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 Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:08 pm
Kasumi heard the pirate's snarl loud and clear. "I have hardly any hair left to defend myself with!" the girl snapped back, using her hands to grab at Vic's wrist. This was ridiculous and Kasumi was now certain Vic had something to do with the attack. Bloodlust was in her eyes and that was unmistakable. She and the skinwalker could be in this together!
"Like I said before...!" the monsteress grunted, pulling up just enough hair to dull the blade on Vic's cutlass. "If I had choked Faint... there would be hair everywhere!" She attempted to tug the blade out of Vic's hand so she couldn't attack anyone else with it. "I will not harm you, even if you try to draw blood from me!"
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:43 pm
((Same accusation~))
In no time at all, Vic found herself out-handed. Grimacing, she fought to work her weapon forward all the same, single-minded in her quest to prove her point. For a moment there, it looked like she was going to fail. But then, at last, she got a bit of luck. Feeble though it might have seemed, Kasumi brought her hair into the fray. It wasn't much, but damn it, it was what Vic had been going for!
The ghost's face lit up with the flush of victory. "Y'won't harm me, sure - while folks are bloody lookin'! All ye've gots in your defense is the pretendin' that yer too weak to do jack shiiii-- OI!" This last bit was shouted as the sword was yanked from Vic's hands, right at the moment she would have let off to make her appeal to the rest of the group. Suddenly, the engagement became much more dire as Vic's hands went grabbing after her weapon. "GIVE BACK ME SWORD, YE FLATULENT, FEATHER-PLUCKED FATHEAD!"
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:03 pm
As soon he spoke, a look of concern crossed Lumidee's face as she headed towards Oliver. She didn't touch him as she approached, but her hands lifted in placation all the while. "Hey, it's alright... Breathe." She swallowed, a little freaked by her own boldness, and tried to keep the crooning from starting up again in her throat. "Yeah, we're all suspect, but we're all still here, right?" For now hovered ominously in her thoughts. Lumidee shook it away.
"We can figure this out without becoming as crazy as the bad guys. Just breathe, and don't think for a moment. Okay...?" The shy phantom was trying to help. Really, she was.
That fact didn't change even as she jumped about a mile, suddenly pulled back to the situation around them as Vic jumped Kasumi. Lumi's eyes opened wide at it, her brows dropped in anger almost immediately afterwards; but she couldn't bring herself to actually stop the rude corsair. First of all, she would never have been able to. Second...well, she wasn't sure that Vic was in the wrong. Her trust was probably in the wrong place, now Lumi had little doubts about that.
"Well, we know that she's probably innocent," Lumidee commented dryly to the monster beside her, and anyone who could hear over the din. "I don't think there's any way that one could hurt someone quietly."
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:05 pm
(( Same accusation here too! ))
"If you would do this to me so easily, who's to say you won't harm someone else? Obviously you've been hiding your weapon this whole time!" Scuttling up and out of the fray, Kasumi attempted to kick the sword further down the train so the pirate couldn't attack anyone else with it. In all the scuffle, her hair had been cut to a shoulder length and it hung in limp strands from her head. Chest heaving, Kasumi found an empty seat and sat down.
The monster frowned at Vic. "I won't stoop to name-calling, but I never pretended to be anything other than what I am. Unlike you, who would go after someone with something sharp like that! Mr. Reaper, sir, please do us all a favor and take the sword." She urged the heeled attendant in a bid to keep everyone safe from Vic. She plucked another chunk of hair out of her head. She was practically bald, her other mouth gnashing in hunger. Kasumi did her best to calm down, as panic and anger wouldn't do anyone any good here.
"If you would listen," she emphasized, knowing full well the pirate wouldn't hear any of it, but the others might. "I tell you again, I couldn't have choked Faint for two reasons - I was fully attached to the horse at the time he was choked and even if I didn't have all my hair on the horse, there would be no way I could have reached him, and two, he would be covered in hair even if I did! My arms simply aren't long enough."
Logic. That was Kasumi's weapon, unlike Vic, whose weapon was pointed directly at another passenger in an attempt to draw blood.
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:18 pm
((Yeek! Reminder: Vic's weapon is rusted into the sheath, and can't actually cut stuff. Anyway, still Kasumi!)
