This post was last modified: Feb 18, 2025 at 3:53 AM by Momoyo Himemushi.

Momoyo Himemushi
Mmmmmm. This is comfortable.

Hollywood Bowl
It's surprising how quickly one gets used to the enormous centipede that judges you from the cliffs.

Honoka Kosakatua
Yeah, it feels like just a part of the natural order of things, doesn't it?

Agent Evangeline
I take it you still intend to give us motives from up there?

Momoyo Himemushi
Yeah, that part's easy! Listen up! For tonight, your motive is an upgrade. Kill someone and get away with it, and you will receive a permanent upgrade to your role!

Oh, and one of you should pick up corpse-moving duty. I'm a bit too big to do that now, I'd smash the buildings getting inside.

Honoka Kosakatua
Not it!

Agent Evangeline
Not it.

Hollywood Bowl
Dammit.

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Tonight's weather is Drizzle. The ground outside has turned muddy, making actions taken outdoors more difficult to perform. The mud will not retain footprints by the time of the Day Phase.

THE MAP (Credit to Yap for the centipede graphic!)

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.
Plot: A roped off and well-tilled plot of land. Community garden in progress.
Outhouse Crater: There was a bathroom here. It's gone now.

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.

Basement Floor: Show

Green Building
Crimson Eye Liturgic Research Laboratory: A complex lab designed to study the nature of Liturgic Esotera, the magic of faith. Set up by the paranormal crime gang, the Crimson Eye. The staircase heads up to the Vault.
Liturgic Study Records: Years' worth of records on the Crimson Eye's experiments in Silver Junction.
Liturgic Equipment Room: A room full of the high-tech experimental equipment developed based on the Liturgic experiments.
Liturgic Testing Range: A room with a sealed chamber and an observation area, designed to test equipment in relative safety.

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

Prickly Pear Dorm
-@Partitio Yellowil
-@Akira Kogami
-@Strong Bad
-@Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
-@Lynne
-@Reginald Fikwerther
-@Agent Evangeline (NPC)

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

???
-@Momoyo Himemushi (NPC)
-@Jessica

Submissions are due in 48 hours, at 10 PM EST on February 19th.

...Not to be a stick in the mud or anything, but it sure seems to me like you guys are running into trouble a lot. Knocked out, stolen from, even killed. Well, that one's obvious, I guess. Point is, even as a lowly Grade 9 Fixer, I can tell that most of you guys aren't in the best shape to be doin' this kind of thing.

Doubt you'd last five minutes against something like an Abnormality, and if that basement or the mines are anything to go off of... wouldn't be surprised if something like that's out there.



Point is, we've gotta learn a thing a two about combat. If you're letting people just smack you over the head with a big rock, you wouldn't even last against a regular old street rat, let alone the kind of things lurking out here in the Outskirts.

So, I've come up with an idea...



One way or another, I've gotta whip you guys into shape if we want any hope of surviving this together - but first... I gotta see where you're at in terms of physical capability. Get a couple baseline readings, y'know?

And how do I plan on doing that? Well, hold onto your hats, because I'm about to present...

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The 1st Annual Silver Junction Dueling Contest!




...Gimme a break on the sign, alright? I'm not some kinda artist or anything... Had to make do with what I could out here in the middle of nowhere...



So, here's the deal: Meet me in the Target Range around midnight, and we'll have our little contest.

One by one, I'll take you on - and I'll take you out. I'm pretty confident no one's gonna one-up me on this front, so give it your best shot. Tell you what, if you can beat me... I've even got a prize lined up, sourced straight from places that I've already been, and that you'll eventually find out about.

Anyone who doesn't beat me, well... I'll still give you a pointer or two, I'll make it worth your while, and give you a fighting chance against whatever's out there. Sound good?



...Just leave the guns out of it, alright? It's not that kinda duel. Melee only. Bringing a gun to a knife fight... that'd be a new low. I'm not exactly packing heat over here, you know.

This post was last modified: Feb 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM by Reginald Fikwerther.

So to make up for me rigging the outhouse to blow. I will start construction of two new outhouses this evening. I promise not to rig these to do anything nefarious. Also don't expect anything fancy. It's still going to be a deep hole in the ground with some walls around them, a roof and a door. Just like the old one was. So please leave me be unless you don't want anywhere to shit and piss in peace night 5.

"Goooood, I'm so tiiired. Fucking King of Clubs, I can't believe he'd ruin my birthday like that! Mine! ...Well, I guess it's still technically my birthday. I mean come to think of it, doesn't it make more sense to have the party tonight instead of last night? Even if it was after midnight it's still--"

"--Oh will you shut the fuck UP Roland?! You and your biiig FUCKING forehead! --DId you just say...?! Oh come the fuck on, my forehead is NOT bigger than yours!"

"...Aaaahhh, whatever. Yeah, I guess practicing self-defense and self-discipline or whatever is pretty important stuff. Especially here in this mess. Not like we can't squeeze in two gigs tonight, right? Anyway, ahem, testing one-two-three Maybe someone didn't hear me before, piece of shit microphone--"

"--Thaaat's right, Akira Kogami needs your help~! Now that the evil motherfucking son of a bitch King of Clubs who murdered poor Marisa in cold blood has been vanquished she needs all of you to come to her renewed birthday celebration extravaganza at the Saloon! Geez, haven't I said all this before~?! We'll still have all the super fun activities I had planned last time so you'll definitely want to be there and there's plenty of time for you to hit both events for even more fun!!! If there's time for three fucking murders to happen in one night there better be. Maybe Akira will even pop in to the Duel Club to win it all with her super duelist skills! Haha, just kidding~! But even if I'm too cute to duel anyone I might still head over to cheer everyone on~!!"

(Ayesh. Now with distractions over and hooligans dealt with, maybe I can finally get back to work in peace. I am thankful they don't pay me per meal served.)



Bud. Little starving bulorje.
You have been very patient with me and I have kept sending you away hungry. I am very sorry.

I will be at the restaurant kitchen near beginning of the night. If you come there and bring some more cactus, I will meet you there. If not, I will figure something out. Maybe leave food somewhere you can find it.



I swear upon chef's honor that I WILL get you your supper tonight. You are growing boy and need all of your proteins.

It will be done, even if it kills me! Or it kills anyone getting in my way!

Trying to hold the party again sounds like a fun time!
Oh! I have a fun idea! I'm inviting all the cute girls to share drinks at the party, I think that's what the birthday girl would have wanted.

Oh! I have a fun idea! I'm inviting all the cute girls to share drinks at the party, I think that's what the birthday girl would have wanted.

You may call me by name, sssweetheart, I shall attend.

Ah, Director recently informed me that I am not "cute girl".
Suggestion is I am poor fit for events involving "cute girls".

I was not even considered for movie tie-in pin up calendar.



Now listen here, Mr. Toilet! I'm not much to look at anymore now, but I was not always wilted old prune!
Back when I was saucy bubberje in Zaffira, I used to turn a lot of heads!

Let me show you: Show

Back then I could make man's face flush with one wink! I would have had you running for the plumber!



You know what "I saw Zalsarona" used to be slang for when I was courting age?
It's not something I can say while camera is rolling.