DAY TEN

[judgejudy]

DAY 10 (morning) Complex Population: ??? It's 8AM, and you wake from that deep, dreamless sleep that enforces curfew as always. There's breakfast avaliable in the cafeteria if you want it, as well as meals from 11AM-12PM and 7PM-8PM, but otherwise? The viewing stage is open. It seems that someone was busy during the night. — This post is for the second day as defined in the schedule. This post is for investigation and general mingling before the trial that takes place in the afternoon IC. ic rulebook character statuses character profiles private conversations graveyard

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[adlucem]

I imagine they knew Elizabeth was a threat.

[Considering the way the last trial went down, it should've been obvious that she'd be targeted. Leo was a shitty bodyguard even when it was his dearest friend he was guarding (and he had both feet), but he can't help feeling like there was more they could've done to protect her. He's disappointed, but not exactly surprised.

Bigby, though... Leo shakes his head.]

I don't know about Bigby, but... maybe someone found out he was staff. [One of them is the Overseer, after all. They can't forget that.]

None of them should be, Alice.

[except rhys]

[selfsufficiency]

[Alice grits her teeth.

Elizabeth was an obvious threat to the staff members and the Overseer - but for both her and Bigby to go down in the same night? There's obviously something else at work here. Seething, she turns her head in the direction of the viewing stage and the operating theater.]

Why didn't that idiot protect her?! What was he doing?!

[adlucem]

["Trying to kill her?" Leo wisely does not suggest. He can tell the difference between hate-anger and "I care too much" anger.]

You'll have to ask him that yourself, when you can. [He's assuming they won't be able to contact the dead(?) before the trial, because that would be way too convenient. TFLN: Who Killed You Deda] Did you tell him to?

[Protect Liz, that is. Alice doesn't really make requests, but if she'd "asked" anyone to watch over Elizabeth, Bigby likely would've seemed a good choice.]

[selfsufficiency]

What?

[The question actually snaps Alice out of it for a few moments. She realizes then that he thought she meant Bigby, and she shakes her head.]

No, not him. The... the idiot I was found with.

[She puts a hand to her head.]

She was a target. She was so obviously a target. So why...?

[adlucem]

[Ah, yes. Guy. Leo's a little disappointed about his death, too; he's the reason Leo's able to get around at all, even slowly. And the announcement said he was medical staff, so...]

Was he protecting you instead?

[selfsufficiency]

[She glances at the operating theater again and her brow furrows.]

...I can't... remember, exactly. My head's sort of fuzzy. But there was someone else there, so he might have been...

[Fuzzier than she really likes, clearly - but there doesn't seem to be much about this whole situation that she likes. Two of her roommates are dead and one of them was a staff member. The last member of the medical team is dead. There is literally nothing good about this.]

...you're sure? You're really sure the announcement said that he was part of the medical team?

[adlucem]

[Leo nods. That's not really surprising either. All they can do is hope that her memory comes back in time for the trial, but... not at the expense of her life.]

Yes. I heard it clearly. [He couldn't exactly get down in there to chat with Alice, so he didn't have much choice but to listen.] Like Dojima said, it mentioned Elizabeth as part of a "think tank". Whatever that's supposed to mean.

[selfsufficiency]

What kind of idiot would choose to protect me...?! I can look out for myself!

[Except if the position of the bodies when people found them was any indication, Guy was the one doing the looking out.]

[adlucem]

So could Elizabeth.

[She did pull a hidden scalpel on Luke, after all.]

How well you can protect yourself doesn't seem to matter here. Adam said Franziska only fought back "a little". I doubt that was a personal choice. [He sighs, lifting a hand to rub his eyes, behind his glasses.] He probably thought Elizabeth already had people protecting her. She should've.

[selfsufficiency]

[Alice groans, bringing her other hand up to her forehead.]

He was... if he was part of the medical team, then protecting people was his job. He should have protected her...

[She will absolutely hold a grudge against a dead guy for letting Elizabeth die.]

[adlucem]

She probably would've said the same about you. [Elizabeth definitely gave off "big sister" vibes, even around Alice.] The best we can do now is catch the Overseer for her, and make them pay.

[Granted, Alice will probably want revenge on the person who personally killed Elizabeth first, but... well, who's around to stop her from getting her torture on now?]

[selfsufficiency]

[LITERALLY NO ONE. Torture ahoy.]

They will really, really regret what happened last night...

[adlucem]

Save it for after the trial.

[A.k.a. don't get agitated and bleed out all over the floor, please. They kinda need you.]

[selfsufficiency]

...don't tell me what to do.

[But she at least doesn't get right up and start demanding to know who killed Elizabeth and Bigby, so that's. Something, at least. She's sort of listening to him.]