☾ IV

[the_devils_maid]

My, my, everyone's getting so short-tempered and frustrated already. Luckily I am intimately familiar with foraging, so I've managed to make enough food to get by. But even I, the Perfect Maid, am having trouble now.

On a related note.

I hope everyone has learned a valuable lesson to not eat unidentified mushrooms.

[Filtered Away From the Drones

Comments

[To Sakuya, unhackable]

[sakuya_make_tea]

Good job Sakuya.

[bogusmagicker]

What sort of information?

[the_devils_maid]

Relating to the behavior of the milkman drone.

[bogusmagicker]

Yes. What have you discovered?

[the_devils_maid]

Aside from when making deliveries, the man never leaves the vehicle. Not once did I see him leave it after his rounds.

He stays in there all night long, assuming he doesn't leave by unnatural means.

[be_on_your]

That's nice! I'd like to speak with you, too. Let's speak!

[the_devils_maid]

[Lightning-quick, Sakuya pulls out a knife and has it pointing at Matt's throat. In her other hand are three more knives, held between her fingers by the blades' tips.]

I'm sorry to do this to an employer, but my Mistresses come first and you've made yourself an enemy of the entire town.

No one will miss you.

I just pray the blood of a coward won't make my Mistresses ill.

[be_on_your]

Heeeeeeheheheheheh. Wow, you're an idiot. You want blood, there's plenty of it right inside you. Duh.

What're you gonna do? Kill me? We don't die, remember? You can't do anything! Hahahahahaahaaaaa!

[the_devils_maid]

You'll fall like anyone else given enough blows. I don't need you dead.

[She adjusts both hands so that each is holding one knife. With the knife already pointing at his neck, she slits Matt's throat. Spinning on her heal, she slashes a line acros his chest with the other knife and another down this chest with the first, leaving a cross-shaped wound. She impales one knife into his heart. This happens in the span of a second.]

[sacred_thunder]

Information? I'm listening.

[the_devils_maid]

I've followed the milk man for a week now, several times well over a day at a time. After doing his rounds, he returns to the dairy.

However, he does not leave his vehicle. It sits there the entire night dark and untouched until the next morning, when it leaves to go on his rounds again.

He never leaves the vehicle and never enters the dairy.

[sacred_thunder]

...That is strange. Though, after the fiasco early this month, I don't think anyone doubted that he was strange.

Anything else of note?

[the_devils_maid]

No.

I do intend to track the sheriff, but that may prove to be a bit more difficult.

[filtered, unhackable]

[see_time_pass]

Information you say? I would be interested.

[filtered, unhackable]

[the_devils_maid]

The supposed 'milkman' is not likely a man at all, even less so than the drones. Aside from his stops during his route, he never leaves that vehicle of his.

The vehicle goes to the dairy at the end of the day. He doesn't exit. The next morning, it leaves without anyone having entered.