Summaries
Sept 13, 2013 16:30:04 GMT 12
Post by animex75 on Sept 13, 2013 16:30:04 GMT 12
Game Board Phase 1
The family wakes up to find Krauss, Natsuhi, Genji, Kanon, Jessica, and their guest Erika missing. Upon searching the mansion, they come across a magic circle painted on the door to the study in blood. Battler finds the key to the study in his pocket as he is thinking of why the victims would be missing. Upon entering the study, they find all 6 victims dead, as well as a note on Genji's corpse laying out the details of the riddle and what the family can do to stop it. Upon searching the room further, it is noted that the gun case is open and one of the guns has been moved.
Meta Phase 1
Arguments abound about the fist twilight! Some deny the validity of the corpses, while others wonder about the culprit being someone other than a member of the family or a servant. One player theorizes that the corpses died elsewhere, however I - Battler Ushiromiya! - throw that argument to the ground with my truth! It was also established that the door to the study locks on its own when the door is shut, the detective is, in fact, alive and well, and that said detective did see the bodies!
Game Board Phase 2
The family questions Battler and George about the previous night and afterwords they return to the study to arm themselves with guns and to find Kanon's and Genji's master keys - which were nowhere to be seen. Nanjo, still searching the study, finds a letter taunting the family and signed by Beatrice. Gohda, who had started on lunch earlier, returned with the family to resume his job, however after he and Eva taste the soup that had been being prepared, they both fell dead.
Meta Phase 2
Many theories abound this meta! The players theorize how the poison was slipped into the food, and by whom. Maria reveals that someone has a split personality, and the servants are blamed through the use of their hypothetical split personality! Theories as to who placed Beatrice's letter were also brought about, but none were confirmed. Maria accused herself as a murderer and Dlanor challenged my red to no avail!
Game Board Phase 3
The party splits up, with part of it going to dispose of the tainted soup. The rest of the party goes to move and they notice that Battler and Maria have also disappeared! After searching through all of the rooms they could think of, the party of four finds nothing more than Kinzo's corpse in the boiler room. The party, after searching rooms, decides to go outside and finds the pot that the soup was in - now empty - but not the party that went to empty it. After searching, the party comes across the corpse of Shannon, with a hatchet in her back. Following a light, the party comes across the open garden shed, with a single master key sitting in it.
Meta Phase 3
Some progress was made this meta phase, as many blues were posted. The GM gave the layout of the mansion, defines a murderer, and the players begin to connect some of the dots. A few wild theories without substance were posted as well, but hey, it gets the players thinking and that's what matters! Can the family piece the clues together and solve the murders? Will George ever stop being such a prick? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON UMINEKO NO NAKU KORO NI EPISODE 6, THE RETURN OF THE GOLDEN WITCH!
Game Board Phase 4
Nanjo leaves the group behind out of fear as he drops his gun and runs for the mansion. Kyrie, Rudolf, and the others search the grounds some more and then go through the guest house before attempting to enter the chapel, but as it is locked they don't bother to enter it and settle for looking in the windows as they had the only key. The group of three then enters the mansion through the front door and find Battler's blood-stained jacket. After entering the parlour, Rudolf thinks he sees someone in the distance and smashes through the window to give chase. Kyrie follows him, leaving Rosa behind. Rosa hears a gunshot from within the mansion, and slowly makes her way to the origin of the sound to find Nanjo dead. She notes a missing vial in the medical supplies. After a short mourning for the good doctor, Rosa hears two more gunshots in the distance. Following the sound, she comes across Kyrie and Rudolf, dead. As the game drew to a close, Rosa heard a close gunshot, and turned towards the sound only to be struck down before she could see the source.
Meta Phase 4
Maria, having got into a fight with Erika over the existence of magic, cried herself to sleep. While she was asleep, the alternate personality she shared her body with, Beatrice, began to take over. After Battler returned from escorting Erika to the mansion, Battler went to sleep thinking it was much later than it was. However, George was not asleep as he seemed to be. George slips out of the guest house and into the mansion where he sees Jessica going up to the third floor. He followed her and found her going into the study, and called out to her. George made up a story about Maria wanting to borrow an occult book, but she was too tired to come pick it up herself. George enters the study behind Jessica. Natsuhi comes later, followed by Kanon and then finally Krauss. This is when Erika came. She called out to Genji, who was about to close the study, claiming to have found Kinzo. Krauss, shocked, told Genji to allow her in. Erika began her explanation of how she came across Kinzo's body, and before Krauss could speak up - to promise her an amount of money to keep quiet about what she found - George grabbed a gun from the case and shot Erika in the back of the head. George then followed through, shooting the others as they panicked and tried to flee. George stole the master keys that Kanon and Genji held, as well as the study key. Before leaving, George fired on Erika's head a few more times and returned the gun from where it came from. He took the opportunity to copy a circle he had seen in Maria's occult book on the door, using the blood of his victims. George stole a vial of poison, which was easily-identified by the label - and then returned to the guest house to plant the key to the study on Battler.
