This post was last modified: Yesterday at 12:58 PM by Atua.

Honoka Kosakatua
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Hollywood Bowl
Well, I can't say I feel too bad about that.

Deathborn
It is a shame, however. Now none stand openly opposed to Atua.

Pohatu
You know, if this whole thing was a scheme to fuck over one guy, next time say so!

Momoyo Himemushi
I mean, it would have been a hard sell. Hey, join a Killing Game as part of an entrapment scheme! You'll probably die!

Agent Evangeline
And, well... no offense, but it doesn't seem like it worked out that well for your group.

A body has been discovered! @Honoka Kosakatua has been found dead in the Outside!

Spoiler: Show

You are the Ultimate Conspirator, and you are deeply involved in this Killing Game. In truth, this has all been a scheme between you, Deathborn, and Momoyo, with the unwitting help of the other NPCs. Though it's an enormous gamble, it will all be worth it if it works out. As a result of this ability, you are exempt from the Mastermind's motives, though should someone else assign NPC-affecting motives, you will need to observe those. Additionally, you have the master key to the above-ground areas, Deathborn passing it off to you to make it easier to open doors for investigations. This does not work on the vault, nor does it work on any below-ground doors.

Forbidden Action: Your master key is a vital tool, and we do mean literally vital. If the master key is ever destroyed, that's the end of you!

Honoka Kosakatua
...Dammit.

Atua
Hahahahahaha! I suppose that is the risk one takes by stepping into the Killing Game directly. Of course, I have nothing to fear, but the three of you... well. It was a worthwhile endeavor on your parts nonetheless.

But of course, the living victim is only part of tonight's story...

A second body has been discovered! @Jessica has been found dead in the Gambling Parlor!

Her role remains unchanged.

Atua
Now then. Will the living or the dead show themselves as the greater force? Will the killers win, or will the investigators catch them? For my first day as the true master of this Killing Game - oh yes, with Honoka dead, it is truly mine - I wish to see everything you have to offer!

CASE FILES
-Honoka's body is sitting in the bulldozer from the garage, which has crashed into the wall by the Plot and Beehive
-Jessica's body is sitting at a table in the Gambling Parlor. There is a pumpkin sitting on her head, with a frowny face painted on it with blood
-A hole is now in the floor of the Restaurant
-The Water Tower has collapsed, destroying the water tank
-A large hole is now in the west wall of the Jail Cell
-Several bits of bone are scattered in a large field over the entire map
-The Canal was blockaded and inaccessible all night

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, three passenger cars, and a caboose 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 Field: A debris field created by the collapse of the Water Tower. Rather annoying to pick your way through.
Plot: A roped off and well-tilled plot of land. Community garden in progress.
Outhouses: A pair of new outhouses constructed by Reginald Fikwerther in a more useful location.
Outhouse Crater: There was a bathroom here. It's gone now.
Canal: A small stream of water running along a pre-dug ditch, starting from a spring in the rocks.

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.

Basement Floor: Show

Purple Building
Storeroom: The storeroom underneath the General Store. Everything in the General Store? There's even more of it here. Contains a locked tunnel to the Rectory and a passcode door to the rest of the Purple Building's basement.
Construction Garage: A large underground garage, with an excavator, bulldozer, and drill tank. It also has a large shutter in the west wall.
Liturgic Silver Processing: A room designed to drain Liturgic Esotera out of the silver in Silver Junction, after it was saturated with the stuff by whatever happened in the past.
Crimson Eye Storage Facility: A storage facility for the Crimson Eye. Contains body armor, modern guns, and other normal high-end equipment necessary for suiting up.

Blue Building
Sacristy: The room to prepare for services in the church. Notably, despite the church starting as Protestant Christianity, the materials available in the church reflect a completely different religion, that of Atuaism.
Rectory: The room and board provided with the church, and thus the room where Spencer Edwards lived during the early 1870s.
Church Records: A room holding archives of church documents from Silver Junction's original time.
Crypt: An old, moldy crypt. Contains a few skeletons. Spooky.
Shrine to Atua: A small shrine specifically dedicated to Atua, the God of Killing Games.

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. Contains a locked tunnel to the Rectory.
Liturgic Testing Range: A room with a sealed chamber and an observation area, designed to test equipment in relative safety.

Orange Building
Paranormal Division Headquarters: The headquarters of the Union Army Paranormal Division, roughly carved from the rock. Contains a whole lot of information about their mission and the Silver Junction 1873 Incident, though the last part of that incident was sealed by the President's order.
Union Army Barracks: A sleeping place for the Paranormal Division soldiers during 1873. You can use it, though it's a little unmaintained.
Army Supply Depot: An old supply depot. Full of rotten food and old materials, though the latter still works.
Occultic Weaponry Storage: The Union Army's storage of Occultic-empowered weaponry.
Mineshaft: The mineshaft that connects the Ruined Mine room to the underground Mine itself. Contains a hidden door to the Paranormal Division HQ.

