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Unwilling to spend more time around the urine-soaked Fountain, you instead decide to gather in the Classroom, which at the very least doesn't smell like a fucking gas bomb went off.

You blame the ghosts for that one. The ghosts and their strange obsession with pissing everywhere. You didn't even know ghosts COULD piss.

Your eyes scan the room, and see that the cameraman looks like he's debating something in the corner of the room.

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"You know, I was thinking on it and like... if there's another one of those time resets... Does that mean my plumbing's gonna get fixed? That sounds like a net positive, I can't even go in my bathroom at this point.

But mad shoutouts to whoever grabbed that dagger last night. With how much you know who wants it, there's gotta be something weird goi-"

He is interrupted when the door slams open, and a figure walks in.

"No Morgan, leaving it in the Arcadia Laboratory won't be an issue. These idiots don't have the passcode, and you need an admin keycard to get in. Anyway, I've gotta go. The cameraman just tried to talk about me indirectly and I've probably gotta kick his ass. Just remember to send over what I need to tear this fucking place apart. I'm tired of relying on a bunch of brainless clowns."



"Oh, sorry. Did you happen to overhear my phone conversation that explicitly involved insulting you at least twice? My bad!

Decided to shack up in the Classroom, huh? Oooooh, bad choice. You know, House Academia is really fucked up. Analyze to enough of these visions on loop long enough and this place gets real sinister real quick. Say, speaking of horrible crimes against nature... looks like the thief still hasn't come fowrard.

Look, I just want to talk, okay?"



"A̼n̴͚̼̼̠̺d̥̱͖ ͍͎̳̠̖́I̡̥̱͔͔'̨̤m̫͇ ̣͔̪̙̭̖͘s̛͚̝͓u̹͇̩̜̯̲̩̕r̺̹ͅe͉̯͚͉̳̣͎ ͝y͙o͔̻̭͠u̥̜̫̯͜r͇͈̝͔͚ ̭̥̲̠̺̀ͅc̶̭ͅo̳̪̰̩͉r̡̺̱͎͔̲̯p̞̗̙s̭͍̥̳͕e ̖͈̲̙̙̖͜i̵̠̳̹̙̲̺s̜ ͓̱ģ̻̦͍̼o͡n̢̩̳̥̺ͅn̻̼̱̙a̴̼̘͔̜̱ ̘m̱̗͚̤̯ͅa̷̦̝͖͙̜k̷e͠ ̗̰̞f̝o̙̥̥̤r ̜̭̘͞ąn͙͔͙̻̝ ̱̖̭̦̮̖e͓̭̗x̺̭͖͕͍c̻̩̲̱̘̻e̼̫̠̥̝̼̩l̻͍̙̙͙̥͜ͅl͘ẹ̝̲͈̲n͎̠͔̙͕͎t̰͎̯̼̻͕͉̀ ̯̩͚̜̱̕c̤̗̲̀ͅo̶͚̻͔͕̗̬̱ṋ̥̰̙̻ͅv̫̙̫̰̖e͏̘̟̮͍r͕̘ͅs̷̗͚̫̗͙͕at̘̹͍̻̫͞i̸̺̻̪͔o̺n͓͞a͈̩̦l̯̻͎̟̹̣̗i̛͚̺̟̘͕s̞̫͙͍t͏͈̜̬."



"I'm kidding. Mostly.

Now that corpses are the topic of the evening though, seems like there's only a tight-knight group left, huh? Couple outliers, but not many. I'd be watchin' your back though, do you really think half these people wouldn't backstab you for an easy win?"



"Except maybe Manderville. He's a pure soul. It's why you should murder him. Trust me.

But I know there's too many pacifists among you. At the same time, just forcing everyone to kill every night isn't creative. Doesn't really have any kind of comedy factor past the first time. People adjust.

But hey! So do Forbidden Actions, or they will if you don't attempt anyway. How does an extra Five of the suckers sound? Up to you though! No pressure. Of course, there's always option #2.

