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Alright, day zero ends here! Please refrain from posting until the first kill is posted.

[center][size=6][emoji=crescent moon 2][b][u]The Nighttime[/u][/b][emoji=crescent moon 2][/size][/center] [quote=The Kill] [center][emoji=skull] ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [emoji=skull][/center] After a bustling afternoon in the Clan, the sun had finally set and all the dragons headed back to their dens for the night. All, except one. The killer waited until all was silent, and snuck out in the direction of their decided target. Slipping into Thelxiope’s den, the killer looked around for the item they were searching for. Under the moonlight, they spotted it - a feathered item obviously molded into the shape of a Pearlcatcher’s snout, used for concealing. However, in the darkness of night, Thelxiope would have no use for it. The killer did, however. They darted out a claw and quickly grabbed the mask, slipping out of the den as silently as they’d come. Heading to a spot not too far from Thelxiope’s den, but far enough from the rest of the dens, the killer set down the mask. They patted the soil beneath their claws, and started to dig at it. It’s not clear how much time passed, but the killer kept digging until the hole was large enough for a dragon - or more clearly, a Pearlcatcher - to fall into. Then, they carefully climbed out the side, kicking the soil down so there would be no more footholds. Sitting at the edge of the pit, they appeared to consider something. Their claws moved on the ground once more, not to dig; instead, at the bottom of the pit, countless small yet sharp structures were carved out of the soil - spikes. When they were pleased with the setup, they formed a solid-looking layer over the opening and hastened to grab the loose soil and grass to cover it up. Finally, they took the mask and carefully reached out to put it right where the opening was. The meticulous setup in place, they scampered to Thelxiope’s den door and knocked a few times. Pausing a second to hear Thelxiope heading over, they darted away into the shadows, leaving the stolen mask out for Thelxiope to see. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Thelxiope would be found the next morning, by the first dragon to spot the gaping hole in the ground. By the time the horrifying news spread completely around the Clan, Kitana would have already taken his things and slipped away unnoticed into the darkness, befitting a dragon of his trade. [/quote] [emoji=ping][b] Seems like the Clan is out for a dangerous ride indeed...[/b] [u]Thelxiope and Kitana were the Inseparable.[/u] [tl;dr: The Killer dug a hole with spikes outside Thelxiope’s den, concealing the top and putting Thelxiope’s mask as a bait. Thelxiope fell into the hole and was impaled. ] [emoji=comment]The Voting starts now, put in your post who you would vote to exile as the Killer. You may also discuss or put in your assumptions/facts [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325]here[/url] until The Voting ends. 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[emoji=subscription update]@Ragsy @SoaringFlame @Daxcy @Winterrox66 @Foxfires29 @Peanutbuttergay @YumeKozume13 @HolyShipper @CryMich @Relics @craftbaobao2 @Orodruin @Arilia @Silversong92 @MediaeLycan @creationsWrath [quote=Current Allegiances] [center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/210501/a3d49656c4f0d79d0c65bd92f71ce037.png[/img][/center] [emoji=gold crown size=1][b]Leader:[/b] Ji-Woon | Male | Wildclaw | Ragsy | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/553#post_47364988]Link[/url] [emoji=gold tiara size=1][b]Queen:[/b] Moyashi | Female | Nocturne | SoaringFlame | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/555#post_47393816]Link[/url] [emoji=silver crown size=1][b]Ex-Leader:[/b] Radman | Male | Spiral | Daxcy | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/553#post_47365367]Link[/url] [emoji=ceramic jar size=1][b]Keeper:[/b] Eira | Female | Gaoler | Winterrox66 | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/557#post_47413844]Link[/url] [emoji=sword and shield size=1][b]Warrior:[/b] Pyotr | Male | Skydancer | Foxfires29 | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/554#post_47366084]Link[/url] [emoji=apparel helm size=1][b]Monster Hunter:[/b] Ricordea | Non-binary | Skydancer | Peanutbuttergay | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/554#post_47365772]Link[/url] [emoji=black gem size=1][b]Assassin:[/b] [s]Kitana | Male | Pearlcatcher | YumeKozume13 | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/554#post_47366727]Link[/url][/s] [emoji=wing size=1][b]Retired Fighter:[/b] Meilee | Male | Mirror | HolyShipper | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/555#post_47375413]Link[/url] [emoji=wizard hat size=1][b]Witch:[/b] Krovavaya | Female | Fae | CryMich | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/553#post_47364959]Link[/url] [emoji=red vial size=1][b]Necromancer:[/b] Serpentstrike | Non-binary | Skydancer | Relics | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/554#post_47367156]Link[/url] [emoji=purple gem 2 size=1][b]Prankster:[/b] Kokichi | Male | Imperial | craftbaobao2 | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/554#post_47366597]Link[/url] [emoji=mystery bag size=1][b]Smuggler:[/b] Nimthiriel "Nim" O'Sialia | Agender | Gaoler | Orodruin | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/554#post_47373857]Link[/url] [emoji=scroll 2 size=1][b]News Reporter:[/b] [s]Thelxiope | Demigirl | Pearlcatcher | Arilia | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/554#post_47366477]Link[/url][/s] [emoji=phoenix feather size=1][b]Poet: [/b] Mana | Female | Pearlcatcher | Silversong92 | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/555#post_47378210]Link[/url] [emoji=book size=1][b]Librarian:[/b] Andiron | Male | Imperial | MediaeLycan | [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/forga/2558325/554#post_47367037]Link[/url] [ 4 female // 6 male // 3 non-binary // 13 total ] [emoji=familiar heart size=1][b]Relations:[/b] ? x ? -> [s]Thelxiope[/s], Ricordea Kokichi x Serpentstrike -> None ? x ? -> [s]Kitana[/s], Ji-Woon ? x ? -> Serpentstrike, Meilee [/quote]