LIVING PLAYERS
Desert Sage Dorm
-@North Star
-@Bud
-@Madame Zalsarona
-@Hifumi
-@Elster
-@Theodore Noise (Ghost)
-@Tsavorae (Ghost)
-@Lasagna Cat (Ghost)
-@Cascabela (Ghost)
-@Hollywood Bowl (NPC)
-@Momoyo Himemushi (NPC Ghost)

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

Century Agave Dorm
-@Ranger
-@Roland
-@Kroos the Keen Glint
-@Nico Yazawa
-@McJango
-@Marisa Kirisame (Ghost)
-@Neil Marshall (Ghost)
-@Serph (Ghost)
-@Jessica (Double Ghost)
-@Honoka Kosakatua (NPC Ghost)
-@Pohatu (NPC Ghost)

???
-@Atua (NPC)

The phase will end in 48 hours, at 9 PM EDT on Sunday, April 20th.

JESSICA
Hey everyone...


...I died again.

Can I... autopsy both bodies?

Who scatter bones

May I examine the Bulldozer? What is it doing out there?

I'll leave investigating the bodies to our esteemed, and dead, doctor. Inspect the water tower and admire my handiwork

Why do you guys keep killing the "masterminds" when there are several actual killers running around?

This post was last modified: Yesterday at 1:43 AM by Superchao.

JESSICA
Hey everyone...


...I died again.

Can I... autopsy both bodies?

You investigate Honoka's body. Her hands have been stabbed through, she has severe blunt force trauma, and she has 1873 carved into her chest. Your autopsy confirms the blunt force trauma is the cause of death.

You investigate... your own body. You take the pumpkin off your head.

There is no head. Your head has been removed outright and the pumpkin placed on the neck stump. You also find that you have a large axe wound in your back, and you are sitting in front of a hand of cards. The axe is still stuck in your back, and you confirm it is the same weapon that was used to remove your head. There is also a single unfired bullet sitting on the table in front of you.

May I examine the Bulldozer? What is it doing out there?

You look over the bulldozer. It's smashed clean into the wall, and it's badly damaged. There is a toolbox jammed on the drive pedal, holding it down.

I'll leave investigating the bodies to our esteemed, and dead, doctor. Inspect the water tower and admire my handiwork

The water tower is completely collapsed. The water tank is smashed apart, and it appears that there's the signs of axe damage and an explosion in the wreckage.

On the bottom of the water tank is written 1881592.

Do either of the General Store or Restaurant have pumpkins? Actually, Is the pumpkin on Jessica's head organic, or are we dealing with, like, a plastic bauble?

Do either of the General Store or Restaurant have pumpkins? Actually, Is the pumpkin on Jessica's head organic, or are we dealing with, like, a plastic bauble?

It's an organic, ordinary pumpkin. You can find them in the Restaurant and the Storeroom.

This post was last modified: Yesterday at 1:19 AM by Jessica.

O-oh, the hand of cards... is there anything specific about those? Like a certain poker hand, or blood on them, or...

Could the bulldozer have made the blunt force trauma?

And... um... does the axe look like it's from somewhere in particular?

I'll keep the pumpkin on, if that's okay... at least until we find my head. Sorry for all the questions...

...If you ask me, I'm just glad to be out of jail... and that stupid outfit.

What's the deal with the toolbox? Is it bloody? Are there any missing tools?

O-oh, the hand of cards... is there anything specific about those? Like a certain poker hand, or blood on them, or...

Could the bulldozer have made the blunt force trauma?

And... um... does the axe look like it's from somewhere in particular?

I'll keep the pumpkin on, if that's okay... at least until we find my head. Sorry for all the questions...

It appears to be the Ace of Spades, the Ace of Clubs, the 8 of Spades, the 8 of Clubs, and the Queen of Clubs.

In other words, the Dead Man's Hand.

It doesn't look like running Honoka over with the bulldozer would have produced the blunt force trauma. It would have just crushed her.

The axe is a generic axe. You could find these in Mining Equipment, Carpentry, the General Store, or Station Storage.

...If you ask me, I'm just glad to be out of jail... and that stupid outfit.

What's the deal with the toolbox? Is it bloody? Are there any missing tools?

You check out the toolbox. It's clean, and it's got all its tools.

Looks like the support beams in the Saloon broke, causing a section of the floor to collapse under its own weight.

I show off the axe Roland gave me~

I show off the axe Roland gave me~

It's quite nice. It's clean as a sheet in all ways, too.

This post was last modified: Yesterday at 1:41 AM by Jessica.

Kroos asked if I could check the shape and depth of the wounds on Honoka to see what might've made them, so I'll do that...

I wanted to talk with her some more today. I mean... I guess she's here, technically... but it's kind of sad. I know you all hated her, and I-I wasn't around for all that, but... maybe she was doing this for a reason?

A-and if you have time, I also want to check if Mining Equipment, Carpentry, the General Store, or Station Storage are missing axes. There's probably at least one gone, if Marisa was using an axe. (I have to follow up on Hifumi's room later... can't forget...)

Can I look around the state of the Garage to see if there's anything suspicious from Honoka's body? Blood, out of place things, etc?

Bud show hammer.