This post was last modified: Dec 20, 2019 at 10:04 PM by Spooks?.

"So like, I know there's a killer on the loose and all, and I know that the King of Town is being really uncool. You'd probably think this would kill my vibe, but actually I think tonight might end up being the most radical night since the midnight release of Shaq Fu!"



"That's right, I'm talking about this "Gold Saucer" event that @Godbert Manderville is throwing! After last night, I think I'm gonna go hang out and try some of those games that he's talking about. The arcade game in my lobby is fun and all, but I can't keep playing the same game over and over. There's a reason I didn't buy the Atari Jaguar. Plus, I heard he's got a prize!

After finally getting a ghost on camera though, I think I can take some time to just hang. I can probably just like, chop that footage up and split it between a bunch of episodes anyway. "



"...Don't give me that look, yo. It's network television, everyone does it!"



"Speaking of prizes, I'm not about to let you off the murder hook!If you attempt to kill someone tonight, I'll give you a Grab Bag, with a selection of my own special prizes! I'll let you pick one of them. Oh, and remember, bring me that device that the scientist had on him! I'll be behind the shed, and I'll give you a Grab Bag anyway if you do!"

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The weather forecast for the night is Clear Skies. Feel free to enjoy your outdoor activities, though it's still dark, being nighttime and all.

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THE MAP

Room Descriptions

House Bishop (Red): Show

1F

Foyer - Doubles as a ballroom. A large room with decorated flooring, fancy chandeliers and many other things that make you believe that you just stepped inside a castle. A piano can be found on the Stage near the Staircase, along with a backdoor.

Coatroom - This room is filled with racks of expensive, yet very old, outdoor wear. Coats, boots, and a few parasols all sit on and around the racks, long forgotten by their previous owners.

Wine Storage - A room slightly depressed into the ground. The previously worn stonework has been lovingly restored to a beautiful marble floor. Some wine is missing, but most of it still remains.

Smoker’s Lounge - A dim room with a large oak table in the center, surrounded by velvet chairs. On the table is a rack containing wooden pipes, and a box that contains what you think is tobacco. A painting sits on the wall with the staircase on the other side, staring disconcertingly. Vincent Valentine's corpse is lying here, and the suit of decorative armor is standing in the corner.

Vault - A large, iron vault looms out from the wall of the Smoker’s Lounge. It is locked by a large combination lock, too rusted to turn.

House Minerva (Yellow): Show

1F

Unnerving Hallway - A rather ordinary hallway, made several degrees creepier by the presence of a painting depicting a looming, shadowy figure on one end. Its eyes appear to follow you as you walk.

Painting Room - A claustrophobic room, filled with hundreds upon thousands of different pieces of work, from Portraits of the island’s inhabitants, Sketches of various concepts and Paintings of various luscious landscapes.

Leisure Room - Various activities can be found within this room which test one’s wit and accuracy. A small bar is located at the bottom right corner of the room, containing various meads and spirits. The stairs ascend upwards from here.

Music Room - Brass and Wind instruments, as well as percussion-like objects are at your disposal. A cubicle is included.

Holding Cell - A locked, bare cell. The heavy iron key is missing.

House Academia (Blue): Show

1F

Scholarly Hallway - A hallway adorned with various diagrams and equations pinned to the walls, depicting all sorts of anatomical oddities and other things you don’t quite understand. A large bookcase sits at the back of the hall, and stairs lead upstairs.

Specimen Room - Various jars containing preserved animals line the shelves that take up much of the room. This room smells positively horrible, rather than just simply bad as it did before.

Classroom - A small auditorium with a large blackboard and long desks, emulating the atmosphere of a university classroom. Chalk and eraser is provided. "kot waz her" is scrawled on the board.

Equipment Room - A small room off to the side, containing spiral notebooks, writing utensils, and various surgical equipment, likely for use in dissection. An old plague doctor outfit used to be on a mannequin here, but no longer is. On the outside of this room is a set of stairs leading upwards.

Teacher’s Lounge - A blend of old and new fixtures and furniture fill this room, including comfortable chairs, a couch, a coffee table, and a rudimentary kitchen. The new hot plate, toaster oven, and coffee machine all hint that perhaps this room was used as a breakroom by the restoration crew as well.