One of you has that dagger, and like it or not... that puts you ahead of me in this little game. If you aren't going to hand it over, then at this point I might as well just kick back and watch you blaze the trail for me.

Good luck. Heh heh heh."

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The weather forecast for the night is Creeping Darkness. You feel a presence following you, watching your every move. You must visit at least 5 rooms tonight, or disappoint your overseer, leading to your immediate execution.



"Technically speaking, I'm not supposed in this part of the Night Post, but hey. Rules are for chumps. You thought the Ghost Night was a one-and-done, huh? Nah. These late-game murder cases blow with only a couple participants, so I'm gonna go ahead and just unleash the ghosts permanently.

You're welcome."

All dead players will be able to submit actions they can take as a ghost. Ghosts are normally invisible, but can interact with corporeal objects. They will also not receive accounts, though the impacts of their actions will indeed be felt by the living players.

If you do not attempt murder tonight, you will be given five additional Forbidden Actions. And they WILL suck!.

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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. Despite the floor being worn stonework, you can tell that at one point it was quite beautifully crafted. Several casks and bottles of vintage wine sit throughout the room and on the shelves.

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.

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 hangs on a hook right by the door in the music room. Annoyingly, it is not at all soundproofed.

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 rather foul, and the very thought of how bad it would smell if the jars weren’t sealed up makes you weak at the knees.

Classroom - A small auditorium with a large blackboard and long desks, emulating the atmosphere of a university classroom. Chalk and eraser is provided.

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 sits on a mannequin in here too. 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.

Dining Hall - A long table dominates the scene, with candelabras, spice containers, utensils and plates.

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.

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 does not yet feature any high scores.

??? - 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 in a small glass display case is a large shard of black crystal. Your head hurts when you look at it.

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.

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.

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. There is one suit of armor as well, but it appears to have been crafted for decoration, rather than actual use.

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.

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.

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.

House Academia (Blue): Show

2F

Unfinished Hall - 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.

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.

House Oliva (Green): Show

2F

Reading Room - A quiet room where the stairs emerge from the first floor. A desk sits against the wall with an open, empty journal and a quill to write with. There is an inkwell next to it, surprisingly not dried up at all.

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.

Overlook Patio - A patio overlooking the backyard, garden, and chapel. A ladder sits here, long enough to reach the ground from here, if you cared to set it up.

Room Descriptions

Basement Rooms: Show

Passageway - A smuggling tunnel between House Bishop and House Minerva. Can be entered through the paintings in House Minerva, and from the Wine Storage in House Bishop. Several casks and crates of wine sit against the walls. A doorway here leads to the Water Control Room.

Water Control - A room lined with piping. Five tanks, labeled House Minerva, House Oliva, House Academia, Media Group Portable Structure, and Fountain each seem to supply water to the structures on the island. The terminal in the middle can control the flow.

Underground Pier - A modern pier built into the side of the cliff. It seems to be abandoned, with no boat in sight, but two crates are stacked on one side of it. A table is on the other side, with a clipboard and old key sitting on top.

CURRENT PLAYERS:

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@Godbert Manderville
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@Hillary Clinton
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Submissions are due at 6 PM PST on Monday.

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

Inside House Academia.

Gareth is staring in front of a door. Edward’s door, to be exact. A man that has not shown his face since the social experiment started. With the event of the senseless killings happening, his lack of presence only speaks as to who would bother bothering him in his work, whatever the work he has to do at any time of the day, unless it is François, who brings the meal of the day to his door. Gareth respects personal boundaries, but no boundaries are to be unreasonably breached if the matter becomes one of life or death, possibly many deaths. From the corridor, he can hear an argument in the works. He has no doubt as to who is arguing with who and, for once, he is glad to hear it: The lack of silence brings an air of ease to a usually quiet type of establishment, a sense of normalcy only recognizable within this island.

