This post was last modified: Jan 6, 2019 at 4:24 AM by Xavier [Director].

Looks like you all just couldn't leave well enough alone, huh? Sucks. Really does. We could have walked outta here with everyone getting what they want, but it looks like that's not happening, because another one of you guys turned up dead.

So, let's cue the drumroll here...



Looks like @Alex Jones is the guy to eat shit tonight. Down in the Basement too, looks like the Elevator's all busted up, too. Good thing this time the basement isn't all that relevant.

...What do I mean by, "this time"? I'm sure you all know exactly what I'm talking about.

Looks like his role was Ultimate Occultist.

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When word reached your ever-wary ears about plans to film a horror movie right near the supposedly haunted woods, you, of course, threw yourself at the studio, begging to be accepted on as a consultant on matters of the occult. SURELY there’s no ulterior motives though, you’re just simply the Ultimate Occultist, master of the arcane knowledge.

In your possession lies the Tome of the Abyss, containing vast amounts of information about all sorts of eldritch creatures, ghostly occurrences, and most importantly, the Outer Ones from another plane, which you pledge your allegiance to. You may research whatever you wish in this book of ever-shifting text, including all sorts of low-level magic spells, but showing it to another will cause them to go temporarily mad, forgetting everything they see for a while, and screaming incoherently. Upon your death though, the tome opens for all to read, and the mind-bending curse that afflicts it disappears.

Four of the Outer Ones in particular catch your eye in this particular scenario, and you may choose to worship ONE of the following four, giving you a different skillset and downside. Choosing an Outer One will lock you into that skillset, and you may not change your target of worship.

The Eternal Growth: A formless entity that manifests in all plant life, and represents the destructive forces of nature. Pledging your allegiance to this god will give you limited control over plants, think a weaker Poison Ivy from Batman. However, the Eternal Growth does not take kindly to its children being wounded, and will punish you for harming a plant.

The Everlasting Night: A goddess of sleep and calm, but also death. Siding with this goddess gives you the ability to make one person per night fall asleep on contact with you, ending their night instantly. However, it also makes you more vulnerable to any room-based kills that occur while you are sleeping, as she wishes to bless all her followers with a peaceful, eternal rest.

The Void: A curious goddess, she manifests herself in a shadowy form often in order to study living things, as they contain that certain spark that she does not. Pledging yourself to her allows you to summon her to do things for you. Her tether to this realm is weak though, and she cannot be in a different room from you.

The Deceiver: The Deceiver is a creature of jagged darkness, static, and neon. Deemed the “false god” by other Occultists, he embodies false hope, lies, media, and technology. Often hiding among humans in plain sight in order to lead them to disaster, following The Deceiver has no immediate effect, but may work in mysterious ways and benefit you greatly further down the line.

Forbidden Action: The Tome of the Abyss thirsts for blood, and will devour you whole if you fail to feed it blood from a person other than yourself every night.

...Y'know, I probably shouldn't have revealed all that. Ah well, lessons learned, all that jazz. Not like any of you know anything about anything anyway, right? From what I gathered, you guys just love your crazy mysteries though, so take a gander at this sucker:

CASE FILES
-Alex Jones is lying in the Basement, in a busted up, crashed elevator
-Next to him are the corpses of Hannibal and the Janitor
-All three corpses are fairly damaged
-An ornate dagger is sticking out of Alex Jones' chest
-An empty file sits next to Alex Jones' body
-The Wendigo Animatronic is dancing the waltz on the New Year's Pavilion
-The Dining Car is tipped over
-Several bowls of cereal are set up in the Breakroom
-Several of Studio A's Zombie Animatronics are broken around the studio
-One of the Manor's windows is broken

Other Info
-The power went out last night
-One or more players were AFK
-A massive pile of bedding lies on the broken chunk of walkway in the Crime Scene Set.
-Terrifying ghosts were out and about

The Map

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Crime Scene Set
The entire thing is crushed by a section of walkway that has fallen. It is angled up like a ramp.
Train Set
A set decorated like an old west desert. Aside from the usual cameras and such, three train cars sit in the middle of it, each accessible from the front and back, minus the Engine Car, which you can only enter from behind. The Engine Car contains a currently nonfunctional coal furnace, as well as a shovel and pile of coal. The Dining Car contains tables and cutlery, as well as one of those fun little food carts. The Passenger Car is filled with seats, but also has a couple suitcases. The train has been smashed through the wall of the set, creating a hole in the side of the Old Manor, and the place is very snowy, with a big dicked snowman standing by a Christmas tree.