House Oliva (Green): Show

1F

Workshop - A large room containing workbenches and woodworking tools, along with well, wood. The tools are certainly nothing modern, but in spectacular condition, and easy enough to understand and use.

Greenhouse - Once a simple Victorian era garden, now repurposed into a modern era greenhouse to grow greens and various other plants.

Kitchen- State of the art for its time, this kitchen contains giant kettle pots, cooking cauldrons, pans and all sorts of Kitchen equipment you may or may not know of. The kitchen has been modernized to prevent poisoning from the use of very old kitchen equipment, although said equipment can be found in a separate pantry. Rick's scalded corpse lies on the floor.

Dining Hall - A long table dominates the scene, with candelabras, spice containers, utensils and plates. Some roasted potatoes sit on the table, along with a candle.

Chapel- Located at the back of the mansion, a separate chapel can be found, surrounded by small patches of flowers and arches, with a pathway linking both buildings together. Inside is a small chapel with eight long benches, a pedestal and various stained glasses of religious figures and scenes. A bust sits on the altar.

Trip's Pad (Pink): Show

1F

Waiting Room - A small lobby sits just inside the door of this portable unit, which features a couple pink and green chairs to sit in, alongside with an arcade machine. The machine looks new, and features one high score, with the name entered for it being "GOD".

??? - The door from the Waiting Room to this room is locked tight with a high-tech password lock. Trip swears up and down that this room was like this when he showed up to the island, and he has no idea what the password is.

Trip’s Office - An extremely disorganized office, with a large desk in the middle. Pizza boxes are tossed around the room, and behind the desk sits a hideous pink and green gamer chair. In the corner, a strange computer terminal sits with a login screen open. On the desk are several shards of broken glass, as well as on the floor. Whatever was inside the display case is no longer there.

Bedroom - Trip’s bedroom. All that’s in here is a bed, dressed with his usual eye-torture color scheme. It is much cleaner than the office though, and the bed is quite comfortable.

Bathroom - The one single working bathroom on the island. No deer allowed.

Outdoor Areas: Show

Garden - Located between houses Minerva and Bishop, the Garden was once House Oliva’s own. Ever since the creation of the Greenhouse, the Garden’s contents are now placed here. Various flowers that are well tended to can be found there. Makes for a beautiful sight. Benches and brick roads galore. Two holes have been dug, one much larger than the other.

Shed - Garden equipment, what else could you ask for?

Fountain - Located at the center of it all, the Fountain’s statue is a Goose, head held high, spouting water from its beak. Throw coins in the water for a wish!

Bonfire - At the edge of the island, behind a Bonfire can be found for everyone to sit down and enjoy a good fire, perhaps some smores as well. Located between houses Academia and Oliva.

Bathroom - There isn’t any due to the lack of a sewage system, but you live on an island! Go do your business at the shore.

Room Descriptions

House Bishop (Red): Show

2F

Trophy Room - Various trophies, paintings and displays are located within this large room. Although the objects feel like they’ve been forged rather than obtained, an air of pride and prestige is instilled within the room. There is an open space in the center, overlooking the Foyer and surrounded by a railing. The chandelier hangs down from here, support rope disappearing into the ceiling. A couple of the trophy cases are smashed.

Mirror Hall - A hall possessing a large, ornate mirror on the outer wall, polished to perfection. A rope descends from a small slot in the ceiling, pulled taut and attached to a mounted winch on the wall opposite the mirror.

Luxury Bedroom - A massive four-poster bed dominates this room, surrounded by silk curtains. A wardrobe sits against the wall, and a chest sits at the foot of the bed. The chest appears to be locked, requiring a key to open.

Hall of Swords - A hallway with several swords of varying shapes and sizes mounted on the wall. Some are flawless and heavily decorated, while others are battle-worn and practical. A zweihander has been torn from the wall.

Leader’s Bureau - Office of the island’s leader, Gareth. Small book shelves and portraits of unknown age adorn the room’s otherwise dull look.

House Minerva (Yellow): Show

2F

Poison Room - Shelving units filled with various lethal poisons cover the walls of this room. Despite their age, the labels on the bottles are not faded at all. Several bottles of poison are missing.

Bust Hallway - On one end of the hallway, a majestic painting of an old lighthouse sits upon the wall. The hallway itself contains a few stone busts, depicting people you don’t really recognize.

