Momoyo Himemushi
That's a very impressive looking ditch. If I wasn't too big for it, I'd probably move in.

Honoka Kosakatua
I know, right? I'd love to rest in there on a hot day like today.

Hollywood Bowl
...The case?

Honoka Kosakatua
Oh, sure. I didn't realize you'd want to rush into the homicide and accusation part, but we can if you'd like.

Agent Evangeline
The faster we rip the bandage off, the more chance we have to solve.

Honoka Kosakatua
Fair enough.

A body has been discovered! @Not Shane has been found dead in the Hallway!

Spoiler: Show

You are the Ultimate Sheriff, enforcer of the law in this here town. And that role is why you have the only key to the Jail Cell. You can either unlock the door and release someone in there, negating their Jailbird status... or if you get someone in there yourself by hook or by crook, lock the door on them and set them up as a Jailbird the next night! Additionally, as long as someone's in the Jail Cell - regardless of how they got in there - you can interrogate them for information about their previous night's results, up to two questions per person per night. They will unable to hide things from you! However, you can't do this to the same person two nights in a row. Additionally, thanks to the lawman's nature, you fulfill a day motive as long as you vote for the right person, OR the right person is lynched. No need to worry about getting both in one, even if it says so!

Forbidden Action: You're the lone badge. The John Wayne. And that applies to taking the law into your own hands, too. You can't have an accomplice to any kills you perform, nor can you be the accomplice to someone else's kill.

Agent Evangeline
Well... that's unfortunate, considering the motive. Hopefully someone acts on it.

Hollywood Bowl
Hey if we're all in jail together, at least the odds of me getting hit by it are lower! So I appreciate the help. Gotta save my attempts for when these motives get worse!

Momoyo Himemushi
It's true! This was the nicest motive of the ones that will hurt you!

Hollywood Bowl
I should really just see if I can get a phone connection.

Honoka Kosakatua
Silver Junction's Sheriff didn't have much power in this town, if we read about what happened to the original. ...fitting, in a way.

Nothing left for you to do but get on with the case.

CASE FILES
-The victim has been repeatedly stabbed and his throat cut
-The trapdoor to the Storeroom has been cut open
-A canal now runs along the west and south of the map
-The ??? Room has been blown open by an explosion
-There is a large metal platform next to the Purple Building
-The Soundstage shows the signs of an event

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: An elevated water tower. It contains, surprise, water.
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.

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

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.
???: A small bricked up area in the basement. It's unknown what is inside.

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.

LIVING PLAYERS
Desert Sage Dorm
-@North Star
-@Bud
-@Madame Zalsarona
-@Hifumi
-@Cascabela
-@Elster
-@Hollywood Bowl (NPC)

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

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

???
-@Momoyo Himemushi (NPC Observer)
-@Pete n VB (Wraith)

The phase will end in 48 hours, at 9 PM EDT on Sunday, March 30th.

Examine the state of the body.

And examine the large platform next to the Purple Building??

this can wait till later but can we check out the ??? room?

May as well get a start by investigating the state of the Hallway.

Examine the canal.

Hope jail not too small...

Hey, not bad! That ??? Room... I knew someone was gonna try to open it, but I didn't think their method would be that potent. Figured it'd just be swingin' a big hammer around or something, 'least that was the info I got.



Huh. what're you lookin' at me like that for? This outfit?

...Well, someone had to whip that cat into shape, and you didn't expect me to work out in my suit, did you?

It's plenty flexible for combat situations, but come on... Fabric like that... replacing it'd cost me three month's pay, and that's if I'm lucky... Besides, I'm used to putting on all kinds of outfits at this point. You've gotta be adaptable in this line of work.



Anyway, let's check the Mayor's Office, Schoolhouse, Officer's Club, and the Courthouse too. Any signs the body was dragged through? Anywhere look like a fight went down? Can't say I liked the guy, but I doubt the sheriff'd go down without a fight.



Oh. And speaking of the ??? Room... I've got something to show you too, when the time comes. There's more than just mines underneath the Orange Building.

This post was last modified: Mar 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM by Honoka Kosakatua.

Examine the state of the body.

And examine the large platform next to the Purple Building??

You examine the body. Not Shane is lying on his back in a small pool of blood. His neck has been sliced open, and he's repeatedly been stabbed in the chest. You don't see any other injuries.