Greenhouse
A humid room for the purpose of growing plants. It has a peaceful air about it, and contains hundreds of plant specimens, although if a variety is missing, you can always grow your own within one day. Contains some poisonous plants as well.

Guard Station
A small booth with a desk. A small hole in the surrounding plexiglass barrier allows for communication with the guard inside. Currently there's no guard inside though, so good luck with that. The office chair is missing now.

Central Tower
A fancy building, with an elevator in the middle. A set of stairs lead down to the Hydroelectric Tunnel, and the place is decorated with potted plants and a couch. It has been trashed, and the plants are destroyed.

Elevator
It's an elevator. Similar to Studio A's Executive Building, only the buttons labeled 1F and 2F work, but there are also buttons that indicate the presence of a "3F", "4F", and "B1F". 3F and 4F seem to require a keycard to access, but B1F has a physical keyhole next to the button. The panel has been completely destroyed, rendering it unusable without techniques like hotwiring. The door and roof hatch are both blocked by a heavy sarcophagus lid, lying diagonally.

New Years Pavilion
A nice little patio, with a snack table and some loud speakers. An aux cable dangles, tempting you to put on your favorite terrible music. The Wendigo Animatronic is still here, lying on Mario's body. Its battery has been charged overnight/


Final Dead Room
A gun lies on a table inside. Care to test your luck?

Animatronic Lab
A very high-tech building filled with robot parts and tools, similar to the Garage. There is a makeshift animatronic that looks like a human hand, cobbled together from the remains of the other one. A control panel on the wall appears to be able to, well, control them. The individual robot parts don't seem to be too useful, but maybe someone skilled can assemble them? They appear to respond to the control panel as well.

Cold Storage
A very cold room, filled with some perishable goods for staff parties, some substances for special effects that need to remain cold, as well as some blocks of ice and a snow machine, which appears to shred the ice into a fine powder and blow it out. An empty bottle of paint thinner is here, along with a bloody towel.

Practical Effects Workshop
A room with many desks, mirrors, and makeup, including putty, a functioning 3D printer on the lower right desk, and other things needed to create prosthetics, puppets, and other practical effects, as well as just the obvious hair and makeup stuff.

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Bedroom Halls
They're halls with bedrooms, what do you want from me, here? There's also a water cooler at the end of both halls though, complete with those little paper cones.

Awards Room
A room lined with two trophy cases, displaying a decent amount of filmmaking awards, as well as a couple other trophies, some of which look like props themselves. The cases are made of a thick, heavy wood, and would likely obliterate someone if they fell on top of them.

Screening Room
A massive screen adorns the furthest wall, and a projector sits in the center of the room, a large reel of film hooked into it. A laptop connected to it as well appears to play digital video files too, just in case. There's not much in the way of seating though, unless you're one of those weirdos who sits on the floor.

Walkways
Two walkways with worryingly thin glass walls. The floor appears nice and sturdy, but clearly these were designed with appearance in mind rather than safety. Still, if you take a bit to look outside, you can see most of the studio from here. The right side walkway has fallen down to the lower level, and is unusable.

Editing and Effects
Four desks sit in the corners of this room, each with a super fancy PC, outfitted with the computer software needed to edit video, audio, add special effects, or even do some 3D modeling. None of them appear to be password locked, so go nuts. One of the computers is missing though.

Patios
Two open-air patios border Editing and Effects, likely for the staff working in Editing and Effects to get some fresh air in between working on their current projects. They're pretty high up though, so you might not want to stand too close to the edge. It might not kill you, but say goodbye to your legs, kiddo.

