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fashionfever) wrote2020-08-14 11:56 am
fashionfever) wrote2020-08-14 11:56 am
15 Strangers Round 3 Thread Tracker
With her memories starting after an uncomfortable conversation at the hospital, Angela readily believes she has wandered into an unfamiliar handsome man's bedroom after a masquerade party: C. "Seto" Rosenkreuz turns out to be one of her two assigned roommates along with the Baku. Venturing into the hallway, she attempts to inform the even more historically displaced Passe about the lack of telecommunication reception. She sets up a booth of coffee, serving C (of the domain), Barbara, Jonathan, Yurick (who was looking for tea), and Molly. Despite her attempts to make a brave face of things, Angela ultimately has little more than confusion to offer when she meets the belligerent young adult Commander, Marie.
Come Monday, Angela investigates weapons storage and identifies Akira as a high school student. On Tuesday, she uses the pins and shears to present Greco-Roman bedsheet dresses to Vita and Molly. On Wednesday, she's caught by surprise seeing Nagisa also in the kitchen and makes sure to share with him spaghetti.
The bulk of the day is dedicated by Akira to a meeting, with elaborate cutesy individualized invitation notes. To fit the image, Angela tries once again to make mediocre coffee and shill her bedsheet dresses/togas to Akira. Angela debates with C that murder is truly inevitable or escape-related; Molly chimes in on her lateral thinking. Ultimately, the meeting is driven by Akira's announcement that he was in another murdergame "in the mall", demonstrating the importance of working together to keep the survivor pool big, and not succumbing to the motives they will be offered. Angela steers the conversation into motives not being taken; Naoya, C, and Baku express pessimism about the nature of life, while Akira simply bleakly reports that all three motives in the mall were acted upon. Angela much prefers "Johnny's" idea that attacking a humanoid is inherently repulsive. "Rosenkreuz" voices a preference for said form of address; when he proposes self-introductions, Angela eagerly takes her turn.
The evening after the meeting, Angela corners Molly . Identifying modern knowledge as one of her few strong points, on Thursday she shows Johnny a VHS about Chicago. On Sunday, Passe approaches her to help his technological problems again. By this time, Naoya got some stuff out of the gacha, and Angela manages to relate to him in that they have different tastes from their respective siblings. Akira hosts another check-in, where Angela goes along with the secrecy and doesn't entirely agree with Naoya about technique. On Monday night, she gets to talk with Rosenkreuz, interested in his knickknacks and apologizing for her misunderstanding. Tuesday brings a motive that strikes her as silly but doesn't make her any calmer. By the time of the cooking contest, Angela is more interested in flirting with Rosenkreuz than freaking out about the demon Baku looming behind them. On Thursday she helps C process his regains, acquiring a green dress while one of her other outfits goes to Barbara.
Friday dawns with Angela wandering around looking forward to matinee day. After morning coffee, she wanders into the female bathroom. And uses the bathroom. And then discovers Vita Clotilde's waxy body.
Her shocked scream brings Akira; she is so panicked that when C shows up next, she feels obligated to clarify that Akira had no connection to her distress. When C asks if anyone has medical knowledge, Angela asks him to spare Rosenkreuz - which the man in question takes as a grave insult, leaving Angela immediately haunted by the incident. Jonathan is appalled and followed in by the cooler Naoya and Yurick. Barbara and Passe are shaken; Angela takes Akira's arm to get up and cling to the other two.
Because the body was discovered nude under a sheet with glitter, Molly wonders if Vita and the culprit "got freaky", which Angela rejects in a fit of temper. She tries to bring up why Vita was both stabbed in the neck and strangled; Molly points out how long exsanguination takes, Nagisa suggests COD obfuscation, Yurick doubts Marie's GLORIOUS suspect lists altogether, and Naoya (to Akira's shock) is eager to answer Angela's request for a "creepy" answer.