The next morning, as the bodies were discovered, George told the truth about when he went to sleep, however he made up the story about talking to Shannon the entire time. Shannon, horrified at the realization that he had killed the six victims, went along with the story out of fear. Later as the family went to get Gohda, George set himself up for a plan to end the family in one sweep. As the family began to file out, George went to the soup-in-progress and put the poison in. Eva, who saw George at the soup, assumed he was checking out what Gohda was making for lunch and didn't bring it up. Back in the study for the second time, as the family was searching, Beatrice set the letter she had written that morning after being woken up by her mother on Kinzo's desk and waited for someone to discover it. Afterwords, the family returned to the kitchen and something unexpected happened. Eva and Gohda taste-tested the soup to see if it was ready. George, sweating on the inside, watched as his mother and Gohda died.
Beatrice took a key from George and used the opportunity caused by the group shifting focus to the deaths right in front of them to leave, with Battler in tow. After (poorly) faking a state of mourning, George suggested that the soup be disposed of in hopes of disposing of any evidence that he may have inadvertently left behind. As George, Hideyoshi, Shannon, and Kumasawa went outside, Shannon pulled George off to the side to call him out on the eight murders. Hideyoshi and Kumasawa looked for a place to pour out the soup and, as they did so, Hideyoshi spotted something: a light coming from the woods. Kumasawa put the pot where it was found as Hideyoshi and George went into the woods to see the source of the light. Battler was trying to talk some sense into "Maria" when Hideyoshi and George came across them in the garden shed. Hideyoshi asked them what they were doing outside before Maria attacked Hideyoshi with a hatchet, drenching Battler in Hideyoshi's blood and even getting some on herself. George, witnessing this, attempted to fight back and kill Maria, but Battler struggled with him as Maria hit George in the leg and then in the neck, severing his spinal cord. Battler removed his now-soaked jacket and hung it up on a tree limb as he prepared to move George and Hideyoshi's bodies deep into the forest and hide the blood with dirt. Shannon and Kumasawa had grown worried at this point and went looking for the men, only to find the bloodied Maria setting the other key, picked up from George, inside the shed. Kumasawa bent down to see if Maria was injured and that's when Beatrice attacked Kumasawa and struck her neck, however the wound was not immediately fatal as she ran to the Rose Garden, where she died. Shannon also tried to run, but she tripped over a root and Maria struck her chest multiple times, killing her. Maria dropped the hatchet, took Battler's jacket, and picked up George's gun to go finish off Kumasawa, but found her already dead. Battler, having heard the commotion, returned to find Shannon dead. Battler turned her over and drove the hatchet into her spine, trying to be sure she was already dead. Before he could hide her, however, he heard Rosa and the others coming and hid around the back side of the mansion, watching them walk right past him and discover the corpses.
Nanjo ran back in through the servant's area, and into his office. Maria, having entered the mansion after finding Kumasawa dead, dropped Battler's jacket as a screw-you to the others, should they find it and heard the commotion Nanjo caused and went to track him down. After Rosa and company left the area, having managed to not find George or Hideyoshi - much to Battler's relief - returned to the forest to dispose of Shannon. Maria managed to find Nanjo, judging by the ruckus he was making as he tried to barricade himself in his office and used her remaining master key to open the door. Rudolf spotted Battler outside moving Shannon and jumped through the window with Kyrie behind him. Beatrice convinced Nanjo to let her in by feigning that she was in danger and as he got close, she shot him with George's gun. Rudolf and Kyrie, having heard the gunshot, froze for a moment before returning to their quest to find Battler. Maria, exiting through the servant's area, heard Rudolf and Kyrie and followed.
Beatrice caught up to Kyrie and Rudolf, chewing out Battler over finding him with a corpse in his arms. Beatrice shot the pair dead and Battler dropped Shannon to mourn over his parents. Maria and Battler heard Rosa open the door to the servant's area and leave, and they decide to hide in a thicker part of the forest's bushes. As Rosa came to a stop and began looking around, trying to find the source of the gunshots, Maria pointed the gun at Battler's head while he was watching Rosa. Rosa was turned away and Beatrice shot Battler before quickly cycling the next round and shooting Rosa dead.
George wanted to be with Shannon at any cost, even the lives of his family. Beatrice wanted revival, not being aware herself that she was not a witch, but a split in Maria's psyche caused by years of abuse from her mother and other children in her school.
