Atua
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! You are that devoted to the Pet Detective? You would work together that proudly, that grandly, all to protect him from even taking the effort to attempt on another? I am truly impressed!

Well, your efforts...

A body has been discovered! @Colonel Sanders has been found dead in the Mineshaft!

Atua
Were truly impressive.

Agent Evangeline
I didn't even know he COULD be killed.

Atua
You arranged a plot to kill my poor ally for no reason other than to carry a pacifist through a Killing Game! Oh yes, I will say it. Ace Ventura did not even attempt tonight, and by all rights, he should be dead.

...The rest of you, however, performed far more satisfactorily. Behold!

A body has been discovered! @Elster has been found dead next to the Beehive!

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You are the Ultimate Gambler, known far and wide throughout the West... in cries of rage at card and dice tables. Your love affair with Lady Luck can change fate itself, and you'll ensure you nudge it along when you're here! Each night, the first negative result that could happen to you will change to positive. An attempt will fail, a knockout won't work, a steal will get nothing, and instead, things will break your way. It only works once a night, though, so don't get cocky! You're also nowhere near ready to stop betting, and in a game like this, currency is what matters. You can bet for something to happen or not happen in that night phase; get it right and you get info relating to the target of your bet, but get it wrong and one of your night actions gets leaked to the crowd. Care to play the odds?

Forbidden Action: Oh, you've definitely cheated, and you're good at it, but the first rule is don't get caught. If your inventory ever contains any items that could be used to cheat, don't get checked with them, or you're history!

Second Forbidden Action: Too much time scouting, not enough time gaming. You must visit the Gambling Parlor once every night.

Hollywood Bowl
You know, I don't think I like bees anymore.

Atua
Hmm hmm. Once more, you come here, to find the truth, to sacrifice another. And even with the pain you have inflicted upon me, the Third Ritual inches closer to true completion. Soon... my golden light will bask the entire world.

CASE FILES
-The victim's body is covered in hundreds of bee stings and many dead bees
-There are no other injuries
-The bottom of the Mineshaft is now a burning pit
-The ropes into the Mineshaft have all been cut, though a winch has been installed
-The Green and Purple branches of the triple tunnel have collapsed
-Momoyo appears to have been injured during the 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. 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, but a hole has been blasted open in the south wall.

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
-@Hollywood Bowl (NPC)

Prickly Pear Dorm
-@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)
-@Skull Face (Wraith)
-@Storm 1 (Wraith)

The phase will end in 48 hours, at 9 PM EDT on Sunday, May 18th.

lmao

You investigate the tunnels. With the help of the giant centipede, you dig up the dirt that buried the Green and Purple tunnels, and confirm that there's nothing there. She then puts it back to avoid any bright ideas.

You ask her what happened, while you're at it.

Momoyo Himemushi
That... "EDF" trooper. Storm 1. He had the bright idea to bombard me with metal spikes so he could turn me into a lightning rod. Ughhh, I'm still feeling the burns...

The bees in the beehive buzz at you. They seem content.

It looks like the dead bees are the kind of bees that die when they sting you. Seems like they died of stinging someone.

Haha! See, what'd I tell ya? A perfectly executed plan - after losing Bud, you think I was gonna let the next mayor die too? Like I'd let that Nico girl take the mayor's seat after talkin' down the legacy of one of the only trustworthy guys here.



That Sanders though... he was a tough old bastard, I'll tell you what. Back home... He woulda' been a Grade 1 easy. Took a lot outta me, that whole ordeal - but I guess that only reinforces one of the City's biggest lessons - can't judge a book by its cover. And that guy... he'd be a hell of a book.



Well, that's that, and this is this. 'Least we don't gotta investigate that one. Speaking of though...

I'd like to check out Elster's body. Is she covered in any kind of substance? Is there anything strange about her besides the stings?

I'll go out and stand in the field myself with the bees. Do they sting me if I'm just standing around long enough, or does it look like they need to be agitated?

Let a bee sting me through my clothes. Does it prevent the sting, or do I gotta wear something thicker?

I'd like to check out Elster's body. Is she covered in any kind of substance? Is there anything strange about her besides the stings?

