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Post by EphemeralRose on Sept 21, 2013 15:21:06 GMT 12
George may not have been aware that a meeting would happen in the study, but he DID plan to kill the family well in advance. That is why he went to the study that night. It was coincidence that he happened to find six victims there
George stole the poison from Nanjo himself
Battler's jacket was in the entryway not the parlour, my bad
Kumasawa was killed with a tool from the shed that wasn't found Battler did not place his jacket in the mansion! Kumasawa's murder weapon WAS found!I shall not rebut your first two statements. Battler did not place his jacket in the entryway because he was not in possession of it at the time
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Post by animex75 on Sept 21, 2013 15:22:21 GMT 12
I will not rebut.
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Post by EphemeralRose on Sept 21, 2013 15:34:55 GMT 12
Kumasawa was killed by a small, metal object
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Post by animex75 on Sept 21, 2013 15:35:56 GMT 12
Kumasawa was killed by a small, metal object If that's the case, why was she found at the Rose Garden while poor Shannon died not too far from the garden shed?
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Post by EphemeralRose on Sept 21, 2013 15:43:59 GMT 12
Kumasawa was killed by a small, metal object If that's the case, why was she found at the Rose Garden while poor Shannon died not too far from the garden shed? Kumasawa was killed with the hatchet as well. She was wounded before Shannon but died after her
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Post by animex75 on Sept 21, 2013 15:45:24 GMT 12
If that's the case, why was she found at the Rose Garden while poor Shannon died not too far from the garden shed? Kumasawa was killed with the hatchet as well. She was wounded before Shannon but died after her I will not rebut.I give you gold authority. Post your version of the truth!
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Post by EphemeralRose on Sept 21, 2013 15:54:33 GMT 12
George killed the victims of the first twilight some time after Battler had returned to the guest house and gone to sleep.
He intended to kill the family, and so crept to the study in the night to steal a weapon. Here he found the victims of the first twilight and seized the opportunity to kill them.
George took the study key from Genji's body and planted it on Battler's coat in the night
Gohda left a mixing bowl on the bench before everybody left to the study. George slipped poison into this bowl using Nanjo's vial that Shannon stole for him.
When his plan to kill the remaining family at dinner failed, George suggested the soup be destroyed.
After the groups split up, George intended to kill his father and Kumasawa but was killed by the second killer before he got the chance
Maria Ushiromiya stole a key from George and used it to hide in the garden shed.
There, her alternate personality, Beatrice, saw the group as a threat and decided to eliminate them.
George and Hideyoshi were killed and hidden somewhere.
Beatrice, using a hatchet she took from the garden shed, grazed Kumasawa across the neck and then attacked Shannon. Kumasawa fled towards the parlour, while Shannon staggered towards the kitchen. Shannon collapsed into a bush and died, while Kumasawa died in the rose garden.
Beatrice clutches battler's bloodstained jacket in her hands, sniffing it obsessively. She walks past Kumasawa and puts Battler's jacket in the entryway.
Beatrice looked around for Battler but could find him. She did hear Nanjo running through the house though
Rudolf sees Battler freaking out outside, having left the house when he heard Nanjo running through it
Nanjo gets shot
While Rosa is checking him out, Kyrie and Rudolf are all like yo Battler what u- *shot*
Rosa comes out and hears Beatrice shoot Battler. Beato be like a ninja yo so she hides in the bushes
Rosa's all like WHO'S THERE and gets shot
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Post by EphemeralRose on Sept 21, 2013 15:57:59 GMT 12
George killed the victims of the first twilight some time after Battler had returned to the guest house and gone to sleep.
He intended to kill the family, and so crept to the study in the night to steal a weapon. Here he was found by the victims of the first twilight and seized the opportunity to kill them.
George took the study key from Genji's body and planted it on Battler's coat in the night
Gohda left a mixing bowl on the bench before everybody left to the study. George slipped poison into this bowl using Nanjo's vial that he stole
When his plan to kill the remaining family at dinner failed, George suggested the soup be destroyed.
After the groups split up, George intended to kill his father and Kumasawa but was killed by the second killer before he got the chance
Maria Ushiromiya stole a key from George and used it to hide in the garden shed.
There, her alternate personality, Beatrice, saw the group as a threat and decided to eliminate them.
George and Hideyoshi were killed and hidden somewhere.
Beatrice, using a hatchet she took from the garden shed, grazed Kumasawa across the neck and then attacked Shannon. Kumasawa fled towards the parlour, while Shannon staggered towards the kitchen. Shannon collapsed into a bush and died, while Kumasawa died in the rose garden.
Beatrice clutches battler's bloodstained jacket in her hands, sniffing it obsessively. She walks past Kumasawa and puts Battler's jacket in the entryway.
Beatrice looked around for Battler but could find him. She did hear Nanjo running through the house though
Rudolf sees Battler freaking out outside, having left the house when he heard Nanjo running through it
Nanjo gets shot
While Rosa is checking him out, Kyrie and Rudolf are all like yo Battler what u- *shot*
Rosa comes out and hears Beatrice shoot Battler. Beato be like a ninja yo so she hides in the bushes
Rosa's all like WHO'S THERE and gets shot
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Post by animex75 on Sept 21, 2013 15:59:08 GMT 12
George entered the study before Krauss or Natsuhi!
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Post by animex75 on Sept 21, 2013 16:12:12 GMT 12
And with that edit, I declare that this game is OVER! The humans have seen through my forgery, and reached the ultimate truth!
Game Over! 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.
Battler chuckles as the color fades from his suit and his eyes. "Congratulations! You have seen through my falsehood and reached the truth of my game!" Battler applauds his opponents, having discarded the persona of Black Battler. "I'm proud of all of you for your hard work!"
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Post by Cloud on Sept 21, 2013 16:26:28 GMT 12
Well done. I'm really glad you guys got it in the end. It was a very nice round, Nate. Only complaint was the final game board phase had me a bit confused as to where everything was happening but it didn't infringe on the mystery being solved easily, so it's not really that much of an issue anyway.
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Post by animex75 on Sept 21, 2013 16:32:37 GMT 12
Everyone after Nanjo died in the forest, not too far from the Garden Shed.
Also, I have a Hall of Fame nomination, feel free to make your own. Epilos303 - Elementary, my dear Watson - Solved the Riddle of the Epitaph not only within an hour of the game starting, but on his first guess, too.
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Post by Cloud on Sept 21, 2013 18:16:42 GMT 12
I think Nate being the first GM that isn't me is pretty commendable.
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Post by animex75 on Sept 22, 2013 11:44:31 GMT 12
I hope everyone found it enjoyable.
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