Atua
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! I promised a double murder, did I not? And behold! A double murder is what you receive! No matter what you intend or desire, in your heart you know this is inevitable! The Third Ritual, and My dominion, will be at hand!

Now... to your first victim. Let us see who you chose to sacrifice on My altar.

A body has been discovered! @Nico Yazawa has been found dead in the Law Office!

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You are the Ultimate Train Conductor, and though the train might be out of commission, your tools are still just as important here. You've got two items from your job to use; the first is an incredibly loud train whistle. You can blow it once during the night, and it's so loud it can be heard on the entire map - though obviously, nobody unconscious is going to hear it. Your second item is an incredibly bright railroad signal lantern. It's so bright that whenever you turn it on at night, anyone who looks at you can only see the light itself. There's no way for them to make out any details about who you are or what you're doing, though they'll clearly know the light was there.

Forbidden Action: These tools are the symbol of your profession! While you can get away with excuses if one of them is broken, if both the whistle and the lantern break, the railroad company is taking you out behind the railshed!

Atua
Ahhh... this one is a shame. After all, she was the one who murdered Elster with her impressive bee kill. Alas, the Killing Game will spare none in My quest for the sole survivor.

Now... onto the second.

A second body has been discovered! @Hollywood Bowl has been found dead in the Lobby!

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You are the Ultimate Movie Producer, and you were just here to film. Unfortunately, somehow a Killing Game happened. But that's no reason to let it get you down! You have access to a large quantity of camera equipment, which you can use to record your night and work on your production as you desire. You also have the only key to the Archives, allowing you a bit of a sanctuary to sit and read documents. Who knows, with all the filming that's happened here, maybe you'll find something useful while you're in there?

Forbidden Action: You've gotta work on your movie, right? Or at least keep in practice. You must film something every night, regardless of what it is.

Second Forbidden Action: This film is going to make bread, but you've really gotta put in the effort. You must edit part of your film every night.

Atua
And so, death comes for him once more. Perhaps this time, he will appreciate it properly, before Hollywood inevitably drags him back. How are you feeling, Agent?

Agent Evangeline
...I'm not listening to any of your mockery. From what I know, I think we finally have everything we need.

Atua
Oho! A fascinating boast. Let's see if you can back it up.

CASE FILES
-Nico's body has no visible injuries or marks. A few dead bees lie around her.
-Hollywood Bowl has been decapitated. There are no other injuries.
-There's a new crater in the Cemetery.
-Several hoofprints can be observed on the floor of the Saloon.
-@Morgan got a camera from Film Equipment during the night
-The final door was opened.

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. The controls are destroyed, and the lift is jammed at the bottom level.

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.

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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.

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. The controls are destroyed, and the lift is jammed at the bottom level.

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
-Panimajesh (@Madame Zalsarona)

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

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

???
-@Atua (NPC)
-@Momoyo Himemushi (NPC Observer)
-@Morgan (Wraith)
-@Nanao (Wraith)

Well, I'll be damned. Doubles are always tricky...

Anyways, you'll all be glad to know that this isn't my first time picking corpses apart. I can perform an Autopsy on the both of them, if nobody's got objections.

Oh no! People died...!



Is the saloon okay, at least? I sure hope so!

Check what happened in and around the saloon

Well, I'll be damned. Doubles are always tricky...

Anyways, you'll all be glad to know that this isn't my first time picking corpses apart. I can perform an Autopsy on the both of them, if nobody's got objections.

You investigate Nico. It appears she died of... well, heart failure. Thanks to your autopsy, you can tell that some kind of outside substance induced it.

Additionally, her twintails appear to have been cut off, and there are a few dead bees lying next to her.

You investigate Hollywood Bowl. He is missing his head, which is a few feet away from him. Your autopsy determines that whatever cut his head off took between 3 to 5 swings to do so - definitely a sharp object, but not the sharpest.

Is the saloon okay, at least? I sure hope so!

Check what happened in and around the saloon

You can find plenty of empty drinks, as well as hoofprints that run from the north entrance to the south entrance and then head back in. Also some blood on the Saloon floor.

Check the doctor's office and pharmacy and medicine cabinet

Is it possible to tell what kind of weapon made the cuts to Bowl's neck based on the grooves? Um, knife, axe, etcetera...?

Are the dead bees missing their stingers?

Check the doctor's office and pharmacy and medicine cabinet

A couple medicines are missing from the pharmacy.

The medicine cabinet is locked.

Is it possible to tell what kind of weapon made the cuts to Bowl's neck based on the grooves? Um, knife, axe, etcetera...?

Are the dead bees missing their stingers?