Sarcophagus Hall
An otherwise empty hall, but with a large, ornate Egyptian sarcophagus in the middle of it, awkwardly. The lid is astoundingly heavy, in fact, the whole thing is, which is probably why someone didn't want to carry it down the stairs. Someone has removed the lid, to reveal a mummy prop.

Breakroom and Luxury Bathroom
A nice little breakroom, with a small kitchen, fridge, and stereo to listen to music while you take your break. Right next to it is the Luxury Bathroom, which contains a beautiful marble bathtub, sink, and many fancy soaps. Dante's corpse is hunched over the toilet, bleeding gashes in his back.

CURRENT PLAYERS
@Shoey
@Teddie
@Honoka Kosakatua
@Terezi Pyrope
@MCD
@Kaede Akamatsu
@Gnome
@Shroomguy

CURRENT NPCS
@Liz [Security Guard]
@Trip [Cameraman]
@Xavier [Director]

The investigation will end at 8 PST tomorrow..

Investigate the body.

This post was last modified: Jan 6, 2019 at 4:31 AM by Kaede Akamatsu.

While we're at it: investigate the Elevator Shaft, Elevator interior included.

Hey, that dagger seems familiar... wasn't it from Studio A?

Mind telling us more about it, director?

Tonight was... pretty disturbing...


I woke up on the third floor before Honoka and Liz did... and was promptly beaten up by the ghost of Dante. I woke up a bit later again to find that Honoka had already left... thanks Dante.


Apparently Kaede had set up a way for us to safely get down from the third floor using some mattresses and stuff, so I jumped down!


...and right into a kick in the grizzlies from a ghost. Ow.

I had some snooping plans tonight, but I didn't want to leave the New Year's party all to itself, so I decided I'd set up the wendigo animatronic to dance there! On the way there, I saw Shoey head to the east side of the studio, and the gnome, who I did not spray with pepper spray, no matter what they say.


...Also the ghost of Mario flipped me off.


It didn't take me long to set up the animatronic, but it looks like I wasn't the only one planning a dance routine with the animatronic! Mettaton's ghost was there, doing the Thriller dance... along with a zombie animatronic that seemed a little faulty?

After that, I decided it was time to get to snooping, and I headed to the manor! As I went past that "final dead room" it looked like the bi-nightly episode of InfoWars was being filmed! I saw Alex, MCD, Terezi, Trip, and a lot of ghosts!


I did find something tonight! Something seemed a little suspicious about that painting Honoka described the other night. Turns out there was a secret passage behind it! It lead to a ladder with a big hall of bedrooms at the top.

They were all pretty empty, and one even had a big hole in the floor. There was one, however, that had a DVD in it!

That was all I could find though. I tried looking around elsewhere but I couldn't find anything. On the way back to my bedroom, I saw Shoey cooking in the kitchen. Smelt real good!

After that I went to bed for the night.

---

Hey, I'd like to check out this DVD in one of the computers somewhere.

Alright, time to provide some information! Let's war some info or... something.

I wake up, still on the third floor, so I decide to take advantage of this. Asking Liz to try the retina scanner, she and I both test our retinas. Neither responds when scanned, unfortunately, so that's a bust. Maybe we can try the Janitor or Hannibal? I think that's what Alex had planned. With that take care of, I go to the Metalworking Shop, seeing Teddie asleep as he gets bodied by Dante. Dante is now fully erect, and he winks and fades out, while I make a grappling hook. With a crowbar, I force open the doors to the elevator, and confirm to my satisfaction that Alex has been able to leave the top and thus won't get his ass killed by me later. The elevator's still on 1F at the time.

Using my grappling hook, I climb up to 4F, where I check out Xavier's computer. He's got one or two things up, but nothing relevant to right now. Anyhow, once I'm done snooping as much as isn't locked up, I'm suddenly left in the dark as the power goes out entirely. Prying open the elevator doors again, I can't see anything, so I take my best guess, and hack away at the cable. The elevator crashes down, and I rappel down into it.