I'll go out and stand in the field myself with the bees. Do they sting me if I'm just standing around long enough, or does it look like they need to be agitated?

Let a bee sting me through my clothes. Does it prevent the sting, or do I gotta wear something thicker?

You don't find anything notable on her body beyond the bee stings and the dead bees.

You go out and stand in the bees. They buzz around you curiously, but are fine with your presence.

You wave at a bee until it stings you in the arm. Dang, that smarts. It looks like normal clothes aren't enough to prevent beestings.

Um... is the beehive visibly damaged?

Um... is the beehive visibly damaged?

The beehive is pristine and unharmed.

Do the alive bees also seem like the kind of bee that dies when they sting, or are they different in some other way? I-I don't really want to check to see if they die when you get stung... I mean, not for me, but more for the bees' sake...

Do the alive bees also seem like the kind of bee that dies when they sting, or are they different in some other way? I-I don't really want to check to see if they die when you get stung... I mean, not for me, but more for the bees' sake...

It looks like the alive bees are the kind of bee that die when they sting. The same kind as the dead one.

This post was last modified: Today at 4:40 AM by Hifumi.

- wake up, tend to bees. passed by kroos heading downstairs in the general storeon the way. mcjango is there already, that earth defense soldier tries to blow them away with a shotgun but mcjango protects them. edf heads east from here, i leave to the livestock corral.
- while im making sure the animals are all doing alright i hear the train whistle once more, and then even later the sound of buzzing in the distance
- search the train, there's some empty, sticky, boxes in the caboose. pass by eva in the second passenger car. exiting from the locomotive end roland and someone wearing a fox mask is here.
- search around station storage for a while. fuck off to go chat up evanegline, she's nice.
- grab some explosives and get to blowing up the tunnels, have a nice chat with atua about peroro between explosions. he put on the nice shirt i drew up! and just so you know atua i did like the hat. i see roland somewhere sometime during this. head to bed once that's done

- search the train, there's some empty, sticky, boxes in the caboose.

This post was last modified: Today at 3:19 AM by Superchao.

- search the train, there's some empty, sticky, boxes in the caboose.

You inspect these boxes. They contain live bees.

are these bees distinct from the bees at bud's beehive? is that something we can determine?

are these bees distinct from the bees at bud's beehive? is that something we can determine?

These bees are of the same species and type as Bud's beehive bees.

Is it possible to go from the Caboose into the Passenger Car directly, without first stepping off onto the platform?

Is it possible to go from the Caboose into the Passenger Car directly, without first stepping off onto the platform?

You can go through the entire train end to end inside the train if you want.

Horrified and winded and coughing and screaming I LIVED BITCH.

The details of my death were greatly exaggerated, as I am alive and DID NOT ATTEMPT. I am a friend of nature, not a murderer, that's not changin'. Uh... no offense Atua, of course.

My night just started by bolting to the pit in the Ruined Mine with Akira to meet up with the others before Sanders got to me to cut my everything apart. The events there have already been laid out so I won't drag that out, just the one close call where he was down there close to me but thankfully I came prepared. After the celebrations and double checking myself to ensure all of my person was still intact I left as the group dispersed. I head out and onto the main street, down to the general store and up to the Officer's Club to acquire more ammo- I mean alcohol. Once I'm refilled I head back down into the General Store on my way to the basement, seeing Jessica entering the store as I head down.

I hadn't actually been down here on my own yet, just heard everything secondhand, so I wanted to check out what I could of the Basement area. A lot of it was pretty messed up already due to the collapses but I was able to just investigate various areas. Nothing really super interesting, so I headed further in past the Garage and Processing, then into the Crimson Eye Storage. Rummaged around there a bit, lots of neat stuff, then doubled back cause I don't have access to the Maintenance Office so I could get to the Paranormal HQ- look I'm gonna save you all the reading, I explored the basement, if you want more details you can ask. The only thing of note was I found Skull Face as I was leaving the Army Storage and I got... maybe a bit jumpy. I sprayed his face with some alcohol and booked it since I assumed the worst. I made my way back up top via the Vault, then headed back to my dorm for a very stress-relieved sleep.

Didn't diiiiiieeeeeeeee