(ROLE) DOCTOR WHO

[dormheads]

doctor who.

On Monday at 9 PM, Nier receives an encrypted e-mail.

middleman@Wiwaldi.edu

Meet me at the Student Health Office alone. Don't tell anyone.

Luke

No one is in the halls as Nier creeps to the Student Health Service Office. The door opens, and Luke waves him inside.

There is a trendy plastic letter board standing up on the counter which reads:

DOCTOR WHO
● DOCTOR or WHO?
● DOCTOR will spare someone from execution on Sunday, but under certain conditions. WHO? will allow the removal of a single piece of evidence. If no evidence is known, use "wildcard" to make it random.
● This choice is only active during the current week.
● You have to pick one or the other (doctor or who), not both.
● Deadline is Tuesday, 6 PM.

Comments

[darksubverted]

[Don't look. He glances away.]

...Thanks.

[amain]

I heard Fall was fussing over you.

[darksubverted]

They're dumb... But yeah.

[amain]

You love them.

[darksubverted]

No.

[amain]

They do. I can tell.

[darksubverted]

Cut it out. I'm going to knock your block off.

Don't you have something to tell me?

[amain]

Welcome back.

[ Pokes forehead. Just kidding. He'll stop. ]

The dead helped me find other people with "Additional Activities."

[darksubverted]

Stop!

[He swats gently at the hand. NIER!!!]

It took you long enough to find anyone else.

[amain]

I wasn't really encouraged to look for them.

[ Looks at Riku. ]

[darksubverted]

[It's not my fault! is what doesn't pop out of him. He makes a face, offended.]

I told you that you'd have to find them on your own.

[amain]

[ Ah. Yeah. Thoughts. I don't blame you. ]

Sorry, sorry.

[darksubverted]

[He makes another face, but it's a softer one.]

Don't apologize. You found some. It worked out.

[It's Week 6. It worked out.]

[amain]

[ He's somehow not dead and I'm wondering why. ]

Because we've been catching killers, right? But now things are a little different. [ wowww. ] They're working on looking for the last person with a role.

[ Me, watching it all happen and not sure what they will choose. ]

[darksubverted]

[Nier for endgame.]

Do you have any guesses...?

[amain]

[ kill me ]

The group thinks the dean's list might be showing us something, so I think they're going to check into those people.

[ me, laughing ]

I'm not sure who they're going to use their power. They think we should try to approach some in person—more like have other people for it for us, but it's a plan in progress?

[darksubverted]

I really don't think the Dean's List is as important as you guys make it out to be. Not when Principal Bear is the one who does that.

[He glances up, thoughtfully.]

It isn't a bad idea. If you can figure out what the role might do, maybe you can narrow it down.

But I wouldn't give up just because people aren't talking to you about it. You couldn't talk to any other people, remember? They'll have to find ways to confirm it.

[amain]

They think they got some kind of pattern out of it with the torn portraits meaning people without roles. If you think so, I can mention it, but...

[ They are sold on the dean's list, maybe. ]

Knowing what it might be able to do would make it easier. So far, it sounds like there's what I can do, then they have something that can identify others.

Most likely, this last person has something a little different than us, right?

[darksubverted]

[Their `DEAN LIST`.]

Probably. I don't know why there would be several people with the same kind of assignment who didn't already know about each other. Maybe... see if you can find strange things going on...?

Yours would be obvious... if you guys ended up not finding killers, and it worked. But people would know, right? That someone was probably helping.

[amain]

[ SUPERHELL LIST

He nods. His is more obvious to those that are aware of additional activities. ]

There's always a new addition to the school rules or something on Tuesdays, right? It seemed weird to me that there's a curse going on starting Monday each week, then something like this lags behind later. Unless that's just how this place works.

[darksubverted]

[And here I thought you were a blockhead.]

If someone is behind those, then... you're going to have to figure out who it would be. If the rest of you can't really talk about what you're doing exactly, I assume they aren't going to be willing either.

So if you're going off who seems most likely to give hints, you might be wrong.

[amain]

[ Nier squints at Riku. Thanks? ]

They'd also have to be the type that would make up those kinds of rules, right? Someone that would just decide we should all act like animals?

[ HM. THINKY. ]

[darksubverted]

Mmm. Not necessarily. You get two choices, don't you? Maybe they have choices, too?

[Thoughtful.]

They could think it's entertaining? They're good at hiding, too. So maybe... someone sneaky?

[amain]

That would make sense.

[ Nier nods. Hmm. ]

Someone sneaky. Discreet? A wallflower?

[darksubverted]

Not necessarily, but it's possible. Have you guys made a list of people you suspect?

[He peers at Nier for a long moment, thoughtful.]

Do you remember what you get if you happened to successfully save someone?