Crossing through the wrecked elevator into the basement, I see three people lying on the ground - presumably it's Alex, Hannibal, and Janitor. When I leave the basement, I find a branching path. One way leads back to the tunnel we get to from the Central Tower, while the other leads into the fingerprint locked room. It's been busted wide open, and all it's got are half-finished Monokumas and mocap gear. It feels like it's already been cleared out.

As I leave, I notice Doctor Connors, who apparently takes issue to me not being in his class. The lizard-mask man leaves the elevator area, and fires a gun on me, but I hide behind the doorframe and peek out in a bit to notice him gone. Heading to the tunnel exit, I go up to the Central Tower, seeing some bedding on the ramp. Liz and Kaede are talking at the Guard Station, and I exit into the woods. Smasher's there too, making out with her lamppost.

Leaving the woods, I head back into the studio, and head into the New Year's Pavilion to put on some music. By this point someone broke a speaker and the table, so I go back upstairs, look in my room to see if anyone did anything to it (they put Smasher's severed head in there), and see Trip coming up the stairs. He gives me my personal item back before heading to Effects and Editing, while I enter Coffee's room and go to sleep for the night.

Also... let's see what happens in Alex Jones's final ever Info Wars. Show us your footage, Trip!

I've spent most of the night carrying some mattresses from our dead friends' rooms, so that the people up at the third floor could safely get down. Gnome entered Coffee's room, while I was picking up the bedding. I left him alone, but I don't know what he was doing there.

Liz and Teddie were able to come down without issue, thanks to the mattresses. What a relief! Teddie was first to go down, followed by Liz.


Afterwards, I had a chat with Liz at the Guard Post. We talked about what she saw up there, and various other everyday things. You have some weird taste in music, but perhaps some day, I'll have you listen to some of my works! I'm sure you'll love 'em.


That's about it for me, tonight. Haven't seen any ghosts... Well, not that I wanted to see any.

There was a Bloody Foot on one of the trophy shelves, in the Awards Room. Any reason why that's there?

Investigate the body.

Alex Jones is broken, bruised, and battered, with an ornate dagger sticking out of his chest. His temple is badly burned as well, although you aren't quite sure why. Nothing else about him seems too distinctive though.

While we're at it: investigate the Elevator Shaft, Elevator interior included.

The Elevator Shaft is devoid of an Elevator now, the cable being frayed, as if cut. The Elevator itself contains a Sarcophagus Lid, and the three corpses, one of the Janitor, one of Hannibal, and Alex Jones. Despite the dagger being in Alex, they all appear to have stab wounds in their chests for some reason. There's not all that much blood though, curiously.

Hey, that dagger seems familiar... wasn't it from Studio A?

Mind telling us more about it, director?

Yeah, alright, I can spill those beans. Throw you guys a bone, all that jazz. The dagger's part of a set of two, both in the ol' Prop Warehouse. Nothing special about them, besides the fact that your thief buddy stole one of them. Dunno where it ended up after that, not my problem.

This post was last modified: Jan 6, 2019 at 6:51 AM by Honoka Kosakatua.

I'd like to see how deep the dagger is buried in Alex's chest.

Additionally, I'd like to check if the elevator entrance on B1F is flush with the base of the elevator shaft.

Finally, I'd like to go check the Prop Warehouse in Studio A to see if both daggers are still there.

I'd like to see how deep the dagger is buried in Alex's chest.

Additionally, I'd like to check if the elevator entrance on B1F is flush with the base of the elevator shaft.

Finally, I'd like to go check the Prop Warehouse in Studio A to see if both daggers are still there.

The dagger is buried somewhat deep in his chest. It would likely kill if you were to do it to a living person, but with all the damage to Alex Jones, it's hard to tell if it was what killed him.

There's a small, one foot dip between the Elevator entrance and the bottom of the shaft on B1F

You check the Prop Warehouse, and find that both daggers from the set are missing. The one in Alex Jones appears to be one of them, but you do not know the location of the other.

Just out of curiosity, I'd like to remove the ornate dagger and give it to the mummy in the sarcophagus.

Investigate the Final Dead Room, making sure I enter with Trip so that I don't accidentally set it off.

