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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 10, 2017 2:39:25 GMT 12
When the culprit set off the bomb, it exploded instantly with no delays.When the culprit triggered the bomb, someone else had their gun.The culprit did not give their gun willingly.The culprit lost their gun in a fight.This fight forced the culprit to set off the bomb.A body was moved from the waiting room. As per tradition, when set, the bomb will not explode until the clock in the gold room hits 12:00.
The culprit did not give up their gun willingly.
The culprit did not lose their gun in a fight.
As all of the bodies in the waiting room vanished, yes, a body was moved from the waiting room.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 10, 2017 3:11:09 GMT 12
Meta Phase 6 End!
More reds fly, and the number of survivors dwindle. Not much else to be said here.
Gameboard Phase 7 Start!
As Natsuhi goes for help, Eva can hear the clattering of the barricade she built coming down. Well, considering Nanjo hadn't gone with them, she probably should have expected that.
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Post by Zeus wiz of misfortune on Oct 10, 2017 5:02:41 GMT 12
As Natsuhi rushes to the stairs of the cellar she calls out "the love of Dear God Nanjo! where on earth have you been, you might be the most incompetent doctor I've ever met!"
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Post by Segaco on Oct 10, 2017 6:55:10 GMT 12
Nanjo sees an angry Natsuhi approaching him and quickly thinks of an excuse. "Uh, I was busy fighting with... Ru- I mean Kra-, Kinzo. After a few minutes fighting, he gave up and left."
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Post by Zeus wiz of misfortune on Oct 10, 2017 9:48:19 GMT 12
"Well you have to hurry something is wrong with Eva."
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Post by animex75 on Oct 10, 2017 9:53:24 GMT 12
While all of this is going on, Eva is attempting to get to her feet, then crawling when that fails.
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Post by Segaco on Oct 10, 2017 11:30:52 GMT 12
"Let's go then!"
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 11, 2017 2:54:43 GMT 12
"Oh? We were fighting now, were we?" From behind Nanjo, GOLDSMITH suddenly appears from down the hallway. When he grins, he looks a good deal like a much younger man.
Rather than fight, the two begin to run back towards Kuwadorian. Kinzo chuckles, seeing the two panic.
"Now, now, it's already too late for that." GOLDSMITH says. He holds out a hand, but rather than strangling them from a distance as he did before, the cracked ceiling shudders, and then caves in.
Neither Natsuhi or Nanjo are able to make it back to Kuwadorian before the roof caves in above them. ~ ~ ~
In Kuwadorian, Eva has finally made it to her feet. Her eyes water and her throat feels raw, but she seems to be recovering. It seems the small taste of the tea she had wasn't enough to kill her.
A strike of lightning lights up the mansion, and Eva can feel the accompanying thunderclap shake her to her core. Immediately afterwards, she feels a rumble across the ground, and can hear the screams of two people, before they are suddenly cut short.
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Post by animex75 on Oct 11, 2017 2:58:15 GMT 12
"Natsuhi! Nanjo!" Eva staggers her way to the basement.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 11, 2017 3:02:36 GMT 12
The ground shakes a few more times as Eva makes it to the stairs leading down to the basement and onward to the gold room.
Already she can see large pieces of rubble in her way, but she might be able to navigate it; if the ceiling doesn't come down on her too while she tries.
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Post by animex75 on Oct 11, 2017 3:46:11 GMT 12
Eva looks around for the others.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 11, 2017 3:54:41 GMT 12
It takes some searching for Eva to find any trace, but when she does... well, it wasn't any worse than what she'd seen earlier.
From under some rubble, an arm clad in a purple sleeve lays pimply. Blood seeps out from under the cave-in.
There's even more blood further back, and the smell of it is everywhere.
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Post by animex75 on Oct 11, 2017 4:17:24 GMT 12
"Dammit!" Eva slams her fist into some rubble. "You just had to run off and get yourself killed and leave me alone..." Eva stands and makes her way towards the gold room.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 11, 2017 8:15:15 GMT 12
Eva picks her way through the rubble, but the lighting has gone out and it becomes harder and harder to see.
Maybe halfway to the gold room, as far as she can tell, it will probably need some excavation to get to. Without a flashlight or the like, she won't be able to find a path through.
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Post by animex75 on Oct 11, 2017 10:31:41 GMT 12
Eva swears under her breath and heads back to Kuwadorian. Upon arriving, she looks outside to see if she can assess which way the mansion is.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 11, 2017 13:45:26 GMT 12
It's still rather dark outside, but Eva's best guess would place the mansion somewhere heading out past the back yard.
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Post by animex75 on Oct 12, 2017 9:27:58 GMT 12
Eva attempts to return to the mansion, hopeful that someone else survived the explosion.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 12, 2017 11:36:28 GMT 12
As Eva picks her way through the unkempt back yard, she eventually comes across an ornate fence that at once time would have been very good at keeping out intruders.
Unfortunately, it too, has been lost to the elements; most of it is badly rusted and in a few places, new tress have grown in just the right place to completely warp or knock it over as no one has stopped it.
Eva managed to find an opening, and slowly wanders the forest; hoping she's going the right way.
Gameboard Phase 7 End!
....And then there was one. With the deaths of Nanjo and Natsuhi, Eva is all alone. She wanders towards the mansion, but will anything await her there?
FINAL META, BEGIN!
The final meta phase will end 48 hours from now!
The purple witches tea room fades into view once more, as Kinzo watches Eva wander through the forest. He cuts off his sneer with a single chuckle.
"How pitiful. The elements may very well do her in, and there are other dangers besides. This does appear to be the end."
Kinzo turns to the gathered witches, sorcerers, and goats one last time. "Well? If you have any way to prove I was not the culprit here, present your proof! This time, I will not hold back!"
