This post was last modified: Jan 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM by Deathborn.

Hollywood Bowl
So THAT's why he recommended that specific set designer! Cripes, I should have known there was a trick when all she does is dig!

Momoyo Himemushi
My sets are perfectly fine, thank you very much!

Deathborn
Enough arguing. We must prepare for the second night. Momoyo, please relocate the corpses.

Honoka Kosakatua
Wait, are you burying them?

Momoyo Himemushi
No, we just throw them on the dirt. It's faster that way!

Agent Evangeline
This... makes the situation more difficult. But it's still workable.

Deathborn
Ah, yes. And your motive. Anyone who attempts tonight can choose one other player. They will be immune to that player's attempts on Night 3.

Hollywood Bowl
Maybe I should attempt so I can pick you.

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Tonight's weather is Gusty. Light and heavy objects left outside will start to be blown around by the wind, and it will be very difficult to remain in one location or precisely aim anything outside. The wind blows from east to west.

THE MAP

First Floor: Show

Purple Building
Desert Sage Dorm: One of the three large dorm rooms. This one is decorated with a bunch of desert flowers.
Sheriff's Office: The office of the one lawman in the town. Contains an officer's desk, several guns, and the Jail Cell.
Jail Cell: A jail cell, to, unsurprisingly, jail people. Anyone who starts their night in the jail cell is inflicted with Jailbird upon exiting.
General Store: A store stocked with all sorts of dry goods. The destination for all items you could want in the Wild West that aren't stocked elsewhere! There's a locked trapdoor in the floor.
Army Post: A well-equipped military depot, with everything from rations to weapons that a handful of soldiers might need.

Blue Building
Lobby: This building is fully modern, unlike the old-timey other five buildings. The glass-walled lobby full of plush chairs to sit in is a great example.
Theater: An old fashioned movie theater with modern projection equipment. Perfect for screening Wild West films after making them!
Archives: A large number of filing cabinets sit in this room, full of information on past Wild West film shoots that took place in Silver Junction. The door is locked.
Executive Office: A fancy, plush office with a large chair and larger desk, for whoever's in charge of the current movie productions.

Green Building
Prickly Pear Dorm: One of the three large dorm rooms. This one is decorated with a bunch of cacti.
Chapel: A non-denominational chapel to pray to whatever you may choose to pray to. We don't judge.
Newspaper: A room to run off the day's paper, complete with a printing press and a few desks for the newshounds.
Bank: A fancy, well-equipped bank, complete with a manager's office and plenty of tellers - as well as some money lying around. The back has a large vault door.
Vault: A locked vault behind a large vault door in the bank. It looks very complex to open, and it's marked High Security.

Yellow Building
Saloon: The big bar of Silver Junction. Lots of booze behind a bar, a piano with curtains on the side, plenty of tables, and of course every door is the swinging saloon doors.
Gun Store: A store selling all kinds of guns, from pistols to shotguns to rifles. Free to take and use to all customers!
Farrier: A small shop containing everything one could need to take care of a horse properly.
Stable: A stable currently inhabited by four horses. Whoever stocked them was cheeky enough to pick a red horse, a black horse, a white horse, and a pale gray horse.

Orange Building
Century Agave Dorm: One of the three large dorm rooms. This one is decorated with a bunch of low-growing desert plants.
Blacksmith: With a furnace at full blast, this blacksmith's shop is fantastic for making metal tools.
Carpenter: This room is full of woodworking tools and wood to work with for those tools.
Ruined Mine: The collapsed remains of a mineshaft, creating a deep hole in the middle of the building. Plenty of rocks to poke at if you want.
Mineral Storage: A place to store whatever minerals were dredged up from the mine when it was active. It's full of pyrite.
Mining Equipment: A large room, full of shovels, pickaxes, and any other non-explosive mining equipment your heart could possibly desire.
Explosives Storage: A room with plenty of dynamite, blasting caps, and whatever else you'd need for a big boom. The door is locked.

Red Building
Train Platform: An open-air platform for people to wait for the train. Contains a few clocks and a few benches.
Passenger Lounge: A comfortable waiting area and ticket counter for people to relax while waiting for the train.
Post Office: A small station to store, sort, and receive letters, of which there are currently a blizzard's worth.
Telegraph Office: An office to send and receive telegrams up and down the line. The door is locked.
Locomotive: A full-sized steam locomotive with a tender and two passenger cars attached. Several necessary parts of the engine have been removed, so it's not going anywhere.