The family wakes up to find Krauss, Natsuhi, Genji, Kanon, Jessica, and their guest Erika missing. Upon searching the mansion, they come across a magic circle painted on the door to the study in blood. Battler finds the key to the study in his pocket as he is thinking of why the victims would be missing. Upon entering the study, they find all 6 victims dead, as well as a note on Genji's corpse laying out the details of the riddle and what the family can do to stop it. Upon searching the room further, it is noted that the gun case is open and one of the guns has been moved.
Meta Phase 1
Arguments abound about the fist twilight! Some deny the validity of the corpses, while others wonder about the culprit being someone other than a member of the family or a servant. One player theorizes that the corpses died elsewhere, however I - Battler Ushiromiya! - throw that argument to the ground with my truth! It was also established that the door to the study locks on its own when the door is shut, the detective is, in fact, alive and well, and that said detective did see the bodies!
Game Board Phase 2
The family questions Battler and George about the previous night and afterwords they return to the study to arm themselves with guns and to find Kanon's and Genji's master keys - which were nowhere to be seen. Nanjo, still searching the study, finds a letter taunting the family and signed by Beatrice. Gohda, who had started on lunch earlier, returned with the family to resume his job, however after he and Eva taste the soup that had been being prepared, they both fell dead.
Meta Phase 2
Many theories abound this meta! The players theorize how the poison was slipped into the food, and by whom. Maria reveals that someone has a split personality, and the servants are blamed through the use of their hypothetical split personality! Theories as to who placed Beatrice's letter were also brought about, but none were confirmed. Maria accused herself as a murderer and Dlanor challenged my red to no avail!
Game Board Phase 3
The party splits up, with part of it going to dispose of the tainted soup. The rest of the party goes to move and they notice that Battler and Maria have also disappeared! After searching through all of the rooms they could think of, the party of four finds nothing more than Kinzo's corpse in the boiler room. The party, after searching rooms, decides to go outside and finds the pot that the soup was in - now empty - but not the party that went to empty it. After searching, the party comes across the corpse of Shannon, with a hatchet in her back. Following a light, the party comes across the open garden shed, with a single master key sitting in it.
Meta Phase 3
Some progress was made this meta phase, as many blues were posted. The GM gave the layout of the mansion, defines a murderer, and the players begin to connect some of the dots. A few wild theories without substance were posted as well, but hey, it gets the players thinking and that's what matters! Can the family piece the clues together and solve the murders? Will George ever stop being such a prick? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON UMINEKO NO NAKU KORO NI EPISODE 6, THE RETURN OF THE GOLDEN WITCH!
Game Board Phase 4
Nanjo leaves the group behind out of fear as he drops his gun and runs for the mansion. Kyrie, Rudolf, and the others search the grounds some more and then go through the guest house before attempting to enter the chapel, but as it is locked they don't bother to enter it and settle for looking in the windows as they had the only key. The group of three then enters the mansion through the front door and find Battler's blood-stained jacket. After entering the parlour, Rudolf thinks he sees someone in the distance and smashes through the window to give chase. Kyrie follows him, leaving Rosa behind. Rosa hears a gunshot from within the mansion, and slowly makes her way to the origin of the sound to find Nanjo dead. She notes a missing vial in the medical supplies. After a short mourning for the good doctor, Rosa hears two more gunshots in the distance. Following the sound, she comes across Kyrie and Rudolf, dead. As the game drew to a close, Rosa heard a close gunshot, and turned towards the sound only to be struck down before she could see the source.
Meta Phase 4
Maria, having got into a fight with Erika over the existence of magic, cried herself to sleep. While she was asleep, the alternate personality she shared her body with, Beatrice, began to take over. After Battler returned from escorting Erika to the mansion, Battler went to sleep thinking it was much later than it was. However, George was not asleep as he seemed to be. George slips out of the guest house and into the mansion where he sees Jessica going up to the third floor. He followed her and found her going into the study, and called out to her. George made up a story about Maria wanting to borrow an occult book, but she was too tired to come pick it up herself. George enters the study behind Jessica. Natsuhi comes later, followed by Kanon and then finally Krauss. This is when Erika came. She called out to Genji, who was about to close the study, claiming to have found Kinzo. Krauss, shocked, told Genji to allow her in. Erika began her explanation of how she came across Kinzo's body, and before Krauss could speak up - to promise her an amount of money to keep quiet about what she found - George grabbed a gun from the case and shot Erika in the back of the head. George then followed through, shooting the others as they panicked and tried to flee. George stole the master keys that Kanon and Genji held, as well as the study key. Before leaving, George fired on Erika's head a few more times and returned the gun from where it came from. He took the opportunity to copy a circle he had seen in Maria's occult book on the door, using the blood of his victims. George stole a vial of poison, which was easily-identified by the label - and then returned to the guest house to plant the key to the study on Battler.