It looks like it was a smooth blade of some kind.

Indeed, they are.

With Akira using the master key, the medicine cabinet has been opened. It, too, is missing some medication.

Can we tell what medicine is missing? Does the former Doctor who lost her role know?

Also, check the pile of stuff in Marisa's room for any medicine

This post was last modified: May 31, 2025 at 2:08 AM by Akira Kogami.

Does the Pharmacy, Doctor's Office, or any other location on the map stock any medications containing/derived from digitalis?

Actually to amend that, is there any location on the map where foxgloves are growing?

Hah... see, what'd I tell you? Not a scratch on me, even after all that!



Hoo... On second thought, maybe I'm being a little too confident in that fact... Feels like I just took a full-speed Warp Train directly to my... well, my entire body. I might not be able to die, but that doesn't mean I can't hurt like hell.

...Might as well check my injuries. Need to know what I gotta patch up before... you know.

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Nothing new is in the dead people's room.

Nico has the whistle, lantern, bandages, painkillers, occultic sword, occultic pistol, regular pistol, flower-scented perfume, sniper rifle, small sword, and a VHS tape. Hollywood Bowl has a few cameras.

Can we tell what medicine is missing? Does the former Doctor who lost her role know?

You cannot tell what's missing.

Also, check the pile of stuff in Marisa's room for any medicine

It looks like there's some over the counter drugs buried somewhere in the giant morass, as well as a few hardcore drugs.

Does the Pharmacy, Doctor's Office, or any other location on the map stock any medications containing/derived from digitalis?

Actually to amend that, is there any location on the map where foxgloves are growing?

Looks like you could get some digitalis-based medicine from the Pharmacy, the Medicine Cabinet, or the Pile of Stuff in Marisa's Room.

Hah... see, what'd I tell you? Not a scratch on me, even after all that!



Hoo... On second thought, maybe I'm being a little too confident in that fact... Feels like I just took a full-speed Warp Train directly to my... well, my entire body. I might not be able to die, but that doesn't mean I can't hurt like hell.

...Might as well check my injuries. Need to know what I gotta patch up before... you know.

You check your injuries.

You appear to have three bullet wounds concentrated in your chest, as well as a few different huge hoof-shaped bruises.

Check the tunnel under yellow to see if anyone dropped anything down there

This post was last modified: May 31, 2025 at 3:51 AM by Superchao.

Check the tunnel under yellow to see if anyone dropped anything down there

You check the tunnel. It is empty of anything new since yesterday.

Nico has no bee stings on her body?

Do a more general check of both crime scene rooms.

Nico has no bee stings on her body?

Do a more general check of both crime scene rooms.

Nico is stingless.

Beyond what you've already discovered about the bodies, you find that the Law Office has a very dusty book from the back of the shelf open on the table. Written in huge numerals on a center page is _ _ _ _ 4 6 9. Nothing else of note stands out in either one.

Dang it Marty they got the producer! Now we're never gonna see the movie

Maybe I'll make it into a song instead. Where's the script?

I dunno Marty. Anyhow, better get to summarizin' so we can figure this all out. I went to Mining Equipment fer some wood and started a new project in the Cemetery. It was Marty's idea. Y'all can check it out if y'all want to. Roland showed up and stood around while I was workin'. Went back towards the dorms after I was done and saw someone ridin' a silver horse out towards the Radio Tower. I ain't sure if it was a mirage yet, but sounds like Roland saw 'em too?

Speakin' of Roland... I ain't sure how to feel about everything he said before. I don't like it, but I don't like Texas Toast more. I reckoned his plan was worth a try, so I went to the Tailor to work on a disguise fer later. Akira was there too. I finished gettin' everything I needed for it in the Barbershop and left through the Prickly Pear Dorm as Roland, McJango, Panimajesh, and Morgan were all comin' in.

Needed to do some writin' so I went through the General Store into the Sheriff's Office fer some paper. Swung around the Plot after that and saw someone set up a big ol' cactus by the Beehive on my way to the Stable, where I started workin' on gettin' the cooperation of that there black horse. Think y'all can guess where that was goin'. Jessica came by as I was leavin' and went over towards the Corral.

Then... Texas Toast! He showed up and went and kidnapped me, dang it! S'pose it's better than gettin' pounded into the dirt a third time, though. He was yappin' somethin' about a witness, I dunno, I don't really like listenin' to him. We went down the east street and I saw Evangeline and Nico comin' back from the red building towards the Cemetery. Texas Toast brought me down to the blocked passage down in the mines and did some mumbo jumbo. I ain't entirely sure what's goin' on, but I think he's gonna bring back them skeletons! I don't like it Marty!

