alright? We need to make sure there's a murder every week for our audience to watch--if none of our other contestants step up, it will be up to one of you to do so instead. We'll be giving you a bit of an extra incentive to ensure you have a good reason, so if none of you cooperate, you'll all lose.

If one of you commits a murder and is killed, you'll lose your incentive--however, if you win, you get your prize, instead. That makes sense, right?

[speakveryclearly]

[Seeing Sonia about to faint is the breaking point for this girl. Lithuania has already finished talking with Kanaya; she shifts from lost in thought to directed at the others.]

I feel like I should inform you... I do intend to play this game. The incentive I've been offered - it's not just larger than myself, it's as large as my species. Refusal in this case... would be the morally wrong thing to do, to me. [The edge seems to indicate that the double meaning there is perhaps not entirely unintentional.]

If any of you are unable to do this yourselves, even now... I understand that. I know not everyone has that capacity. I also know some of you are very strongly affected by what you were shown, if not entirely swayed. Failure isn't what I want for the rest of this group either...

What I'm making here is a promise to be at least one of us who'll take drastic action when it becomes necessary.

[aozaki]

[inspired by above...

Touko came in with her glasses, but she doesn't have them now, clipped at the V-cut of her shirt between steep valleys. She's smoking too - this IS a smoking room, deal with it.]

Objectively speaking, we're contracted as "fail-safes": final resorts, in case no other contestant steps up to act. Some of you clearly started out unwilling before you received your individual terms, a number of you are also no doubt inexperienced. Don't take it as a slight, we merely need to assess the entire group's strength first, mental and physical. Willpower is nice, but concrete experience would be far more preferable.

That said.

Who's killed before, and isn't squeamish about doing it again? This isn't the time to be modest. We'll likely face the most amount of reluctance on the first week, unless the prize is good enough to catch a bold person's eye. The odds are still high, however, and I'd propose those with already dirty hands step up first.

[vytis]

{After giving the group a little time to talk among themselves, Lithuania speaks up again.]

Miss Aozaki has brought up a very good point--because it's so early on in our game, there's a fairly high chance our other contestants may be a bit hesitant. Therefore, we would like one of you to volunteer now to cover this week in case it becomes necessary. You can decide among yourselves, of course.

((OOC: Whoever volunteers, please fill this form out by Monday night!))

SATURDAY, POST WEEK-ONE EXECUTION - 6AM

[vytis]

[It's early in the morning when the designated killers are called into the smoking room again. Lithuania is waiting for them this time, hands folded neatly in his lap. He waits until everyone is assembled before he begins speaking.]

Good morning. I'm sorry to call you so early, but I just wanted to remind you of your roles. You didn't have to use them last week--the trial was exciting, right?--but because we still may need you this week, I've gathered you all together here so you can discuss who will be volunteering to commit a murder this week if none of our other contestants do so.

((OOC: Remember to reply here if your character is volunteering this week!))