Seafarer’s Bedroom - Upon entering this bedroom, you will quickly notice that it is made up to resemble the cabin of an old pirate ship. A thick dresser sits on the side of the room opposite the bed, and to the side, a desk overlooks the window to the courtyard. Overtop of the bed’s headboard sits a large ship’s wheel. A knife sits on the bed, and the pillowcases are missing.

Arts and Crafts - A room containing two painting easels and a crafting bench. All the creative materials you could ask for are strewn around the room, including paints, pencils, brushes, fabric of many colors, and a sewing machine. The walls and floor are painted red.

House Academia (Blue): Show

2F

Unfinished Hal - A half-painted hallway still partially held up by modern scaffolding supports. Paint rollers, trays, and buckets of blue paint lie around haphazardly, and it appears that they were abandoned in the middle of the job. The supports and roof quiver unsteadily as you walk.

Study - Researcher Edward’s personal headquarters for studying, research, writing and possibly sleeping at the desk. Bookshelves are filled with various works, essays and various documents.

Alchemy Lab - Various bottles, vials and potentially unknown liquids and materials infest the room. Odors trapped in this room are unlike anything you’ve ever smelled, but some have said they get used to it after prolonged exposure.

Chemistry Lab - Much like the alchemy lab, but without the mess and odors. Liquids, solids and compounds are found, labeled and well organized. Additionally, unlike its room sibling, the room has been modernized to facilitate research. There is a button labeled “Seal” on the wall facing the Airtight Room. One pot sits on a burner, and another is in the sink.

Study - Researcher Edward’s personal headquarters for studying, research, writing and possibly sleeping at the desk. Bookshelves are filled with various works, essays and various documents.

Airtight Room - Seemingly used to test the effects of gasses in a vacuum, this room can be accessed by both the stairs from outside 1F and the Chemistry lab. Pressing the “Seal” button in the Chemistry Lab instantly seals the room, locking both the door to the Chemistry Lab and the Stairs through an unknown clockwork mechanism. It is currently sealed.

House Oliva (Green): Show

2F

Reading Room - A quiet room where the stairs emerge from the first floor. A desk sits against the wall, but the inkwell and journal are missing.

Laundry - What used to be an old-fashioned laundry room with washboards and basins has been modernized, utilizing the proximity of the island’s well for a semblance of running water. The machines will clean your clothes, but they take a while, and they tend to rattle the house as they operate. Various cleaning supplies are located here, both ancient and new.

Library - Manuscripts, essays, books and stories. Most older era writings can be generally found here. The shelves not attached to the wall are on wheels, and they will roll if pushed. They lack brakes however, so do be careful. Some books lie scattered on the ground.

Overlook Patio - A patio overlooking the backyard, garden, and chapel. A ladder descends to the ground from here..

CURRENT PLAYERS:

@Bigfoot
@Mother Goose
@ASMR Youtuber
@The King of Town
@Ham Sandwich
@Skull Face
@Fink
@Godbert Manderville
@Steve1989MREInfo
@The Archivist
@Momoko Koigakubo
@"cooking mama"
@Gordon Ramsay
@Hillary Clinton
@Grell Sutcliff
@bees
@MCD
@Ruby Rose
@Ainsley Harriott
@sealelement
@DemonMist
@Gintoki
@The Kindest Weapon
@Ramone Stradvar

Submissions are due tomorrow at 6 PM PST on Sunday.

You may submit your actions to Trip, Monokuma, or Fun With Despair.

This post was last modified: Dec 22, 2019 at 8:08 PM by Pea.

Inside the Trophy Room. Gareth, his wife Aileen, Angus and François are assembled around a knife display, stuck in a corner, overwhelmed by various trophies, displays and sets of armor.

Angus opens the display. “Fine collection, aye, but do not touch the blades, if you can.”

Various knives of various curvatures shine from the sunlight, coincidentally beaming down on the display in the most opportunistic angle. François had his eyes laid on what he believes is a knife, polished with steel and a fine edge. He pulls it out carefully, to his overseer’s demands. Angus gives a short scoff at the Chef’s fascination with the blade.

“Don’t think these cutters are made for cooking, lad. Your presence alone was unsolicited in the first place, dare I mind you.”

François does not flinch at the remark, but instead holds his head high for a passive retort.

“Blades are made for cutting. Knives are blades, knives are used in the kitchen. The most inspirant recipes are made from unconventional methods. However, I understand that you do not want these knives to be dirtied, am I correct?”