The large platform is a metal platform, with a small control box at about the height of a car window in a large vehicle. You press a couple buttons, and the platform begins to sink. It seems like this is actually a car elevator for the Construction Garage in the basement.

this can wait till later but can we check out the ??? room?

You check it out. Someone has blasted open an entrance in the brick wall.

The ??? Room is the Shrine to Atua. It is decorated with gleaming gold, and a golden statue of a buffalo-horned figure sits in the middle, with a bloodstained bowl lying in front of it. There's several ritual knives hanging on the walls here.

May as well get a start by investigating the state of the Hallway.

You investigate the Hallway. It's got some desert paintings, and of course the dead body of Not Shane. Besides the body and the blood around it, nothing else seems out of place up here.

Examine the canal.

You check out the canal. It's a nice freshwater spring from the water source next to the beehive, that runs down, curves past the Plot, under the Water Tower, down by the Corral, and then east out of town. It's a couple feet wide - you can hop over it with a good running start.

Anyway, let's check the Mayor's Office, Schoolhouse, Officer's Club, and the Courthouse too. Any signs the body was dragged through? Anywhere look like a fight went down? Can't say I liked the guy, but I doubt the sheriff'd go down without a fight.[/color]

You look around at these rooms. You don't see any signs of a fight. Doesn't look like there's any drag marks or bloodstains in those rooms.

If it's any use, I'll help North Star with the search. Mark my words, we're gonna solve this thing or my name ain't Arizona Ranger

But it's not...

Shoot, yer right Marty! Well I reckon it should be.

If it's any use, I'll help North Star with the search. Mark my words, we're gonna solve this thing or my name ain't Arizona Ranger

But it's not...

Shoot, yer right Marty! Well I reckon it should be.

You and North Star do some comparison knife tests.

Seems like the kitchen knives don't match his wounds.

The combat knives don't match the wound on his throat. They do, however, match the stabs to his chest. One of the knives in the Army Post is also noticeably wet.

...Shrine to Atua, huh? Well, that doesn't bode well.

How fresh do those bloodstains look? If we're lucky, they'll be as old as everything else down here.

If we're not... then...

Examine Not Shane's inventory with a particular focus on the jailhouse key.

Long shot but do the ritual knives match the throat wound?

...Shrine to Atua, huh? Well, that doesn't bode well.

How fresh do those bloodstains look? If we're lucky, they'll be as old as everything else down here.

If we're not... then...

Thankfully, these bloodstains look very old.

You'd estimate approximately a century and a half old.

What do we mean wet when we say the knife is wet?

What do we mean wet when we say the knife is wet?

To be more precise, it's wet with water specifically, rather than some sort of other liquid. Just a bunch of clinging water you can feel when you pick it up.

...Shrine to Atua, huh? Well, that doesn't bode well.

How fresh do those bloodstains look? If we're lucky, they'll be as old as everything else down here.

If we're not... then...

Thankfully, these bloodstains look very old.

You'd estimate approximately a century and a half old.

Hah... that's a relief. While we're at it checking this guy for his key though, I'd also like to present any jail keys I have on my person. I was planning on mugging him at the workout session, but for some reason my memory's pretty hazy. Let's clear that up, yeah?

This post was last modified: Mar 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM by Akira Kogami.

Is the water on the knife noticeably cool or is it hot, warm, or roughly room temperature?

This post was last modified: Mar 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM by Superchao.

Hah... that's a relief. While we're at it checking this guy for his key though, I'd also like to present any jail keys I have on my person. I was planning on mugging him at the workout session, but for some reason my memory's pretty hazy. Let's clear that up, yeah?

You present all the jail keys you don't have, which is a subset that includes all jail keys ever, due to your lack of any jail keys.

Is the water on the knife noticeably cool or is it hot, warm, or roughly room temperature?

The water seems to be room temperature.

Examine Not Shane's inventory with a particular focus on the jailhouse key.

Long shot but do the ritual knives match the throat wound?

Not Shane possesses the following items:

-The Jail Cell Key
-A horse mask
-A few lore documents from the original Sheriff of Silver Junction
-A couple lore letters
-A bunch of meaningless letters
-A gas mask stuffed with some sort of chloroform
-$52 in new money
-$2 in old money
-Two guns
-A cloak
-A piece of rope
-A trident
-A voice recorder
-A pack of cigarettes
-A sheriff's badge
-A bulletproof vest
-suncream
-A flask

The ritual knives seem to be a match for the throat wound.

Play back anything that's on the voice recorder.