Pyotr woke up quite early in the morning. The sun was still rising and the clan seemed to be quiet, at least for now. He thought abut going back to sleep, but he wasn't at all tired or sleepy, and so he decided to take a walk, to memorize where everything in the clan was.

He got out his den and walked around for a bit, the morning breeze blowing lightly against his face. All was quiet, all was calm, or at least it seemed that way. As he walked around some more, he could smell what seemed to be blood. He looked around to find it's source, and saw what looked like a large hole in front of Thelxiope's den. He ran to the hole, the scent of blood growing stronger and stronger as he got closer.

He finally stopped in front of the hole and looked down. There in the hole, Thelxiope lay, her body impaled with spikes. Pyotr's heart raced, not because of his dead clanmate, but rather, because he knew what this meant-there was a killer within the clan.

"Everyone, Thelxiope was murdered!"

Pyotr then rushed to Ji-Woon's den, and banged at the door as hard as he could and as many times as it took at wake him up.

"Ji-Woon, someone's dead!"

Did Ji-Woon just smile? Pyotr could only look in confusion as his leader, seemingly happily, told Pyotr that he would sort it out. Pyotr didn't exactly believe what that the wildclaw would be able to sort it out, but then again Pyotr had only been in the clan for a small amount of time and didn't know Ji-Woon that well.

Pyotr watched as Ji-Woon walked towards the hole were their dead clanmate lay. He slightly shook his head and walked away, deciding to clear his head. He sat under a tree and thought about the kill.

While he wasn't foreign to the sight of a dead dragon, even that of a clanmate, he had never seen a dragon killed by their own clanmate, their own friend. It was an odd thing, to want to kill one's own clanmate, but it certainly wasn't something that never happens, but is certainly a rare occurrence.

After a while he finally stood up, and decided he didn't know the members of the clan well enough to figure out who the killer was.

Andiron woke to the confusion of the clan. Picking the book from his face, he yawned, stretched and came out from under his, well his partner's blanket. He climbed down from his room overlooking the library and stepped outside.
The first thing he was greeted with when he stepped out of his doors was the smell of blood. It made his heart pound inside his ears. He forced himself to take a step closer, seeing Ji-Woon already examining a large hole. Taking a step again, he peered down.

A dead body. Thelxiope' dead body.

Almost immediately, the Imperial flinched back, fear running rampant in his mind. Andiron quickly backed away, heading back towards the safety of his Library, but he soon realised he'd left the door open, and the smell of blood was all too pungent inside its walls. He kneaded his claws into the ground for a moment, before turning tail and racing towards the trees, knocking into an unfortunate Skydancer.

"I am so sorry!" He quickly apologised, trying to quell his oncoming panic, and instead focused on offering the Skydancer a claw to help him up. He recognised him as Pyotr, a dragon he would have gone up to yesterday to talk to, but could never see the right opportunity. "I'm sorry!" He apologised again.