Check out the tunnel to see if I can locate what caused the power outage last night.

I can't believe somebody killed alex
he was my best man
I loved him once
anyways my night started with me unblocking the elevator so alex could leave before my beautiful wife Honoka destroyed it.
I waited in the central tower where I was passed by some bozo wearing a lizard mask who goes into the tunnels
I then see Kaede spread out a bunch of bedding near the crime scene set
Alex then leaves the elevator and enters the tunnel and I decide to snort some coke in celebration (little did I know)
I then see teddie jump into the bedding
Suddenly I realize i'm hungry so I head into the kitche to make a casserole
I throw the bitch in the over and then I see teddie who stairs at my casserole then he leaves for his room
I then hear a loud scream from the bathroom
suddenly wham something hits me hard in the head and i'm the ground
I wake up in a chair in the breakroom with some food in front of me
Suddenly i'm panicking cause my casserole
But hey it's cold and not burnt and it looks like the powers off
so with a throbbing head and no casserole I just think "well fuck" and decide this is as good of a time as any to go to bed
so I return to my room to do just that
fin

Is there anything distinct about these burns
Can I spitball how severe the burns are
What kind of cereal is being wasted

Aw MAN, I can't believe someone killed Alex! And I can't believe one of the last things he ever did was talk about my show, Horsin' Around. What a legacy for me! - uh, for him, I mean. For him.

So, today's the big day. We wrap up filming on the first NEW EPISODE of Horsin' Around. I head down to Practical Effects and find my boy Trip, who's naturally pysched as hell. I get there's a lot of heat on him after what happened yesterday, so I decide he needs something to protect himself with. I 3D print him a gun.

We then leave the room and head towards the Final Dead Room, seeing a cum-stained Venom at the New Years' Pavillion. Suddenly, a zombie runs out of the Central Tower and Trip guns it down. Turns out it's a robot of some sort.

Alex Jones shows up and I get a few nerves before the show - been a while since I've been on TV, even if it is under...these circumstances - so I down a tiny bit of whiskey and may have got a LITTLE tipsy.

Alex begins the show, tells me he's happy to have a celebrity on. He's damn right he is. First, he tastes my blood to see if I'm a communist and slips some of my blood under the table. He responds that he's not sure so he'll need to probe my mind.

He then tells me things are "not lookin good for me" when he brings up horses being close to donkeys, and donkeys are Democrats. I try to argue back but he's getting real steamy. He says laugh tracks are propraganda because it makes us think something that isn't funny is, and talks about how its 80s appeal appeals to a decade when the Democrats were in control. He then tells me to "SHUT UP!" and tells me we're going on a journey.

So we get up and walk over to [ANONYMOUS INTERVIEWEE 1]. Alex asks her what she thinks about Horsin' Around. She says something about being "fucking blind" which is still no excuse for not watching Horsin' Around. He then walks over to [ANONYMOUS INTERVIEWEE 2], throws a tarp over him and films him with his own camera.

[ANONYMOUS INTERVIEWEE 2] starts talking about how much he loves Horsin' Around and this gives Alex an epiphany. As Alex is trying to shoot his points down, he realises that, because a rad-looking kid like Trip wouldn't be fooled by communist propaganda, maybe the show parodies Democrats instead of supporting them. I mean, sure, whatever the show means to you, I guess. I don't think politics comes into it. It's just a damn good sitcom, starring me! Either way, Alex gives the show his stamp of approval and I leave the stage.

Then Alex does this weird ass séance with a bunch of ghosts. Dante's ghost drags Shroomguy in and asks him who Shroomguy is. Shroomguy shrugs and says he's AFK, which was my favourite segment of the show. The ghost of Hearts then starts chatting shit about Studio B and I - again, little tipsy - may have hurled a little comment his way about his being a "fat fuck". Then, Bubsy and TOM start fighting and flinging objects around, and everyone but Terezi and Shroomguy start flinging objects about.

This gives me a good excuse to slip away and start work on Horsin' Around, so we go off to find a lead actor. We head up the Sarcophagus Hallway and into the Breakroom to find Shoey, cooking some weird shit. With one well-placed bottle throw, I hit Shoey on the back of the head and knock him out cold. Sorry, buddy.

