mark my words, expose anything and everything;

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[



gently pats him dry. ]

Ah, yes. Some sort of cursed doll, I believe? I'm not sure that one applies, unless the hint was for us to be on the lookout for someone who seems uncharacteristically anxious today.

Anxiety is different from outright paranoia, after all, but perhaps ... well, I wouldn't know exactly how the doll works. Who knows. But wouldn't it not apply to anyone awake on the night of the murder, considering they wouldn't have fallen asleep to begin with?

[wowcool]

You have a good point. You would have to assume they tried to sleep, first.

[Thanks for...patting him dry after dumping his water on him??]

Let me guess. This is your effect?

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[ dryly: ] No, I thought you could use some cooling down considering how bundled up you are, and how close we are to the fire.

In any case. Paranoia seems... A rather odd piece of evidence, especially if it's proximity based.

[wowcool]

Oh. Well. Thank you.

[Yeah, he knows its an effect.]

Indeed. Something must have happened near the fire. I wonder if it was Dimitri...or his killer.

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Nie Huaisang is dead. Unless there's something else out there that induces that sort of artificial paranoia...

[ what an odd thing, considering. ]

[wowcool]

Maybe someone's overwhelming charisma? Haha. Maybe it was natural the entire time.

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What, the paranoia?

Someone was that afraid of getting caught?

[wowcool]

That, or they approached Dimitri in a friendly way, but something about how they acted may have made Dimitri wary. And he was probably right to feel that way.

...Or someone was just nervous that it wouldn't work out, whatever the plan was.

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I think many people might feel at least a little apprehensive about getting caught, considering the consequences, but that's hardly identifying, nor does it tell us much of anything.