Anyhow, he let me leave eventually, and I climbed up outta the Mine since the winch was lowered. Now that all that was over, it was time to go throw down with Roland, so I got my disguise and did some setup outside. I ain't done much horsin' around since I got here so the black horse wasn't real keen on lettin' me ride, but I was able to lead it in front of the blue building at least. Before I did anything, I heard someone wailin' up a storm inside, and saw a floating, reflective figure moving west from behind the green building, and disappearin' behind blue. I'm sure that one ain't a mirage! Anyhow, I was still able to get the horse to do what I wanted, even if I ain't ridin' it, so I sent 'em runnin' through the Saloon to trample Roland! And it worked! Well, it didn't do much to 'em when I checked, but still... Mayor Ventura, McJango, Nanao, and Panimajesh were all watchin' and looked mighty shocked. Kroos left out the south exit, and I followed her as Texas Toast came in through the east. I took the horse back to the Stable and went to bed after that.

I reckon I did some mighty good work with this disguise though, so I'll show it off for everyone who weren't there. I also wanna check around the back of the blue and green buildings for anything outta place.

This post was last modified: May 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM by McJango.

"Meow~"

Mcjango purrs as you look at him, before you watch him struggles to paw at his device - his arms seemly now encumbered by a large hotdog bun on his body the device reads "Modern Cowboy ???".

"Howdy! Name's Mcjango, partner! Always a fine day to cross paths again!

I kicked off the night ridin’ with my crew at the Graveyard, chasin’ down a mystery! First order of business, we break apart and hunt for clues. Roland, Morgan, Panimajesh and myself saunter over to the green hideout, while Evangeline and Nico handle the red territory.



Out in the green, we scout around and even catch a vibe with Akira for a sec. But when we roll back to the Cemetery, she veers off to the Mining Equipment. At the graveyard, we reconnect with Evangeline and Nico to give a nod that we snagged that key we were after! Yeehaw!

Roland's itchin' to pry things open with his new key, so I we split off and I ride up to the Saloon with my trusty partner Panimajesh! As tight-knit pals, we ain't about to trip over Pim’s cold remains (Cowboy) layin' in our path so move past it. Once we swagger into the Saloon, there’s Ace, lookin’ sharp! He lays a solid pat on my back, and I strut upstairs like I own the place to snag some flavor for my drinks.

I spotted a fresh face named Nanao mixin’ up somethin', but sadly she ain't got time to dish me snacks or give a little scratch behind the ears before skedaddlin' outta there. I saunter back down them stairs, eager for the shindig to kick off!

While we wait I shooti the breeze with my new pal Panimajesh. This fella’s a real brainiac! I just need a pup, a donkey, and a tour rig, and we’re hittin’ the trail!!



Akira and North Star ride in chillin' before Roland hits the spotlight. He grins like a champ, then bam! North Star pops him and Roland hits the dirt. Kroos struts in from the gunshop to hang , while our new compadre Morgan rides through before heading out again.

Jessica steps up next for a showdown with Roland and he’s grinning like a coyote despite that gunshot. They clash swords, and Akira rides out to the east. Once the dust settles, Jessica is on the same trail, heading east to leave. North Star true to his name leaves north, and Roland returns to his place on the on the ground to rest up.

Outta nowhere, we hear thunderin' hooves as a slick black stallion bursts into the saloon! This fella's got a score to settle with Roland, 'cause he ain’t wastin’ no time trample-hoppin’ right on over him before gallopin’ off into the sunset.

Kroosrides outta the shindig to the south, and in rolls the heavy hitter AtuaHe’s hittin’ the hooch real good at the bar before he saddles up for the gunshop. Just as he’s bustin' out, boom goes the dynamite in the distance! Morgan then enters and I purr in excitement as I watch him swaggerin' over to serve me a hot dog!!!



With a grin I chow down on my snack, just before Morgan takes me by suprice and slips me into a giant hot dog bun! I shoot a glance at Roland, hoping he'd bail me out of this shame-bun jam, but as he stands up, bam-bam, he takes two shots right in the chest and is down again.

I hear a hen cluck as Akira rolls in from the Farrier, smokin' gun in hand. She struts up to Roldan, lays a solid slap on him, and calls for two cold ones from Ace before they share a toast. Roland rides upstairs, while Ace, and Akria drift to the North. I also spot Nanao leaving out East. Me and Panimajesh start feelin' the weight of the day's wild tales and figure it was bed time.

I tip my hat to my newfound freind, then drift off to dreamland, wrapped up snug like a hotdog in its bun, cowboy style.