?????? 10/8

[catphone]

WHO: All of Yogen
WHAT: Something is brewin...about to begin.....
WHEN: 10/8 afternoon
WHERE: Everywhere!
WARNINGS: ┐(´ー｀)┌ Will update if needed.

[sometime in the afternoon, after the student council wraps up for the day, someone takes control of the overhead system. the voice sounds some sort of way, but it starts anyway.]

Good afternoon! I’ve decided to break up the monotony and the dreadful tones we’ve had over this past week with a little game. It’s a scavenger hunt of sorts, because I have information on some of the murders that you all haven’t figured out.

But I’m not going to just give it to you, so you’ll have to participate!

I’ll give you the first clue.

“On the rare occasion that the average detective takes a break, he needs somewhere to store his things. Small, perhaps, but he may have something deadly to hide!”

Let’s see how you do!

[the audio cuts off...

but then a message pops up on the message boards.]

u can help each other out!! but u gotta do a little bit of leg work!! u wont win just by sitting around talking 2 each other on here!!

remember: friendship is magic!!! (˶◕‿◕˶✿)

oh, oh, oh!!

You have until midnight to find me.
Fail, and face erasure of the facts.

Comments

[rearranger]

[ What indeed? His free hand grips his elbow, tapping it as he considers. If they had access to the network, then it would be a simple matter. Of course, there were the PDAs, but they didn't really seem advanced enough for much of use.

Hmmm... The start really was always the hardest, wasn't it? ]

If you can get access to the network, the rest oughta be easy. Plenty of ways to skin a cat and all that. You figured that one out yet?

[ It is, for once, a genuine question. It hadn't really sounded like it before, but he'd welcome the surprise at this point. Either way, though, it would give a decent starting point. ]

[notsosou]

[No use for anyone who couldn't keep up... that's the kind of cruelty he'd expect from them, honestly. The idea of having sympathy for Ranger feels like having a mental stone in a shoe.]

If we can just triangulate their location... everything else will just be Rue's, after all. They have to have that place they'll be waiting until midnight... if they're committed to being fair about this, anyway. Probably somewhere they can keep an eye on things too... That sort of thing's hard to resist, it looks like.

[He's been keeping a close eye on the network and whoever it was knew that Rantaro had dropped a clue on the ground... feeling of being watched intensifies. He has a hard-earned nose for these kinds of games.]

[dereban]

That's a big if, anyway. Can we actually trust their word?

[Inaba is clearly implying that yes, people can in fact, go on their PDAs and tell lies.]

Getting access to the network might be important anyway--not just for this, but, maybe for future stuff, too.

[After all, she wants to know if there are any oddities in there. She can't help but be curious.]

But getting their location should definitely be our first priority.

[rearranger]

Nope, not a bit. But there's no point in worrying about it, since you gotta accept the premise if you wanna play the game. Well, that goes for both sides.

[ Really, all games were founded on the idea of trust. However much deception and cruelty there was, there also had to be an adequate level of trust - the one running it had to trust players to see it through, and players had to believe they could achieve their goal. If you burned them one too many times, they'd stop playing... Though if he'd been doing this for as long as he'd said, perhaps he would have be adept at taking those risks. There were plenty of people who would put their lives on the line for a game.

No point in worrying about that now, either way. Ranger wasn't really playing to begin with, but just one more reason not to if it's unwinnable.

Shifting back to the idea of the network, he waves the PDA. ]

'Kay, so all that information should be on this guy, right?

[ Or at the very least, it could be possible to rig it as a hotspot or something similar; there were plenty of options. Which, Ranger assumes, means there was another issue with either connecting it or extracting information from it - it's not like there was much that could be done with the built in features. Might as well ask. ]

[notsosou]

[Ranger's hit the nail on the head. In the end they're kind of cheating, themselves, trying to shortcut this way... Shin at least has already been burnt enough to want to.]

Yep, let's hook it up.

[I've been assuming they're doing this in the workshop, so there probably is a connecting cable within easy finding and handing over reach.]

[dereban]

Alright, I'm on it. Let's see what we can get, then.

[She sounds rather interested--and more than that, there's excitement. Because if this works, then there's a whole world of opportunities to be shown. She's so glad that her expertise is for this sort of thing.

But if it doesn't work, then -

That's just another thing to be frustrated over.

Time to plug in!]