Jonathan agrees with Angela's reminder that according to Akira the motives always got answers; soon enough, Akira falters at Jonathan's question. Angela suspects he wanted to save someone—but Akira provides an explanation, that Vita invited him and attacked him, even leaving a scar, so he chased her down feeling responsible for neutralizing the threat to the others. (He also confirms the existence of a "saboteur" who planted evidence.) Yurick then slaps Akira to start a new conversation about the foolishness of trust; when Angela snaps that mistrust is exactly what got them into this mess, he writes her off as knowing nothing about betrayal, which cuts Angela deeply as a mistreated divorcee. Nagisa volunteers to be voted out instead, feeling guilty that Akira thought the motive would also benefit Nagisa's canonmate who was in the mall; but Rosenkreuz and Angela point out Nagisa's intelligence and cooperativeness. This reveals that Rosenkreuz's harsh stance is ultimately compatible with Angela's perspective: Akira made the wrong choice to handle Vita's letter all by himself, but the catalyst was a tragic sense of responsibility. Yurick opposes voting for Nagisa on the grounds that he is a child... whom Angela points out is one year younger than Akira. Baku chimes in that sin is universal in humans. Angela is disgusted by this allegation, and also by the actions of a third party against Vita's corpse.
The vote is called. Accepting cooperativeness as the deciding factor, Angela makes a speech and votes for Akira. Baku ignores it, Jonathan and Barbara are comforted, and she tries to engage with C. Akira's execution is a numbing shock. Angela hosts an afterparty; she even tries to strike conversations about the regains, scoring an actual cassette off the catatonic Barbara. She puts sauce on Nagisa's pasta, which stirs him to life enough that he suggests studying self-defense. Passe brings the group Vita's self-aggrandizing letter - without context for anything more than personal necromancy, Angela cannot accept her feelings at all. Shaken by the events, she buries her feelings in eggplant and is chastised by C, informed about the existence of girly video games by Naoya, and helped by Hitsugaya.
The motive is power. Naoya hosts a meeting, where Angela attempts to expand her worldview and argue that some people in serious supernatural crises may find the motive tempting. Interaction is encouraged in Wednesday's egg minigame. Angela meets Naoya and Kazuyegg, Passe and Rose, and sets up a booth to make clothes for Nagisa's Tamako and Jonathan's grant; C has a request of a dress for himself. Rosenkreuz eschews the challenge to share information about progesterone in the environment, which leads him and Angela to tease Johnny. While she can tell he doesn't resent her outright anymore, Angela still has a strong desire to make up and has been working on making him a large-holed tank top to accommodate his arm-
On Thursday, she catches Jonathan drawing his parents.
Sleeping poorly, Angela makes for the art room where she hears the elevator in use. She checks the lab (for Rosenkreuz!), then gets a breakfast iced tea at the bar. The unfortunate announcement of the victim's identity goes out at this time; Angela informs the others about the elevator and investigates then reports the condition of the women's bathroom. Becoming seriously stressed out, she heads for the den and listens to Barbara's cassette tape. The girl in question is lured in and alarmed by Angela's volatile mental state. They gather in the evening for a seance that, to Angela's frustration, is completely ineffective, though Angela and C talk Rosenkreuz and medicine.
In the trial, aside from Molly's kinky theory, Angela opens by questioning the pile of knifes with relatively little blood, preexisting suspicion of Baku interacting with his shell ability. She then puts forth the theory that the "saboteur" planted the knives. Jonathan questions Molly about understanding electricity; Angela chimes in that Molly defending himself from electrocutor Rosenkreuz is theoretically possible. Naoya reveals that he has an unusual condition. Getting worked up about the theory that a non-suspect bled on the knives, Angela strips (to underwear), causing an enormous commotion, bothering Marie.
As time begins to run out, Angela snaps out of her suspicion of Baku to recall that Naoya was a nimble fighter in his quarrel with Jonathan the previous week. The strangers begin to corner him and defend Molly; Angela coarsely pursues the angle that Naoya wore a robe "because of something wrong", that someone (like Naoya) left the crime scene separate from the body discovery party, and that he kicked Rosenkreuz who was already willingly sitting in the water. She explains her vote; Jonathan hands her his rosary because he will vote for himself over the more intelligent Naoya. Angela dusts her hands after the execution. Baku throws an afterparty, where Angela is only more confused by him.
