Momoyo Himemushi
Ahhh... it's quiet. I love this time. When all the actions have finished, but before they start finding the bodies. The dawn of a new day.

Wonder where the boss went?

Honoka Kosakatua
You knew what I was going to find up there, didn't you. Couldn't you have done it yourself?

Momoyo Himemushi
Nope! Gotta follow the rules!

A body has been discovered! @Tsavorae has been found dead north of the Purple Building!

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You are the Ultimate Bounty Hunter, and no matter what, you always collect. There's a price on life and death in the West, even here... but bounties are for the criminals. Each night you submit a target attempt on someone who has previously attempted, you gain a new role perk; however, you lose a perk if you target someone who has not attempted this game. Area attempts do not influence your perks at all. Additionally, if you kill someone who killed this game and get away with it, you automatically receive a new, more powerful role; however, killing a pacifist will remove your role entirely. Kills on people who have attempted but not killed will not change things. Risk and reward, just the way a bounty hunter likes it!

Forbidden Action: You're here to make money one way or another, and you can't walk away empty-handed. You must end the game with at least one kill.

At the time of her death, Tsavorae possessed the following perks:
-You may ask one yes or no question of the host during the course of an investigation. You will receive a true answer.

Momoyo Himemushi
And there we go! Now, for our second contestant!

Agent Evangeline
Oh. Is this where we're setting up? Because I found a body.

Honoka Kosakatua
Oh, right, double murder night...

A second body has been discovered! @Marisa Kirisame has been found dead in Mining Equipment!

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You are the Ultimate Saloon Dancer. You've turned out huge crowds all across the West, and your name is in lights everywhere you go! Even here, you know that your dances can be impressive. Any time you dance, all attention in the area will be on you and you alone. Whatever someone else is getting up to, whatever you set off to happen behind their back, it'll all be completely ignored to watch you shine. In addition, thanks to your friendly and open nature, you've often won many people over. Thanks to that, you can convince NPCs to work with you more easily than other people can - it might take them four nights to win an NPC over when you can do it in just two.

Forbidden Action: You have a contract with the saloon, and you gotta keep to it! You must enter the Saloon at least once every night. No need to dance or drink or do anything, but you'd better show up in there to stay in business!

Agent Evangeline
I'm not going to those Mines anymore. Unless I have to.

Honoka Kosakatua
Well, let's get on with it then...

Momoyo Himemushi
No, really. Where'd the boss go?

Hollywood Bowl
I've been looking for you people! I had to clean up a damn fire by myself, AND found a body in the process. What a night!

Momoyo Himemushi
...What do you mean, you found a body?

A third body has been discovered! @Deathborn has been found dead in Film Equipment!

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You are the Ultimate Mastermind, the power behind this Killing Game. With your mighty logistics and desire to commit evil, you were able to turn the town of Silver Junction into the latest hotbed of ritualized murder. Naturally as the host of this game, you are exempt from all motives - even those assigned by others that affect the NPCs will not touch you. You are also a top secret Crimson Eye double agent, which gives you access to Crimson Eye information that players do not have. It's up to you who this information can be given to, and who will use it best!

Forbidden Action: You respect the Mandrill, symbol of true evil. You may not, on purpose or accidentally, deface anything bearing the image of a mandrill.

Agent Evangeline
Oh.

Hollywood Bowl
Ohhh.

Honoka Kosakatua
Ohhhhh.

Momoyo Himemushi
...So. I guess that makes me the new boss, huh?

Not a problem! The original Mastermind might be dead, but the Killing Game will continue regardless! We did Triple Murder Night, apparently, so good luck - because you'll need it!

CASE FILES
-Tsavorae is buried in a coffin, which is a couple feet underground
-Marisa is lying on her face. Half of her skull has been smashed
-Deathborn is lying on his back, severely burned
-About half of Film Equipment is badly burned and covered in foam
-The Saloon was blocked off and inaccessible all night
-A large field now exists near the end of the street by the Purple Building and Water Tower
-@Elster successfully entered the Telegraph Office

THE MAP

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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 and two passenger cars 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: An elevated water tower. It contains, surprise, water.
Outhouse: The only bathroom or bathroom-equivalent on the entire map. If it breaks you're not getting another one.

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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.

Exterior Locations
Water Tower: An elevated water tower. It contains, surprise, water.