@Foxfires29

Having had a good night's sleep, Meilee woke up earlier than Strike. He found ae in an awkward sitting position, aer claws still on the harp. Ae had fallen asleep, playing the instrument. Meilee appreciated that - he always felt more alive when the harp was played manually. The tune didn't stop as he grabbed aer claw, moving it away from the instrument, letting it play more freely.

Adjusting his eyepatch, Meilee left the den with Strike inside. Holding his cane with his tail, he dragged it on the ground, leaving a mark for his sibling to follow when ae woke up. That was something that ae came up with - that way ae could track him down, if ae ever needed to. Meilee had still tried to take credit for that, as the idea came to Strike as he was just dragging his tail around because it felt too heavy to lift. He shuddered as he rememebered how bad the first few days of his ressurrection was. Death sure does take it's toll on one's body.

A familiar smell that he couldn't exactly tell what was hit his nose, and he decided to follow it. Soon, he found himself in front of a pit, next to Ji-Woon. Quietly nodding to acknowledge his existence, he looked forward to be met with Thelxiope's body. "Huh." he said, flapping his wings to get himself off the ground. He flailed around trying to find his balance before moving forward, and his wings stopped flapping for a second, only to keep moving when he was centimeters above the spikes. Examining the body closely, he gently poked the pearlcathcer's head. He determined that she was dead. Eh, probably wasn't something that Strike couldn't fix.

With the help of a breeze, he made his way out of the pit, clumsily landing next to Ji-Woon. The dust around them aired as he landed, which seemed to displease the leader. Was his leader afraid of some dust? Huh. "So, what are we going to do?" He asked the wildclaw, waiting for his reply before offering to go and fetch Strike.

Kokichi lazily walked out of his den, barely paying any attention to his surroundings. He'd had a bit of trouble sleeping last night, due to having a slight feeling that something bad would happen. He had pushed that feeling away, but the group of his clanmates with panicked expressions near Thelxiope's den told him that something was indeed wrong. He rubbed his eyes with one claw and strolled over to the den, only to have the obvious confirmed- things were not okay. Ignoring the other dragons, he peered into the pit closely with immediate regret as the unmistakable stench of blood filled his nostrils.
"Grooooooooss..." he grumbled out loud, earning a glare or two from his clanmates.
They then informed him of what had happened- Thelxiope had been murdered by one of them, and Kitana had fled.

Ricordea hadn't slept, instead staying awake to clean their gear and apparel. The stench of sea water never left them, no matter how hard they tried. It wasn't a problem most of the time, but when it's all you smell...its gets tiresome...even sickening. So when they felt themselves drifting off in the morning, they snapped up at hearing the announcement of a death....of....of-

The skydancer immediately flew up, spear equipped. They flew over the pit, and once they looked inside, their expression contorted into one of anger, before it calmed. The words of everyone around were heard by them, they needed to stay vigilant after all. But when fetching the body was mentioned, and the disgusted response from kokichi, they couldn't hear anything else.

She stabbed her spear into the ground as they landed near Kokichi, before flying downwards to the pit and carefully lifting the body out.

Family.

Dead.

Ricordea had the urge to scream and give the dragon a send off in the ocean, but they held back. She didn't even talk to Thelxiope the day before, was it reasonable to grieve? Was it such a crime to cry?

As they set the body down, she could feel herself almost feeling ashamed. As if it could've been prevented. Maybe they weren't fast enough? Too focused on cleaning apparel to save any remnant of kinship? Or maybe they were overreacting...

"I will find who did this."

After that statement they pulled their spear out from the ground, and sat over Thel, as if they were guarding the corpse. Later they would give a send off. Later, they would grieve in private. Nobody could see them weak.

Pyotr shot a glare at Andiron, but after looking at the imperial, Pyotr realized, he didn't much recognize him, at least not personally. He knew the imperial's name and saw him in the library the day before, but never really got the chance to talk to him.

Pyotr stood up, ignoring Andiron's attempt to help him.

"It's.. fine."

Pyotr walked past Andiron and towards, well, nowhere really, he didn't know where to go. He decided to vote for someone first, maybe change it later, to at least have a vote when the day ended.

He heard someone had voted for Ricordea, someone else he hadn't talked to. He decided that Ricordea would do for the moment, and decided to talk to the other clanmates, in case something about them could make him change his vote.

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Pyotr votes for Ricordea, but the vote might change