Come Monday, Jonathan has been sleeping poorly; Angela taunts him with the rosary, permanently alienated by his actions. She talks romance reality TV with Molly, investigates the library, finishes C's dress and receives a drawing of Rosenkreuz in return. Tuesday's motive begets a meeting. Wearing herself out in the fight with Baku and C over the plausibility of Marie's offer (to speak with the dead, which all three of the aggressors in the first two cases believed in; Passe's calm attitude is a relief), she is almost completely disinterested in helping Barbara with Wednesday's scavenger hunt.
Angela tears into and reports on the lab. Declared a suspect at the trial along with Barbara and Jonathan (who appeared knocked out alongside the murdered Passe), she begins to strip though it's unneeded. The double victim strikes her as cruel. Barbara and Angela discuss their alibis when questioned. Nagisa questions the layout. Yurick confesses that he took action in this case to protect Jonathan because he has been the saboteur all along, which irritates Angela though she won't get into it immediately. Marie tries to force a vote; Angela is detached and skeptical. Ultimately, Marie is executed. Angela makes Jonathan a sippy drink.
On the Tuesday without a motive, Angela sets up a yard sard and brings Naoya's geta, stabbed with needles, to the incinerator. Jonathan discovers her, and she lashes out about Yurick's crimes. Come Friday, she and Jonathan investigate Halley's bedroom. They enter a self-loathing mastermind's trial where they have to vote. They realize their memories were manipulated and they came into an environment with a war between red and white blood cells. (Angela takes the time to insinuate that a mind control power, like Yurick has, could have been involved.)
The area begins to rumble; Angela consults C and Nagisa for advice about using her healing powers and piloting a mecha suit. Halley arrives, and Angela chimes in briefly on her frustration with getting absorbed by the floor, the truth that Marie toyed with them and died. When the vote is called, Angela says no, Halley was only exploited; as much as Halley debates this reasoning, C "verbally plus one[s Angela's] real life comment".
A giant robot full of the dead arrive. (It wasn't even soul cubes...) Naoya attempts to help Nagisa with the tapes; Angela is flooded with excitement to see him again but tries to stay focused. She supports Halley's travel, Baku and Passe (her friend!), Naoya who can't get drunk not so much. This thread speaks for itself. Halley moves forward, "like Rapunzel in Tangled". Out they go into the light. Angela hugs Molly in relief, though she doesn't take kindly to the "discovery" of getting drafted. Unable to take a side between the "space doctors" or the group that includes Yurick and Naoya, she returns home to her own life.
Week 1 & Week 2
Come Monday, Angela investigates weapons storage and identifies Akira as a high school student. On Tuesday, she uses the pins and shears to present Greco-Roman bedsheet dresses to Vita and Molly. On Wednesday, she's caught by surprise seeing Nagisa also in the kitchen and makes sure to share with him spaghetti.
The bulk of the day is dedicated by Akira to a meeting, with elaborate cutesy individualized invitation notes. To fit the image, Angela tries once again to make mediocre coffee and shill her bedsheet dresses/togas to Akira. Angela debates with C that murder is truly inevitable or escape-related; Molly chimes in on her lateral thinking. Ultimately, the meeting is driven by Akira's announcement that he was in another murdergame "in the mall", demonstrating the importance of working together to keep the survivor pool big, and not succumbing to the motives they will be offered. Angela steers the conversation into motives not being taken; Naoya, C, and Baku express pessimism about the nature of life, while Akira simply bleakly reports that all three motives in the mall were acted upon. Angela much prefers "Johnny's" idea that attacking a humanoid is inherently repulsive. "Rosenkreuz" voices a preference for said form of address; when he proposes self-introductions, Angela eagerly takes her turn.
The evening after the meeting, Angela corners Molly . Identifying modern knowledge as one of her few strong points, on Thursday she shows Johnny a VHS about Chicago. On Sunday, Passe approaches her to help his technological problems again. By this time, Naoya got some stuff out of the gacha, and Angela manages to relate to him in that they have different tastes from their respective siblings. Akira hosts another check-in, where Angela goes along with the secrecy and doesn't entirely agree with Naoya about technique. On Monday night, she gets to talk with Rosenkreuz, interested in his knickknacks and apologizing for her misunderstanding. Tuesday brings a motive that strikes her as silly but doesn't make her any calmer. By the time of the cooking contest, Angela is more interested in flirting with Rosenkreuz than freaking out about the demon Baku looming behind them. On Thursday she helps C process his regains, acquiring a green dress while one of her other outfits goes to Barbara.