Exterior Locations
Cemetery: A graveyard. It's currently devoid of graves beyond a few old headstones, but that could very well change here.
Livestock Corral: A small pen, holding several cattle. There's also a few chickens, for some reason.
Water Tower: An elevated water tower. It contains, surprise, water.
Outhouse: The only bathroom or bathroom-equivalent on the entire map. If it breaks you're not getting another one.

Second Floor: Show

Purple Building
Officer's Club: A fancy bar meant for army officers. With the lack of those in the vicinity, it's become open to all.
Schoolhouse: A small, one-room school. Well equipped for general lessons, less well equipped for specialized.
Mayor's Office: The office of the Mayor of Silver Junction, holding all kinds of documents and records relating to the old town.
Courthouse: The judicial location of the county, back in the day. Contains a judge's bench, witness stand, desks for attorneys, and a jury box.
Hallway: An ordinary hallway to connect the 2F rooms in the purple building. There's some paintings on the walls, at least.

Blue Building
Soundstage: A big soundstage, perfectly designed for filming. There's a few different backdrops available to choose from, all fitting the Wild West theme.
Film Equipment: A storage room for the movie set building, holding the camera equipment and plenty of props for any Western you care to film.
Recording: A soundproof room for recording voice. Full of recording equipment, ranging from the gramophone to the modern systems.
Breakroom: A comfortable room to relax in during all the filming. Has several couches and tables, a coffee machine, and a fridge.

Green Building
Tailor: Plenty of clothing lies around in this store, all of it befitting the Wild West aesthetic on display.
Laundry: A hand-wash laundry, with everything you need to wash 'em and dry 'em both.
Barbershop: A fancy barbershop, equipped well for both haircuts and dentistry as necessary.
Law Office: The office of the town's only lawyer. Contains difficult-looking legal books in a row, a nice desk, and far too many papers.
Tobacconist: A tobacco shop, full of plenty of cigars, cigarettes, and chewing tobacco to imitate whatever noir or western trope you desire.

Yellow Building
Restaurant: A nice restaurant, complete with a small kitchen. Unimpressive compared to the OCGA Central Facility.
Gambling Parlor: A smoke-filled room set up for all sorts of games of chance and luck.
Brewery: A room set up for the easy production of moonshine. Saloon's gotta stay supplied, right?
Hotel: A small hotel with a few beds set up for sleeping. Perfect for quick layovers.

Orange Building
Doctor's Office: A basic doctor's office, for taking care of injuries in the West. Contains various doctor's tools, a cot, and a locked medicine cabinet.
Funeral Home: An undertaker's room, to work on laying to rest the deceased. When there's not a constant supply of them you can't keep up with, that is.
Pharmacy: With plenty of cheap drugs, nothing here is as good as the medicine in the Doctor's Office, but it can still come in handy.
Target Range: A shooting gallery set up to practice your gunplay. If you didn't bring your own, it's got plenty of guns and ammo ready to go.
Trading Post: A small trading post that caters specifically to selling to the miners, rather than the open nature of the general store.

Red Building
Railworker Quarters: A small sleeping area for employees of the railroad. It's got beds and not much else.
Station Storage: A storage room located in the train station. Contains various parts for the track and gear for employees.

Exterior Locations
Water Tower: An elevated water tower. It contains, surprise, water.

LIVING PLAYERS
Desert Sage Dorm
-@Not Shane
-@North Star
-@Bud
-@Madame Zalsarona
-@Theodore Noise
-@Hifumi
-@Cascabela
-@Tsavorae
-@Elster
-@Hollywood Bowl (NPC)
-@Momoyo Himemushi (NPC)

Prickly Pear Dorm
-@Partitio Yellowil
-@Mizzlebip
-@Akira Kogami
-@Strong Bad
-@Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
-King of Clubs (@Amoeba)
-@Lynne
-@Gyro Zeppeli
-@Reginald Fikwerther
-@Deathborn (NPC)
-@Agent Evangeline (NPC)

Century Agave Dorm
-@Marisa Kirisame
-@Neil Marshall
-@Derek Stiles
-@Ranger
-@Roland
-@Kroos the Keen Glint
-@Nico Yazawa
-@McJango
-@Honoka Kosakatua (NPC)

Submissions are due in 48 hours, at 8 PM EST on January 21st.

Marshall
Damn it!! Momoyo, you...

...Gave it an earnest attempt. Sorry, everyone. S'pose just shootin' him and gettin' outta here would've been too easy. From what I've heard, Killin' Games have a nasty habit of keepin' ya' trapped in them. Still stuck with his twisted rules.

