Summaries
Oct 19, 2017 8:35:19 GMT 12
Post by animex75 on Oct 19, 2017 8:35:19 GMT 12
Game Board Phase 1 Summary
Ah, the classic closed room chain! During the conference, the power went out, and when it came back on Eva and Hideyoshi couldn't find a trace of anyone else. They found Gohda and the kids, but everyone else remained missing until the discovery of the chain led to the bodies of the remaining servants, and the doctor. The witch's taunting has already gotten Eva in a pretty foul mood, but let's see if Eva can keep her head and find everyone else!
Meta Phase 1 Summary
A lot of blue flies, and the tight-lipped GM returns with little red. It is revealed that not one, but two people have already solved the epitaph! Which one is the killer? Who's responsible for the disappearances? How did the closed room chain happen? Stay tuned in for next time, and see!
Game Board Phase 2 Summary
The mystery deepens. Rosa, who had been missing, reappears wounded with a story about her escape from the Witch. Eva's group moves up to the study, having found the key on the banister of the main staircase, and find the corpses of Rudolf, Kyrie, and none other than Kinzo himself. Kinzo meanwhile, fought the Witch desperately, only to fall after a split-second opening turned out to be a trap. Who will the witch kill next? Will the family survive? Who took the last cookie from the cookie jar? All will be answered, in time.
Meta Phase 2 Summary
More progress is made in unwinding the mystery, with more red coming out and, with the help of Sakutarou, the reveal that someone did, indeed, survive the first twilight. It remains to be seen, however, who is responsible and what exactly is going on.
Game Board Phase 3 Summary
In an interesting turn of events, Eva has spotted the very witch that Rosa claimed attacked her head into the chapel, but she finds it locked when she arrives. Maria has gone missing, and in the ensuing search, Eva and George find the bodies of Gohda, Battler, and Hideyoshi. All three seem to have been killed via knife, yet no sign of the killer is found. Continuing the search for Maria, Eva and George find the garden shed open...and the key to the chapel inside.
Meta Phase 3 Summary
Finally, the players force an answer to the chain of closed rooms that consisted of the First Twilight. With a narrowing pool of possible culprits, and the knowledge that the servants are still alive (with the exception of Gohda, of course), it's only a matter of time before an answer is reached.
Game End Summary
The family goes through the newly-opened doors and down the stairs to find another large set of doors. Painted on them, in red, are the words “On the eleventh twilight, the journey shall end, and you shall reach the capital where the gold dwells!” and the doors are ajar. “I think that settles that.” George comments, adjusting his glasses.
Eva pushes to the front and opens the doors, going in first with her gun drawn. Past the doors is a room with a canopy bed, and a pallet of gold ingots. Then, Eva notices Krauss on the floor, in a pool of blood, and a woman sitting at the foot of the bed.
“Welcome, Ushiromiya family!” The woman exclaims loudly. “You made it just in time, it seems. A shame, I was mere moments from completing my ritual, too.” The woman chuckles, and Eva aims her gun at her.
“Shut up! Who are you?! What are you really after? The gold?” The family enters the room and stands behind Eva.
Before the woman can answer, however, Eva feels a sharp pain in the back of her head and the sensation of falling before everything goes black.
Some time later, Eva regains consciousness. Her head hurt like hell, but she was able to get to her feet. She’d landed on her brother’s body, and she noticed a few things once her mind started to come back to her. First, Krauss’ skull was crushed in. Second, the blood was dry and he was ice cold. Third, an ingot she’d missed before was laying next to him with more dried blood on it.
Wait. The woman! Where did she-
Before Eva could finish her thought, though, she saw the object of her search and more. Scattered around her feet are the bodies of Jessica, George, Rosa, and Maria. Jessica has a large hole in her head. George has been shot in the chest three times. Maria is laying in Rosa’s lap, her head twisted at a strange angle; half of Rosa’s head is missing. The woman from before is lying on the bed, and when Eva makes her way over there, stumbling and swaying the entire way, she can get a better look at this mystery woman.
The woman, who so resembles the big portrait now that Eva’s had a better look, has a hole in her forehead and there’s a huge splatter on the headboard. Eva looks around the room, but doesn’t see Natsuhi or the missing servants anywhere. Curious. Turning her attention back to the woman on the bed, Eva can see that this woman is wearing a blonde wig. There’s a hint of brown hair underneath, but before Eva can further investigate, a clock nearby strikes midnight. Then, nothing.
October 4th and 5th, 1986, on Rokkenjima Island, the Ushiromiya family gathered for their annual conference, but this year is different. This year ends in tragedy. For many years, legends abounded of the witch who was said to rule the island after dark. Servants told tales of encounters with this witch for a long time, indeed. This year, the witch Beatrice began a ritual in order to revive herself into this world once and for all.
The family was systematically sacrificed to the witch as laid out in the Epitaph that Kinzo had left as a challenge. One by one, the family was killed by the witch’s magic. Not a single person on Rokkenjima during the conference that year returned alive. The island was ravaged, to the point that even the mansion was destroyed. Ange, the youngest member of the family, was the sole survivor, by virtue of having been sick that year. This tale of death, magic, and despair, as propagated by the surviving servants - who had been off those days - and mysterious message bottles are the only Legacy that the Ushiromiya family has left: the Golden Witch’s Legacy lives on today, without anyone around to provide any other explanation.
