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Who: Gundam Tanaka and Susan Sto Helit
What: Clue solving buddies
When: Sunday Afternoon
Where: Topaz wing

[Unlike...previous times he's played this game, when Gundam gets the clue, he will go directly to Susan's room and knock. He's been keeping to himself so far since the trial, but this is something that has to be solved together, lest Susan, the Mastermind, solve the riddle before him and dispose of the clue.

It's unlikely but possible. So, without hamsters, he goes to her room and knocks.]

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[Susan will stare as Gundam carves open the clue. ...Susan will continue to stare as it is revealed.]

What is that?

[The downfalls of being nearabouts the 18th century or so.]

It is an outmoded recording device, but not one that belongs in the so-called period of this manor. How ridiculous.

[However, he'll press play.]

[The recording is muffled and most of the conversation is warped past coherency, but there are a few pieces here and there that can be made out.]

[The first bit of understandable dialogue comes from a female voice.]

--kind of incentive could you possibly be talking [...] will take a great deal more than that to buy my cooperation! [The next few minutes of conversation are muffled before the same speaker is heard again, this time sounding considerably more shaken.] How long is this game [...] for us to not get caught -- and get someone else executed [...] have to... ration out... the other contestants very carefully.

[The next few minutes of conversation are warped before a male speaker can be heard, though there's too much static to identify who exactly it is.]

--isn't a game! These are human lives. I refuse. [A minute of static passes before his voice is heard again, even more furious than before.] How dare you-- [...] them out of this; they have nothing to do with this…! [...] --happens if you die?

[The recording degenerates into muffled static for another few minutes before a new speaker is heard, this one's gender being a little more ambiguous.]

--you responsible for our arrival as well [...] incentives of yours are enough to get everyone in this room to agree to your ridiculous terms? [Again, the tape becomes muffled at this point before the same speaker is heard again, this time sounding more frantic.] Chizuru... Chizuru, Chizuru, Chizuru-- [A minute of distorted conversation passes, during which the speaker clearly gets a hold of himself, as his next words come out much flatter.] --each one of us has to commit and get away with a murder in order to [...] there be enough time for all [the word here is distorted beyond comprehension] of us to do so?

[Once again, the recording degenerates into muffled static for a while before a new woman makes herself be heard.]

--unbecoming [...] to play coy, Producer-tan. [Once more, only muffled static can be heard for the next minute until the woman speaks again, sounding unimpressed.] --understand well your terms, but can't you provide anything in the interim? It's not very fair to a smoker [...] terribly unreasonable. You want us to execute sensational murder mysteries, but get stingy with those clauses?

[At this point, the tape turns into static long enough for it to seem to be over, until the first speaker cuts in again.]

I do intend to play this game. The incentive I've been offered - it's not just larger than myself [...] Refusal in this case... would be the morally wrong thing to do, to me.

[The tape degenerates into warped static one last time. There is nothing else afterwards that can be made out.]

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Kanaya --

[After this initial outburst, Susan quiets down and listens to the rest in silence, her expression growing grim as the voices of the killers speak, one after another. When it has concluded...]

Play it again, please.

[Her tone is dull.]

Ah!

[He is also shocked by this, but his expression quickly shifts into something furious. Wordlessly, he presses play again.]

[It's the same message.]

[She has half a mind to ask him to do it over and over, all day and all night until her thoughts have sorted themselves. But after the second playing, she speaks.]

...They knew there was more to this. Kanaya, Kaoru, Touko - the fourth one must be Spain. From the very beginning, they must have known.

[A memory flashes in her mind - Touko warning Stiles about something before unceremoniously being dropped through the trap door.]

I don't doubt they were amoral people. But Kaoru warned us, too -- stronger venom is yet to come.

Yes, they were all amoral indeed. As am I. If morality requires abandoning what you would have had Kanaya Maryam abandon, then what worth is it?

[He sounds very serious this time, very little posturing.]

I have never hated a one of them for killing, though I despise some of their methods. But that one that controls the strings...it is time for that one to fall.

...Kanaya notwithstanding.

[She would not judge a child for placing her faith in pixie dust and empty promises, even if the results had been unconscionable.]

Each one of them was convinced in the end - was it simply for personal gain or was there a greater reason still? After all... we're already promised certain things each week. These four were spoken to separately - perhaps they were tasked to achieve a different goal.

[She shakes her head and stands now.]

The others should hear of this. ...Our Mastermind must already know of the existence of this evidence, regardless.

