Atua
I must say... it's an interesting concept. Destroying My works and symbols, and rebuilding this town to erase the scars I left on it, a hundred and fifty-six years ago... I can respect that. It will not save you from My wrath or deny the Third Ritual's purpose, but it has indeed left its mark.

Agent Evangeline
The results aren't dissimilar at all to what the BPI calculations ran. Fascinating stuff, we've never had a Liturgic entity to so directly compare the sources of worship to...

Hollywood Bowl
Yeah, not to be rude, but the hell happened to your horn? And why do you have a stupid hat. You said only we were stuck with stupid hats.

Atua
Ah, yes. One of your compatriarts felt it necessary to lambast Me for my deeds, and to gift this to Me as a sign of their disrespect. When I decided to politely inform them of My displeasure, your mayor chose to battle Me. It was rather impressive, and he was able to land a single lucky hit. Oh well, one horn is enough.

Agent Evangeline
The fact that you're openly saying who fought you. That means what I think it does, doesn't it.

Atua
Yes, well. As they always say... you should see the other guy.

A body has been discovered! @Bud has been found dead at the end of the Canal!

Spoiler: Show

You are the Ultimate War Veteran, and though the war may be over, it still sunk deep into you. The life of a soldier is hard to leave behind, even here. First off, you always wake up at the start of the night, unwilling to let anyone else get the drop on you. This level of care for your life extends to when you're out and about as well. You can't ever be snuck up on, always able to detect and react to anyone attempting to ambush you. Finally, you're good at forging through whatever comes, dealing with the pain and injury of the war by compartmentalizing and pushing on. No matter what happens to you at night, you can't be KOed - though do keep in mind you're as mortal as anyone else, and can still be nightkilled.

Forbidden Action: You're far too used to the rations and light living of camp life, and still haven't adjusted to the rich food of civilization - eating too rich might put you six feet under! You can't eat any fresh meats or dessert foods. Other foods remain fine - hey, you had to eat at least a little nice while out there.

Second Forbidden Action: Your bees are precious to you, and you will protect them with your life. Therefore, you cannot allow any severe damage to occur to your beehive.

Momoyo Himemushi
Does this mean you're going to do a revote? I have a couple candidates in mind!

Hollywood Bowl
I thought you wouldn't kill people for standing up to you, after Ghost Night?

Atua
I did not. Oh, some of his injuries were mine, but his death? That is one of you. Let us investigate together, and find who struck down your symbol of renewal!

CASE FILES:
-The victim's body was found stuffed inside a barrel at the end of the Canal. It has been completely dyed red
-The victim was wearing the Beanie
-Carpentry has been entirely burned down
-A huge hole has been blown in the General Store's floor and another hole in the south wall of Explosives Storage
-The controls to the Lift have been destroyed
-The Shrine to Atua, the Sacristy, and the Chapel have been desecrated and looted
-There's a nice gate at the east end of the north street

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. A hole has been punched in the side of the wall, rendering it useless to jail people. You can just walk in and out now.
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.
Lift: A large freight elevator that goes down to the Construction Garage.

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.
Lift: A large freight elevator that goes up to by the Sheriff's Office.

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.

Yellow Building
Generator Room: A room with a couple large generators, supplying all the power to Silver Junction.
Server Hall: Racks upon racks of computer servers stand here, with unexamined data in abundance.
Cold Storage: A deep-frozen room with plenty of preserved food and preserved chemicals. And the preserved bodies of the Crimson Eye operatives Deathborn killed.
Maintenance Office: A standard office for maintenance staff.

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
-@Madame Zalsarona
-@Hifumi
-@Elster
-@Hollywood Bowl (NPC)

Prickly Pear Dorm
-@Partitio Yellowil
-@Akira Kogami
-@Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
-@Agent Evangeline (NPC)

Century Agave Dorm
-@Ranger
-@Roland
-@Kroos the Keen Glint
-@Nico Yazawa
-@McJango
-@Jessica

???
-@Atua (NPC)
-@Momoyo Himemushi (NPC Observer)
-@Elden Ring (Wraith)
-@Cascabela (Wraith)

The phase will end in 48 hours, at 9 PM EDT on Sunday, May 4th.

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I hope you're resting well.

Examine the state of the body.

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I hope you're resting well.

Examine the state of the body.

The barrel is resting in the dust at the end of the Canal. Bud's body has been pushed into it.

Bud has multiple blunt force injuries, though none of them look very severe. His entire body is completely dyed red.

Atua
As I said, you may dismiss the blunt force injuries. All of those were inflicted upon him by Me, and are irrelevant to his actual death.

This post was last modified: Yesterday at 1:10 AM by Madame Zalsarona.

Bud...

Whoever did this to you... they will be made to pay.
Let their fetid carcass be dragged through street until the sand is stained red with their guilt.


Walk the entire length of the canal up to its source and look for oddities.

...Never thought I'd say it but... This one hurt. Guess there's no room to be detached this time, the guy was the best of us.

Showed me that people can be more than what they appear to be, that sometimes it's worth fighting for the little things - even if they're uh... Bees.