Marshall
Same offer applies, and it's entirely genuine. Come find me if ya' need any assistance. The best way to stay alive in this place is helpin' each other, as much as we can. In the meantime, I'll keep on lookin' for anythin' that can get us out of this hellhole.

Because of the folly of the young and wasteful, our kitchen will not be staffed today.
Entire meat supply was contaminated with poison metal, but I am working on the solution.

I am with deep regret, but you must find your own food tonight.



If you wish to do your part to ensure this does not happen again, direct complaints to the responsible.
Written and spoken are both acceptable.

You all know who they are.

Momoyo, you… You! Workin' with Deathborn and keepin' it from me, when we put in an honest day's dig and broke bread together… That's a low blow…

I oughta be steamed as a clam ready for servin', but…

…truth be told, I'm mighty disappointed more than anything. Our conversation last night… That long trail you've walked ain't been an easy one, and I ain't so naive to think ya'd be one to keep your hands clean, but there's a side of you in there that's better than this… Uh, deeper than the centipede, even, I mean.

I didn't fall out of the truckbed yesterday. There ain't any way we'll stop this game o' yours here. We'd tucker ourselves out tryin' to save everyone, and 'sides, I know I'm out of my depth tanglin' with your boss. I'll put my faith into Neil when it comes to dealin' with him.

But don't you go thinkin' that means we're gonna just fold on savin' as many as we can - and that includes you. Mark my words, I ain't givin' up on you yet.

(...s'pose it'd serve me to watch my back 'round these parts for a spell, though. Tends to put a target on yer back when bellies are left rumblin' and yer at fault…)

Well I'm mighty glad we got that straightened out, but I ain't thinkin' that there lass was actually Texas Red... But if she ain't then who is?

What about the blatantly evil red guy trapping us all here

TARNATIONS MARTY YER RIGHT

Thought ya could trick me callin' yerself "Deathborn" didn't ya Texas Red? Well I ain't fallin' fer yer tricks no more! Don't worry y'all, I'll get us through this or my name ain't Arizona Ranger

Well technically it ain't but I still am one so close enough I reckon

Somewhere in the Texan desert a lone phone booth stands beneath a misshapen lamp post. Darkness cascades down from the bulb, fully obscuring the figure inside.

*ring* *ring* *ring*

Somebody answers the phone without any greeting. An awkward amount of time passes before either speak.

"⍀⏃⟒⌰⏃⋏☌⟒⍀
⋔⏃⍀☊⏃⏚⟟⌇⏃
☊⏃⌇⟟⌇⏃⋏☌⟒"

The person on the end finally breaks their silence. "...Huh?"

*click*

The figure within the phone booth hangs up.

Man... I really just can't believe this. What could have possibly possessed not just one, but two people to commit this madness?

(Could it be... another GUILT outbreak? Stigma, perhaps? If Deathborn or Momoyo have Cardia this could be bad news.)

Just know that what you're doing here... it's wrong. So wrong I can't even begin to imagine what your goals are. Taking the lives of others...



It's sin. I hope you know what you're in for once this is over.

Just know that what you're doing here... it's wrong. So wrong I can't even begin to imagine what your goals are. Taking the lives of others...

It's sin. I hope you know what you're in for once this is over.

Back when I was living in Zaffra, we had a saying. "Pnoga entrokka, nie canatra."
Roughly, it means "the empty kettle does not whistle."



In simple, it says that one who complains the loudest and shouts at others over sin and morals is often the most filled with guilt.



Work to stay alive and help others as well as you can, bulorje. Do not point and put yourself on high hill by pushing others down. That way you will only divide group.

Work to stay alive and help others as well as you can, bulorje. Do not point and put yourself on high hill by pushing others down. That way you will only divide group.

Oh, uh, don't get me wrong, that was the plan. We have to work together if we want to get out of this in one piece. I just thought I'd try and dissuade everyone from doing anything... drastic. I see a lot of death. I've been all around the world, it's everywhere. Civil war, bigotry, protest... a simple taste for chaos. I became a surgeon so that I could save lives and help people who can't help themselves. It already hurts enough that there are people out there who are sick and can't be helped. Violence for violence's sake is nothing to aspire for.



I guess I didn't really think "don't kill people" would be a controversial thought. Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression.

Oh, not controversial. Just unnecessary. Most people know that killing others is bad.

Turmoil, suffering, civil war, what you mention does not happen because people don't know this. It happens because life is messy and complicated. Sometimes there is no choice if unlucky.



Like right now. If nobody of us kills, all of us die. That is not much better alternative, yes?

We already got the killer. Or are you suggestion she had an accomplice?

We already got the killer. Or are you suggestion she had an accomplice?