If Vic were calmer, she'd probably point out that she'd never once hidden her weapon - rather, the pirate had worn it openly, or even proudly on her side. She might even point out that, rusted in the sheath as it was, it wasn't about to start drawing blood (unless she bashed hard enough - which she probably would, given a chance, so that wasn't a great argument anyway.)
However, Vic definitely wasn't calm enough to think things through. As it was, she wasn't even listening to Kasumi's list of excuses. In her desperation, she wasn't even trying to attack anymore - she just ran after where her weapon had been kicked, shrieking curses over her shoulder to the tune of "Damn yer eyes! The Captain'll have me hide if I lose that blade!"
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:21 pm
(( Kasumi has really shitty hair, so we'll say it got snagged on some of the rust anyway. XD It's not a problem! heart ))
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Interesting Conversationalist
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 3:59 pm
((Nuk is accusing Kasumi! Although really, with everything so chaotic, he doesn't have a clue if it's really her or not.))
Even the feeling of another pair of eyes on him was enough to bring Nuk's gold regard from Oliver, flicking towards the pirate girl to meet her gaze. At first, he wasn't sure what to think, and his eyes showed it -- suspicion laced his expression, looking like he might bare his teeth at her, except that... she didn't seem about ready to accuse him. Nor did she really look like she was going to attack him, which evened his features out a bit, curiosity now etched into his gaze. What was she up to? She looked almost... thoughtful, perhaps, and maybe a little scheming, and the skinwalker lifted an eyebrow quizzically, wondering if she had finally gone mad.
Then again, she had always seemed a little gung-ho, but that kinda added to her charm. She had spirit. Which was only confirmed further after she got up.
At first, Nuk merely listened as Vic began to muse, bewildered as she wrote something down on a napkin until the moment she headed his direction. He took it wordlessly, watching her half a second longer before glancing back down at the napkin note, reading the words written there. For a moment, he just looked confused, reading it a few more times until it finally clicked, both what she was going to do and what she was trying to say, and a second too late, it seemed. By the time he looked back up, he was watching the spunky pirate rush at Kasumi, a war-cry piercing the air as she jumped into a fight.
A girl after his own heart.
The accusations went back and forth between the two, the struggle wild and hard to follow. Nuk alternated between looking like he might join in and staying back, half pacing a semi-circle around the two girls, as if indecisive. There were two possibilities -- Vic had found something out, and was trying to expose Kasumi as the real threat... or Vic was the the threat, trying to cast suspicion on Kasumi. It was a tangled web they all wove, and it was impossible to know for sure.
"That one crazy... Salili? Salali? Whatever, Coocoo-For-Cocoa-Puffs was attacked by Pony-Boy, who was right next to her when she fell. You were right by Bubble-Butt..." Nuk finally growled, narrowing his eyes suspiciously at Kasumi.
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:05 pm
((Kentarou isn't accusing anyone.))
Kentarou sighed and rubbed his head looking around when Belladonna dropped. "Damn" he mumbled to himself things were about to get quiet but not anymore. He looked at the other passengers and it wasn't long before a fight broke out. He just got and moved not wanting to get hit by anything. Kentarou sunk into an empty chair and groaned wishing for this to be over already.
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:52 pm
(( Kasumi, in a last-ditch effort to save everyone, is doing something very risky - revealing herself. ))
Kasumi stood, frowning intensely at her accusers - Vic, Nukpana and Perlie, her hands balled into fists. "Vic, I know you think it was me, but I know it wasn't you. It wasn't Oliver either. Your accusing of me will get you nowhere and the attacker will strike again. Why?"
She found a chair and stood on it. "I am the mole!" she announced, facing indignantly into the very danger she was trying to protect everyone from. "I've been watching and waiting and looking for the attacker, but I haven't found them yet. I have narrowed it down to six people but now my position has been compromised. I want to help you people, but you won't allow me to, I see."
Kasumi shook her head and sat down, knowing full well she could very well be the next victim carted off to the injured cabin now that she's revealed herself.
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:09 pm
((Vic's been thrown for a loop, but she isn't changing her mind about accusing Kasumi yet - not without more explanation, at the very least.))
"Mole?" Vic echoed, eyes narrowing shrewdishly. What the hell did Kasumi mean, she was the mole? "Mate, yer doing some real nice fast-talk, but iff'n y'want to convince me, yer gonna have to talks a bit faster. If ya knew it wasn't me, why were ye sayin' it was, not two seconds afore? And what in the seven seas d'ya mean, mole?"
