The smoker stands up with a finality. The players, who had been talking to one another or staring into the fire, all look toward them as they light another cigarette.
"Let's see what we have," they smile, exhaling smoke. "Step forward and show off your costumes."
Conia rustles forward, shedding leaves.
Yuriko-Red-Riding-Hood elbows him a bit to the side and wraps her cloak around her arms.
MoonRaven-leficent nonchalantly slides a hand into Yuriko's picnic basket, winces as if in pain, and slowly slides it back out. There's a bite mark on her thumb.
Old Farmer McOsakaDetective picks a twig up off the ground and puts it into his mouth, grinning. A baa-ing noise comes from somewhere.
KangarooGirl, encased entirely in a pokeball with her name on it, rolls to a stop beside him.
Spider-Meme swings from a tree branch and drops into a crouch beside the fire.
Kaldra shrieks with laughter, wearing such a good skeleton costume that it appears his skin has just melted away.
Stopwatch opens her new, bright purple third eye and smiles into her microphone.
Fujiwara shuffles forward, scrumptious as a gigantic bowl of candy, leaving a trail of irresistible treats in her wake.
The smoker frowns at Kleene Onigiri, who seems to be wearing two costumes depending on which angle you see her from. Is she a suspiciously old ball of rice? Or is she an evil bespectacled apparition, eating a perfectly prepared bowl of rice?
The smoker shields their eyes at FuruyAkai, who is dressed as a gigantic roaring pillar of flame (or may simply just be on fire. The smoker doesn't ask, because the difference is slight and not important).
Raiden and Gio pound on the bars of their cells, dressed as a prison guard and a tiger....those are really good costumes...they don't even look like themselves anymore...Raiden even has Larry's nametag...and he's yelling....he looks pretty mad about something...
darkest absol, dressed as a bookcase featuring fun retro titles such as Goosebumps, Animorphs, the old Sailor Moon manga translations, and the GM's old Yu Yu Hakusho fanfiction.
cinna has found a box of donuts and doesn't...appear to be in costume at all. She eats the donuts one by one.
Super-Saiyan Jecka swoops in, possibly showing up Spider-Meme slightly in the superhero department. Or perhaps it's the other way around. They glare at one another.
Sailor dumytru, sparkly wand over shoulder, takes a manga off darkest absol's top shelf and begins to read.
Edo...uh...everyone stares at Edo.
"What?" he asks defensively, his voice coming muffled through the black sack over his head. "It was the only costume left. You guys were shoving."
The smoker shrugs and picks up the trailing end of the rope tied into a noose around Edo's neck, holding it out to the players. "Any takers?"
Kleene and the pillar of fire that is Furuy whisper to each other and giggle. "Are we sure that costume doesn't belong to KangarooGirl?"
The smoker glances over and raises their eyebrows. Suddenly, the rope splits into two, the other end tied clumsily around Kanga's pokeball. Another noose appears over Meme's head, and Jecka's, and Stop's, and Conia's.
"Well we have to make a decision," the smoker begins, but suddenly they blink and drop their hands.
"Too late," they say simply. "No need for a decision. There are those here who are in the wrong costumes..."
Everyone looks uncomfortably at each other, waiting, counting...
Old Farmer McOsakaDetective (Kir) keels over. The twig in his mouth is dissolving into ugly green liquid that melts the ground where it lands.
There's no sound for a while except for the sizzling of the poison.
Then the smoker is clapping. "Only one of you! How fortunate! Happy Halloween!"
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The lynch was cancelled. Votes will not be shown.
Osaka Detective (Kir) was poisoned!
An officer was suspended!