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Kanaya only? Ahaha. I cannot say I mourn Touko Aozaki or Kaoru Nagumo, nor can I say I have any sympathetic thoughts towards Spain, but it is an exceptional arrogance to claim you understand their own motives. It always was, and now even more so. I tell you that you have never grasped mine, and your confidence is unwarranted.

[He'll take the tape himself very carefully.]

...I believe we must consider this. Surely, if we were given this, this is knowledge they want us to have.

Kaoru attempted to have a ten year old girl die in his place. Touko chopped Belarus into pieces and hid her about the house while she casually smoked. Regardless of their true motivations, 'amoral' will do nicely. Even if their goal was to set us free from this game with each of us leaving with infinite riches and eternal life, their actions within its context remain grotesque.

[Susan sounds supremely unconcerned that Gundam finds her arrogant.]

I don't see that the two of us are any more special beyond that we were desperate to save May this week. We have this knowledge - the question is what we do with it.

Practically, it doesn't tell us much besides that the gears have been spinning since the very first day - perhaps, too, that there are more within our midst like these four.

As I said, I find their methods repugnant. But I do not expect all to share my values.

[I don't know, man, when it's this guy, it's sort of hard to take.]

I believe it would be best to share our knowledge...but I would first prefer to attempt to understand what their goal is in making us aware of it. So as to avoid playing into their hand.

...Alright.

[She can accept that.]

We have very little time to think before we all begin to die, if this week's incentive is to be believed.

I suppose the first possibility that comes to mind is...

The point of the game is to come together and find the Mastermind, and this Producer is encouraging us to do so. In that vein, these clues are being given to focus our efforts as there are precious few of us remaining.

This would all be quite fluffy and nice, but this week's incentive rings strange. All the previous ones have been inherently selfish in nature - this week, someone who kills could potentially be committing a selfless act. Their own life would be saved, but so, too, would everyone else's. I suppose we might be intended to work past even this to ignore the murders...

Hmm...I disagree that it is more or less selfish than other incentives. Simply because the lives saved are lives here rather than lives elsewhere...

But this message casts the killers in a light intended to be sympathetic.

No, you're right; I suppose I mean... selflessness specifically in regards to this group and in regards to the game. Rather than preying on your concern for things that matter only to you, it's in the interests of everyone this week that somebody be murdered.

[At his next comment, Susan falls silent.]

...One of those four is still with us. There's only been one male killer. The voice wasn't clear, but I don't think they would risk revealing a future killer to us this way.

Spain has always hinted that there's been more.

I despise Spain for my own reasons [BULLFIGHTING] and yet I have never borne him ill will specifically for his actions. There was nothing dishonorable in the manner he chose to make his kill.

Did it not truly seem as though he had no say in whether he continued? The Hostess did not appear to ask his opinion, and truly, he would have been a fool not to take the opportunity.

There is something greater he fights for.

We have no recourse but to choose to execute murderers during a trial. If we fail and the identity of the true murderer is clear, they deserve the harshest punishment we can levy - even death - to deter future murderers. If we don't do this, we've shown that we will stand by and simply accept it when people murder at their whims.

...That is, that would be the line of thought if the idea were simply to go a week without a murder. It would be a way to step outside the rules of the game and prevent the deaths from continuing.

[...Susan sighs.]

To allow an innocent to be executed in your place is more than dishonorable. It's what I can't accept most of all...

We need to talk to Spain. No doubt part of his condition is secrecy, but he's already proven willing to hint. This doesn't mean I'm willing to allow him to play as he pleases, though - he's still a danger to the rest of us.

If it were I, I would not allow an innocent executed in my place...I would ensure this by framing one who has proven willing to participate. But absent that...merely causing confusion with no specific target and allowing the assumptions of others to direct that course? We killed Latvia, not he.

...I wonder, if he is discovered, what consequences there will be. Still, I would speak to him.

...I don't know if I'd be terribly displeased if he fell through a trapdoor.

[She suddenly pauses to give a small shake of her head.]

I asked Kaoru whether or not he had tried to influence us to execute Latvia instead of Spain - he denied it, but... it seems quite likely now, doesn't it? There were a certain number of them in the room that day, and they knew who each one was.

Knowing that there could be others working on behalf of the murderer... we must be careful of those who attempt to sway the trial one direction or another. ...Perhaps that's as good a reason to tell everyone as any. [She glances to Gundam.] You, of course, must be wary of my own theories as well.

...I'll speak to Spain. Do you want to be present as well?

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I would hear what he says.

[He sounds fairly determined about it.]

It is important we come to understand what we've been told.

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