LIVING PLAYERS
Desert Sage Dorm
-@Not Shane
-@North Star
-@Bud
-@Madame Zalsarona
-@Hifumi
-@Cascabela
-@Elster
-@Hollywood Bowl (NPC)
-@Momoyo Himemushi (NPC)

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

Century Agave Dorm
-@Neil Marshall
-@Derek Stiles
-@Ranger
-@Roland
-@Kroos the Keen Glint
-@Nico Yazawa
-@McJango
-@Honoka Kosakatua (NPC)

The phase will end in 48 hours, at 9 PM EST on Sunday, February 16th.

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T-three!? B-but, Deathborn said... I thought he was hosting!?

I don't understand. Does that mean... What does it mean? Why do we have to keep killing? This is madness. I feel sick to my stomach just standing here.



Excuse me. I lost my composure. I'm a doctor, and it's time to prove it. Three bodies, three examinations. If Momoyo wants to keep this going, so be it.




Let me see those bodies! Its time for a few professional Autopsies!

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I'll examine the state of Film Equipment. And how was the Saloon blocked off?

WHAT IN TARNATION

Well... What's goin' on in that there field round the water tower?

Wait, TRIPLE murder? Has that ever happened in one of these? I don't remember this in my research...

Well, might as well start investigating. I guess the mastermind being dead doesn't mean it's over...

Check on the new field

Marshall
(...Can't say I was expectin' this...)

Marshall
Well, this'll be convenient for us all, I reckon. Yer hardly the kind of influence Deathborn was, Miz Momoyo, and I doubt you have the motivation for runnin' this game without him 'round.

Marshall
What do ya say? We all walk away, keep our hands free, let you do yer business 'round these parts?

I'll be-! Color me as surprised as a recluse bitin' down on ya. You make this happen with one of your birthday wishes, Akira?

I s'pose there'll be time to sort out what happens from here later. Hope you like the gift I got waitin' for ya, but our work here ain't over!

So let's have a look around the area Tsavorae is buried, checkin' out what's around and exactly how that ground's disturbed.

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T-three!? B-but, Deathborn said... I thought he was hosting!?

I don't understand. Does that mean... What does it mean? Why do we have to keep killing? This is madness. I feel sick to my stomach just standing here.



Excuse me. I lost my composure. I'm a doctor, and it's time to prove it. Three bodies, three examinations. If Momoyo wants to keep this going, so be it.




Let me see those bodies! Its time for a few professional Autopsies!

You investigate the bodies. With the power of knowing more about how they died!

Tsavorae's body is largely untouched, except for a single large bruise to her forehead. You study her and determine she suffocated to death.

Marisa has a very nasty head wound, which is pretty clearly fatal. You study her and determine she was unconscious at the time of death.

Deathborn is badly burned over his entire body, and has no other injuries. You study him and determine the burns are clearly worse on his front.

I'll examine the state of Film Equipment. And why was the Saloon blocked off?

You examine Film Equipment. Deathborn is lying here in the middle of the room, severely burned. The east side of Film Equipment contains several boxes, all of which have also been severely burned. Scraps of film and a wire lie around the boxes. There's a lot of fire extinguishing foam, and an empty fire extinguisher lies near the door.

The west side of the room is unharmed. It's got boxes of various equipment.

You also go back and check the Saloon. You... enter without a problem. Seems like whatever was sealing the Saloon only lasted for the night.

Well... What's goin' on in that there field round the water tower?

Well, might as well start investigating. I guess the mastermind being dead doesn't mean it's over...

Check on the new field

Looks like it's been plowed and tilled. Seems like there's a fence, too, made of four mining hooks with rope strung around them.

Marshall
What do ya say? We all walk away, keep our hands free, let you do yer business 'round these parts?

Momoyo Himemushi
That would be nice and easy, wouldn't it? Just skipping town like that, huh?

How would you do it? We're isolated for a reason - a Killing Game can't happen without careful isolation. Learned about some of the mechanics at the Bureau... not that they knew I was learning there. When a game is set in motion, it's going to keep going.

I'm not an engineer, I'm a conductor. I'm here to ensure you stay motivated to keep killing. So, Mr. Marshall... if you want me to stop, stay alive long enough!

So let's have a look around the area Tsavorae is buried, checkin' out what's around and exactly how that ground's disturbed.

You check the area where Tsavorae is buried. There's a massive section of disturbed earth right where her coffin was. Additionally, to the south, a strange trail of dirt that's been brushed leads to the Desert Sage Dorm's north entrance.

Examine Marisa's body for remnants of FA poisoning.

Examine Marisa's body for remnants of FA poisoning.

You find no traces of FA poisoning in her system.

Check Deathborn for FA poisoning

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Huh. Well, shame about the other two, but...