First Case
Friday dawns with Angela wandering around looking forward to matinee day. After morning coffee, she wanders into the female bathroom. And uses the bathroom. And then discovers Vita Clotilde's waxy body.
Her shocked scream brings Akira; she is so panicked that when C shows up next, she feels obligated to clarify that Akira had no connection to her distress. When C asks if anyone has medical knowledge, Angela asks him to spare Rosenkreuz - which the man in question takes as a grave insult, leaving Angela immediately haunted by the incident. Jonathan is appalled and followed in by the cooler Naoya and Yurick. Barbara and Passe are shaken; Angela takes Akira's arm to get up and cling to the other two.
Because the body was discovered nude under a sheet with glitter, Molly wonders if Vita and the culprit "got freaky", which Angela rejects in a fit of temper. She tries to bring up why Vita was both stabbed in the neck and strangled; Molly points out how long exsanguination takes, Nagisa suggests COD obfuscation, Yurick doubts Marie's GLORIOUS suspect lists altogether, and Naoya (to Akira's shock) is eager to answer Angela's request for a "creepy" answer.
Jonathan agrees with Angela's reminder that according to Akira the motives always got answers; soon enough, Akira falters at Jonathan's question. Angela suspects he wanted to save someone—but Akira provides an explanation, that Vita invited him and attacked him, even leaving a scar, so he chased her down feeling responsible for neutralizing the threat to the others. (He also confirms the existence of a "saboteur" who planted evidence.) Yurick then slaps Akira to start a new conversation about the foolishness of trust; when Angela snaps that mistrust is exactly what got them into this mess, he writes her off as knowing nothing about betrayal, which cuts Angela deeply as a mistreated divorcee. Nagisa volunteers to be voted out instead, feeling guilty that Akira thought the motive would also benefit Nagisa's canonmate who was in the mall; but Rosenkreuz and Angela point out Nagisa's intelligence and cooperativeness. This reveals that Rosenkreuz's harsh stance is ultimately compatible with Angela's perspective: Akira made the wrong choice to handle Vita's letter all by himself, but the catalyst was a tragic sense of responsibility. Yurick opposes voting for Nagisa on the grounds that he is a child... whom Angela points out is one year younger than Akira. Baku chimes in that sin is universal in humans. Angela is disgusted by this allegation, and also by the actions of a third party against Vita's corpse.
The vote is called. Accepting cooperativeness as the deciding factor, Angela makes a speech and votes for Akira. Baku ignores it, Jonathan and Barbara are comforted, and she tries to engage with C. Akira's execution is a numbing shock. Angela hosts an afterparty; she even tries to strike conversations about the regains, scoring an actual cassette off the catatonic Barbara. She puts sauce on Nagisa's pasta, which stirs him to life enough that he suggests studying self-defense. Passe brings the group Vita's self-aggrandizing letter - without context for anything more than personal necromancy, Angela cannot accept her feelings at all. Shaken by the events, she buries her feelings in eggplant and is chastised by C, informed about the existence of girly video games by Naoya, and helped by Hitsugaya.
Week 3
The motive is power. Naoya hosts a meeting, where Angela attempts to expand her worldview and argue that some people in serious supernatural crises may find the motive tempting. Interaction is encouraged in Wednesday's egg minigame. Angela meets Naoya and Kazuyegg, Passe and Rose, and sets up a booth to make clothes for Nagisa's Tamako and Jonathan's grant; C has a request of a dress for himself. Rosenkreuz eschews the challenge to share information about progesterone in the environment, which leads him and Angela to tease Johnny. While she can tell he doesn't resent her outright anymore, Angela still has a strong desire to make up and has been working on making him a large-holed tank top to accommodate his arm-
On Thursday, she catches Jonathan drawing his parents.
