the one with junpei;

[oraculi]

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[oraculi]

Yeah.

So let's start like this: your role involves getting to know what people are up to in some kinda way.

[crashout]

More or less. [He's thinking over the base questions he could be asking here.] Yours is targeted toward an individual instead of the group at large.

[oraculi]

More or less.

[For once-- for once!-- he's not being a dick and parroting shit back. Just being extremely cautious. He honestly is more worried about their dear kidnappers than Junpei, though.]

Yours targets an individual.

[crashout]

Yes. [Given that he's already been warned that if they skirt the rules and break them there's nothing to protect them, caution's a great idea right now.] Yours can help or hurt an individual.

[oraculi]

[He hesitates, but--]

Yeah. Yours involves location.

[crashout]

[That one gets him to stop because he has to really think about it.]

Nope. [Though location gives him an idea.] You can make a person more or less vulnerable on Thursday nights to protect them from the demons, or to swap them out for another victim. Like a trade.

[oraculi]

No.

[God, he wishes.]

Yours involves something to do with keeping them alive, but not hurting them.

[crashout]

I don't actually know. [Which is funny to say, but.] Let's say "not exactly" on that for now.

Yours...involves sending anonymous messages or gifts?

[oraculi]

[Hm.]

Nope.

You know, I didn't actually set out to solve another mystery today. [Wry.] Yours involves getting to see who slept with who.

[crashout]

[There's a light laugh.]

No, that's just an unfortunate perk of talking to as many people as I do. [He runs a hand through his hair.] This questioning thing is a lot harder when we're starting from ground zero.

[Hm...] So. Something that can target one person, it can help or hurt them, and it doesn't involve items or notes.

...yours is different than anything you've ever done before.

[oraculi]

No. Not quite. I've done it in one part of my life, but just the once.

[Hmm. Getting to know what people are up to, targets an individual, doesn't know if it helps keep them alive . . . am I writing this for my sake, yes.]

Yours involves knowing who talked to who.

[crashout]

[He shakes his head.] Still just a part of me being...me, I guess. But it can help to know that part.

[One part of his life was something similar, it can help or hurt one person...admittedly he doesn't know as much about Haymitch as he wants, but. He ponders.]

Yours involves potentially mercy-killing someone. [A shot in the dark? Yes.]

[oraculi]

Nope.

[Not even close, if the way he says it is any indication.]

Yours helps you first and foremost.

[crashout]

Alright, alright. Sorry. [An apologetic grin.

But okay.] In short? Yes. But it's not just about that.

Yours allows you to...plant evidence or meddle with our crime scenes. Manipulate the environment around us somehow. [Target one person to either help hide a murder or pin a murder on them.]

[oraculi]

No. None of that, nothing around that kinda thing.

Yours involves the trial specifically.

[crashout]

No, but it can help with leading trials in a way. [Time to get creative with his questioning.]

Yours was responsible for the mystery marks on our three shipmates today. [Kagachi, Beck and Escha, he means.]

[oraculi]

Nope.

[That's as much a mystery to him as anyone. Almost anyone. Whatever. But . . . hm.]

Yours takes place a certain night a week.

[crashout]

Nope. But yours does. [...] Well, actually, the answer to that is maybe. It's a certain day a week though.

[oraculi]

Same here.

Yours involves planting evidence.

[crashout]

No. [...hm.] Yours involves checking into the whereabouts of a person. Places they've gone and people they've talked to.

[oraculi]

[Ah, and he pauses for a long, deliberate moment.]

Some of that is true. Some isn't.

[crashout]

...[His eyes light up a bit.] You can check the places they've gone, and that's how it can help or hurt. You can prove if they were near a crime scene or a locked room or...whatever.

[oraculi]

Nope.

[OTHER DIRECTION.]

[crashout]

People then. [WOW. GOD. THAT TOOK SO LONG. There's a pause...and he laughs to himself.] Pretty sure we just went for more than twenty questions.

So that's it. Once a week, you can pick one person and see who they've spoken to over a period of time and assess who they know and who might be responsible for any potential deaths.

[oraculi]

More or less, yeah. It's not as detailed as that, but yeah, that's more or less it.

Hey. Ever play hot and cold?

[Maybe that's the way to do this (because he's not giving up til he gets his role, damn it). Twenty questions coupled with hot and cold. Twenty . . . hot and cold . . . ]