Ah, the classic closed room chain! During the conference, the power went out, and when it came back on Eva and Hideyoshi couldn't find a trace of anyone else. They found Gohda and the kids, but everyone else remained missing until the discovery of the chain led to the bodies of the remaining servants, and the doctor. The witch's taunting has already gotten Eva in a pretty foul mood, but let's see if Eva can keep her head and find everyone else!
Meta Phase 1 Summary
A lot of blue flies, and the tight-lipped GM returns with little red. It is revealed that not one, but two people have already solved the epitaph! Which one is the killer? Who's responsible for the disappearances? How did the closed room chain happen? Stay tuned in for next time, and see!
Game Board Phase 2 Summary
The mystery deepens. Rosa, who had been missing, reappears wounded with a story about her escape from the Witch. Eva's group moves up to the study, having found the key on the banister of the main staircase, and find the corpses of Rudolf, Kyrie, and none other than Kinzo himself. Kinzo meanwhile, fought the Witch desperately, only to fall after a split-second opening turned out to be a trap. Who will the witch kill next? Will the family survive? Who took the last cookie from the cookie jar? All will be answered, in time.
Meta Phase 2 Summary
More progress is made in unwinding the mystery, with more red coming out and, with the help of Sakutarou, the reveal that someone did, indeed, survive the first twilight. It remains to be seen, however, who is responsible and what exactly is going on.
Game Board Phase 3 Summary
In an interesting turn of events, Eva has spotted the very witch that Rosa claimed attacked her head into the chapel, but she finds it locked when she arrives. Maria has gone missing, and in the ensuing search, Eva and George find the bodies of Gohda, Battler, and Hideyoshi. All three seem to have been killed via knife, yet no sign of the killer is found. Continuing the search for Maria, Eva and George find the garden shed open...and the key to the chapel inside.
Meta Phase 3 Summary
Finally, the players force an answer to the chain of closed rooms that consisted of the First Twilight. With a narrowing pool of possible culprits, and the knowledge that the servants are still alive (with the exception of Gohda, of course), it's only a matter of time before an answer is reached.
Game End Summary
The family goes through the newly-opened doors and down the stairs to find another large set of doors. Painted on them, in red, are the words “On the eleventh twilight, the journey shall end, and you shall reach the capital where the gold dwells!” and the doors are ajar. “I think that settles that.” George comments, adjusting his glasses.
Eva pushes to the front and opens the doors, going in first with her gun drawn. Past the doors is a room with a canopy bed, and a pallet of gold ingots. Then, Eva notices Krauss on the floor, in a pool of blood, and a woman sitting at the foot of the bed.
“Welcome, Ushiromiya family!” The woman exclaims loudly. “You made it just in time, it seems. A shame, I was mere moments from completing my ritual, too.” The woman chuckles, and Eva aims her gun at her.
“Shut up! Who are you?! What are you really after? The gold?” The family enters the room and stands behind Eva.
Before the woman can answer, however, Eva feels a sharp pain in the back of her head and the sensation of falling before everything goes black.
Some time later, Eva regains consciousness. Her head hurt like hell, but she was able to get to her feet. She’d landed on her brother’s body, and she noticed a few things once her mind started to come back to her. First, Krauss’ skull was crushed in. Second, the blood was dry and he was ice cold. Third, an ingot she’d missed before was laying next to him with more dried blood on it.
Wait. The woman! Where did she-
Before Eva could finish her thought, though, she saw the object of her search and more. Scattered around her feet are the bodies of Jessica, George, Rosa, and Maria. Jessica has a large hole in her head. George has been shot in the chest three times. Maria is laying in Rosa’s lap, her head twisted at a strange angle; half of Rosa’s head is missing. The woman from before is lying on the bed, and when Eva makes her way over there, stumbling and swaying the entire way, she can get a better look at this mystery woman.
The woman, who so resembles the big portrait now that Eva’s had a better look, has a hole in her forehead and there’s a huge splatter on the headboard. Eva looks around the room, but doesn’t see Natsuhi or the missing servants anywhere. Curious. Turning her attention back to the woman on the bed, Eva can see that this woman is wearing a blonde wig. There’s a hint of brown hair underneath, but before Eva can further investigate, a clock nearby strikes midnight. Then, nothing.
October 4th and 5th, 1986, on Rokkenjima Island, the Ushiromiya family gathered for their annual conference, but this year is different. This year ends in tragedy. For many years, legends abounded of the witch who was said to rule the island after dark. Servants told tales of encounters with this witch for a long time, indeed. This year, the witch Beatrice began a ritual in order to revive herself into this world once and for all.
The family was systematically sacrificed to the witch as laid out in the Epitaph that Kinzo had left as a challenge. One by one, the family was killed by the witch’s magic. Not a single person on Rokkenjima during the conference that year returned alive. The island was ravaged, to the point that even the mansion was destroyed. Ange, the youngest member of the family, was the sole survivor, by virtue of having been sick that year. This tale of death, magic, and despair, as propagated by the surviving servants - who had been off those days - and mysterious message bottles are the only Legacy that the Ushiromiya family has left: the Golden Witch’s Legacy lives on today, without anyone around to provide any other explanation.