Mingle and an Intro: Welcome to the Box!

[gravemanagement]

[ On today, a long-time business has been bought for the day and paid well. Whoever paid it wants people to eat and make merry for some reason. Must be a holiday? Huh, all devices showing the date day it's the new year. It doesn't matter what day it was for you before now, it's not the new year. And you? You are at the Chloe Café at 1:30PM.

Waiters and waitresses will take your order. Really, it's a chill time. Even if you're supposed to be dead? You're alive now, somewhere in Los Angeles, Japanifornia. Welcome and have a good day, because eventually there's gonna be a murder to solve in this big ol' city. ]

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[guiltyguitar]

....

[ He looks down. ]

... Funny you should say that. Because he always said I could trust him. You know, I went to Germany just so I could become a Prosecutor sooner. His idea. Their laws are a bit laxer. I started at seventeen.

[marlonmajesty]

...I'm an only child. I don't know what that level of betrayal feels like.

[ A sigh. She'll reach in her purse and produce a carton of pocky, offering him one. ]

Here. It's not much, but...

[guiltyguitar]

[ ... Small smile. The fact he doesn't make a joke about it says a lot about his mood on the subject. He'll take one. ]

... Thanks, Fräulein. You're unusually generous, to be flirting with the enemy like this.

[ ... Well, a small joke. But she can tell he doesn't mean it quite literally. Figure of speech.

He'll take it and toy with his hair with his free hand. ]

There's a part of me that wonders if I should go back to trying to divorce myself from him, like I did in my younger days... I kept my hair short then, ja? Now that I'm older, people don't say, "oh, you're Kristoph's younger brother!" to me quite so much... but... people know we're related.

There's no escaping that for me. You should've heard some of the phonecalls I got when news got out to the press about his initial arrest. "How does it feel to be related to a murderer?" "Were you his accomplice?" "Were all those songs you wrote literal?" "Do you have a bodycount, too?" ... Honestly.

[marlonmajesty]

That's going to happen regardless. You could look as different as night and day, and you'd still get those phone calls. People can be, quite frankly, arseholes. Don't let them tear you down.

[ Honestly she's still unsure about him, but he seems genuine. If he is, he's the unluckiest man alive to be surrounded by so many people who apparently are awful and murderers. ]

[guiltyguitar]

[ Chessa you've studied psychology, you can probably tell he's not a bad person. Nervous? Yes. But not a bad person. ]

Achtung! As if I'd want to hurt someone! I couldn't even bring myself to hurt my ex when she tossed my television out the window that one time a few years back. The only killing I'm interested in would be of a set, on stage.

... Anything less than a killer performance for our fans is doing them injustice. You know what I mean?

[ And if he throws himself into his work and his music maybe he can stop thinking about this.

Although he does pause to sort of look at the crowd that's gathered outside this place and sigh. ]

... Being famous will always have its drawbacks. I'm used to bad publicity by now. If I let that stop me from doing my job... well, I'd hardly be taking any cases.