And then, the lights go out...and there, by the staircase...that FUCKER, the Wendigo (or any other familiar, terrifying horned creature that was running about last night). It roars and I jump into Trip's arms and we run off into the Bathroom, locking the door behind us. The ghost of Mario is screaming in pain on the toilet. We wait until the heat dies down, and then head out to retreive Shoey. We Weekend-At-Bernie's Shoey's body downstairs to the New Year's Pavillion. Terezi and Shroomguy are running towards the Train Set and the piece of shit Wendigo is waltzing alone. I piledrive the snack table at the Pavillion, but it turns out Gnome was hiding underneath and I've also knocked him out cold. Sorry, buddy.

The Wendigo must've fucked off into the Final Dead Room because it roars at us again and we run off into the Central Tower. That weird lizard guy is here and glares at us before fucking off. We also fuck off. I see the Wendigo through one of the manor windows and throw a bottle at it - ON CAMERA!! - and get it on the back of the head. I strike a victory pose, wondering how much alcohol I still even have at this point.

Well, no time to waste - time to get this film on the road. Or, uh, show, more accurately. In the Train Set, Shroomguy, Terezi and Xavier are sitting about. Xavier looks pissed off, like always, so he gets to play the villain in the classic sitcom "Train Robbery" scene. He plays the villain quite well, I almost even got the sense he wasn't having a good time.

I tip over the dining car and invite everyone for some breakfast. Xavier tells me it's 3AM, like I give a shit. That's breakfast time. I drag Xavier by the arm up to the Breakroom, with Trip (carrying Shoey), Terezi and Shroomguy following close behind.

In the end, me, Trip, Shoey, Xavier, Terezi and Shroomguy enjoy a classic sitcom family breakfast, in the classic sitcom family breakroom. Cereal and toast. With Jack instead of milk, I'm not made of money! [LAUGH TRACK]

Finally, we all disperse. I follow him upstairs into the West building, him heading over the walkway and me into the Screening Room, where I watch an episode before clocking in for the night.

Just out of curiosity, I'd like to remove the ornate dagger and give it to the mummy in the sarcophagus.

Investigate the Final Dead Room, making sure I enter with Trip so that I don't accidentally set it off.

Check out the tunnel to see if I can locate what caused the power outage last night.

You give the Ornate Dagger to the mummy in the Sarcophagus. The mummy looks pretty stylin', but that's it.

You grab Trip's arm, noticing that he looks pretty sullen, and take him into the Final Dead Room. A gun sits on the table , along with what looks like the discarded innards of six bullets., minus the casings obviously.

You check out the Power Room in the Tunnel. The power switch for Studio X is off, and in front of it, a sack of unmixed cement lies on top of a crushed piece of machinery. The cement is attached to a rope, and a pulley system.

Is there anything distinct about these burns
Can I spitball how severe the burns are
What kind of cereal is being wasted

The burns on Alex Jones' head appear to be in a small area on the side of his temple. You can't really tell what caused them, but they don't look lethal at all.

The cereal is Frosted Flakes, the famous cereal represented by Tony the Tiger.

Try to pull up the cement and see if it can be held in place above the switch or something.

Try to pull up the cement and see if it can be held in place above the switch or something.

It appears that if you lift the cement and reset the mechanism, the cement is rigged with rope to fall on anyone who pulls the switch. Once you lift up the cement, you realize the object beneath it is a crushed robot arm.

This post was last modified: Jan 6, 2019 at 8:25 PM by Honoka Kosakatua.

Where would the components of the trap come from?

Does the setup of the trap enable someone to successfully pull the switch and disable the power, then be crushed under the cement?

Where would the components of the trap come from?

Does the setup of the trap enable someone to successfully pull the switch and disable the power, then be crushed under the cement?

The trap components could come from either Studio B's Prop Workshop, or Studio X's Practical Effects Workshop. From what you can tell about the trap, it looks like it would trigger upon the switch being pulled.