I guess you gotta take what you can get. Guys like that Deathborn... they never last very long back home. Making your intentions known right off that bat like that, especially when those intentions involve mass murder... Even in the City, going around sayin' stuff like that, you're just asking for trouble one way or another.

Can't say I understand the strategy behind that. Can't say I'll miss him either though... Either way, killer must've been pretty brave to take on someone decked out with prosthetics like that.



Seems like people are already checking out his crime scene though... So I'll take the Mining Equipment room for now.

What's the state of Mining Equipment? Blood splatter situation especially. Any trails too.

Does Marisa have anything on her body?



Oh, and I guess uh... Let's check out the Graveyard. Did the coffin that other lady's in seem to originate from there?

Less friends. Very sad.

This post was last modified: Feb 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM by Madame Zalsarona.

-The Saloon was blocked off and inaccessible all night

Paskett qe avokka schaffrak, ondlej!



You quit messing with my damned work this instant!!

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Investigate the dirt trail that leads to the dorms. Does it look like someone was accidentally trailing mud? Or is there intent behind its placement, i.e. it was left on purpose to draw our attention there? The human brain has a hard time to let go of its pattern-seeking thinking, so if the trail was fake, it would look different from one that was left without awareness.

If I stomp around in the dirt for a while, dig a few holes, and then walk to the dorms, does it leave a similar trail?

Also lets check the inventories of all the three dead people.

Seems like people are already checking out his crime scene though... So I'll take the Mining Equipment room for now.

What's the state of Mining Equipment? Blood splatter situation especially. Any trails too.

Does Marisa have anything on her body?



Oh, and I guess uh... Let's check out the Graveyard. Did the coffin that other lady's in seem to originate from there?[/color]

You investigate Mining Equipment. There's a big pool of blood right around Marisa's head, but no trails. You do, however, find a large rock the size of a large rock next to her head, which is covered in quite a lot of blood. Additionally, looking at Marisa again, you notice what looks like a bruise on her forehead. How'd you miss that the first time? Weird.

There's also a symbol drawn in blood around her body. Looking closely, it appears to be the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.

The graves have not been unearthed, except for one. Looking at it, the coffin there is much older and decayed compared to the one Tsavorae was in.

Check Deathborn for FA poisoning

No.

-The Saloon was blocked off and inaccessible all night

Paskett qe avokka schaffrak, ondlej!



You quit messing with my damned work this instant!!

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Investigate the dirt trail that leads to the dorms. Does it look like someone was accidentally trailing mud? Or is there intent behind its placement, i.e. it was left on purpose to draw our attention there? The human brain has a hard time to let go of its pattern-seeking thinking, so if the trail was fake, it would look different from one that was left without awareness.

If I stomp around in the dirt for a while, dig a few holes, and then walk to the dorms, does it leave a similar trail?

You investigate the dirt trail. It doesn't look like either... it seems to be quite wide, and rather faint but still present. It seems like it's got two layers, a solid layer and a brushed layer.

You stomp around and trail some mud. It doesn't look anything like it - much thinner.

Also lets check the inventories of all the three dead people.

You go on an inventory hunt.

-Deathborn has a Crimson Eye badge on his person. It appears to be some kind of an identifier. Other than that, he's clean.
-Tsavorae has a shotgun loaded with rubber bullets, a sniper rifle, two slings, two pistols, two holsters, ammo, nonlethal ammo, a deputy's badge, painkillers, some rope, a combat knife, a sledgehammer, and a net.
-Marisa has four revolvers, holsters, assorted drugs, a book on surgery, a book on pharmaceuticals, two knives, a deputy's badge, silver bars, and floppy hat.

Also, re-investigating the dirt pile that was dug up to expose the coffin, you find a single bullet.

Are any coffins in the Funeral Home closer to Tsavorae's coffin? Just to be sure, do the General Store or Army Post have any coffins in stock, and if so, are they similar in condition to Tsavorae's?

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Are any coffins in the Funeral Home closer to Tsavorae's coffin? Just to be sure, do the General Store or Army Post have any coffins in stock, and if so, are they similar in condition to Tsavorae's?

You give the coffins in the Funeral Home a good once-over. They look like the same model and design as the one Tsavorae was buried in.

Additionally, one of them is missing.

You check the General Store and Army Post. These do not stock coffins.

I don't think it was ever explicitly said so where was Tsavorae buried, exactly? Where is that in relation to the field Partitio plowed?

Well, since she already has all those guns on her...~

Compare the bullet with the ones loaded in Tsavorae's guns. Also with the miscellaneous ammo she has. Any matches?