Gareth settles for one knock on the door, in the hopes that it would not irritate the professor as he would answer the door. However, the door remains shut, with no footsteps approaching it. Two knocks this time, met with a disgruntled response of a door opening and a man grumbling.

"It seems that I have interrupted your nap time, Edward."

"Bedtime, Sir Gareth." As he rubs his eyes, which can barely open, even by force of will.

"At about eleven in the morning?"

"Research consumes time more voraciously than you would ever imagine. Now let me go back to sleep, for you've voraciously consumed my own time as it is."

"I'm afraid I cannot make that happen. You are forced by command of House Bishop to testify about this island and its inhabitants."

While force of will could not open Edward's eyes, the sheer surprise coming from the leader's words have done the work for him.

"Forced?! Now then, you're asking for even more of my time. That, and your approach to all of this is brash. All brash."

"None the brasher than the murders that are occurring on this island. While this is an order from my House, you must keep this conversation a secret."

"Blackmailing?"

"I would never."

"Should I trust you, especially when there are aforementioned murders on this island?"

"Yes."

Silence.

"I did not expect a direct answer. Come in."

"Just like that?"

A waving motion from Edward's hand beckons Gareth to enter his room.

"Thank you for placing your trust in me."

"Trust or not, I would not mind the outcome. Should I be killed…"

The professor sits on his chair, clearing his pile of papers, creating empty space on his desk. With some of the papers falling on the floor, Gareth quickly comes in and picks up one of them. A model, perhaps a drawing of a mechanical bird, mixed with mathematical equations that he would rather not read, should he want to suffer a headache from it all.

"... It would not matter as much! I will simply rise up and continue working as if it were nothing."

Gareth hands over the paper to Edward. His inquisitive stare is all too well known for the scientist. A simple smile is his response to Gareth's unpronounced question.

"What do you know?"

"I am immortal, my friend!"

"And Valentina?"

"Has she found out, too?"

"And Percy?"

"Him, too?"

"He's dead."

"No, he's not."

"If you would like for me to show you his corpse…"

"He's alive, trust me."

A pleasant laugh emanates from Edward's body. Where a laugh can be heard and seen from the mouth, his could be felt from his entire being.

"And you would be, too, if you would ever suffer such a tragedy."

"I find that hard to believe."

"And what about Valentina? You haven't told me about her."

Gareth would answer "She's alive!", but knowing that she was also dead has stopped him in his tracks. Not knowing what to say, he remains silent.

"Well, if she's dead, she's alive. Make her eat her meal, and her body will feel it as if she never perished! Wonderful, is it not?"

Edward's nonchalance has turned some gears in Gareth's head, right then and there. Confusion dissipates from his gaze, letting determination take its place.

"Who is Alisa?"

"Now that is a weird turn. I have no clue, unfortunately. Probably Angus' witness for Arcadia."

"She killed Percy."

"How bold of her. How shall you punish such a fine woman who is respected by everyone here?"

"How can dead people come back to life? This is unprecedented!"

The professor points at the stack of papers on his desk.

"There's a reason why I stay in my room all day."

"And the bird in that drawing?"

"Just an old design I had lying around. It has nothing to do with your point of concern."

"What are you researching, exactly?"

"Immortality, what else? This situation is not what anyone would expect from immortality, but it is quite close, is it not?"

Loud noises; shattering, banging, clattering, shouting. The cacophony brings Edward to sigh.

"The boys are at it again. If you would excuse me, I will take care of them, then I expect to go back to sleep. I would like to have some rest, and so I have nothing else to share with you. Before you leave, do you mind giving Hendrik this envelope? Do not read it, however, it is of utmost importance that this secret remains between him and I, much like how this secret must not be learned by anyone else, would you agree?"

"I… agree."

The professor hands Gareth the envelope. He then stands up, picks up a ruler and leaves his room. As Gareth stares at the envelope without opening it, an older scream can be heard, followed by two slaps. House Academia has fallen silent shortly afterward.