There were implications, of course. That Kasumi was claiming to be an agent of some higher power. But if that were the case... that meant that someone thought that something like this was going to happen. And if that was the case, there was a very big story here that Vic didn't know half enough about, and that Kasumi had better be spilling the beans on - FAST.
Of course, it could just be that she was trying to confuse them, misdirect their attention, get them disarrayed in time for the next attack....
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:15 pm
(( Kasumi explains! ))
Kasumi understood the need for explanation, especially for the pirate swabby. "I've had visions, asking for information on each of you, but I can only do this so often. I thought it was you, in all honesty." she admitted, hanging her head at being wrong. "You were so intent on accusing Belladonna but I'd had a vision that she was innocent, then you attacked me... but my vision about you proves you white - innocent. The same as Faint, Belladonna, Faust, Jack, Salali... all white."
Kasumi shook her head again. "I haven't found the black yet, but to the rest of you who survive this next attack, the remaining are: Lumidee, Kentarou, Kashi, Perlie, Petra..." Kasumi then pointed straight at him. "And you, skinwalker."
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:31 pm
Lumi's eyes widened in shock at Kasumi's revelation. "No, no. Wait a second," she gasped, her lips tilting down in confusion. "You're telling us that you've been working behind the scenes this entire time?" One hand still reached out to Oliver - but the other clasped in front of the phantom, visual representation of her disbelief. "But you doing that, revealing your position - if the bad guy is in this cabin, it'll know that you're the biggest threat to it. You're putting yourself in danger!" Lumidee's locks waved back-and-forth as she shook her head.
"If it's true, why didn't you know about the other beserkers? Why expose yourself to harm if you don't have any solid conclusion?" Sure, Vic was a loud, violent, dangerous pain. But she wouldn't have really hurt Kasumi, like as bad as the ones in the sickbay car were hurt. Lumidee looked up at the pirate with doubt in her eyes. Would she?
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:32 pm
((Vic understands what she's getting at... but doesn't change.))
"Even if what y'say was true, mate-" Vic still didn't sound convinced, even if she didn't seem quite so certain as before - "Y'do realize that there's only two ways it goes from here. Either yer lyin', which says the attacker tryin' to throw us off your scent - in which case, we'd be damned fools not to've thrown you int'a the brig - or else what ye says is true, an' it'd be a damned kindness if we put you in there a'fore ye gets attacked."
But even that being said... Vic was certainly taking a bit of a second look at the rest of the inhabitants of the room. Especially the quiet ones, the ones who had been keeping a low profile from the start. Maybe...?
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:39 pm
((Same vote, since Kasumi seems to be just as suspicious as she did earlier in Perlie's eyes.))
"So wait, you've been having visions?" The remaining poltergeist frowned, looking more than a bit mistrustful. "All this time? If that's the case, why didn't you do something? I mean, if you knew who were innocent and who weren't, couldn't you just have gone to the staff and asked them to take all the innocent people away so they didn't get hurt or something?"
She nodded towards Lumidee and Vic, "Honestly this sounds a bit farfetched, I think. I mean, why'd you even tell us if it were true?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:42 pm
Kasumi turns to Lumidee and sighs. "I fully understand the ramifications of revealing my position at this stage." She shakes her head and frowns, running a hand through what hair she had left. "I've been guessing wrong this entire time, except for Faint - there was something about him, but he revealed gray. I couldn't tell if he was attacker or victim before it was too late. The rest of the time was a series of unlucky guesses. I had hoped to find the attacker at this point, but I fear I've run out of time." Kasumi sits down again and folds her hands together in her lap, looking at the remaining in the cabin.
If she wasn't a goner now, she'd be within the next few moments.
"I'm exposing myself to give the rest of you a chance to find the attacker. There's so few of us left, but I've narrowed it down to six for you. I only hope that this revelation will allow you to find who is doing this before it's too late. There's nothing left I can do for you if I'm sent away at this stage. I'm sure I will be a prime target soon if I'm not now."
She pointed to Vic again. "As much as I hate to say it, you're an innocent, just like Oliver. I suggest you look into the remaining six I gave you before someone else is made victim."
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