“Aye, but there needs to be no reminder that ‘tis the house’s collection, not yours.”

Gareth approaches the two, as if he were to announce some form of decree.

“The chef will not use these blades for cooking. I think we all know this by now.”

Followed by quiet, amused clapping from the wife behind him. Easily pleased by her husband’s authoritative presence, but easily annoying to the others’ eyes, she doesn’t utter a single word, for fear of being ostracized from the new society and, worse, her own lover. Angus is visibly annoyed, not by the clapping, but by the cook’s wise-assery.

“Overseer, sir, I assure you that I only wanted to have a close look at the knives. If they were made for collecting, then so be it. However, my curiosity also extends to the house’s obtenance of these tools.”

Angus opens his mouth in pure annoyance, but stops and takes a breath before speaking.

“This display was given to us as part of the experiment. I, myself, do not know of the display’s origins, nor do I know of how we’ve obtained the rest of this cornucopia of rich man’s treasure.”

“A… Cornucopia?”

“Figurative speech, first word that exited my gob.”

“A figurative speech that a cook would say.”

“I am no cook. Hells, I can barely toast a loaf without it becoming ash.”

The group share a hearty laugh, with Angus having an awkward chuckle. François returns to the display.

“Despite my insulting and, if you could excuse me for that display of unpleasant wit, these knives are sublime! I picked the steel one as it reminds me the most of a kitchen knife. I did say that knives are made for cutting, but knives can be made for displaying too, if they look beautiful enough.”

The appreciation for the knife display visibly calms Angus down to reduce the redness of his face.

“Some have jewels on them! Emerald, rubies, even a diamond! Breaking one of these would make its value worthless. I understand how these need to be pristine and, as soon as I heard of the display, I couldn’t resist to ask for a viewing. It’s… not a hobby, but an interest of mine.”

Gareth smiles. “Will that be all, then?”

The chef nods, asking to be excused. He exits the room with a hop and a step.

Angus manages another scoff.

“I hope that the people don’t share his enthusiasm for talking down on us.”

Aileen steps forward and faces the overseer with a look of concern on her face.

“My, oh my, Angus, you need to trust our subjects a little more than that! François is our friend, after all! Such talk should not be frowned upon as much as you are frowning about it!”

“Take a break from law, and everyone revolts when you least expect it. You need to practice your stern looks, miss.”

“And if our people get scared of us, what could they possibly do? If we’re too strict to them, who’s to say that they won’t get rid of us in return?”

Angus is silent for a few seconds.

“...That’s a stern talk. I hope you’ve got more of that in ye.”

He then dismisses himself from the room, leaving the couple alone.

This post was last modified: Dec 21, 2019 at 6:54 AM by Godbert Manderville.

That's right, the grand opening of the Manderville Gold Saucer (island edition) will be held tonight in the Leisure Room of House Minerva! Anyone who seeks a night of murder-free merriment is invited to participate.

The Gold Saucer is a casino where guests can enjoy a variety of games in the company of their colleagues. Admission is free, and you will be given five Manderville Gold Saucer Point (MGP) tokens upon declaring your intent to participate to me, your host. All games require one token to participate and are played in a winner-takes-all format, with the exception of the main event. Play as many times as you wish, as long as you have tokens to bet.

Triple Triad: Card game. Two players.
Lord of Verminion: A board game version of the popular minion-based strategy game. Two players.
Doman Mahjong: It's like Mahjong, but Doman. Four players.

And the main event, the Chocobo Race. Unfortunately, I couldn't ship actual chocobos to the island, but I did make a set of convincing clockwork miniatures. This game will only be played once right before the end of the event, and it requires one token to participate, so don't go broke! First place will win the pot plus five tokens, second place will win five tokens, and third place will win three tokens.

The player in possession of the most tokens at the end of the event will be declared the winner, and will be able to claim a special prize. Of course, a Manderville man always plays fair - anyone who is caught cheating will be disqualified immediately.

The Gold Saucer will begin near the start of the night after a brief setup period, and players can join whenever they wish. The event won't run all night though, so if you want to participate, make sure to come early!



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Of course, participation isn't required if you wish to simply join us in the Leisure Room for a drink or a chat. To anyone who seeks refuge from the chaos and violence, Godbert Manderville welcomes you with open arms.

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