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Post by animex75 on Oct 12, 2017 12:21:02 GMT 12
"Very well then. Jessica Ushiromiya is the culprit of this game!" The cloaked figure stands from its seat in the back of the room. "As her piece yet lives, Eva cannot enter this world. Therefore, I shall speak for her as her patron." Jessica Ushiromiya faked her death in the first twilight by swapping places with the servant Shannon. The culprit solved the epitaph, and thus inherited the title "Master of the House". The culprit is someone who lives and/or works on the island; namely, Krauss, Natsuhi, Jessica, Genji, Shannon, Kanon, Kumasawa, Gohda, Kinzo, and Nanjo. Gohda was murdered; Genji, Shannon, and Kanon were accomplices, not killers; Kumasawa was not the culprit; Nanjo was not the culprit; Krauss was murdered; Natsuhi's death was confirmed by Eva herself! Thus, ONLY JESSICA COULD BE THE CULPRIT! Now, I intend to prove that you, Kinzo, have been dead this entire time, however one thing at a time. Jessica murdered Shannon and changed places with her, hence why Kumasawa needed to be sedated. She was not an accomplice, but Jessica could not risk her alerting the family before her setup could be completed. After changing into Shannon's uniform, Jessica went to the kitchen and used the bleach-based cleaning supplies to clean the murder weapon, where Eva and co. encountered her. Later, to fake a third twilight, Shannon's body had to be reused. This is why Genji left the door to the waiting room unlocked: Jessica had no master key. The bodies were moved into the study, where most stayed; Shannon was decapitated so as to mitigate the risk of Eva recognizing the corpse as one of the ones from the first twilight! This is why there was so little blood, as corpses don't tend to bleed as much as a living body. Genji or Kanon moved the body into the kitchen while everyone was busy trying to put out that fire...a happy accident, indeed. Gohda was shot at point-blank range. Jessica, with Genji's earlier assistance, had been able to enter the study where she got a gun. She used this to murder not only Gohda, but her own father! Now, in her defense, Krauss attacked first, but all deaths occurred due to an intent to kill on the culprit's part. Thus, Jessica would have murdered her father at any time, she just took advantage of a good opportunity. The next series of deaths were those of Rudolf, Kyrie, and Kanon; the culprit was found under the bed in the gold room by Kyrie when she looked after most of the group had left, afterwards the culprit led these victims above ground at gunpoint. As the detective never examined these bodies, their cause of death cannot truly be discerned without theorizing, and my theory is as thus: quite simply, they either got shot dead or they were killed in the explosion, as at least one person died in the explosion. While on the subject, I conclude that Jessica herself died in the explosion, and thus she was never present when the Kuwadorian group, Natsuhi, and Nanjo died. On the contrary, she only murdered indirectly after the explosion occurred! The tea the Kuwadorian group had was poisoned, and had been poisoned after the Third Twilight, but no accomplices knew it was poisoned, and the culprit did not give the poisoned tea to an accomplice. The only conclusion I can draw is that an innocent member of the Kuwadorian group unwittingly brought tea that Jessica had poisoned beforehand, probably just after discarding her Shannon disguise and leaving that corpse to be found. The culprit purposefully set the bomb, but did not have a gun with them. As we established above, she had her gun at least since the Second Twilight, as she used it to murder Gohda and Krauss, and then used it to force Rudolf, Kyrie, and Kanon above ground, the culprit did not give up their gun willingly, but also did not lose it in a fight, and before Eva led the others there, no piece had entered the gold room since the game began; in other words, Jessica held her weapon at least until Rudolf, Kyrie, and Kanon died and then probably set the bomb afterwards - either that or she had set it before the group ever went down there, as Krauss caught the culprit off-guard when he attacked them, he very well may have caught them as they were leaving the gold room. However, the precise time is not relevant at this time. That said, as she set the bomb, any deaths due to the damage it causes is still her fault. Nanjo and Natsuhi died because the tunnel happened to collapse on top of them when the latter went to get help for Eva after she poisoned herself on that tea. At this point, Eva is the only living person on the island!
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Post by Yarn Witch on Oct 12, 2017 13:48:25 GMT 12
Gold, Red and Blue swords impale Kinzo from each angle, but the sorcerer only chuckles, refusing to buckle just yet.
"A fair theory. But things will not be so simple. To start with, your first blue, you state only Jessica could be the culprit. Yet, in all your reds as proof, you have yet to prove that I, Kinzo, could not be the culprit! For example, if Jessica disguised herself as Kanon, planning on escaping with him after the conference, there is no reason I could not be the true culprit behind all of this.
Now,as for your theory, "This is why Genji left the door to the waiting room unlocked: Jessica had no master key." Yet, if Shannon was Jessica in disguise, when the servants pockets were checked, Shannon had a Master Key!
My next point, you state "Jessica, with Genji's earlier assistance, had been able to enter the study where she got a gun. She used this to murder not only Gohda, but her own father!" Yet, at Gohda's death, I established The gun was returned to the study after being used to kill Gohda. To add, This gun never left the study after being returned there!
Next, on your poisoned tea theory allow me to respond with, During the game, Jessica never entered the guest house!
Then, you have: "Krauss caught the culprit off-guard when he attacked them, he very well may have caught them as they were leaving the gold room." However, Eva was at or under the chapel at the time of Krauss's death in the Rose Garden; Not only would have Eva certainly would have noticed the culprit at that time, getting that distance away should have put the culprit back on their guard.
Kinzo shakes off a great deal of those glowing swords, though a few stay stuck in him. He continues to stand unbowed, however. Not willing to accept such an easy ending just yet.
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