The next morning, as the bodies were discovered, George told the truth about when he went to sleep, however he made up the story about talking to Shannon the entire time. Shannon, horrified at the realization that he had killed the six victims, went along with the story out of fear. Later as the family went to get Gohda, George set himself up for a plan to end the family in one sweep. As the family began to file out, George went to the soup-in-progress and put the poison in. Eva, who saw George at the soup, assumed he was checking out what Gohda was making for lunch and didn't bring it up. Back in the study for the second time, as the family was searching, Beatrice set the letter she had written that morning after being woken up by her mother on Kinzo's desk and waited for someone to discover it. Afterwords, the family returned to the kitchen and something unexpected happened. Eva and Gohda taste-tested the soup to see if it was ready. George, sweating on the inside, watched as his mother and Gohda died.
Beatrice took a key from George and used the opportunity caused by the group shifting focus to the deaths right in front of them to leave, with Battler in tow. After (poorly) faking a state of mourning, George suggested that the soup be disposed of in hopes of disposing of any evidence that he may have inadvertently left behind. As George, Hideyoshi, Shannon, and Kumasawa went outside, Shannon pulled George off to the side to call him out on the eight murders. Hideyoshi and Kumasawa looked for a place to pour out the soup and, as they did so, Hideyoshi spotted something: a light coming from the woods. Kumasawa put the pot where it was found as Hideyoshi and George went into the woods to see the source of the light. Battler was trying to talk some sense into "Maria" when Hideyoshi and George came across them in the garden shed. Hideyoshi asked them what they were doing outside before Maria attacked Hideyoshi with a hatchet, drenching Battler in Hideyoshi's blood and even getting some on herself. George, witnessing this, attempted to fight back and kill Maria, but Battler struggled with him as Maria hit George in the leg and then in the neck, severing his spinal cord. Battler removed his now-soaked jacket and hung it up on a tree limb as he prepared to move George and Hideyoshi's bodies deep into the forest and hide the blood with dirt. Shannon and Kumasawa had grown worried at this point and went looking for the men, only to find the bloodied Maria setting the other key, picked up from George, inside the shed. Kumasawa bent down to see if Maria was injured and that's when Beatrice attacked Kumasawa and struck her neck, however the wound was not immediately fatal as she ran to the Rose Garden, where she died. Shannon also tried to run, but she tripped over a root and Maria struck her chest multiple times, killing her. Maria dropped the hatchet, took Battler's jacket, and picked up George's gun to go finish off Kumasawa, but found her already dead. Battler, having heard the commotion, returned to find Shannon dead. Battler turned her over and drove the hatchet into her spine, trying to be sure she was already dead. Before he could hide her, however, he heard Rosa and the others coming and hid around the back side of the mansion, watching them walk right past him and discover the corpses.
Nanjo ran back in through the servant's area, and into his office. Maria, having entered the mansion after finding Kumasawa dead, dropped Battler's jacket as a screw-you to the others, should they find it and heard the commotion Nanjo caused and went to track him down. After Rosa and company left the area, having managed to not find George or Hideyoshi - much to Battler's relief - returned to the forest to dispose of Shannon. Maria managed to find Nanjo, judging by the ruckus he was making as he tried to barricade himself in his office and used her remaining master key to open the door. Rudolf spotted Battler outside moving Shannon and jumped through the window with Kyrie behind him. Beatrice convinced Nanjo to let her in by feigning that she was in danger and as he got close, she shot him with George's gun. Rudolf and Kyrie, having heard the gunshot, froze for a moment before returning to their quest to find Battler. Maria, exiting through the servant's area, heard Rudolf and Kyrie and followed.
Beatrice caught up to Kyrie and Rudolf, chewing out Battler over finding him with a corpse in his arms. Beatrice shot the pair dead and Battler dropped Shannon to mourn over his parents. Maria and Battler heard Rosa open the door to the servant's area and leave, and they decide to hide in a thicker part of the forest's bushes. As Rosa came to a stop and began looking around, trying to find the source of the gunshots, Maria pointed the gun at Battler's head while he was watching Rosa. Rosa was turned away and Beatrice shot Battler before quickly cycling the next round and shooting Rosa dead.
George wanted to be with Shannon at any cost, even the lives of his family. Beatrice wanted revival, not being aware herself that she was not a witch, but a split in Maria's psyche caused by years of abuse from her mother and other children in her school.