(ROLE) HONOR SOCIETY...... 3!

[dormheads]

honor society.

On Monday at 6 PM, Yamato, Rita, Alphinaud, and Kon receive an encrypted e-mail.

TheRicherGood@Wiwaldi.edu

Good day. They say that idle hands are the devil's playthings, don't they? So if you'd be kind enough to entertain me, please gather at the "Bakery" at dusk.

We'd best be getting to work. Come alone, for your safety and everyone else's.

Yours,
Viola

No one is in the halls as the two of them creep to the "Bakery".

Before they knock, the door will open before their knuckles so much as touch against the surface of the door. The room is filled with the comforting and warm aroma of assorted baked goods, along with the occasional stray scent of something that doesn't belong - is that hot sauce? A table has been set off to the side, topped off with an elegant tablecloth and a vase full of fresh flowers that certainly aren't there during business hours. The table is set for teatime with a kettle full of perfectly steeped tea, dainty containers of sugar and milk, and a small tower filled with sweets this week. A lot of them look handmade!

In addition, there appears to be a few items handwritten on fine stationary in curling calligraphy, though it appears a bit shaky in sections. For your use, there also appears to be a pen, a highlighter, and a small pad of sticky notes.

» Members of the Honor Society have the following responsibilities: conduct searches for killers, assist others in completing their Extra Credit Assignments, and encouraging the exchange of vouchers for goods and services on campus.

» Each week, the Honor Society must agree upon one person to conduct a search on. They will be able to know if this person has killed, if they possess an additional role, and receive a list of every person they have conversed with over the past week.

» Members of the Honor Society will be expected to report upon their progress of assisting others with Extra Credit. If Members of the Honor Society have successfully assisted others, they will be able to receive one voucher themselves as well as additional information gleaned by the Society Director.

» Of course, the greatest organizations are meant to grow and evolve. Some weeks, you will be able to select provide a list of three to four additional candidates of who you would like to invite to join the Honor Society. Viola will approve one person's membership, limitations and growth pending.

» Outside of the Honor Society, you may not express your membership to anyone. Each week, one person outside of the Honor Society may be made aware of its existence and its membership. You must all agree on this person before telling them. However should that number be broken, grave consequences will follow.

Comments

[overlimit]

They won't say squat. But...

[SHE HATES THIS.]

I think it all goes back to that "daycare."

I argue a lot. Byleth usually doesn't. There's only one time she argued back with me, and that was when we discussed that daycare. She said it was hope, that she went through hell for it and she believed in it.

And I think that's why they do it. Because they don't believe they're really killing people. They think they're sending them to the "other side" for some important purpose.

[arcsplainist]

... Ah. Now that you mention it...

We had discussed it once, as well. Even with all my doubts, she firmly stood her ground. Even now, she still believes in helping us all—though, that help may not be the same kind the rest of us would agree with.

[overlimit]

And Otome might be the same...

[she clenches her fists, anger rising.]

Is that what she meant when she said she never killed anybody? That's the same as lying, damn it...!

[arcsplainist]

If she believes it, then to her, 'tis no lie.

[ but uh, he hates this too! ]

... But we cannot say for certain where her affiliations lie. Much of the evidence we have gathered thus far strongly points to Lux, just as it did to Byleth and Rupert. But what of Otome?

[overlimit]

It just keeps coming back to what happened to Lan Wangji. The footprints that fit her. The hint: a goose, a mother, like her. The fact that Otome knew what happened.

... Maybe she stopped going on these because she knew we were on to her. Because we told her we knew.

[arcsplainist]

And your report on her would have come in before she ever did the deed, correct?

If we want to have decisive proof, perhaps we should consider looking into Otome a second time.

[refate]

She could've targeted you guys, if that were the case. But she, and whoever she told, didn't.

Why..? [ he's obviously not arguing the point of the evidence or the hint, but. he sincerely wants to know this ] Why not target someone that was obviously going to be a threat?

[overlimit]

[...]

I don't know. When I confronted her after that trial, she said... that no matter what, she'd protect us. Me and Yamato. What the hell does that mean!?

[ghoststrums]

[ he's kept as far back possible from everyone else for a while because actually he hates emotion share week? and right now it's like the emotional equivalent of having a dark cloud in the corner of the bakery.

but he definitely pipes up: ]

Every time they've been asked why, it's been "a whim". But this week, we learned some people are going berserk and killing. Maybe it's possible their kills are preventive in some way.

[ he doesn't sound very optimistic about that, though, since... ]

But according to that note, the killers who are forced into it don't do it more than once. They "snap out of it" by the end of trial. So even if it's a case of them knowing that... there's two of them and one victim. Couldn't they incapacitate them some other way, or even have left a goddamn clue as to that being the case behind their kills this whole time, so why...?!

[arcsplainist]

[ He shakes his head, and just seems tired, in spite of his own anger towards everything. ]

'Tis as Iris says—we've been made into puppets in a horrific system, and naught but a cruel end shall appease what ever vile being has put it to motion.