...Dunno who the hell did this, but you'd better get ready. Our track record might be mixed at best, but you're going in the ground... In a grave much shallower than his is gonna be.

But enough talk, let's get down to business.

Check the barrel he's in, anything weird about it? Where can I find a similar barrel?

Anything stand out about the beanie? Blood, etc?

...Guess I'll grab a ladle and taste some of the water too. Does the red dye give it any flavor?

Walk the entire length of the canal up to its source and look for oddities.

You walk along the length of the canal. You do not see any notable contaminations or blockades on the canal.

Check the barrel he's in, anything weird about it? Where can I find a similar barrel?

Anything stand out about the beanie? Blood, etc?

...Guess I'll grab a ladle and taste some of the water too. Does the red dye give it any flavor?

You check the barrel. It's covered in red dye on the inside, and also contains a mortar and pestle. They're ALSO covered in red.

The hat has no significant markings or damage on it.

You scrape off a bit of the dye and taste it. Tastes earthy.

Is Bud dirty at all? Is there dirt in the barrel? With his wounds maybe? Check for mud too in case it's wet smears or something, too.

Are any Mortar and Pestles missing from the restaurant kitchen, pharmacy, or general store?

Are any minerals missing from mineral storage?

What the hell happened in Carpentry? Can I check around the room to look for anything that may have caused that?

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

Is Bud dirty at all? Is there dirt in the barrel? With his wounds maybe? Check for mud too in case it's wet smears or something, too.

No, he actually appears very clean. As does the barrel.

Are any Mortar and Pestles missing from the restaurant kitchen, pharmacy, or general store?

Are any minerals missing from mineral storage?

It looks like at least one mortar and pestle is missing from the general store. It's hard to be certain, as an explosion has ripped a large hole in the floor and destroyed a large chunk of the General Store's stock. You could find one in the Pharmacy; the Restaurant does not have one that matches.

A lot more pyrite is missing now.

What the hell happened in Carpentry? Can I check around the room to look for anything that may have caused that?

You look at Carpentry. Everything within has been burned to ashes. It smells like gasoline in here.

Are there beetroots anywhere?

Can we make dye with them and taste it...?



I-I guess it's for the better I have my tongue back... um, but l-let me know if you want me to put a scarf on. If I'm making anyone uncomfortable, I mean...

Check the general store and pharmacy for a mortar and pestle that shows signs of having been used.

Are there beetroots anywhere?

Can we make dye with them and taste it...?



I-I guess it's for the better I have my tongue back... um, but l-let me know if you want me to put a scarf on. If I'm making anyone uncomfortable, I mean...

You make some beetroot dye and taste it.

it tastes like beetroots, what the fuck did you expect?

It also tastes earthy, but it's distinctly different earthy from the barrel dye.

Check the general store and pharmacy for a mortar and pestle that shows signs of having been used.

You do not see any that have specific signs of being used.

Let's check the mines and mineral storage for any types of red rocks and sediments I can find.

i'd like to expand zalsaronas rock check to the area by the mountain where she drove the drill tank into the wall

Can I take a closer look at the "gate"? What kind of gate is it? What's its construction?

"Yay~! Your navigator Akira Kogami has super helpful evidence this time because she ate the devious murderer's soup~!! Wow, can you believe it? Let's check the restaurant to see if that vegetable stew's still there and lemme have a taste of that beetroot dye from the barrel to see if it tastes like anything that I tasted in the soup~!"

Let's check the mines and mineral storage for any types of red rocks and sediments I can find.

It looks like there's quite the variety of red rocks and sediments!

i'd like to expand zalsaronas rock check to the area by the mountain where she drove the drill tank into the wall

There's a lot of red rocks around here! You can definitely find several types in the mines, and you can find a couple red minerals in the Mineral Storage. There's also red rocks in the drilled area, and in fact the entire rock wall that barricades you is full of red rock.

Can I take a closer look at the "gate"? What kind of gate is it? What's its construction?

It's a nice wooden gate. It's the kind of old fashioned western "WELCOME TO TOWN" gate you'd see in movies.

"Yay~! Your navigator Akira Kogami has super helpful evidence this time because she ate the devious murderer's soup~!! Wow, can you believe it? Let's check the restaurant to see if that vegetable stew's still there and lemme have a taste of that beetroot dye from the barrel to see if it tastes like anything that I tasted in the soup~!"

You check the restaurant. Soup.

You taste the barrel dye. It tastes like barrel dye.

This post was last modified: Yesterday at 4:56 AM by Jessica.

Do different kinds of red rocks, when mashed down with a mortar and pestle, taste anything like the barrel dye?

Does the barrel look like it's from the Brewery...?

And if not, the General Store? Though maybe it's too exploded to tell...

U-um... actually, what rooms have barrels in them in general?

Lastly, at least for now... can we wash Bud off in normal water somewhere? I was thinking - could he have signs of drowning that the dye is hiding? If... that makes sense.

Examine the soup in more detail. What ingredients are in it? Anything odd or are they your usual vegetables?