Second Case
Sleeping poorly, Angela makes for the art room where she hears the elevator in use. She checks the lab (for Rosenkreuz!), then gets a breakfast iced tea at the bar. The unfortunate announcement of the victim's identity goes out at this time; Angela informs the others about the elevator and investigates then reports the condition of the women's bathroom. Becoming seriously stressed out, she heads for the den and listens to Barbara's cassette tape. The girl in question is lured in and alarmed by Angela's volatile mental state. They gather in the evening for a seance that, to Angela's frustration, is completely ineffective, though Angela and C talk Rosenkreuz and medicine.
In the trial, aside from Molly's kinky theory, Angela opens by questioning the pile of knifes with relatively little blood, preexisting suspicion of Baku interacting with his shell ability. She then puts forth the theory that the "saboteur" planted the knives. Jonathan questions Molly about understanding electricity; Angela chimes in that Molly defending himself from electrocutor Rosenkreuz is theoretically possible. Naoya reveals that he has an unusual condition. Getting worked up about the theory that a non-suspect bled on the knives, Angela strips (to underwear), causing an enormous commotion, bothering Marie.
As time begins to run out, Angela snaps out of her suspicion of Baku to recall that Naoya was a nimble fighter in his quarrel with Jonathan the previous week. The strangers begin to corner him and defend Molly; Angela coarsely pursues the angle that Naoya wore a robe "because of something wrong", that someone (like Naoya) left the crime scene separate from the body discovery party, and that he kicked Rosenkreuz who was already willingly sitting in the water. She explains her vote; Jonathan hands her his rosary because he will vote for himself over the more intelligent Naoya. Angela dusts her hands after the execution. Baku throws an afterparty, where Angela is only more confused by him.
Week 4
Come Monday, Jonathan has been sleeping poorly; Angela taunts him with the rosary, permanently alienated by his actions. She talks romance reality TV with Molly, investigates the library, finishes C's dress and receives a drawing of Rosenkreuz in return. Tuesday's motive begets a meeting. Wearing herself out in the fight with Baku and C over the plausibility of Marie's offer (to speak with the dead, which all three of the aggressors in the first two cases believed in; Passe's calm attitude is a relief), she is almost completely disinterested in helping Barbara with Wednesday's scavenger hunt.
Third Case
Angela tears into and reports on the lab. Declared a suspect at the trial along with Barbara and Jonathan (who appeared knocked out alongside the murdered Passe), she begins to strip though it's unneeded. The double victim strikes her as cruel. Barbara and Angela discuss their alibis when questioned. Nagisa questions the layout. Yurick confesses that he took action in this case to protect Jonathan because he has been the saboteur all along, which irritates Angela though she won't get into it immediately. Marie tries to force a vote; Angela is detached and skeptical. Ultimately, Marie is executed. Angela makes Jonathan a sippy drink.
Week 5 & Endgame
On the Tuesday without a motive, Angela sets up a yard sard and brings Naoya's geta, stabbed with needles, to the incinerator. Jonathan discovers her, and she lashes out about Yurick's crimes. Come Friday, she and Jonathan investigate Halley's bedroom. They enter a self-loathing mastermind's trial where they have to vote. They realize their memories were manipulated and they came into an environment with a war between red and white blood cells. (Angela takes the time to insinuate that a mind control power, like Yurick has, could have been involved.)
The area begins to rumble; Angela consults C and Nagisa for advice about using her healing powers and piloting a mecha suit. Halley arrives, and Angela chimes in briefly on her frustration with getting absorbed by the floor, the truth that Marie toyed with them and died. When the vote is called, Angela says no, Halley was only exploited; as much as Halley debates this reasoning, C "verbally plus one[s Angela's] real life comment".
A giant robot full of the dead arrive. (It wasn't even soul cubes...) Naoya attempts to help Nagisa with the tapes; Angela is flooded with excitement to see him again but tries to stay focused. She supports Halley's travel, Baku and Passe (her friend!), Naoya who can't get drunk not so much. This thread speaks for itself. Halley moves forward, "like Rapunzel in Tangled". Out they go into the light. Angela hugs Molly in relief, though she doesn't take kindly to the "discovery" of getting drafted. Unable to take a side between the "space doctors" or the group that includes Yurick and Naoya, she returns home to her own life.